Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar: The Technical Analysis of Price Action for the Serious Trader

In this groundbreaking volume, Al Brooks opens the door to a refined method of price action trading based on nothing more than raw price charts. Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar strips away indicators, news, and conventional wisdom to teach traders how to make confident decisions using only price movements and bar patterns.

Brooks, a professional trader and former physician, brings a disciplined, analytical mindset to technical analysis. His approach centers around understanding the underlying psychology of market participants and interpreting their intent through every tick and bar on the chart. Whether you’re trading stocks, futures, or forex, this book offers a masterclass in reading the market in real time, identifying setups, and managing trades from entry to exit with precision.

This is not a book of easy tricks or simplified rules. It’s a deeply analytical, highly structured approach to trading price action for those serious about mastering the skill and building a professional-level trading mindset.

✅ What You’ll Learn:

• How to interpret price movement one bar at a time in any market and timeframe
• Identification and execution of high-probability setups based on support, resistance, and price patterns
• Understanding the dynamics of trend reversals, breakouts, and tight trading ranges
• Risk management strategies using only price structure
• How to trade without lagging indicators or reliance on outside signals
• The importance of context, market psychology, and pattern sequences

💡 Key Benefits:

• Offers a pure price action methodology with zero indicators
• Written by a full-time trader with decades of screen time and data-backed insight
• Focuses on practical execution—entries, stops, targets, and trade management
• Trains the reader to interpret every bar and build contextual market understanding
• Helps traders develop discipline and confidence in their strategy

👤 Who This Book Is For:

• Intermediate to advanced traders seeking to master discretionary price action
• Futures, forex, and equities traders who want to ditch indicators and follow pure price
• Technically minded traders who prefer structure, logic, and cause-effect trading dynamics
• Professionals or aspiring full-time traders looking to level up their analysis and execution

📚 Table of Contents:

1. The Key to Technical Analysis
2. Trends
3. Pullbacks
4. Trading Ranges
5. Reversals
6. Trend Lines and Channels
7. Gaps
8. Support and Resistance
9. Order Management
10. The 58 Trading Guidelines
11. Putting It All Together