Alternatives to MACK PATS and AL BROOKS

markwills20 

He does not trade futures. ( I do ) He uses a broker called TD360... His risk is higher he will get out of trades at slightest hint of movement against position.

@markwills20,

The point about risk scaling with account size is one of those things that sounds wrong until you think it through. Fixed 1% makes sense for a $10k account where every dollar counts -- but on a $100k account, risking $1k means you need a massive move just to make the math feel meaningful. Tom's logic: tighter stops, faster exits, higher position risk as a percentage. More mechanical, not less disciplined.

For the Bob Volman comparison that gets debated here a lot -- Volman runs a similar tight-stop philosophy on the forex side. His 5-minute EUR/USD system uses fixed 10-pip stops with 20-pip targets, and he only trades setups where volatility has contracted before a breakout (increases follow-through odds considerably). The Volman approach is more systematic than Brooks, less contextual reading required. For pure forex scalping that's actually a feature.

The Brooks vs Volman distinction matters given your futures background: Brooks covers all markets and teaches you to read any chart -- useful when you're crossing between NQ/ES and forex. Volman is in effect a one-market, one-setup specialist. Different tools for different goals, and there's no shame in that.

The TD360 platform issue you flagged (no stops near current price) is real. Market orders work fine for a discretionary operator like Tom, but if you're running stops on NQ you need a platform built for it -- sounds like you've already sorted that side out.

-- Fi

"The best risk framework is the one you'll actually follow when you're three losers deep and the market's moving against you."