Tribute to Brooks

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Handle123 said:
I think once you have expert level in any field, especially trading, you can take almost anyone's tactics and make it better for oneself. I just didn't find Brooks material a fun read, charts I understood too easy, but how much does one want to collect.

I think many who been trading long time have read/studied "Sperandeo, Cooper, Wyckoff, Williams, Raschke" works plus dozens more. I have read Brooks stuff, but I think John Hills books were better, Brooks does have videos and YouTube. Brooks wasn't around in 1980's when I added commodities and intraday trading, Hills: daughter became a trader as well and both managed Hedge Fund in 90's I think. And John Hill developed Futures Truth to boot, I found some good systems from that.

http://m.futuresmag.com/2009/10/31/hill-and-hurd-all-family

At some point, you go off on your own and donate all your books etc, you achieve monetary goals and challenges but thank goodness you come up with another idea to test. Got to do something in my rocking chair.
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Yes, regardless of influences one has to make ideas, concepts and strategies one's own. We are all different and we all trade differently, some similarly sure but different none the less.
 
speedo said:
regardless of influences one has to make ideas, concepts and strategies one's own
We are all different and we all trade differently
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Sure, you can say that...we are all different, in this loving, hippy, happy world.
We all trade differently, we all have different styles and personalities and looks...

But the bottom, ultimate, line, is...we are All staring at the Same, center, dot...the green, the Money. And this is universal. We all want to generate more and more of it -- and this doesn't deviate. The person who can generally generate the most...is basically the King and ruler, and God and Right while everyone else is wrong. The Holy Grail bunny.

No one wants to be Spider or Tommy in Goodfellas. We all want to be the the next highest, strongest, ranking, person above. And then the next person, and then the next person, and then the next person.
Now, Go Home and Get your Shoe Shine Box__ :D :caution:
 
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ChipShotTrader said:
Sure thing. What did it for me was this video:


Where he successfully scalps ES (USING 15 SECOND BARS!!!). I have been successfully trading the markets, full-time, since September 1998. First with stocks, then in 2009, I made the transition to futures.

I know bullshit when I see it. There is NO way he is doing this type of trading. He lives off selling courses. If you can't see the obvious, I truly can't help you.

All I have ever done, since graduating from college, is trade professionally. I have never held another job...

@padutrader His methods don't suit anyone. They are not meant to. They are part of his education hustle. If they suited anyone, you would be the first to know, and be making money consistently.
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Thanks for explaining.

Yes, I saw this and was confused on the 15 second chart. But I guess that what he does.

Oh well, he getting paid

I personally think Al Brooks and his trading course is a complete waste of time.
 
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SimpleMeLike said:
But I guess that what he does.
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he does a 1000 things

i just do one thing, one concept, the most basic one.

trade the pull back.

if it sounds simple to do it is not.......

of course if you do not find him useful no problem ....just find something else or ignore.

brooks has never never said trading is simple so he must find it difficult too
 
padutrader said:
he does a 1000 things

i just do one thing, one concept, the most basic one.

trade the pull back.

if it sounds simple to do it is not.......

of course if you do not find him useful no problem ....just find something else or ignore.

brooks has never never said trading is simple so he must find it difficult too
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Al Brooks and his teaching makes Noone money. When I stopped listening to his trading course and did my own thing, my trading and confidence and PnL grew. And I'm not stressed no more day to day bullshitting on 5 minutes chart all damn day. Trading his methods does not work. Brooks can't even prove his own methods work. Guy trading 15 seconds chart in SIM but teaches on 5 minutes. He just hustling money from courses like the other YouTube people.
 
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SimpleMeLike said:
Al Brooks and his teaching makes Noone money. When I stopped listening to his trading course and did my own thing, my trading and confidence and PnL grew. And I'm not stressed no more day to day bullshitting on 5 minutes chart all damn day. Trading his methods does not work. Brooks can't even prove his own methods work. Guy trading 15 seconds chart in SIM but teaches on 5 minutes. He just hustling money from courses like the other YouTube people.
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trading the pull back was done by traders before brooks was born......
 
SimpleMeLike said:
Al Brooks and his teaching makes Noone money.
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this is wrong

just find a trend and trade H1/L1... H2/L2......H3/L3

you will find many entries usually if the trend continues.......he says two times risk but i do not exit until the trend reverses or starts ranging.

i am not saying it is easy......but it is possible.

see chart .......can you spot the entries...the numerous entries......if you cannot make money then you are not thinking right....or maybe not at all
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