Only a few people care. They care because they lost money in the past and they're stuck replaying the images of their past while trying to resolve the conflict that continues to haunt them by making demands on others such as wanting to know for certain Brooks is earning his living via trading rather than selling books and courses. Tho imo their concerns are not whether brooks is successful as his detractors jump to whatever else is handy that can be used to trash talk his methods. If they only believed for a moment it was possible to leave all that in their past and paid attn. to the present they could begin seeing things differently. Maybe this will be the post that helps them. I sincerely hope it does.
I appreciate that. But I also have massive respect for some of the guys that passionately argue their points even if I see them as completely wrong. The market can be a painful place in so many ways. In my journey I've had similar expressions of energy, but I turned it on myself rather than externally. Some of the 'trolling' posts here I can relate to, except I never made them public. One of the long term drawbacks to expressing that energy outward is the interaction with people and the validation you get through interacting and 'winning' arguments. Something that can be addictive as you keep telling yourself a continually warped narrative. I threw all that hate at myself in my journey. I only just made it out alive. The benefit to my approach was that there were very few interactions with other people or validation seeking behaviours, causing me to delude myself. So I managed to come out stronger, could have gone either way though. I think I can learn from anyone with a passion for a subject, even someone who 'appears' to be a troll. They're just directing the normal messed up negative energies of the market externally without even knowing it. Of course some people are genuine trolls under a bridge, but from reading all the posts in this thread I don't think anyone is here.
I've been thinking about this... Simple but tough question. One piece of the puzzle on the journey of making it as a consistent trader is letting go of the need to be right. There's a difference between being validated as 'right' by other people in a forum and thriving in an environment that you can't fool or delude yourself in, such as the markets. In my journey it was me vs the markets, no lies or ability to distort the truth. Just my flawed personality vs an entity that didn't give a shit, a brick wall. I went internal and learnt things about myself that would have stayed hidden in any other job. In order to become consistent I had to get to trust myself at a deep level, so I could do simple trading tasks flawlessly. I was continually digging deep into my beliefs, who I was, why I acted in certain ways. I saw some pretty messed up parts of myself, trading was like therapy without a therapist to guide me. Which is why I'm lucky to have made it out. In this time I also gave up on socialising outside of work and became obsessed with learning how to trade. I've seen parts of myself come out in trading that I've hated, viciously attacked myself and my ideas, gone through unnecessary pain. But ive also managed to learn from it and become stronger. Hope this answers your question a little.
@Wingz perhaps, it is best to learn to trade profitably, and in your case, by moving forward with the simm live market. it is utterly useless to self-analyse your personality and what not, without lining yourself up with the live market. whatever you wish to do, in order to be successful, you need to do it with the market which is forever unpredictable for most. i just wish to encourage you to study your own potentials and flaws, as you called it, with the markets. they are twins and unseparateable. similaries, do not spend too much time doing back testing; over several decades, many wishing to attain some sort of holy grail setups trying to validate whatever they want to validate.... but no one appears to be able to do anything consistent enough to boast about or to show the trading communities that one profitable setup or a set of profitable setups would be able to produce similar profits with similar consistency and sustainability, in any shape or form. i am not saying there is no holy grail setup, but those holy grail setups are conditioned upon varying factors which only become apparent to traders AFTER THE FACTS.... the attachment below is one good example.... at around 9 am there were several impending signals that could be interpreted the price would go lower with about 55% of probability.... but other related charts in the set did not confirm it as yet. it took some three hours later that signals confirmed with higher probability that indeed price would go lower at about 75% of probability. do not give up just yet, wings. there are many different ways to become a profitable and consistent trader. just remember to get out of your trade, just as soon as your trade does not conform to your predefined setups, K? so there would be enough left to trade during next several sessions. the attachment is for personal enjoyment and there is no commercial nor trading value whatever, implied or otherwise. enjoy everyone. best trading to all.
to wingz i have just gone through all your posts and i cannot believe it that someone from the other side of the world has just been through what i have just been through exactly the same. thought i was going to kill it until i copped a reality check = check blew thousands of dollars = check been stuck in a room literally any chance i have got rather than socializing. people are speaking to me and i am seeing candlesticks in my head= check al brooks opened up my eyes and got ideas= check i have studied mark Douglas as well. = check the last 3 weeks just been smashed on the 5 minute chart asx 200,i pretty much lost hope and all those years pf wasted time.started to look at the 1 hour chart in the last two days and suddenly a very big smile came on my face and i hope i am not delusional but suddenly i can see hope.just watched the asx 200 today to see how i would go and predicted the whole day from trends and reversals( i hope its not a one off)
Try predicting 5 days per week, 4 weeks per month and 12 months per year in real time with real money on the line. If you're an Al Brooks follower, I'm sorry to say that I think you will end up disappointed. I know personally how easy it is to think you know something and get a-ha moments, when you really don't know that much in the end.
I think it is a bit late for a full (or partial) refund lol. I will not be trying, I definitely found value in Al Brooks's course. I did a CL trade that was directly based on his teaching today (i called it live on the forum if you are interested) which more than paid for the course.