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I am one of the few I guess who loved this course (and everything about it, the presentation, the organization, classification and what not) right from the start. Probably because a few of my personality traits are similar to Al's, including the so called 'monotonous' speech pattern 🙂
I loved the fact that there are so many examples in the videos, in fact I highly doubt that Al could have included enough examples for me to say, "Alright I don't need more examples".
One must understand the countless variables that are present in the market structure to appreciate the need for numerous examples.
But then again ironically, one understands just what all kinds of variables can be surrounding a setup in a chart pattern after doing Al's course.
When I had not done the course, This course is presented as "You don't need anything else to make money from the course" And I did not believe it, because with so many internet marketers (masquerading as traders) showcasing their wares online, with all glitzy sites and claims and 'testimonials'. I was like a child in a candy store, reading one candy wrapper say 'You won't need another candy". So as much as everything impressed me about AL, and the course, from the outside. I did not really believe the claim that one course is ALL I needed. ESP. when that course was priced so considerately. When the garbage (and even a newbie at trading like me could make out that it was garbage, just based on the marketing. They were selling dreams/hopes/a celebrity lifestyle) was selling for, sometimes, 10 times the price.
But I found even that claim of AL to be ABSOLUTELY true. In fact if you follow Al's advice to the letter, you won't need anything else to work on psychological or emotional aspect of trading too.
If I had to guess I would say that culprits are the snake oil salespeople, who promise their highly shallow course would make one make GOOD and CONSISTENT money as a trader. So people have come to expect to become a professional by going through a crash course, probably 5-6 hours in length.
Trading is a skilled, high paying, profession, like Dr./Surgeon, Lawyer, Architect, CA, etc.. so obviously it would need that kind of study.
The analogy that is coming to my mind is people expect to become a professional, but they don't expect to read academic papers or journals, they expect to read a shiny, shallow gossip magazine with lots of colors and pictures. Mainly because that's what internet marketers have led people to believe is enough.
I don't know much about OP, but just 2 things that are mentioned, 1. too many examples and 2. Al talking about buyers buying here and sellers selling here etc.., makes me think that OP is expecting the run of the mill, color by numbers kind of course. which is what majority of the material that is there.
I wonder what OP would think, about there being too many examples, if he had gone through the daily Setups and the encyclopedia (which BTW does justice to the word 'encyclopedia')
Perhaps fragmenting the course in bite size pieces could be an improvement for people having problems with the study. Regardless, this approach might even work best for most students.
Hi Alexander and all,
If you analyze the course breakdown you should see it is already 'fragmented' quite a lot! 😊
Looking at the main Brooks Trading Course we have 10 sections, 52 topics, and 98 hours of video. Each topic was broken down into several videos, each with multiple chapters, with the aim to get down to 15-20 minutes max per video. Not easily done of course, so many videos much longer.
Overall we managed to finish up with 193 videos which is an average of about 30 minutes. If we had finished up with all videos at 15 minutes that would have given us 390+ videos!!
So if 15 minutes is a "bite size piece", then we would have close to 400 videos in total which is not easy to manage. Already a mammoth task to create and maintain separate course pages for each video (now in 3 languages = 1,200 website pages just for main course alone).
We will be moving later this year to a new course management system and need to review how best to present each videos content. Hopefully in future we can link chapters in each video to the player, as done by YouTube, which can then approach the "bite sized" pieces need better.
With new course system, and to help traders better study course, we are also looking into supplying quizzes. Maybe we could add questions and answers to each video section here somehow. Or open up another forum to invite ideas and Q&A.
This topic/thread is in the wrong place. Original message has nothing much to do with Swing Trading topic. Maybe best to move it too? 😎
Hi Richard,
First of all I greatly appreciate Al, you and anyone involved with the creation of the course and the hard the work that was involved to where it is now.
Perhaps there was a flaw in my wording in what I tried to make clear about what worked for me (English is not my first language).
For me the course is perfect and well organized, and because of that I went through the course rather quickly without trying to make myself to remember and completely grasp it all at once because of the great volume of detail and information.
After that, I decided to actually to start to study in detail 'per subject' as I described in my first response in this thread. With 'fragmenting in bite size pieces' I tried to express 'thoroughly study per subject'. Maybe stopping the video to make notes or replaying certain pieces could be seen as fragmenting but that is not what I mend to say in my comment.
A last word about anyone who has problems with how the material is presented. All that Al says is what needs to be said and addressed, the slides are clear and to the point for what the topics are about. If 193 videos are too intense or too time consuming for some, they could consider the 'Day Trading Insight course' that you did with Al, which I think is a very good course as well.
If 193 videos are too intense or too time consuming for some, they could consider the 'Day Trading Insight course' that you did with Al, which I find a very good course as well.
Which course is this one? I totally missed any information about this.
Which course is this one? I totally missed any information about this.
https://www.daytradinginsight.com/live-trading-video/best-trades-live-introduction/
Excuses, I missed that you moved the thread already, certainly a better title than the one before 🙂
Hi Alexander,
I have not moved thread yet, so your message was a duplicate. I will delete it after writing this message to avoid any confusion. And yes, I had better move thread to the general area too - and perhaps retain the modified title too. 😀
Ref the short Best Trades course you mentioned, course members interested can find a discount page on the website by searching for "Best Trades".
PS. I see your system nickname discloses your email address. You can edit this in your profile here if preferred. If you do, let me know if you want me to then edit earlier messages to update your "Posted by:" ref. I have edited your nickname here as an example.
Hi Richard, yes please remove the email address. Thank you for sending notice.
Enjoy the weekend 🙂
Having quizzes; even multiple of them, for each section would really take this course to a new level. This course is already the best trading course in history, and adding quizzes would just further cement that
