I’m not sure what it is about trading and the financial markets that people think, “Oh, I’ll just quit my job, and trade for a living.” It’s like, “What? I’ll just quit my job and become a brain surgeon.” No you won’t because you’ll kill a few people while you’re learning, and then you won’t ever get a job as a brain surgeon. People also come to the markets thinking, “Oh, I’ll make some money, and then I’ll pay for the course to become a trader.” That’s like practising brain surgery to pay for medical school. That doesn’t work either; you have to learn first. When most people realize this, they think that it’s too hard. But the fantastic thing about trading and the markets is that it’s worth the learning. It’s worth the time, energy and investment to learn because once you know, you’ve got decades where you can make money with extra skill.

If I taught someone a trading system, it might take a couple of weeks to teach them how to trade systematically and teach them that system, or a couple of months if they want to get everything out of my head and learn to trade. But after that, they’re independent forever and they can trade. My trading takes 20 minutes a day or less most days. It doesn’t matter if I’m trading $10,000 or $10 million. It takes the same amount of time. It’s amazingly scalable, which is beautiful because it means you can keep growing your wealth and building. However, you don’t have to take more and more time. If you get a promotion at work, that usually comes with extra responsibility, more work, more hours and stress, but trading is not like that.

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Adrian Reid Founder and CEO
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.