Quote from traderslair:
There is no NFA rule or any other law that prevents a retail trader to show his P&L from their personal trading.
Enough said.
I can't remember exactly where I saw the interview but I think Brooks once reply to a question with a reference that he was "not" a retail trader. Therefore, is he a CTA or has small fund that he doesn't talk about ?
I ask the above question because Brooks also mentions he can "not" risk an NFA audit via any actual publicly discussed trades. That implies he's a member of the NFA or can the NFA audit any Joe Bob retail trader that are not members.
If so, he shouldn't have a chat room in which he's disclosing trades he's just made. Yet, my opinion is that Brooks is most likely just a retail trader that trades his own personal account along with being a vendor. Simply, he can discuss his trades publicly any time he wants (real-time, before the fact, hindsight or whatever) along with showing any broker statements if he wants.
Regardless, there seems to be hundreds of users of his methods and I've seen "a few" of them with their own blogs, forum threads posting real-time trades and showing broker statements. Simply, some would say they'll rather see the performance of the students to determine the merits of Brooks discretionary methods.
Yet, due to the fact his methods are discretionary...the performance of one user of the method will differ greatly from the performance of another user of the method...such is normal for discretionary methods.