




Every now and then when I visit the forum and see this thread, it reminds me of how stubborn people can be. Most people never move their asses until their balls are squeezed.........hard.
It happened to me and it marked the day my journey started.
Llife is such a wonderful thing, it wll strip away every misconception you have about friends, women, money, even life itself, until what remains is the truth.

I also suggest googling "denial of personal reality".
FFS, it took you 14 years to figure this out?
I've no idea if Brooks is good or bad, but I do know that anything which takes more than 10 minutes to understand is balls. The best thing you can do now is rip out the pages from the book and keep them next to the fireplace to light a fire, or next to the shitpot to use when you run out of toilet paper.
Dump the Brooks book and get on the Net, there a quite a few systems
which actually work and are available
for free.
If you want to do even better read thru the 2 links
https://www.inditraders.com/showthread.php?t=11445
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/spanish89s-daily-trading-journal.133701/
I've said this for years, get the data and reverse engineer their trades for the next 3 months

I would have posted the data but it is on some hard drive and I don't know where.
Today is the first Sunday of Advent and I've no interest in getting into a long discussion so it's your choice. I don't expect you to take these suggestions since you are trading with free money, but I can say I tried.
And spend a few bucks to buy this book - Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success