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I think the real reason why most educators/trading rooms do not show performance is because there is no profitable real performance to show.
Because of that, they invent a thousand untrue excuses why it is illegal to show performance. And most sheep fall for the sweet talking slime bag educator. People want to believe these fraudsters make money from trading - but most do not, they make it from the education fees.
I had a conversation with some knucklehead vendor a few weeks ago about this. This vendor interpreted a Ninja ecosystem statement "cannot show performance unless conditions X, Y and Z are met" to mean "cannot show performance EVER." When confronted with the truth about showing performance, the vendor eventually slithered away - without disclosing any performance. Pretty typical.
I agree with you, it is an excellent book.
Grimes discusses market structure and the reasons behind moves. Talks a lot about trapped traders, where to find them, and how they can influence movement.
A caveat wrt learning from trading books/tutors/courses is that the material should be finessing what you already know. When I first started trading I was trying to get as much knowledge as possible from various sources (books, youtube, forums/opinions) and I was furiously writing out pages of things to remember - which I now realise was mostly a waste of time.
The answer is screen time. Learn your own stuff. Notice things for yourself. Try everything. And then discard 98% of it.
Once you have saved and examined hundreds or even thousands of your own charts, you are ready to read a trading book, which, in my opinion, is when you get the most out of it. For instance I dont understand Grimes use of bollinger bands and MACD but a few small things aside, his analysis of the market is absolutely sound.
Seems to be a consensus on " indicators are useless " and whilst this is primarily true if you dont understand Price Action . I used to be in that boat myself . I do advocate learning Price Action as a first step on getting basics in TA " BUT" once you have Price Action nailed down what better way to quantify and systemize this price action knowledge than by measuring and filtering it . Now this comes to the point i am trying to make here . Once you actually know what you are trying to measure/filter indicators are invaluable . Indicators are a mathematical formula , pretty well the only way to get binary decision making . Once you can select/design an indicator/formula to measure a tangible definable snapshot of price action you have opened up a whole new world . Just saying , keep an open mind
One of my fave books is ' Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals ' a must read imo