#388: Should You Only Trade The Major Forex Pairs?

Should You Only Trade The Major Forex Pairs?  Podcast: #388: Should You Only Trade The Major Forex Pairs? In this video: 00:26 – 2 things to talk about today 00:53 – How do you know which pairs to trade? 01:43 – Should you only trade the Majors? 02:28 – My trading routine 04:55 – It doesn’t matter which pairs I trade 05:18 – All covered in my 5 star rated coaching course 05:42 – I’ll be interviewing Blueberry Markets – let me know your questions How do you know which Forex pairs to trade? And when? Let's talk about that and more right now. Hey, Forex traders, Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of The Forex Trading Coach with the video and podcast number 388. 2 things to talk about today Now I've got two things to talk about. The first, I want to talk about how I can help you to know which Forex pairs to trade. And secondly, at the end of the video, I'm going to explain about next week's video and podcast when I'm going to be interviewing, Ben Clay from Blueberry Markets and I want to know from you, what's your number one question you'd like me to ask Blueberry Markets to Forex Brokers. So we'll talk about that at the end. How do you know which pairs to trade? So back to the first point, how do you know which Forex pairs to trade? Now, it's a problem that a lot of people come to me and they say, hey Andrew, look, I just don't know what to trade. There's a lot of currency pairs out there, which ones should I look at? And as Forex traders, we're quite a fortunate position when you think about it. And that we really only have eight main currencies to look at and the combinations of each. Now of course there's extra currencies like Norwegian kroner and Swedish krona and South African rand and all those. But there's really the main eight. Unlike most other markets out there where there could be hundreds or even thousands of different stocks and shares and companies to look at. So we do have an advantage, but it's still confusing for a lot of people. Should you only trade the Majors? And now another thing is a number of people also suggest that you should just look at the main currency pairs, the majors, and that will be like the GBP/USD, EUR/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF, AUD/USD, NZD/USD, USD/CAD. And you start to see the problem there is that they all have the US Dollar in them. Now let's say the US Dollar happens to be quite flat. Then there may not be many opportunities there, and that becomes the issue or the US Dollar is very strong or very weak, and they'll move together and then things suddenly change around and they all come and stop you and that becomes the problem when you trade just the majors. So what I like to do this is my routine. My trading routine At the beginning of each week, I scan the weekly charts on all the currency pairs or the main character pairs. There's about 28 of them. And by setting up my weekly charts as a profile on my MetaTrader Platform, it's very easy to get all the Euro pairs, all the Pound pairs, all the Aussie pairs, all the Kiwi pairs and just scan through and see what's happening on the weekly charts. There'll be some trades there most weeks, but even if there are no trades or very few trades off the weekly charts themselves, what they do is they give me an overall biases, this country pairs a little bit indecisive, or this one strongly bullish, or this one's very bearish and is that likely to continue for the upcoming week, yes or no?. And it allows me to basically to plan that bigger picture. And then at the beginning of each new day, I then do exactly the same process, put on a profile where I have just the daily charts. And quite often there'll be trades there specific trades based off the daily charts. But also I get my bias for that day, my strength and weakness analysis of where I see currency pairs. Again, some may not be moving much. And so I just tried to avoid those pairs that day.