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.
138 Eye-Opening Quotes About Trading to Sharpen Your Mindset and Strategy

138 Eye-Opening Quotes About Trading to Sharpen Your Mindset and Strategy

Why You Should Read Quotes About TradingSmart traders understand that the wisdom of others can provide valuable insight and direction. That’s why quotes about trading are so powerful — they offer lessons in mindset, trading strategy, trading psychology, risk management and more that can guide you toward trading success. Consciously learning from people that have gone before you, who are already...

How To Ensure Your Trading Systems Work in All Market Conditions

How To Ensure Your Trading Systems Work in All Market Conditions

There are good years and bad years. There are easy years to make money, and there are more challenging years. But what you do is you start with broad market behaviour. The market can either be the stock market, crypto, commodities, or any market you want to trade, it can only do certain things. It can go up, sideways or down, in the broader sense. And within those three things, that trend can...

Why Most People Lose Money and How Trading Systems Will Save You

Why Most People Lose Money and How Trading Systems Will Save You

If you think about money, it's emotionally charged. So if you make some money, you would feel great but if you would lose money, you'd feel bad. If someone steals money from you or you get ripped off, you feel sad and angry. We all have this emotion. We also have all the baggage in the past that money things have happened to us. And we have all the fear and greed about these things happening...

Adrian Interviews Peter Castle On Trading Psychology And Discusses His New Book – The Zen Trader

Adrian Interviews Peter Castle On Trading Psychology And Discusses His New Book – The Zen Trader

Adrian Reid: Hi, Adrian Reid here for Enlightened Stock Trading, and today I can't tell you how excited I am, because I've got a special guest, and I'm speaking today with Peter Castle, who is a longtime trader and a really cool guy who focuses on... He's a systematic trader but also focuses on the psychological side of trading a lot more than what I do. So I'm keen to learn and keen to...

Listen to Adrian on the Tapping into Crypto Podcast

Listen to Adrian on the Tapping into Crypto Podcast

Thanks for Listening to My Interview on Tapping into Crypto 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...

How To Achieve Success In Crypto Trading

How To Achieve Success In Crypto Trading

The best way for most people to succeed in trading and crypto trading is to adopt a systematic approach. A systematic approach means you have absolute objective rules that tell you when to get in, how much to buy and when to get out. So if A and B, and C happen, you buy. If D or E happens, you sell. This is important for a couple of reasons. The first one is when you have objective rules that...

Important Differences Between The Crypto And Stock Markets

Important Differences Between The Crypto And Stock Markets

Volatility is a big one. If you took the S&P 500 index and we've got decades of history, you compress that by about seven because the cycles are much quicker in crypto, and we go through bulls and bears like they're going out of fashion. Thus, you take the S&P and compress it by a factor of seven so that the cycles happen more quickly. Then you take it and stretch it to make the cycles...

How To Make Money and Control Risk in Crypto Trading

How To Make Money and Control Risk in Crypto Trading

Unless you are a systematic trader, the answer is mostly going to be my investment thesis is probably pretty shaky if you're truly honest with yourself. If you've just bought Bitcoin and you're a Bitcoin believer and holding forever, maybe that's a little different. However, if you're going to do that, you've got to be ready for your account to swing by 60-70% down before it continues up, and...

Why Most Crypto Traders Lose Money… And How You Can Avoid It

Why Most Crypto Traders Lose Money… And How You Can Avoid It

Stock and Crypto traders lose money for a whole bunch of reasons. In crypto, one of the biggest things is we don't know who the winners are yet. There have been some winners to date. However, if you buy a selection of coins or tokens, most of them will probably be worthless if you hold them forever. If you also purchased a bunch of new coins in 2017 when there was a big flurry of activity on the...

The Future of Crypto Trading

The Future of Crypto Trading

There are a couple of things that will undoubtedly change. The first one is that more institutional money will come in, which means very different styles of participants. Right now, many participants are people on their iPhones with $1000 in their account going with leverage, creating a specific market price behaviour. But if you bring in institutional fund managers, hedge funds with tens of...

Why Now Is the Right Time to Trade Crypto

Why Now Is the Right Time to Trade Crypto

There's a whole range of reasons. First, there's a huge profit opportunity for informed traders if you look at what the market participants are doing. Masses of uninformed and completely new traders who have never traded anything before are flooding into the crypto markets. They're using social kind of tips. There are thousands of people on Facebook trying to ask, "Well, what crypto should I...

Trading Strategies That Work in Crypto Trading

Trading Strategies That Work in Crypto Trading

The first thing to notice in the chart of Bitcoin over the last several years is that the bull markets are very fast and sharp. They don't last that long, but they are exponential, and the market skyrockets. But after the bull market is finished, there's typically a very sharp correction and a long period of nothing, which is very painful if you've got the wrong system style. And suddenly...