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.
A Key to Correct Base Currency Conversion

A Key to Correct Base Currency Conversion

The key lesson is to make sure that you follow the calculations all the way through yourself manually so that you understand what the conversion should be and make sure that your position size is appropriate relative to your base currency account. For example, you can get yourself into trouble. If my base currency was Australia and I have a system on the US. If I don't set it up right, I might...

10 Tips on How to Stay Motivated

10 Tips on How to Stay Motivated

Trading requires a deep fascination with the markets, strong work ethic and persistence. Traders are also human and experience emotions - we go through ups and downs in our trading journey. And with these constant challenges, our motivation can fluctuate. It can be hard to keep up trading motivation, particularly when you’ve had a bad trade or feel that you are not advancing as quickly as you’d...

How To Think About Your Base Currency When Position Sizing in Amibroker?

How To Think About Your Base Currency When Position Sizing in Amibroker?

The most important thing is not exactly what you do, that it's you understand what you are doing. The implications of it, because there's different ways to configure this. You could have in Amibroker, your base currency is Euro and you could run your systems, which are trading US dollar stocks, and Amibroker will do the calculations and size everything back so that it's in your base currency....

Why Converting BTC to Base Currency Is Important?

Why Converting BTC to Base Currency Is Important?

Let's say you have US dollars in your account and buy something against Bitcoin. You buy Bitcoin, and then you use the Bitcoin to buy Ethereum. Thus, you are trading the movement of Bitcoin versus Ethereum, And when that trade is finished, you close it, you're left with Bitcoin. If you don't convert the Bitcoin back to dollars, you have currency risk on the Bitcoin. My approach is if I'm trading...

How Your Type of Stock Trading Account Affects Currency Risk?

How Your Type of Stock Trading Account Affects Currency Risk?

With Interactive Brokers, if you have a margin account and your base currency is Australian dollars like mine, and I want to buy US dollar stocks. The way it works in Interactive Brokers is I want to buy US dollar stocks, I've got Australian dollars in my account, but it's a margin account. I don't have to convert my Australian dollars to US dollars and then you use the US dollars to buy US...

Can I Place My Trades at Any Time During the Day?

Can I Place My Trades at Any Time During the Day?

It would be better to trade what you test and test what you trade. Thus, if you could find a way to match your backtest with your execution or to match your execution with your backtest, that would be a better solution, and there's two ways to do that. The first way is to automate so that it can run when you're asleep, and it'll just happen, that way there's no slippage because what you're...

Trader Warning Signs

Trader Warning Signs

You can encounter many challenges on the road to being a successful Trader, so it's a good idea to watch out for the warning signs. Difficulties that arise through unnecessary mistakes, getting caught out by market volatility, and being inundated with noise on the latest crazes, to name a few, can divert you from your trading plan and have some serious repercussions on your trading...

Can I Apply One System to All Markets

Can I Apply One System to All Markets

If you apply one system with an index filter to all markets with a big watchlist, you will be turning that system on or off for all markets simultaneously. So, do you want to build country diversification into your portfolio intentionally? If you're going to build country diversification intentionally, then applying the system to all markets simultaneously won't force country diversification....

Listen to Adrian on WeInvested Podcast

Listen to Adrian on WeInvested Podcast

Get started trading crypto the right way and accelerate your trading results. Download The Crypto Acceleration Bundle!The Crypto Acceleration Bundle Does 3 Things:📈 Gives you the critical ingredient for trading success that most crypto traders just don't do, so you can win where most fail! 📈 ​Eliminate the 20 Killer Trading Mistakes that most crypto traders make, so you can protect your capital...

Listen to Adrian on Crypto Leviathan Podcast

Listen to Adrian on Crypto Leviathan Podcast

Get started trading crypto the right way and accelerate your trading results. Download The Crypto Acceleration Bundle!The Crypto Acceleration Bundle Does 3 Things:📈 Gives you the critical ingredient for trading success that most crypto traders just don't do, so you can win where most fail! 📈 ​Eliminate the 20 Killer Trading Mistakes that most crypto traders make, so you can protect your capital...

Listen to Adrian on Wealth Architect Podcast

Listen to Adrian on Wealth Architect Podcast

The Crypto Acceleration Bundle Does 3 Things:📈 Gives you the critical ingredient for trading success that most crypto traders just don't do, so you can win where most fail! 📈 ​Eliminate the 20 Killer Trading Mistakes that most crypto traders make, so you can protect your capital and grow your wealth faster 📈 Show you how to become an ultra successful trader with my Millionaire Trader Code Course...

Predicting If & When the Stock Market Hits Bottom

Predicting If & When the Stock Market Hits Bottom

One of the big mistakes that people make is trying to predict the markets. No one can accurately predict the market consistently over again because we don't have a crystal ball to predict what events will unfold. If you read all my emails, it's a bit tongue-in-cheek about calling it the market bottom, but I think you want to understand the implications of what-ifs. What would happen in my...