Now short selling is a particular conundrum, right? It's counterintuitive. It feels weird. it's hard to understand, but it's really not much different than the long side once you get to the point where you truly deeply understand it. So my suggestion is for anyone who doesn't have shorting is just keep asking questions until you get it. It's one part of my complete guide to how to learn stock...
Adrian Reid

The Key To Successfully Navigating Your Trading Challenges
I've been trying pretty hard to keep learning in the last couple of years. I did go through a long phase where I just knew what I knew and I just did that. And I really think I left a lot of money on the table when I was doing that. And a lot of future wealth because, now I'm learning things that I could have learned years ago because I'm a bit more, engaged in all of that. If you're just...
Simple Trick to Truly Understanding And Dealing With Drawdown
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. It's one of the topics in my complete guide to risk management for...
How To Review Your Trading Performance
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. It's one part of my complete guide to how to learn stock trading. And sometimes the money is so easy. It's...
Generating Ideas For Trading System Development
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. If you're new to systematic trading, start with my guide to trading systems. I...
STOCK MARKET UPDATE |NEW NEW NEW update format…. plus an unusual poll
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...
Why Systematic Trading Is So Important To Your Future
For how all the pieces fit together, see my complete guide to trading systems. 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...
If You Are So Good At Trading Why Do You Teach
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. It's one part of my complete guide to how to learn stock trading. 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...
5 Game-Changing Moments In My Trading Journey
If you're just starting out, my guide to how to learn stock trading is the place to begin.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...
Why Diversification Of Trading Strategies Is So Important
For the full framework, see my complete guide to risk management for traders.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...
How To Deal With The OH CRAP Moments In Trading
It's one part of my complete guide to how to learn stock trading.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...
The 1 Moment When I Knew I Would Make It As A Trader
It's one part of my complete guide to how to learn stock trading.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...











