If you want to make money consistently, you need systems that will make money from different types of market conditions, bull markets, sideways markets, bear markets, and volatile markets, quiet markets. And you also need systems that will profit from the transitions. I’ve got one system which makes a huge difference in my portfolio because it profits in the transition from a bull market to a bear market. That transition is one way you tend to lose a lot of money because if you’re long on the way up, when the market turns, you may still be long and you’re losing a bit of money until your trailing stops get hit.

If you’ve got another system that profits in that turn, then all of a sudden, your portfolio is smoother, you got to think about what can happen in the market and try and have a system or set of rules that will help you make money in different market conditions.

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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.