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I may be opening up a can of worms here but I don’t think anybody ever has truly ‘figured it out’. Just because you’ve pulled out money from the markets doesn’t mean you can’t suddenly be in need of more information about the market and yourself. Pride comes before a fall…

It’s a slow day today so might as well… I’ve seen so many people on here (I was one of them) who come here, make a lot of noise, are given good advice, then don’t take that advice (or take it for like 3-4 days, then go back to their old ways) and then they’re back grasping at something else...

I said I'd move on here but here I am violating my own 'rules', lol... Honestly, persistence is not always a good thing. Think of the guy who wanted to bag a girl that was unavailable to him and persisted for years, only to find out in the end she wasn't nearly what he thought she was. Not to...

Oh and one more P.S. I hope your 20 years has taught you that volatility comes and goes. Stock indeces can get very rangebound, and FX is even worse that way - months can go by with maybe just a handful of setups. Of course, the more you test, the more such markets you’ll see and learn to...

Padutrader, I’ll leave you with one thought: "To reach a goal you’ve never before attained, you must do things you’ve never before done" Now ask yourself, what that is for you. I’m willing to bet you haven’t sat down with, say, one year’s worth of ES data and backtested it properly, and taken...

I probably should just go back to lurking… but might as well say a few things. Al Brooks may or may not be a successful trader. I have no way to know for sure. I can only view him as a technical analyst, because that’s the only thing that he can really contribute to anyone’s trading. Same with...

It's been a long time and I forgot the lunacy that goes on here. If you've stuck to Al Brooks for 20 years and it ain't happening maybe it's time to try other ideas, or maybe it's time to carefully consider why you haven't come up with at least one trading strategy you can apply in a...

Why not invest some of those 20 hours a day into a lot of research to see when a trade is 'idiotic' and when it makes sense, and then have rules and follow them? That way you don't take 'idiotic' trades...

You have to understand the logic behind the rules and that only comes with a lot of research and live market time. To figure that out you have to engage in post-market analysis and most people don't do that, they live to trade the live market and to them homework is no fun. To me, chart review...

People go through periods of wanting interaction and not needing it or even finding it distracting. It's very personal. When you've come a certain distance it becomes pretty painful to read the same posts over and over and over again, of the blind leading the blind, etc. Yes, there are some...

Or they succeed and realize that there is way too much drama and noise on forums, lol. Don't take someone's absence as a sign they blew up or gave up. I traded with a group for a while, but I really only grew after I unplugged. Popping in every now and then can be fun, but there is no need to...

Everyone who has made it has struggled mightly, lol. Those who made it straight out the gate always get humbled, and humbled some more. I just found her advice to be of value, as in it produced results. But again, I just used concepts and did my own homework. She for her part did that as well...

A helpful pointer for those into Brooks: Years ago there was a user here NoDoji, who leaned heavily on Brooks' methods and appeared to do well. She hasn't posted in many years, but she along with Handle123 were people I learned a lot from on this forum back in the day.

Al Brooks perhaps unintentionally encourages people to overtrade, because he focuses on one market intraday and he has a number of setups. I remember he said on some interview it took him about 10 years of backtesting and trading to finally make money doing this. He made the methodology his...

As a post-scriptum, there is one thing you need to understand about people who sell trading education. With extremely rare exceptions you have no idea if they are profitable traders or not. When I once tried listening to Al Brooks for a month he'd say 'I'm profitable most days'. His saying so...

I disagree with following some other trader 'diligently', in that case just give them your money to manage. You have to come up with a method that you trust because let's face it, even if you do well mirroring Al Brooks' trades what if he decides to throw in the towel (or nature takes its...

Al Brooks has some interesting ideas, but at the end of the day he's a very discretionary trader who like many technical traders creates his own names for stuff that's already got other names. I've gotten a few ideas from him but as with any method, it's just part of the picture for most people...

Strategy, strategy, strategy I know that's what everyone likes to talk about, and I get it. But it's such a difficult thing to communicate. Because no matter what, every trader will see the market a bit differently. We all use our own tools, and even if they're the same tools we can use them...

Agreed, volatility has been pretty intense as of late, we're fortunate. I remember back in 2013 after the Euro crisis died down, it was very slim pickings and I really had a hard time.

A history In just a few months, it'll be 12 years since I've made my first cash trade in financial markets. It's way past that five year mark where everyone says you either make it or you don't. But to be fair these 12 years have also had a lot of breaks in between, it hasn't exactly been the...