This week’s Weekly Digest is packed with actionable insights, expert advice, and exclusive tools to elevate your trading game. Whether you’re looking to refine your mindset or streamline your strategies, we’ve got you covered.

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Trend Trading Crypto: The Simple Way to Beat Buy and Hold

In crypto’s fast-paced world, complexity often feels necessary—but the truth is, simplicity wins. Trend trading provides a systematic approach to profit by aligning with existing market trends.

Key Takeaways:

  • Simplicity Outperforms Complexity: Avoid the trap of overcomplicated strategies. Proven trend-following techniques often yield better results.
  • Cognitive Biases: Recognize and overcome biases like overconfidence and herd mentality to improve your decision-making.
  • Impressive Results: A basic trend trading system delivered an 88% annual return with just a 29.8% maximum drawdown.

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Featured Podcast: From Board Games to Trading Mastery

Adrian Reid’s Journey to Systematic Trading

Discover how Adrian turned his childhood passion for board games into a thriving trading career. Learn how systematic trading and the right mindset helped him leave corporate stress behind. This episode is packed with actionable insights for traders of all levels.

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Trading Tip: The Power of Patience

In trading, simplicity paired with patience often yields the best results. Avoid the urge to overtrade or chase every opportunity. Instead, focus on sticking to your predefined strategies and rules—your long-term success depends on consistency, not speed.

Too many traders feel like they need to be constantly acting. I have found on my journey that the biggest profits come from waiting. Waiting patiently for the entry signal… waiting patiently for the exit signal… ignoring all the other noise. If you can do this and avoid the temptation to meddle in your system’s signals and take trades you shouldn’t then your chances of success are greatly improved.

"The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." ~ John Maynard Keynes

"Trading is not about predicting the future but about reacting systematically to what's happening right now." ~ Adrian Reid, Founder - Enlightened Stock Trading

Here is a picture of me waiting patiently for the next trade while on holidays in Bali last week… Sometimes the best thing you can do for your trading is not look at the screen, especially if you have a fully automated portfolio of trading systems being run in the cloud for you while you are on holidays .

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Featured video if you are so good at trading

Featured Video: If You Are So Good at Trading, Why Do I Teach?

I often get asked, “If you’re so successful at trading, why do you teach?” In this video, I share my journey as a trader and why I’m passionate about teaching. Trading can be isolating, and I found joy in building a community where traders can grow and thrive together. Teaching allows me to improve my own trading dramatically, share my knowledge, talk about my favourite topic (trading – duh!) and also help others transform their financial world. Win-Win-Win!”

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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.