We look at a back test in a very clinical way. It's Oh, look, there's the equity curve. That's amazing. Over 30 years, look how much money we would have made. And yes, there's drawdown. I'm comfortable with that level of drawdown and, Oh, it's 30 percent winners, 70 percent losers. Yeah, that's okay. I can deal with that. I understand trend following. It's yet another thing to have your account...
I think it's a really useful point to discuss because the markets get high, like trading gets hard psychologically at times. And the last two years for me have not been my favorite two years out of my trading journey. Let me tell you it's okay because I know it's normal. It comes and goes. And sometimes the money is so easy. It's crazy. And sometimes the money is much, much harder. It has been...
The first step in the process is to imagine conceptualize something that you can form into some rules. Okay. This is the hypothesis generation. From what I heard, I jumped through each of the groups. There were good ideas in all of the groups, whether they're profitable or not, it can make a good system out of them. I don't know yet, but just like in trading, a lot of the systems you try and...
Global Stock Market Update - 15 January 2024I'm excited to share with you some key highlights from my latest Weekly Market Update, a comprehensive overview of the current state of global markets... in a NEW VIDEO FORMAT this week, I am so keen to hear what you think. To get a complete understanding of all the trends and how they might be impacting your trading strategy, watch the full video on...
Have you ever felt like something just has to change with the way you deal with finances and build wealth and the way you make money? And certainly, I've felt like that in the past, early on before I really got successful at trading. I remember after several years of working in very stressful jobs. Being on the bus on the way into the city, and it was a long bus ride, it was like an hour and...
I am truly excited to have you in my trading world... this can be a very isolated and lonely venture and I know what it feels like to try to figure it out on your own. Before we go any further on our journey together, though, I want to address the elephant in the room... the question in the back of your mind that is probably niggling at you right now. You may or may not have realized you even...
Have you been looking for that one game-changing thing to really transform your trading? Well, I hate to tell you, but there's not just one thing that's going to transform your trading. There are several things. My name's Adrian Reid. I'm the founder of Enlighted Stock Trading, but let me tell you what are the things that are going to really transform your trading, any game changers that are...
If you trade long enough, there's going to be some things that you did or some things that you didn't do that you regret. And for me, one of the things that I regret the most early in my trading career was not diversifying early enough. When I first started trading, I was trading, trading, following strategy on daily charts in the long term on Australian stocks, and that was great. I made a...
Have you ever had one of those moments in your trading where you just thought, whoa, I didn't know that could happen? My name's Adrian Reid. I'm the founder of Enlightened Stock Trading, and I want to share with you a story about when that happened to me. I'd been trading systematically for a couple of years and I was trading a system that I'd developed myself, and I was very confident in this...
Do you want to know what it's like to be free? A lot of traders ask me once I quit my job, what was it like to finally get to the point where you could leave work forever and just trade for a living? But what's interesting is that's actually not the point where I felt best about my trading. Yeah, it was amazing when I resigned from work to come home and be a full-time trader, but the point that...
Are you looking for that one thing that will make all of the difference and turn your trading around for good. My name's Adrian Reid. I'm the founder of Enlightened Stock Trading, and when I first started trading, it took me three years to get profitable. Three long, long, difficult years. Now, I didn't lose a lot of money when I started trading. A lot of people blow up their accounts and so on....
Global Stock Market Update - 15 December 2023Well it is amazing the difference a few weeks makes - We have been flat out here at Enlightened Stock Trading wrapping up after an EPIC Trader Acceleration Week and so we have not managed to get our global market update done for a few weeks.The markets have moved heavily towards a 'risk on' environment in the last few weeks. As you can see for the...