0:03 Hey, hey. What's up, my friend?
0:06 Happy New Year. Yeah, I know it's a few
0:07 days past the new year, but still
0:10 wishing you a happy new year. And this
0:14 period is where most trading gurus
0:16 disappear faster than David Copperfield
0:19 when asked about their past year trading
0:21 results. So, here's my trading results
0:23 for 2025. So, for the first trading
0:25 account that I have, this account adopts
0:27 a momentum trading strategy. It's up
0:31 about 45 46% for the year. And I have
0:34 another trading account. This account,
0:36 it's up about 20% for the year as you
0:38 can see over here. And this is the
0:39 year-to- date returns. And for those of
0:41 you who use interactive broker, you
0:43 know, this is a very familiar looking
0:46 chart looking equity curve. Yeah. So,
0:48 these are the two main accounts that I
0:51 have adopting a momentum and a mean
0:53 reversion trading strategies. And if you
0:55 want to learn more about momentum and
0:56 mean reversion trading, I actually have
1:00 a free 54minut training over here that
1:02 walks you through this trading different
1:04 trading strategies including the trading
1:07 rules backtest data the full system and
1:09 whatnot. So if you want to grab bit just
1:13 go down to tradingwithra.com/go
1:14 or I'll put the link somewhere below
1:17 this video and you can access it. Now
1:20 moving on, I want to share with you four
1:24 takeaways that I had in 2025. And these
1:27 takeaways are important because if you
1:29 implement them, if you adopt them,
1:32 right, you will see your trading jump to
1:33 the next level because that's what it
1:35 has done for my trading. I wish these
1:37 are the lessons that I had learned
1:39 earlier. So these are my four big
1:42 takeaways for 2025 which kind of
1:46 reinforce my beliefs, right, about the market.
1:47 market.
1:50 Number one, more markets, more
1:52 opportunities. So why do I say this is
1:55 that I actively trade stocks. I trade
1:57 many stocks in the US stock market. But
2:00 can you guess in 2025 which is the
2:03 market that gave me the biggest profit?
2:06 Take a guess. Let me tell you the market is
2:07 is
2:10 gold. Why gold? Okay, so have a look at
2:12 this chart. So if you look at gold, the
2:14 chart of gold, this by the way is the
2:15 weekly time frame. This is one of the
2:19 best trending market in 2024 and 2025.
2:21 And I actually went long in around here.
2:24 I think this was June 2024. And I write
2:26 this move up higher. And currently I'm
2:30 still holding gold. And the reason why
2:32 I'm sharing this with you is when you
2:33 trade more markets, you have more
2:36 opportunities. Your trading setups have
2:40 more markets to be exposed to. And this
2:42 increases your odds of capturing a
2:43 profit riding a trend. Especially if you
2:45 are have using a momentum or trend
2:48 following approach. So it's like dating,
2:49 right? If you only hang out at, you
2:51 know, one coffee shop, you'll never meet
2:52 anyone new. But if you hang out at
2:54 different coffee shops, hawker centers,
2:56 restaurants, you'll probably, you know,
2:58 find a lot more dating potential or
3:00 different women out there. So hang out
3:01 around different places, right? Uh for
3:03 those of you who are single and don't
3:05 tell my wife I said that. So coming
3:08 2026, I plan to trade even more markets.
3:11 plan to go into the crypto markets and
3:13 develop trading strategies and systems
3:15 for that market as well. So if for those
3:16 of you who only trade one market like
3:20 forex, stocks, my suggestion, something
3:22 to consider is know expand your market
3:24 universe and you know see where you
3:26 could find more trading opportunities.
3:28 Number two, the holy grail of trading.
3:30 So this is something that I have
3:32 repeated a number of times but this this
3:34 year 202 I mean last year 2025 it really
3:36 reinforces this principle. So what is
3:38 the holy grail of trading? So if you
3:40 look at this table over here, it's two
3:42 trading systems. One is a STF sense for
3:44 systematic trend following and the other
3:47 one is MRT not the train in Singapore
3:49 but mean reversion trading. And you can
3:50 see that each of these trading system
3:53 they all have losing year like 2020 209
3:56 2018 2012 trend following had losing
3:58 years even in 2023. Same for mean
4:00 reversion trading here and here. So how
4:02 can you reduce your number of losing
4:04 years such that you can profit almost
4:05 every single year whether it's a bull or
4:07 bare market and the answer is pretty
4:09 simple. You want to combine, you want to
4:11 trade multiple trading systems because
4:13 when you do that, look at this over
4:16 here. Look at this column over here. You
4:19 will pretty much improve your risk
4:21 adjusted returns. You can see the final
4:22 column over here. When you allocate
4:26 let's say 50% to trend following, 50% to
4:27 mean reversion trading, you get results
4:29 like this where almost every single year
4:31 you are making a profit. So that's the
4:33 power that's the beauty of trading
4:35 multiple trading strategies. And because
4:38 of this principle during the April of
4:40 2025 where Trump implement you know the
4:42 tariffs the stock market kind of like
4:45 pullback crash I also suffered losses
4:47 but my losses are nowhere as deep as the
4:49 S&P 500 because I have multiple trading
4:52 systems right that are running and some
4:56 of them actually do well during a market
4:58 correction or a market pullback. So
4:59 that's the power of having multiple
5:01 trading systems, right? It's kind of
5:03 like, you know, having multiple multiple
5:05 kids. Even if one kid disappoint you,
5:06 guess what? You still have a few more
5:10 backup here. Okay. So, so next one,
5:11 number three. If you fail to plan, you
5:14 plan to fail. So this is sounds very
5:17 cliche, but this really helped me sleep
5:19 peacefully for the whole of 2025. At
5:20 least I, you know, don't wake up
5:22 panicking, sweating buckets, right, in
5:23 the middle of the night because of the
5:26 financial markets. So why do I say that?
5:30 So if you recall around April 2025,
5:32 it was where Trump started, you know,
5:33 pushing out a lot of the tariffs, you
5:37 know, you know, ter tarifying tariffing
5:38 all the different countries in the
5:41 world, you know, China, uh, Russia, all
5:42 the different countries, India and
5:44 whatnot. And I thought really that
5:46 during that period things can get a lot
5:48 worse. I was thinking, man, the market
5:50 could possibly, you know, correct 30,
5:53 40%, never know. So I was prepared at
5:55 that point in time to do a few things.
5:58 number one witness my portfolio possibly
6:00 erasing 30% of its value. I was already
6:02 visualizing that to happen, right?
6:03 Because even if I were to follow the
6:05 rules of my trading system, it could go
6:06 into a draw down, maybe a draw down of
6:08 30%. So in my mind, I'm already
6:10 picturing visualizing that I'm really
6:12 losing that amount of money. First thing
6:16 number two, I am also prepared for my
6:18 systems to move in cash. So you know
6:19 once it enters a draw down and starts,
6:21 you know, cutting losses, it will move
6:22 to cash because the market is bearish.
6:24 number of my systems will move to cash.
6:26 And number three, when you move to cash,
6:29 I know that it's a great opportunity to
6:32 invest in solid companies for cheap. So,
6:34 I was prepared. I already highlighted my
6:36 levels. If the price comes to those
6:38 level, I want to buy these quality
6:42 companies. And guess what? None of it
6:44 materialized as the market shortly after
6:45 after that broke up to new all-time high.
6:46 high.
6:48 Still that the planning has been
6:50 invaluable to me because I know that no
6:52 matter what happens even if the market
6:54 is bullish or it's bearish or it goes
6:56 into a crisis recession I know what I'm
6:58 going to do every step of the way of the
7:01 way visually visually in my mind I've
7:02 already visualized the potential loss
7:04 I'm going to incur. So this way during
7:05 these difficult times I can still
7:07 execute the rules of my trading system
7:10 and that's how important it was for me
7:12 during this period. So a key reminder is
7:13 that when the times are good, prepare
7:16 for the downside and when times are bad,
7:18 grab the opportunity that you have
7:22 planned for. Number four, everything can
7:23 be figured out. So here's the thing,
7:25 right? The dream of every trader is to
7:27 automate their trading, right? So then
7:29 that's where your trading algorithm,
7:30 your system, you know, it's like a ATM
7:32 that prints money on demand. That's like
7:34 every trader's dream. So it's my goal
7:36 for many years to automate fully
7:38 automate my training. So I don't have to
7:40 you know click a single button and by
7:41 the way the results that I've shared
7:44 with you that you've seen earlier for a
7:46 good 6 months I didn't click a single
7:48 button to get those results because you
7:49 know it has been fully automated and let
7:51 me explain to you how how that happened.
7:53 So my goal was to all along automate my
7:55 trading but the feedback that I've been
7:58 getting from developers from other quan
7:59 traders that I spoke to is that you know
8:01 it's too difficult right now you know it
8:03 cannot be done right using the the tools
8:05 that you're using or I hear things like
8:06 it will take you too much time and
8:09 resources it's not worth the effort and
8:10 money that you have to spend so one year
8:12 ago my friend introduced to me this
8:14 programmer so thanks Elvin if you're
8:16 watching this video so he introduced to
8:17 me this programmer to help me automate
8:19 my trading without lifting a finger and
8:21 what the programmer did right is is
8:24 amazing. All right, it helps me to
8:26 automatically trade my systems,
8:28 calculate the position size, manage my
8:30 risk, submit the orders, everything from
8:32 start to finish. And it's a very big
8:34 project. But how did the programmer
8:37 approach it? Very simple. Every
8:39 thing, the entire big goal is broken
8:43 down into a step-by-step process. And
8:44 once you break it out into a
8:46 step-by-step process, what's then left
8:48 to do is to actually link up each
8:50 individual small step together. And when
8:51 you piece everything together, the goal
8:53 is completed. It's kind of like, you
8:55 know, teaching your kids to go, hey, you
8:57 know, Raina, go and clean clean up your
8:58 room. You tell that to your kids,
8:59 they're not going to clean up the room
9:00 because there is no step-by-step
9:02 process. Instead, you want to tell them,
9:05 you know, to pick up the toys, put the
9:06 clothes in the drawer, stop hiding your
9:08 food under your bed, you know, give them
9:10 specific instructions and then they when
9:12 they do it, they will eventually clean
9:14 up their room. It's the same for this uh
9:16 trading automation that I did is one big
9:18 goal which is automate it break it down
9:20 into you know series of 20 30 40 steps
9:22 and then from those steps link it up all
9:24 together and that's how the automation
9:27 is uh successful and it worked right my
9:30 dream did become a reality. So
9:32 that's again a very big thing for me in
9:35 2025. And finally, uh before you move
9:37 on, if you want to grab my free training
9:38 where you'll learn proven trading
9:39 strategies that work, right, that are
9:42 backed by data, you can go down to my
9:45 website over here, tradingwithra.com/go.
9:47 I'll put the link below this video. You
9:48 can get this free training with I'll
9:49 teach you a mean reversion trading
9:51 system, a momentum and a trend following
9:53 system. So with that said, I wish you
9:55 good luck, good trading, great speaking
9:57 with you once again and talk to you soon.
