After finishing Tefi’s “Price Action Basics” series and Ross’s Warrior Basic & Pro courses, I finally went from “totally lost, no idea where to start” to seeing some clear structure. To help newcomers avoid the detours I took, I combined my own notes with other creators’ study notes into the cheapest, lowest-cost self-study path I could find. It goes step by step and works for complete beginners.
A note for English readers: steps 1 to 3 and Louie’s channel are in Mandarin Chinese. The Brooks Trading Course is in English.
The order to learn in
1. Tefi: Price Action Basics (3 hours)
The “Price Action Basics” series (价格行为基础系列) on Tefi Reading Charts (太妃的市场朗读) works well as your first structured course. It gets you the simplest price action logic quickly.
2. Cris & Steven, 罗晟 (12.5 hours)
“Professional price action analysis and teaching videos” (专业价格行为分析和教学视频), to strengthen the basics.
3. Tefi: Advanced Price Action (1.5 hours)
Back to Tefi’s channel for “Advanced Price Action: the required course before the summit” (价格行为进阶：登峰造极前的必修课).
4. Al Brooks and Louie, side by side
This is where you start Al Brooks’ full method. There are two sources here, in no particular order; use them to cross-check each other:
Al Brooks' video course on his own site: 52 modules, 100+ hours, currently $399
Louie is the Chinese translator of Al Brooks' video course and breaks down the same method in Mandarin, for free
How to use them: say you watch Al Brooks’ module on some pattern and part of it doesn’t click. Go find Louie’s video on the same topic and see how he explains it.
Al Brooks has both books and videos. I’d suggest watching the videos first, then going back to the books again and again to digest them. A fellow learner I follow, 学委, put it well: Al Brooks’ course is like a buffet. Take whatever you want, as much as you can digest. The price isn’t high, so please support the real thing, and thanks to Al for sharing for so many years.
How to work through Louie’s playlists
Louie’s channel has more than a dozen playlists. This is the order I use: top to bottom is the sequence; playlists on the same level can be watched in any order. The number in parentheses is the video count. I kept the Chinese titles so you can find them on the channel.
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PrepThe basics; the two are parallel
Watch these first · 推荐优先观看 (22)Beginner series "Starting Out as a Trader" · 踏上交易之路 (10)
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Build the frameworkPut the whole system together
Price action topic lessons · 价格行为专题课 (31)
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Advanced topicsGo deeper by topic, alongside the matching Al Brooks modules
Signal bars · 信号 K 线专题 (5)Reversal patterns · 反转形态 (6)Gaps · 缺口专题Breakouts · 突破专题 (5)Trading the open · 早盘交易策略 (7)Profit targets · 止盈目标位 (2)
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Before trading liveSee how someone else trades live and thinks; the three are parallel
Daily ES review · ES 每日复盘 (48)Trading live with commentary · 实盘边做边讲 (41)Trading philosophy · 交易理念 (7)
The learning order in this post is based on “Trading Chat 14” (交易小酌14, 2024 edition) on Tefi’s YouTube channel.
Special thanks to everyone who shares their knowledge for free. It gave me the chance to learn, and to pass it on.
(First published on Xiaohongshu on 2025-09-02. Updated in October 2026: changed Al Brooks and Louie into a side-by-side study, and added the order for Louie’s playlists and links to each channel.)