The eighth commandment of profitable trading is diversifying in multiple ways. Most people think they’re diversified just because they have five bucks, but no, they’re not at all. Nowhere near it. You’d want to have different strategies, markets, and time frames. In my program the Trader Success System, I talk about three different ways of diversification: designs, markets, and time frames.

Strategies means, you want to be able to make money when the market goes up or down and make money from dips in the market. Thus, there are different ways of trading to make money.

Markets means don’t just trade Australian stocks or US stocks. Trade multiple different markets because they all move a little bit differently. Don’t just trade stocks, try trading crypto and commodities. Different markets, because different markets bring better diversification.

Timeframes mean having some long-term and short-term strategies because sometimes you get great long-term trends, and sometimes you don’t. Therefore, having strategies over different timeframes also helps.

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Adrian Reid Founder and CEO
Adrian is a full-time private trader based in Australia and also the Founder and Trading Coach at Enlightened Stock Trading, which focuses on educating and supporting traders on their journey to profitable systems trading. Following his successful adoption of systematic trading which generated him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year using just 30 minutes a day to manage his system trading workflow, Adrian made the easy decision to leave his professional work in the corporate world in 2012. Adrian trades long/short across US, Australian and international stock markets and the cryptocurrency markets. His trading systems are now fully automated and have consistently outperformed international share markets with dramatically reduced risk over the past 20+ years. Adrian focuses on building portfolios of profitable, stable and robust long term trading systems to beat market returns with high risk adjusted returns. Adrian teaches traders from all over the world how to get profitable, confident and consistent by trading systematically and backtesting their own trading systems. He helps profitable traders grow and smooth returns by implementing a portfolio of trading systems to make money from different markets and market conditions.