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.
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...

Risk Management in Crypto Trading

Risk Management in Crypto Trading

There's are different types of risks to consider which is catastrophic risk, system risk, and a position risk. The regulation space is evolving rapidly and what you can trade in one country from one month to the next can change. The future of particular tokens or parts of the market can also change over time. You need to be cognizant and be nimble with your strategy and portfolio and get out if...

The Two Biggest Mistakes Crypto Traders Make?

The Two Biggest Mistakes Crypto Traders Make?

The first and most obvious is a broad-based adherence to buy and hold. This idea is very popular in crypto, that if you buy and hold, you'll be a billionaire or be rich. That might be true if you happen to choose the right tokens. That might also be true if you just held Bitcoin or Ethereum. But the reality is, this is so new wherein we don't know where it's going regarding the market direction....

What Is the Biggest Trading Challenge You Have Faced?

What Is the Biggest Trading Challenge You Have Faced?

Look, I think the biggest challenge that I faced in my trading journey is really just understanding my own psychology and learning about myself as a trader and what I need. I mean, I read a lot of books about different styles of trading and in the early days I was really grappling with trying to connect with every different style of trading that I read about and really pushing myself to...

20 Common Crypto Trading Myths Debunked

20 Common Crypto Trading Myths Debunked

With cryptocurrency breaking the news almost every day, this is the best time to talk about the most common cryptocurrency myths and misconceptions people tend to have. Chances are, some of these misconceptions about Crypto have hurt your trading / investing or maybe even stopped you from investing altogether. Comment below and let us know your experience! Many people don't want to invest in...

Listen to Adrian on How To Trade It Podcast

Listen to Adrian on How To Trade It Podcast

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Listen to Adrian on The Eric Mueller Show Podcast

Listen to Adrian on The Eric Mueller Show Podcast

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