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Please guys, can someone help me. I've spent days and days watching videos and reading but no one explains clearly.

I am not technical so I just need a clear step by step explanation of how to get my BCH.

After purchasing the Ledger Nano S, I successfully transferred all of my Bitcoin from my Electrum software wallet to my new Ledger Nano S.

Now I would like to claim my Bitcoin Cash. I have the seed words for my Electrum software wallet.

Please help me understand how to do it - everything seems ridiculously complicated.

I don't have a ledger so I can't walk you through the process but there was a step by step guide on their website. https://ledger.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005174789-How-to-install-and-use-Bitcoin-Cash-BCH-with-Ledger. It does say you have to have a tiny bit of BCH first maybe buy 0.0001 and go from there, goodluck to you!

you could use coinomi mobile wallet!

1. export your private key from your electrum wallet

2. install and setup coinomi from the apple app or google play stores

3. Add BCH onto the coinomi wallet

4. from the coinomi dropdown menu choose 'sweep wallet'

5. input the private key from the electrum wallet.

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Well if you had funds on electrum wallet before bch fork, the easiest way to claim your bitcoin cash is:

1) Head to https://electroncash.org/ and download electron cash;

2) Proceed to install the software and run it

3) Create a new wallet -> standard wallet -> i already have a seed (paste your electrum seed)

4) Check your balance and enjoy

There's a list of suitable wallets on the bitcoin cash website.

https://www.bitcoincash.org/#wallets

The list includes the electron cash wallet mentioned by RickIVcone.

I tried this but I can't do step 3. because If I enter my Electrum seed into Electrum Cash, the "Next" button is greyed out. I am stuck and can't proceed.

To double check my seed, I went to Electrum wallet, then Wallet -> Seed but the "seed" link is greyed out?

Let me elaborate, last week, I tried to log into my my Electrum wallet and it asked for my 2FA, but when I created the wallet it was not a 2FA. So I created a new wallet (within Electrum) and successfully made it 2FA and is showed the correct BTC amount. So, maybe a 2FA wallet does not contain the seed, by construction? I saved the seed on paper, I know it's correct because I am very careful.

Thanks but that ledger.zendesk.com article is rubbish, it doesn't explain anything so no help :(

A good choice, but I would have chosen other coins. Example
Stratis
Ethereum Classic
Bancor Network
Neo

Please don't post if you can't be bothered to read the question.

I tried this but I can't do step 3. because If I enter my Electrum seed into Electrum Cash, the "Next" button is greyed out. I am stuck and can't proceed.

To double check my seed, I went to Electrum wallet, then Wallet -> Seed but the "seed" link is greyed out?

Let me elaborate, last week, I tried to log into my my Electrum wallet and it asked for my 2FA, but when I created the wallet it was not a 2FA. So I created a new wallet (within Electrum) and successfully made it 2FA and is showed the correct BTC amount. So, maybe a 2FA wallet does not contain the seed, by construction? I saved the seed on paper, I know it's correct because I am very careful.
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in 2fa wallet you just can't check your seed, it's greyed out by default. You have to DISABLE 2fa in order to gain access to your bch. So just create a new electrum wallet (standard wallet), paste your seed; electrum should recognize that you're trying to enter a 2fa seed and it will ask if you want to disable trustedcoin 2fa. Check yes and you have succesfully restored your wallet; now you can import your seed in electron cash