Steps to proceed after the course?

I've had the same issue of putting the knowledge into practice.  The more I trade, the more I realize that you really do need to understand all of the concepts to have an edge.  The market structure, probabilities, trade management, signals, entries, stop placement, etc...  At the end of the day, the only way you'll really ingrain it all is to trade.  Keep a journal, with screen shots and notes and think about why a trade worked or didn't work and use the course as a reference.  One thing that helps me is to use the TOS onDemand feature to practice any time I can from the historical price action.  You get instant feedback on whether or not your strategy is in the right direction or if you need more work.  

Take it step by step and try to learn one concept so far that you would be able to explain that to someone who has no clue about trading. Then take the next concepts and add that. Everyone has a different style to learn so find that one which fits for you. There are many traders which are trading only one or two setups what is enough when you do it properly. Be kind to yourself as it takes time to get familiar with all the info which the course includes so don't expect to understand all at once after watching the course once. Most of the successful traders watch that several times, read the books and practiced on da regular basis. Compare it to sport, fe. swimming you do not jump into the water for the first time and take part at the olympics after that.

TOS onDemand feature!

Where do you find that feature?

Thanks

Thanks all for the responses. Helps a lot. 

One thing that helped me a lot is practicing with the daily charts. I put the notepad app in front of the bars and reveal them one by one and practice taking entries. That in combination by rereading the theory is golden combo. 

Its on the ThinkorSwim platform.  On your live account, there's a button at the top right that says onDemand.  Click it, and you can adjust the date and time to whenever you'd like.  I usually pause the bars and adjust the time manually in increments of whatever time frame I'm on.  So if  I want to practice on the 5 minute chart, I'll start with the open, then adjust the time manually by 5 minute increments so the next bar comes up and so on.  But you really have to be honest with yourself and don't let wishful thinking creep in and make you believe that you're better than you really are.

Tradingview has Bar Replay - a similar feature that I'm using. You can do buy sell on it too but only at the bar close price. I jot down orders, entries, stops etc as I go then mark up the chart and do a full journal entry for each trade. It's slow going doing the journal in but it forces me to review the chart and then spot stuff I missed in the heat of the moment.

Honestly what helps me the most is just putting up a naked chart. No lines or anything. I just pick random days on the SPY, or TSLA, or NVDA and i just try and find the price action that i've been studying in the course. I have about 4,000 different screenshots saved to my computer over the last few years of i see something i recognize i save it. So, if i see a broad bear channel over 3-4 days i might label it and save it and ill put it in its own folder labeled Broad bear channels. 

I've put a lot of time in and i still suck at trading. Good luck.

I also want to say i highly recommend purchasing the books after the course. After i finished the course i spent a few years reading the books. I honestly think i might like them a little better. I think its important to go through the course first but having the books is like the cherry on top because its the same concepts but it almost feels like theres more detail and sometimes things are worded slightly different than in the videos and different examples used.

Thanks all again for the responses. Helped me to narrow down a plan.

Since my original post, I have started doing the following;

01) Started reading the book on trends.
02) Re-watch the relevant course content for each concept discussed in the book.
03) Find the encyclopedia entry for the concept.
04) Try and find similar setups on the charts.

My observation so far is that, as mentally exhausting and time consuming this activity is, it's becoming easier to quickly spot the steup on older charts.
But I'm still struggling to do it real-time (on 5m charts) and catch trade entries.

As Chris suggested, I like the idea of creating a collection of similar setups. 👍 

Will keep doing it and hopefully things will improve.