Hello everyone,

Did anyone attend this event by Al Brooks and Ali where they traded live real money for 3 days?

I would love to read your review and opinions from the event.

https://www.brookstradingcourse.com/workshop/al-brooks-live-trading/

Thank you

I'm currently watching the trading course. A bit slow and repetitive, and it's basically trend trading. Not learning too much, but tbh I think that trading is mostly psychology anyway.

Like you can learn price action fairly quickly, but beating the internal battle is much harder. Do you quit while ahead, or give it all back to the market? Do you trade when your strategy clearly isn't working, or do you accept that today is a loss and quit early?

These things are more important in the long run imo. Plus price action only shows you what's already happened, if the fundamentals change then the price action won't mean much when the markets spike several hundred points.

Update I noticed yesterday, the regular detailed daily setups for encyclopedia members look to be ending, instead being replaced by separate encyclopedia charts 2/3 times a week.



I learned a ton from these charts, I try to mark up my own screenshot of the chart after every day and then compare against these which are like the charts posted to the (free) blog except with lots more detail. I've learned how to see a lot of these things on my own (usually after the fact, real-time is a work in progress) but I am still learning a lot so it makes me a little sad. But there is a ton of material accumulated over the years so its enough to learn from.

I'm not sure of the underlying reason but it seems Al is slowing down a bit. Could be he is spending time away from computers and charts which would be a good thing.

Recent Al Brooks Video
I do not use his method but I think this is a free session provided by Al Brooks.
(If this is not please delete this post.)

Brooks Trading Room Open House - Thursday May 1, 2025

Howard Roark 

I'm only repeating what I already said which is that if a vendor is NOT producing a statement we can certainly know that he's not making any money from his trading. From what I've learned about Al Brooks there are never any trade calls in his trading room. At best it's vague and after-the-fact. IF a vendor produces a statement - THEN we can worry about if it's fake or not. Here's one such vendor. I NEVER paid John Carter any money except for his trading book back in the day which I later sold along with the other 100 books I had bought. Most of them BS. I seem to recall that his book were one of the better ones, though. As for these results below. Maybe they're fake. Maybe they are the outcome of some lucky trade which is not easily repeated. But if I had to choose between Al and John, I think I'd have to say John. Personally, I don't believe in buying courses. Never did. Never will. https://simplerjohn.medium.com/2020-a-recap-of-my-1270-18-2-million-trading-year-faa24a08c65d

Even though this is a LATE reply - I am quite AMAZED that ypou have chosen the FRAUDSTER John Carter as a genuine "MENTOR". The guy was spending HUNDRED of THOUSANDS on quality VIDEO promotions (I remember a specific SINGER back in the day)

I try to be VERY CAREFUL saying bad negative things about people if i'm not SURE about it. In this case, beyond all of the POSTS by others talking about this FRAUDSTER with his "SQUEEZE" method and all.

I also have a "mini proof" of my own. Back in the day around 2010 I think he had a PARTNER called Hubert Centers or something like that. I remember meeting them at some TRADING CONFERENCE and talked to him about the MANIOULATION of VOLUME by DARK POOLS and the OLD SCHOOL "LIQUIDITY DATABADSE" that did nit exist anmymore - they guy was giving me HALF ASSED answers and you could see he does not know a THING about it!!!!

Just a few points of refrences from the web : https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/namiz7/anyone_in_the_simpler_trading_community/
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/john-carter-hubert-senters-tradethemarkets-com-scams.215669/

ziggy123 

Even though this is a LATE reply - I am quite AMAZED that ypou have chosen the FRAUDSTER John Carter as a genuine "MENTOR". The guy was spending HUNDRED of THOUSANDS on quality VIDEO promotions (I remember a specific SINGER back in the day) I try to be VERY CAREFUL saying bad negative things about people if i'm not SURE about it. In this case, beyond all of the POSTS by others talking about this FRAUDSTER with his "SQUEEZE" method and all. I also have a "mini proof" of my own. Back in the day around 2010 I think he had a PARTNER called Hubert Centers or something like that. I remember meeting them at some TRADING CONFERENCE and talked to him about the MANIOULATION of VOLUME by DARK POOLS and the OLD SCHOOL "LIQUIDITY DATABADSE" that did nit exist anmymore - they guy was giving me HALF ASSED answers and you could see he does not know a THING about it!!!! Just a few points of refrences from the web : https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/namiz7/anyone_in_the_simpler_trading_community/ https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/john-carter-hubert-senters-tradethemarkets-com-scams.215669/

Well, thanks for bringing that to our attention. If you read my post it was in no way an endorsement of John. I even said it could be fake.

Howard Roark 

Well, thanks for bringing that to our attention. If you read my post it was in no way an endorsement of John. I even said it could be fake.

With pleasure - that's what the community is for : SHRING IS CARING

I just also remembered that his partner Hubers Centers (or something similar) was a "COW BREEDER" before a day - trader ....always thought it was an interesting TRANSITION

But his SNAKE OIL answer - of knowing ZERO about VOLUME has struck me deeply - and I never looked back again.

Another SNAKES OIL vendor from the past which I see RESURFACING is OLIVER VELEZ : beyond just reading reviews - I was attending his "PROP FIRM" in NYC - and felt so strange by the people surrounding us - ALL B.S. Artists with
hidden agenda and no STRATEGY/SETUPS/METHODS etc.

Lastly, in Boston where I used to live - I was attending another prop firm that was doing PAIRS TRADING - it was some guy from VEGAS - pretty known (cant recall his name) - wasn't a SCAMMER per se - but again, an OLD method that may have worked in the PITS days - that did not hold water anymore.

Another POTENTIAL "SHAISTER" was a guy I met at MIT called "ERIC" - where they had knowledge sharing evening "forums". The guy was a ski instructor before and was trading the 1 minuets equities based on 3 "breathing candles" - no actual method - and created a group which I believe he was receiving KICKBACKS from AFFILIATE COMISISON by sending SHIPLETS noobs to his BROKER - luckily, I never fell for any of the above said SCAMMERS - instead paid my dues to the MARKET - and it was PAINFUL (cannot believe I'm smiling about it)

Hopefully this info will serve others in their quest for being a DAY TRADER.

Cheers,
S.

ziggy123 

talked to him about the MANIPULATION of VOLUME by DARK POOLS and the OLD SCHOOL "LIQUIDITY DATABASE" that did not exist anymore - the guy was giving me HALF ASSED answers and you could see he does not know a THING about it!!!!

@ziggy123,

The dark pool question is a genuinely useful litmus test for depth of understanding.

Here's the technical reality: dark pool executions don't appear directly in standard volume data. They print off-exchange and only partially reconcile into the consolidated tape. For someone already working with footprint and delta, this matters - what you're seeing is exchange-reported volume only. Dark pool prints often settle into the visible chart indirectly: as absorption patterns, large bars that stall despite directional pressure, or consolidations that resolve without the usual delta signature.

This is actually where Al Brooks' approach and order flow tools can complement each other:

• Brooks reads pattern-level residue - what the bars look like after institutional activity has settled
• Your footprint/delta tools give you tick-level real-time data from exchange-reported flow
• Dark pool prints that don't register in your delta can still leave Brooks-style absorption signatures in the structure

So when Brooks describes strong-close bars with follow-through, or consolidations that resolve cleanly - these often reflect exactly the kind of settled institutional positioning that dark pools create.

Whether a vendor actually understands the distinction between exchange and off-exchange volume is a fair question to probe. Vague answers usually indicate pattern-matching over genuine market structure knowledge - regardless of what any statement shows.

I'm not going to weigh in on the broader credibility debate, but the dark pool question itself is the right one to ask.

Have a good weekend!

-- Fi

"A strong answer to a hard question tells you more than a polished track record."