{"id":40350,"date":"2015-06-21T06:47:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brookstradingcourse.com\/?p=40350"},"modified":"2021-09-22T01:34:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:34:54","slug":"2015-video-trading-course-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookstradingcourse.com\/es\/ask-al\/2015-video-trading-course-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Al: Brooks Trading Course update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BPA trading room Q&amp;A: April 21, 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-box-green\">When are you planning on releasing new videos for your trading course? Can you discuss what it will cover?<br><em>Audio duration: 5min 36sec \u2014 Scroll down for video slide samples and transcript.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.brookstradingcourse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ask-al-13-150421-al-brooks-trading-course-update-report.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brooks Trading Course update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video slide samples \u2013 No audio narration (4min 20sec)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style='position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%'><iframe class='sproutvideo-player' src='https:\/\/videos.sproutvideo.com\/embed\/709adfbb1319e1c5f8\/475dad41f209bb3a?playerTheme=dark&amp;playerColor=' style='position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;top:0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-box-green\">This video is much faster than the actual speed because I wanted traders to be able to quickly see what the changes look like. Please do leave comments below if you wish to share your feedback or have questions on course update. A full length video lesson will be available later to better show the complex animations, and invite more feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audio transcript<br>I&#8217;m no Leonardo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I\u2019m in the process of totally redoing the trading course, but I\u2019m not Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci carried the Mona Lisa around with him for 20 or 30 years and he kept adding to it &#8211; kept touching it up, kept touching it up; became this, life-long project, and for me, the trading course is that way as well. I get a lot of questions in the room, I get emails, I get questions on the trading course website, questions when I speak, when I do webinars, and all of that gives me an idea of what traders need from the course to make it more useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been resistant to learning on how to <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/how-can-i-make-my-powerpoint-presentations-amazing-507552122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make better PowerPoints<\/a>, but over the past couple of months I\u2019ve spent a lot of time learning. People have been helping me, but I\u2019ve been learning a lot about how to make much more useful PowerPoints. And in the course right now, you\u2019ll notice that there are a lot of slides that are all text, and sometimes there\u2019ll be five, 10 slides in a row without text. Well in the new version of the course almost every slide has charts. But it\u2019s going to&nbsp;take me six months to complete. I don\u2019t know if I can do it in six months. I think I have probably another 800 hours of work to do. That\u2019s not an exaggeration. There are a couple of people who know what I\u2019m doing and I show them stuff, they\u2019re helping me a lot. Based upon what they\u2019re telling me I should do to make the course really user-friendly, and based upon the rate at which I\u2019m accomplishing what they\u2019re doing, I think it\u2019s going to take me maybe six months to complete what I really want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Most trading course text replaced by charts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And what I\u2019ve done so far, I think, is very useful. I think traders are going to find it much easier to use than anything else I\u2019ve ever done. So instead of a lot of text slides, I\u2019m having a lot of charts &#8211; almost every slide is a chart with new material to the left of it and then animations going through taking traders through step by step by step. Next year, I\u2019m hoping to add video to the course as well, but that\u2019s going to take me probably at least a year. I first have to get through the current project. So what I\u2019m hoping to do next year is use Camtasia or some other screen capture program to capture trades that I\u2019m placing on my other computer and then put them into the course. If I do the Camtasia capturing of trades, which I\u2019m hoping that I will do, I\u2019ll probably also put them on the Brooks Trading Course website. But that is way down the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now I\u2019m redoing the course, and I have to say I like doing the course. I\u2019m an old guy now, I\u2019m 63. I used to like watching a lot of sports. I used to like watching even sitcoms, and now, for whatever reason, I\u2019ve lost interest. Maybe I\u2019ve seen every variation on every theme so that a lot of what\u2019s on TV at night is uninteresting. I play tennis several days a week, I run, I lift weights. I live a pretty quiet life. I see my kids occasionally. My fianc\u00e9, Laura, and I, we go out to dinner almost every night, but we don\u2019t really socialize much, I like life living a very quiet life and I like sitting in front of my computers and thinking. I\u2019m constantly thinking about things. And it makes me happy to sit down and try to create slides that I think will be helpful to traders, and that\u2019s what I do right now with my spare time. It will probably take me six months to do it, to go through all the slides &#8211; and it\u2019s not an exaggeration. I think it\u2019s going to take me 800 to 1,000 hours to redo all of the slides, at least that\u2019s what I calculate now based upon the rate at which I\u2019m doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audio and video recording<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I have to record everything. And now that I\u2019m getting old, as you can tell, my voice tends to crack after I talk for a while, so to record the videos to create the audio for the PowerPoints, I have to talk &#8211; some of the videos are 30 minutes long &#8211; I\u2019m keeping all the videos on the new course to about 30 minutes. Right now, there are some videos that are over an hour; I have broken those into two or three videos going forward. Also, I have numbers on all of the slides so it will be easy if you\u2019re going through the video &#8211; it will be easier than ever &#8211; you\u2019re on slide 31 or something. And I also put a little Table of Contents at the start of each PowerPoint so that you\u2019ll have some idea of what the video will have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the audio, I probably can talk 10 or 20 minutes without my voice getting too unpleasant, so even to record a 30 minute PowerPoint is going to take me probably several hours. Since I\u2019m breaking videos up into pieces, instead of 50 videos I\u2019ll probably have 65 videos, and they\u2019ll all be about 30 minutes long. But it\u2019s still 30, 35 hours, and if it takes me three hours to record each, that will be another 100 or 200 hours on top of the 800 to 1,000 hours I need to create the slides. I\u2019m not going to do the editing of the audio and video; I have someone who\u2019s going to do that for me. However, the little pieces that I\u2019ve seen so far, the little testing that we\u2019ve done, I think traders are going to be really, really happy with how it turns out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, I\u2019m really happy with it, and it\u2019s part of my motivation. I feel like I\u2019m doing something really good and helpful, but also there\u2019s a certain amount of creative element to it. I\u2019m kind of prosaic, kind of concrete and I\u2019m not good artistically. But I do feel I\u2019m pretty good at logically organizing things, and understanding things, and communicating things. I\u2019m working really hard to try to communicate really well with the new videos. So to me, I think they\u2019re going to be fabulous. I think it\u2019s going to be really, really good. But assuming I can keep at the pace that I\u2019m doing, it\u2019s probably going to take me six months to complete the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that\u2019s a long answer to the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Al Brooks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Al Brooks&#039; trading room\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookstradingcourse.com\/online-day-trading-room\/\">Information on Al&#8217;s Online day trading room<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BPA trading room Q&amp;A: April 21, 2015 When are you planning on releasing new videos for your trading course? 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