Al Brooks video

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https://www.brookspriceaction.com/acronyms.php

 
Please provide an example or two of what does not pass for intelligent discussion in this thread.

And then please give us an example of what is so "vastly" superior.

I notice all the people who seem to defend Al Brooks....happen to be people who have bought into his cult courses of trading.
Rams fan, Padu trader, that guy with the Yin Yang avatar, and SimpleMeLike -- and probably a host of unknown others, elsewhere.

It's impossible to convert a religious person. They have been brainwashed and convinced wholeheartedly already. Their ability to remain and see things neutrally and objectively has tarnished. And their pride and time and wallet is at stake to save face.
 
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I am not arguing with MacBookProHo. I am simply adding to what he said from my own experience. But first, let me highlight the things he said with which I agree...
  1. You truly have to discover your own mind, self...
  2. You have to be semi-intelligent and observant, and question everything, and digest it, and perceive it, and understand it.
  3. The bests traders in the world found their groove after a decade of stumbling getting nowhere.
  4. Don't buy anything. You don't need to.
Personally, it took me from 2011 to 2015 to come up with a winning strategy. It took me from 2015 to 2022 to expand that winning strategy into a fully developed winning system. That's a total eleven years. And even now, I am exploring how to transition it from an approach that requires me to monitor my trades and manage my positions to one that allows me to simply place my orders and walk away while still enjoying a daily success rate that varies between 85% to 100%. (Results from yesterday and today suggest that this has been accomplished, but I will need to see it continue to work another week or two before I go live with it.)

I would apply what MacBookProHo said about "perceive it" and "understand it" to finding out what supposedly successful traders do. For example, part of my own system was developed based on a system used by Nick McDonald of Trade with Precision. I was also influenced by watching videos recorded by Jim Roof of sp500Chart (oldschoolchartist on YouTube). These are just two examples. I took the aspects of what they did that worked for me, and discarded what didn't.

I was guided by five biblical principles, one of which was to: test everything and hold fast to only those things which prove to be valid and reliable.

This led me to reject the use of almost all common indicators, such as MACD, RSI, CCI, stochastic oscillators and the like; along with any approaches involving harmonic patterns, Elliot waves, pivot points, Fibonacci ratios and whatnot.

But, THAT'S JUST ME!

The point is, you have to evaluate all the GOOD stuff you can find (by copying the masters?) and then determine if you can use it or not (if it will work for you given who you are as a person and the approach or style you take to trading) and conjure up your own recipe for success.

In this way, you will know HOW it works, WHY it works, and by the foremost expert on the planet when it comes to implementing it.

Ok, after all that deep, reflective, talk...can you tell me what you are actually making in the market?
Either in % returns daily/weekly/monthly and/or dollar money returns,

It's one thing to be wise, intelligent, and all that.....and completely another to be able to transform all of that into real world, money, returns from the market,

There are so many wind-up chatter teeth in this business, industry, of trading.
 
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I notice all the people who seem to defend Al Brooks....happen to be people who have bought into his cult courses of trading.
Rams fan, Padu trader, that guy with the Yin Yang avatar, and SimpleMeLike.

It's impossible to convert a religious person. They have been brainwashed and convinced wholeheartedly already. Their ability to remain and see things neutrally and objectively has tarnished. And their pride and time and wallet is at stake to save face.
No money outta my pocket, pallie.
Brook's Opus is an indexed result of a documentarian. Did he sell some books and vids? Hell, I hope so. There's a boatload of time and discernment behind that compact distillation of a career, all laid out in organized splendor for the grand sum of $0.00. Big Al even picks up the hosting and bandwidth fees. You don't like that people extract actionable information from Big All? That would make sense. You have YET to post ANY actionable information. lol. You, my google chart trading friend, are in absolutely no danger of being offered money for your 'content'. Prove me wrong. Post Anything Actionable. For once. lol. If you aint bitchin about something, you aint postin. Kotex or Tampons? Digme pygme?

al brooks.jpg

https://www.brookspriceaction.com/acronyms.php
 
You have YET to post ANY actionable information. lol.

You, my google chart trading friend, are in absolutely no danger of being offered money for your 'content'.

Can you explain why today's market looks like this, premarket before the opening bell?
I would bet down around 9:50 and sell, close, around 10:50

The difference between you and me.....I can explain why this chart generally looks like this, I was expecting it to. That was my hypothesis, so I know what signs and tells to look for to execute this trade.
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And this process, is the Holy Grail. Knowing, or generally knowing, the future.
It's worth its weight in gold. Someone would have to be a fool to sell this in a course for $495.
That's why I'm vague and generally secretive, and not providing 'anything actionable' or concrete.
 
Evidently so, judging by the fellow's lack of response to my question. Perhaps he's searching for an appropriate proverb.

Look at the time of my post. 9:14 AM. I had to get to work. I trade. I trade the S&P 500 futures. That's the business I am in and I don't set my own hours. The market does.

Here is why this discussion is garbage, since you asked: Almost every post in this thread that is negative toward or against Mr. Brooks and his teaching is not based on any real effort spent trying to learn from Brooks. So why would any serious student of Brooks, or a serious student of any other technical trading approach for that matter voluntarily discuss that method here? With people who have no knowledge of or experience with that material?

Garbage. This whole thread is garbage.

So, to answer your question, a vastly superior discussion would be one in which the participants have a sincere shared interest in the subject under discussion and have expended some real effort in earnest to understand and test that material under live market conditions.

You know, the type of discussion one would expect from a discussion forum of elite traders.

Unlike you, I don't see much value in spending time every day on this forum. So if you respond, please don't sit here hitting your browser refresh waiting for me to respond to you. I do not live on the internet as you seem to do.
 
I am not arguing with MacBookProHo. I am simply adding to what he said from my own experience. But first, let me highlight the things he said with which I agree...
  1. You truly have to discover your own mind, self...
  2. You have to be semi-intelligent and observant, and question everything, and digest it, and perceive it, and understand it.
  3. The bests traders in the world found their groove after a decade of stumbling getting nowhere.
  4. Don't buy anything. You don't need to.
Personally, it took me from 2011 to 2015 to come up with a winning strategy. It took me from 2015 to 2022 to expand that winning strategy into a fully developed winning system. That's a total eleven years. And even now, I am exploring how to transition it from an approach that requires me to monitor my trades and manage my positions to one that allows me to simply place my orders and walk away while still enjoying a daily success rate that varies between 85% to 100%. (Results from yesterday and today suggest that this has been accomplished, but I will need to see it continue to work another week or two before I go live with it.)

I would apply what MacBookProHo said about "perceive it" and "understand it" to finding out what supposedly successful traders do. For example, part of my own system was developed based on a system used by Nick McDonald of Trade with Precision. I was also influenced by watching videos recorded by Jim Roof of sp500Chart (oldschoolchartist on YouTube). These are just two examples. I took the aspects of what they did that worked for me, and discarded what didn't.

I was guided by five biblical principles, one of which was to: test everything and hold fast to only those things which prove to be valid and reliable.

This led me to reject the use of almost all common indicators, such as MACD, RSI, CCI, stochastic oscillators and the like; along with any approaches involving harmonic patterns, Elliot waves, pivot points, Fibonacci ratios and whatnot.

But, THAT'S JUST ME!

The point is, you have to evaluate all the GOOD stuff you can find (by copying the masters?) and then determine if you can use it or not (if it will work for you given who you are as a person and the approach or style you take to trading) and conjure up your own recipe for success.

In this way, you will know HOW it works, WHY it works, and by the foremost expert on the planet when it comes to implementing it.

So you have to test stuff yourself :)
 
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