August 31, 2025 • 8 mins
The Hard Truth About Trading Success Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass Click Here To Follow my 30 Trader US Update Click Here To Learn How to Gain 1% Daily #603: The Hard Truth About Trading Success In this video: 00:37 – Is trading Forex a real job? 01:42 – How to being a trader lucky? 02:05 – The realities of becoming a good trader. 03:00 – Good things are hard to achieve. 03:38 – Moving to the other side of the world to live. 04:13 – The commitment of becoming a karate sensei. 04:49 – I learned how to fly a helicopter. 05:33 – Playing the guitar and singing. 05:52 – Time to get off your bum and make a difference. 06:44 – What are you going to do to help yourself? 07:35 – Get on my Forex Masterclass. 07:46 - New course pricing structure available. 07:56 – Blueberry Markets as a Forex Broker. Do you find that when you tell people that you are a trader or want to become a trader? They don't think that you have a real job, and they think that you might be a bit lucky because you can work from home or just work on a computer. I want to talk about that because I've experienced that a lot myself in the last week. Let's get into it a more right now. Hey traders, it's Andrew Mitchem here, the owner of The Forex Trading Coach. A video on podcast number 603. Is trading Forex a real job? I want to talk about the human psyche. I find it really interesting. Fascinating. You see, when I started trading some 20 years ago, I had a very young son at the time, and I'd finished being a dairy farmer because of divorce, and people looked at me a little bit strange. They thought that I was starting this sort of what what was I doing? I meant to be looking after my young son. I didn't have a real job. I was doing this weird, strange thing called trading on the computer. And I think a lot of people, you know, just looked at me a little bit sideways and thought, this guy's just lost the plot here. Why doesn't he go and get a real job? And then fast forward some, what, 20 plus years later and after just spending the last four weeks in the US on holiday with my wife for her 50th birthday, the amount of comments that I've had either in person or online, or email from people to say, you're so lucky you can do that. How to being a trader lucky? And I just find it fascinating, like lucky. How how is like trading lucky? I don't quite get it, but people just think that because, you know, you're either sitting at home on a computer or like, we've just spent four weeks traveling round on a road trip around the US. They think you're lucky. And I find it absolutely incredible. And I'm sure if you've been trading for any length of time, you probably understand what I mean. The realities of becoming a good trader. So I'd like just to sort of set the record straight about what good trading is. If you trade, you know, and if you're starting to trade or looking to trade, you need to know this. Good trading is not easy. Good trading takes a lot of time investment in yourself, both monetary and time wise. A lot of frustration, a lot of going round in circles. And it's not easy because if it was easy, everybody would do it, wouldn't they? And if it is easy to make lots of money, everybody would be doing it. But the trouble is, most people are just lazy and that's just the honest truth. You know, hard work, dedication, commitment, effort, those type of things. Sadly, a lot of people lack, these days. Now, I had a think about this when I was just thinking about putting the video together, and I thought about things that I've personally done and, you know, the enjoyable things and how hard they are. Good things are hard to achieve. So back when I was a teenager, I was a reasonably good cricket player. Couldn't bat,
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you find that when you tell people that you
are a trader or want to become a trader, they
don't think that you have a real job, and they
think that you might be a bit lucky because you
can work from home or just work on a computer.
I want to talk about that because I've experienced that
a lot myself in the last week. Let's get into
it more right now, Hey traders, It's Andrew mitcham here,
(00:32):
the owner of the Frest Trading Coach of video podcasts
number six hundred and three. I want to talk about
the human psyche. I find it really interesting, fascinating. You see,
when I started trading some twenty years ago, I had
a very young son at the time, and I'd finished
being a dairy farmer because of divorce, and people looked
at me a little bit strange. They thought that I
(00:53):
was starting this sort of what was I doing. I
meant to be looking after my young son. I didn't
have a real job. I was doing this weird, strange
thing called trading on the computer. And I think a
lot of people, you know, just looked at me a
little bit sideways and thought, this guy's just lost the
plot here. Why doesn't he go and get a real job.
(01:14):
And then fast forward some twenty plus years later and
after just spending the last four weeks in the US
on the holiday with my wife for her fiftieth birthday,
the amount of comments that I've had, either in person
or online or email from people to say, you're so
(01:36):
lucky you can do that, And I just find it fascinating,
Like lucky, how is like trading lucky? I don't quite
get it, but people just think that because you know,
you're either sitting at home on a computer or like
we've just done just spent four weeks traveling around on
the road trip around the US, they think that you're lucky.
(01:57):
And I find it absolutely incredible. I'm sure if you've
been trading for any length of time you probably understand
what I mean. So I'd like just to sort of
set the records straight about what good trading is. If
you trade, you will know, and if you're starting to
trade or looking to trade, you need to know this.
Good trading is not easy. Good trading takes a lot
(02:18):
of time, investment in yourself, both monetary and time wise,
a lot of frustration, a lot of going around in circles,
and it's not easy, because if it's easy, everybody would
do it, wouldn't they. And if it was easy to
make lots of money, everybody would be doing it. But
the trouble is most people were just lazy. And that's
just the honest truth. You know, hard work, dedication, commitment, effort,
(02:41):
those type of things sadly a lot of people lack
these days. Now. I had to think about this when
I was just thinking about putting the video together, and
I thought about the things that I've personally done, and
you know, the enjoyable things, and how hard they are.
So back when I was a teenager, I was a
(03:02):
reasonably good cricket player. Couldn't back, but I could bowl
pretty reasonably well, and I played at a you know,
quite a decent level for my age. Never good enough
to become remotely close to become a professional cricketer, but
I was, you know, the next level down and for
a little while, and pretty good. So when I look
back at that, my whole life back then revolved around
(03:25):
just playing cricket, talking cricket, eating, sleeping cricket. That's all
I did. I love cricket. I still love cricket. And
the time, the effort, the commitment that went into it
was huge. And then fast forward a number of years later,
I decided to up and leave England and in my
early twenties moved to the other side of the world.
There a strange place that most people had never heard
of can use called New Zealand. And you know, again
(03:48):
time commitment, money effort to do that and you know,
quite a bit of the unknown. And you know, people go, oh,
you had a crystal ball because New Zealand's amazing and
you're up in England. I you know, got into pieces
and it's like, well, I kind of just had to
think about these things and make my own decision and
(04:08):
you know, and do what you feel is right. And
so that was interesting. And then fast forward a number
of years after that, you know, I got into karate
in quite a big way, and again, time effort, commitment,
pain when you're into that karate at that level. I
was teaching people as well, and all my kids went
(04:29):
through karate and just purely as a voluntary basis the teaching,
and you know, it was just a lot of time
and commitment, a lot of travel, a lot of monetary
commitment when you've got five kids and you know, that's
another thing that I got huge reward out of and
loved it. Fast forward a few more years later. Learning
to fly a helicopter one of the most hardest, potentially
(04:54):
dangerous things you can do, but the reward is incredible.
You know, we've seen parts of New Zealand and flown
over places that most people will never ever get to
see in their lives, and so extraordinary achievement and places
that you get to see and experiences you get out
of it. But if someone says, oh, you're lucky to
(05:16):
fly helicopter, it's blows my mind that people can think
that stupidly. It's not lucky. It's time, it's commitment, it's money,
it's investment, it's you know, giving up other things to
pursue that excellence of flying a helicopter. And right now
I'm learning to play a guitar and learning to sing,
something that I've never ever done in my life in
(05:37):
fifty years, those two things, and you know, I've been
playing guitar for nearly three years learning to sing this year.
Both hard take time, commitment, effort. If you know anything musical,
you know what I mean. And so you bring all
this back together and you look at it and people go, oh,
you're just so lucky that you can trade and travel,
aren't you lucky? No, it's not like at all. It's
(06:02):
a decision to do something. It's a decision to get
off your bum. It's a good decision to invest in
yourself and your family and your financial and time and
freedom going forward. So that's my little I suppose rant
for this week a little bit different, but it's just
I wanted to bring this up because I think it's
(06:23):
important to talk about these things. You know, we're not
talking about candles and ballinger bands and things like that today,
but it's another part of trading that's really important to
understand and be aware of. So I think that's just
something that's topical and wanted to bring that to your attention.
So I suppose my question after all that is what
(06:44):
are you going to do about it yourself? Are you
just going to keep surfing through YouTube? You're just going
to keep you know, looking online for stuff and just
go round and random circles. Are you going to make
a commitment to invest in your time, yourself, your future
and jump on board you know, you know where we are.
We've been doing this for over sixteen years, clients in
(07:07):
one hundred and nine countries. I don't think there's many
FORX educators out there that can honestly say that, I
don't know of any. So there maybe one or two,
but I actually don't know anybody who's still around now
teaching and helping people who is in helping and teaching
people back when I started. So that shows our commitment
(07:28):
and effort and daily dedication that we put into making
this work for our clients. If you'd like to find
out more, I do have a short seventeen minute master
class that you can jump onto. I'll put a link
to that here. If you'd like to talk to myself
or one of the team, I'll put a link to
that as well. If you'd like to find out about
the new pricing structure that we launched last week, send
(07:49):
me an email Andrew at the Frost Trading Coach dot
com and I think it'd be pleasantly surprised. And if
you're out there looking for a really good FORX broker
that you can trade FORXX metals, adities in disease cryptos, however,
look at Blueberry Markets and I'll put a link to
them here as well. So once again. This is Andrew
Mitcham at the Forest Training Coach and joined the great outside.
(08:09):
And you take care. I see you this time next
week by from now
Do you find that when you tell people that you
are a trader or want to become a trader, they
don't think that you have a real job, and they
think that you might be a bit lucky because you
can work from home or just work on a computer.
I want to talk about that because I've experienced that
a lot myself in the last week. Let's get into
it more right now, Hey traders, It's Andrew mitcham here,
(00:32):
the owner of the Frest Trading Coach of video podcasts
number six hundred and three. I want to talk about
the human psyche. I find it really interesting, fascinating. You see,
when I started trading some twenty years ago, I had
a very young son at the time, and I'd finished
being a dairy farmer because of divorce, and people looked
at me a little bit strange. They thought that I
(00:53):
was starting this sort of what was I doing. I
meant to be looking after my young son. I didn't
have a real job. I was doing this weird, strange
thing called trading on the computer. And I think a
lot of people, you know, just looked at me a
little bit sideways and thought, this guy's just lost the
plot here. Why doesn't he go and get a real job.
(01:14):
And then fast forward some twenty plus years later and
after just spending the last four weeks in the US
on the holiday with my wife for her fiftieth birthday,
the amount of comments that I've had, either in person
or online or email from people to say, you're so
(01:36):
lucky you can do that, And I just find it fascinating,
Like lucky, how is like trading lucky? I don't quite
get it, but people just think that because you know,
you're either sitting at home on a computer or like
we've just done just spent four weeks traveling around on
the road trip around the US, they think that you're lucky.
(01:57):
And I find it absolutely incredible. I'm sure if you've
been trading for any length of time you probably understand
what I mean. So I'd like just to sort of
set the records straight about what good trading is. If
you trade, you will know, and if you're starting to
trade or looking to trade, you need to know this.
Good trading is not easy. Good trading takes a lot
(02:18):
of time, investment in yourself, both monetary and time wise,
a lot of frustration, a lot of going around in circles,
and it's not easy, because if it's easy, everybody would
do it, wouldn't they. And if it was easy to
make lots of money, everybody would be doing it. But
the trouble is most people were just lazy. And that's
just the honest truth. You know, hard work, dedication, commitment, effort,
(02:41):
those type of things sadly a lot of people lack
these days. Now. I had to think about this when
I was just thinking about putting the video together, and
I thought about the things that I've personally done, and
you know, the enjoyable things, and how hard they are.
So back when I was a teenager, I was a
(03:02):
reasonably good cricket player. Couldn't back, but I could bowl
pretty reasonably well, and I played at a you know,
quite a decent level for my age. Never good enough
to become remotely close to become a professional cricketer, but
I was, you know, the next level down and for
a little while, and pretty good. So when I look
back at that, my whole life back then revolved around
(03:25):
just playing cricket, talking cricket, eating, sleeping cricket. That's all
I did. I love cricket. I still love cricket. And
the time, the effort, the commitment that went into it
was huge. And then fast forward a number of years later,
I decided to up and leave England and in my
early twenties moved to the other side of the world.
There a strange place that most people had never heard
of can use called New Zealand. And you know, again
(03:48):
time commitment, money effort to do that and you know,
quite a bit of the unknown. And you know, people go, oh,
you had a crystal ball because New Zealand's amazing and
you're up in England. I you know, got into pieces
and it's like, well, I kind of just had to
think about these things and make my own decision and
(04:08):
you know, and do what you feel is right. And
so that was interesting. And then fast forward a number
of years after that, you know, I got into karate
in quite a big way, and again, time effort, commitment,
pain when you're into that karate at that level. I
was teaching people as well, and all my kids went
(04:29):
through karate and just purely as a voluntary basis the teaching,
and you know, it was just a lot of time
and commitment, a lot of travel, a lot of monetary
commitment when you've got five kids and you know, that's
another thing that I got huge reward out of and
loved it. Fast forward a few more years later. Learning
to fly a helicopter one of the most hardest, potentially
(04:54):
dangerous things you can do, but the reward is incredible.
You know, we've seen parts of New Zealand and flown
over places that most people will never ever get to
see in their lives, and so extraordinary achievement and places
that you get to see and experiences you get out
of it. But if someone says, oh, you're lucky to
(05:16):
fly helicopter, it's blows my mind that people can think
that stupidly. It's not lucky. It's time, it's commitment, it's money,
it's investment, it's you know, giving up other things to
pursue that excellence of flying a helicopter. And right now
I'm learning to play a guitar and learning to sing,
something that I've never ever done in my life in
(05:37):
fifty years, those two things, and you know, I've been
playing guitar for nearly three years learning to sing this year.
Both hard take time, commitment, effort. If you know anything musical,
you know what I mean. And so you bring all
this back together and you look at it and people go, oh,
you're just so lucky that you can trade and travel,
aren't you lucky? No, it's not like at all. It's
(06:02):
a decision to do something. It's a decision to get
off your bum. It's a good decision to invest in
yourself and your family and your financial and time and
freedom going forward. So that's my little I suppose rant
for this week a little bit different, but it's just
I wanted to bring this up because I think it's
(06:23):
important to talk about these things. You know, we're not
talking about candles and ballinger bands and things like that today,
but it's another part of trading that's really important to
understand and be aware of. So I think that's just
something that's topical and wanted to bring that to your attention.
So I suppose my question after all that is what
(06:44):
are you going to do about it yourself? Are you
just going to keep surfing through YouTube? You're just going
to keep you know, looking online for stuff and just
go round and random circles. Are you going to make
a commitment to invest in your time, yourself, your future
and jump on board you know, you know where we are.
We've been doing this for over sixteen years, clients in
(07:07):
one hundred and nine countries. I don't think there's many
FORX educators out there that can honestly say that, I
don't know of any. So there maybe one or two,
but I actually don't know anybody who's still around now
teaching and helping people who is in helping and teaching
people back when I started. So that shows our commitment
(07:28):
and effort and daily dedication that we put into making
this work for our clients. If you'd like to find
out more, I do have a short seventeen minute master
class that you can jump onto. I'll put a link
to that here. If you'd like to talk to myself
or one of the team, I'll put a link to
that as well. If you'd like to find out about
the new pricing structure that we launched last week, send
(07:49):
me an email Andrew at the Frost Trading Coach dot
com and I think it'd be pleasantly surprised. And if
you're out there looking for a really good FORX broker
that you can trade FORXX metals, adities in disease cryptos, however,
look at Blueberry Markets and I'll put a link to
them here as well. So once again. This is Andrew
Mitcham at the Forest Training Coach and joined the great outside.
(08:09):
And you take care. I see you this time next
week by from now
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