If you’re going to be active in the market, you’ve got to have an approach that fits you in terms of personality, objectives, and lifestyle. If you are hyperactive, want lots of action sort of person, you can’t buy and hold for ten years, since you’ll be bored out of your mind, sabotage it, and similar for the opposite.

Objectives are like, “I want to spend 20 minutes a day doing this so that I can have the rest of my free time.” If that’s your objective, you can’t trade a strategy that you have to look at the charts all day because it doesn’t meet your objectives. Similarly, objectives in terms of return and the risk has to meet your objectives.

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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.