Al Brooks Price Action

Al Brooks' price-action methodology is a bar-by-bar framework for reading market intent without indicators. Every candle is classified. Trend bar, inside bar, outside bar, doji, signal bar. and structure emerges from sequences of classified bars. The approach is deliberately granular; Brooks argues that most traders fail because they skip over the bar-by-bar detail that reveals whether a setup is real or a trap.

The strategies in this category distill Brooks' published rules into mechanical form. H1 Long Entry trades the first pullback bar in an established bull trend that fails to make a new low. Entering long on the break of that bar's high. The Two-Leg Pullback setup requires two distinct counter-trend moves before entry, filtering out single-leg fake pullbacks that tend to continue. Always-In Trade applies Brooks' "always-in" bias concept. there's always a prevailing side to trade, even in choppy conditions, identified by the last major breakout structure. Wedge Reversal trades the specific three-push pattern that forms at major trend terminations. Brooks' methodology emphasizes trading probability clusters over single-signal perfection. any individual setup is maybe 55–60% probable at best, but stringing together trend continuation entries in a clean trend produces compounding edge across a session. The approach works best on 5-minute index futures during active sessions.