Thanks for the journal comments. It is how in the markets that I have learned cognitively, adapted, and practiced Brooks, and a handful of other authors concepts, including a few of my own inventions. I always have a little hope that some mules will learn something from my efforts to explain. I sell nothing and ask nothing other than that folks try to understand and Sim it if perchance it may help someone in their SIM Trading ROFLMAO. I admit I am a maverick. I have done a lot of training seminars in a totally different field from trading and since I jolt people and provoke people in those trainings to consider other points of view and then I tell them the work involved to arrive at success. I find most are not able to make the “leap”. They simply cannot, or are not willing, to accept or process the concepts OR commit to do the work. Maybe 5% gone on to success from my trainings. I tried toning down my presentation. In case it was me. The percentage got worse. I came to the conclusion that to learn something that breaks tradition and worldview folks have to be provoked deeply, or they will simply dismiss what is being shared, as they cannot conceive it as being true. Tradition and WV are powerful things and hard to penetrate. Interestingly, the folks that buck the trainings the most as they are being given live, i.e. those that counter the concepts the hardest in the live trainings ..those that appear to be the biggest mule headed, stubborn people, often end up being the most successful once they are able to make the leap. Most can never make the leap. I have had folks get up and walk out of a live training so mad; they can’t take it any more. Sometimes, after they calm down they will saunter back in because what was presented intrigued them as much, or more, as it made them angry. Fortunately, there are a few that are able to entertain, chew on, and consider things they never have considered, and practice them making adaptations. These usually end up with success. If they commit to the work and are willing to do whatever it takes. They do see success at different levels, but that is another topic to discuss. Many, if not most, of the others just continue doing what they have always done and of course they get the same results they have always gotten.
Hello speedo, Yes, that course is tooooooo complex. And you listening to a man who does not even trade and show his account balance to gives students hope that one day they would be profitable. I was in his paid room, and all day this man do is talk all day, do not even trade. 8 hours of talking and bullshiting. Come on man, that makes no sense. Even if Brooks wants to protect his edge of how he trades, atleast show your PnL at the end of the day to give your students hope. I can't do it. It is just not good business sense for me to follow someone like that. Wasting to much time. Now all this damn time he preaching 5 minute charts, and he post a youtube trading the damn 15 seconds chart. lol come on man. That is misleading and not fair to those students spending their time and energy to learn this man stuff. Trading is business of making money, and if you can not produce money, you should not be teaching students and selling them product. Period. Period. And if Brooks teaching others how to make money and selling courses for fee, and Brooks can not produce, this is called fraud and pimping the system. You LYING to make an income from selling trading videos. Selling dreams. Period. And alot of you ET guys need stop bullshitting and call it for what it is. STOP giving guys like Brooks a pass. This man, need to show his students, he knows how to make money from what the fuck he is selling and talking about. PERIOD.
LIBB needs to be set, then no problemo. The real deal or pretty damn close. Now as for most other retail backtesting software systems - that is when big assumptions crop up.
Unfortunately such things are in short supply on ET. You know as long as I have been at this way longer than I ever heard of Padu I have actually learned a few things from guess who?Padu! I try to keep my mind open and I am willing to learn from anyone. ANYONE. I could care less what country they are from or what race they are. Even a person education level means little to me. Some of the biggest jackasses in the world are some of the most educated. But even then I am willing to learn something from an educated jackass. I also have learned and benefited in so many ways from things I have learned from uneducated, illiterate folks, living in the mountains of Honduras. I can learn some things from Padu’s trading experience. I doubt I could learn anything from Padu’s golfing simply because I am unwilling. Golfing never has interested me in the least unless it was an occasional game of mini golf with my kids, wife, or grandkids. I hope Padu can learn a few things or a lot of things from my experiences as I can from his.
Well simple I am glad you found something that works for you. However, that doesn’t mean what Brooks teaches is bullshit. It just means you were not able to get it to work for you. May ask how long did you try?
Hello Laissez Faire, I agree with your comments 2000%. You are correct. Traders need to hold Brooks accountable or anyone else out there charging people for a trading service and Brooks can not produce and even worst, what he teaches, his students can not produce money with. This WRONG. Its wrong wrong. And when you tell someone Brooks stuff not working for me, they say "well you need to work harder", or "go study for +5 more years".