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.
Listen to Adrian on the Personal Brand Talk Podcast

Listen to Adrian on the Personal Brand Talk Podcast

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How Can I Minimise Slippage?

How Can I Minimise Slippage?

The problem of your account growing, and slippage or execution are becoming an issue is something that everyone will eventually face. Whether you face it on day one or the next few years, eventually, you'll face it as you grow as a trader. These are the ways to deal with it: Increased liquidity filter. So that the stocks you are getting signals in are high liquidity, and you can get trade bigger...

Should you paper trade before going live?

Should you paper trade before going live?

The reason we paper trade in our world is to make sure we understand the process and we can execute it seamlessly and mistake-free. It's not to prove whether or not the system is profitable because we could paper trade for a couple of weeks,  months, or years and still not have a sense of what the long-term performance of one system will be. Because if we paper trade through a bear market and...

When Should I Switch Off A System?

When Should I Switch Off A System?

There's a slight distinction between switching off and going to cash. All of the systems should eventually go to cash if the market conditions are not suitable, just part of they don't have any more buy signals, and all of the open trades close out. So, you're in cash. The switching off is like, "Oh, the system is broken. I need to stop trading that system." In that case, it's a bit more...

What Is the Optimal Number of Systems to Run?

What Is the Optimal Number of Systems to Run?

As you grow, there are always holes in your portfolio you can plug. There is market behaviors and scenarios that you could dream up that your portfolio may not do brilliantly well in. Thus, you could create a system to address that. There's always the benefit of adding more, but there is a diminishing benefit. Adding one system is way better than no system, and two systems are way better than...

What Are The Reasons I Should Optimize My Systems Before I Trade Them?

What Are The Reasons I Should Optimize My Systems Before I Trade Them?

The purpose is to make sure that the system is yours, that you understand the rules, and you know why the parameter values are chosen where they are. You've satisfied yourself that that's okay. You like the performance, all of these things. It's sort of the handoff from me to you and taking ownership and responsibility is, "Yes, this is my system." Your system now, and you like those parameter...

When Does Adding a System Become Too Much?

When Does Adding a System Become Too Much?

Adding a system becomes too much depends on you, your routine, capacity, and various other things. For adding a new system, you must execute your current system smoothly, mistake-free, with confidence, and without stress. If you're feeling stressed and anxious about the level of activity that you have to do each day, and you add another system that adds more activity on the same days, this is...

The Reason I don’t Trade Partly Paid Securities

The Reason I don’t Trade Partly Paid Securities

There are a couple of considerations. There was a horror story around 12 or 15 years ago in Australia, where a toll road was listed as a partly paid security, and buying that security came with the obligation to contribute additional capital in two extra tranches at defined points in time. What happened was that toll road was going bust, and the share price dropped to the minimum share price...

When Waiting Makes You More Money

When Waiting Makes You More Money

As a trader, the temptation to do something is very high. But there's something to resist because the money is not made by trading, but by sitting and doing nothing. That's important because once you're in a trade, you've got to wait. It's only by waiting until you get the exit signal that you'll make money. When you're not in a trade, you've got to wait until you get the right entry signal to...

How Do I Know I’m Ready To Take My New System Live?

How Do I Know I’m Ready To Take My New System Live?

To pull the trigger and take your new system, certain things have to be in place. First is understanding the rules of my system completely, to be consistent with the paper trading process to know I'm doing the right thing every day, not fumbling, and not making mistakes. Moreover, I also need to be confident that I am doing my position sizing correctly so I don't make a mistake and buy too much...

Listen to Adrian on Screw The Stock Market Podcast

Listen to Adrian on Screw The Stock Market Podcast

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How Much Commission & Slippage Should You Allow When Backtesting A Trading System?

How Much Commission & Slippage Should You Allow When Backtesting A Trading System?

It depends on the trading system and the markets that you are trading. The primary principle is to have a level of slippage and commissions in your backtest that represent what you would get in real life. So if you had a system that traded Australian small-cap minors and they were stocks that were all under 5-10 cents which were turning over a couple hundred thousand dollars a day on average....