Tribute to Brooks

First of all...Volpri is the real deal. Secondly, Al Brooks's books are like a horse tranquilizer. You should read it and extrapolate the info that works with your time horizon. I had a difficult time applying his methods to my personal trading style, but like any guru, you must use what you deem useful to your own personal style. FTR it only applies to 10% of my trading.
 
SimpleMeLike said:
Hello speedo,

I am forever grateful for the invite and experience.

You right, I am done with arguing. I am wasting good time.
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PADU CAPITAL has an entire team! And you were almost part of it. Hopefully @padutrader is part of it.

Personally, I think you failed to make the commitment.

There is only one thing left to do.

EXTREME SCALPING OF THE E-MINI ON A THREE-SECOND CHART.

This is only for very, very serious students/market participants. I truly hope you can make it. Al Brooks certainly did...

ONLY FOR EXTREME TRADERS...

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volpri said:
Top secret! Just follow my journal and Sim the concepts. You can probably figure it out by then. If you have no psychological hangups that would hinder you in executing trades, taking profits, and losses.
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Thanks, but I'm not really shopping for a method or a mentor at this point in time.

As you're strongly endorsing Al Brooks and seem to be taking the role as a teacher yourself it would be nice with some transparency on your actual results from said method, but let's leave it at that, then.
 
SimpleMeLike said:
Volpri,

Excuse my bluntness sir. I think we see life different as it pertains to trading.

I only see trading as making fast money every day. One more time with great emphasis. I only see trading as making fast money Every day. By trading alot of contracts in the future market.

I only treat trading like a business ONLY. Its about business to me. If I put in the time and energy and effort, it is mandatory, I get a reward.

For example, to be blunt. and from a business perspective.

If my next door neighbor, says give me $5000 to show you how to making money trading everyday, and I give him $5000, and he does not show me how to make money everyday, I am beating the fuck out of my next door neighbor because he lied to me and took my $5000. Even if he gives me the $5000 back, he may still catch ass whipping depending on how much time I wasted. If he tells me be patient, I will whip his ass again, just for disrespecting me telling me to be patient or go work harder.

Are you following me now.

Brooks charge me $400 for a course on his website where it says the course shows how to make money. I watched the course, the course does not show how to make money everyday. Brooks is not going to get an ass whipping from me, because I can live with a loss of $400.

So, my point is this. And this only me speaking, I do not know you other guys. If someone charge me a fee to teach me how to trade to make money, and what is being taught is not making ME money. This person is a pimp, a liar, a con , a fraud, and he taking advantage of me and my time and effort.

However, if the person says, he I "think" this makes money or maybe it does and he not charging me a dime. Ok its all good. This is fair business, I make the decision to proceed with this person.

You understand me now?

So you ask me how much time I put in or how hard I work is actually stupid to me and disrespectful. What does it matter how much time I put in or how hard I worked. I paid for service from Brooks, I studied the course, I practice the course, I traded the methods. They MAKE no money.
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Simplemelike,

1) You go right ahead and be a ass whipping super trader. You mentioned trading as a business that should render you a profit everyday. First, that isn’t even a reasonable posture. You will be whipping a lot of asses. Plus your neighbor might whip your ass! Be careful!

2) You have shown your ignorance on businesses by using the business argument. Are you aware that a new business usually takes 2 to 3 years just to just get to break even. Many go out of business before that point is reached. Most new businesses take 3 to 5 years to BEGIN turning a profit.

3) Third do you realize trading is probably one of the hardest, if not the hardest business to break into and become successful.

4) Mr Brooks said it took him 10 years to become consistently profitable. Do you honestly think you can pull it off in 1/4 or 1/3 of that time?

5) Maybe you should just whip your own ass or get your mop toting wife (per your post #806) to do it for you. She might oblige you using the mop as the principle instrument to accomplish the whipping. Just kidding!
 
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volpri said:
Why are folks on here railing on Padu? What difference does it make if he is showing some strategies on a sim? Just add 2 ticks and see if price makes it. One for entry and one for exit. For instance, to capture 4 ticks in the ES you generally got to have a total of a 6 tick move. 1 additional tick for entry and 1 for the exit. So, just watch any sim trade he makes and see if price would have given him the shown entry and exit, or not.

Why are people railing on him about trading small account? If what he shows is true in a small account then it generally will work in a larger account. Trading a small account is his business only and not for any of us to rail about.

He is trying to show how he trades some of brooks strategies. Does it matter if he does it on a sim or on a small account? Don’t be lazy. Test out what he says in your own damn account or your own SIM account! LOL

I kinda of think the real issue is brook hate. If padu were showing something else would they rail on him?

I will say this; most traders are too damn lazy and undisciplined to study and practice Brooks ideas and adapt themselves. It takes years to learn it and apply it. They will try it 6 months and declare it doesn't work. Or two or three years and declare it is BS. It takes way longer to really understand and apply what he teaches, coupled with adapting it to ones own personality and preferences. I think it was in 2010 I bought his first book Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar..The Technical Analysis of Price Action for The SERIOUS Trader (caps and bold mine).

The concepts were so foreign to me and I remember laughing out loud at what appeared, at that time to me, to be double talk and nonsense. BUT I had a gut feeling that Brooks was the real deal even if I could not understand, at the time, what he was talking about. So, I was intrigued enough that when his trilogy came out I bought the first book and wrote the date inside. November 27, 2011. So my journey begins. Later I bought his other two books of the trilogy. I also bought his first video course and every upgrade to it. In addition, I bought the Best Trades Course. On top of that I bought the trilogy in digital form so I wouldn’t have to lug the heavy hardbacks with me when I travel internationally on flights. So I have been studying and applying and adapting Brooks concepts since 2010.

Therefore, anyone that tells me his concepts are BS I know they never endured to wade through it. They just too lazy, undisciplined, or unable cognitively to understand and apply the concepts or have psychological problems in trading.

There is no treatise ANYWHERE on planet earth that I am aware of that so completely and thoroughly deals with PA as Brooks does. His works are “the” par excellence of PA teaching and training, IMO.

Padu has clearly indicated he is still learning from Brooks and is still learning how to apply Brooks concepts. So, why don’t you guys back off and let him show his experiences in learning and trading without such constant railing and cutting down and provoking him even with racial implications. You guys might even learn something useful!

There I said my peace.

I can deal with the humor that some throw out there and laugh along with you but the railing is uncalled for. Leave the man in peace.

PS here we are in 2021 and I am STILL learning from Brooks and learning how to apply his techniques in ways that fit my personality and preferences for trading. Count the years. 2010 to 2021.
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sir be careful you are talking sense and anywhere in this world that is dangerous for you.more so here in ET
 
this is my journal and it is for my benefit.

if others can derive something good i am happy.

i know brooks is teaching something valuable and he says it is not easy to be profitable in trading.

i have worked hard at trading and shown my failures and it only takes arseholes to make fun of me
 
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