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Adrian Reid
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.
Sharpe Ratio Explained: What It Tells a Systematic Trader (and 4 Things It Hides)
The Sharpe ratio is the finance industry’s favourite risk metric, and it quietly misleads traders. Here is what it measures, what a good value is, and the four things it hides, plus the drawdown-based metrics that tell you more.
What Is a Trading Edge? A Systematic Trader’s Complete Guide
Most traders think they have an edge. Almost none can prove it. A real trading edge is a backtested, positive-expectancy advantage that lives in your rules – here is what it is, where it comes from, and how to quantify it.
Portfolio Construction for Traders: How to Build a Portfolio of Trading Systems
One trading system is fragile. Learn to build a diversified portfolio of uncorrelated trading systems, allocate capital across them, and smooth your equity curve.
I Tested the Buy the Dip Strategy for 36 Years – Here is what happened
Buying the dip is the oldest advice in the market. So I built it into a rules-based system and tested it on every S&P 500 stock since 1990, including the ones that later went bust. Here is what the data actually said.
Introducing Brokers: What They Are and Why They Could Be Costing You a Fortune
Thousands of traders sign up through an introducing broker without realising it, and pay a hidden markup on every trade. Here is how to spot it and go direct.
Automated Trading Systems: The Complete Guide for Systematic Traders (2026)
A 20-year systematic trader’s complete guide to automated trading systems. Learn the 3-layer framework most articles skip – the real costs – the daily routine – and the honest truth about AI trading bots.
Set Your Trading Goals First (Then Design Everything To Deliver Them)
Trading goals are written statements that define what you want your trading to deliver – target return, drawdown tolerance, time per day, and the lifestyle the system has to fit. Without them, every system decision is guesswork.
Slippage in Trading: Why Your Live Results Will Never Match Your Backtest (Unless You Fix This)
Slippage in trading is the gap between your expected fill price and what you actually receive – and it silently erodes backtest results in live trading. Learn what causes slippage, how to model it correctly by liquidity tier, and how to protect your edge.
Capital Allocation in Trading: How to Split Capital Across Your Systems
Capital allocation in trading decides how much each system can use. Learn the rules-based framework to split capital across multiple systems.
How to Use AI for Stock Trading (And Why Most Traders Are Doing It Wrong)
Everyone is talking about using AI for stock trading. But most traders are using it completely backwards. Here is how systematic traders actually use AI to build better systems – and what AI genuinely cannot do.
Best Trading Courses: 4 Proven Programs Worth Your Investment
Compare four proven trading courses: Trader Success System for systematic stock traders, Strategy Factory Workshop for algo futures traders, Trading Game Mentor Program for broad market skills, and Options Trading IQ for options income strategies.