United States Investing Championship First Quarter Results
The United States Investing Championship today announced the standings for the first three months of 2023. Three hundred thirty-eight traders are participating. Performance is broken down based on whether the account traded is over or under $1,000,000 and whether the trader used more volatile instruments like futures or options. Prior top performers include Paul Tudor Jones, Louis Bacon, Mark Minervini, and David Ryan.
Leading the $1,000,000+ stock division with a three-month gain of + 44.1% is Luis Tarin of Arizona. Mr. Tarin was born in Mexico and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has a degree in architecture from the University of New Mexico and is a business developer. Second, + 31.6%, is B.J. Patel, a cardiologist. Dr. Patel was born in Tanzania and lives in Tampa Bay, Florida. He finished 7th in the 2020 United States Investing Championship, + 188%. The other participants reporting profits are DeWayne Merritt + 10.7%, Timothy Langdon + 6.5%, and Maziyar Yousefizad + 4.6%.
Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in stocks, the leader is Marios Stamatoudis, + 103.1%. Mr. Stamatoudis, twenty-six, was born on Andros Island in Greece and lives in Athens. He studied Food Science and Human Nutrition at the Agricultural University of Athens. Second is Gabriel Blanco, + 101.3%. Mr. Blanco, a CPA, was born in Ukraine and raised in Cuba. He lives in Miami, Florida, and is an avid tennis player and salsa dancer. In third place is Jeff Sun, + 72.7%. Mr. Sun was born and lives in Singapore. He has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds. Mr. Sun finished + 43% in 2022 and + 89.8% in 2021. The other entrants reporting meaningful profits are Alexandr Evseev, + 70.4%; Gravity Analytica, + 60.4%; Deepak Uppal, + 57.1%; Konstantin Lazarov, + 43.5%; Bill Roller, + 40.5%; Anthony J. Galt, + 30.8%; Quant13Macro.com, + 30.5%; Javi Medina, + 27.9%; Sean Ryan, + 27.8%; Drew McConnell, + 27.4%; Michael Silva, + 26.9%; Walter Uss, + 24.6%; Miquel Zambrano Sanchez, + 24%; J Nati, + 22.8%; Kohei Yamada, + 21%; Ryan Swartzberg, + 18.6%; Shuchi Mehta, + 18.1%; Chris Wargas, + 16.2%; Aziz Hammouche, + 14.7%; Christian Fromhertz, + 14.7%; Ramesh Mishra, + 12.9%; Mario Diez, + 9.6%; Robert Schwagerl, + 7.8%; James Yang, + 7%; Mike Freeman, + 7%; Victor Nelin, + 6.1%; Nhek Someth, + 5%; Ying Lai, + 4.7%; and Abe Swed, + 4.4%.
The enhanced growth division allows the trading of futures and long options. Among participants trading over $1,000,000 in that division, the leader is Michael Cook, + 11.2%. Mr. Cook lives in London. He has a B.A. in international relations from the London School of Economics and master's degrees in international relations and terrorism. He finished second in the 2022 competition, + 18.3%.
Among participants trading futures or options with accounts under $1,000,000, the leader is Arka Trading, + 118. Second is John Zachary, + 73.4%. The other participants reporting meaningful profits are Oscar Thio, + 54.4%; Andrew O'Connell, CFA, FRM, + 48.7%; Betrand Laroche, + 41.7%; Strategy Research Solutions, LLC, + 36.3%; Wind Win, + 30.8%; VnF Capital Management, + 27.8%; Salman Syed, + 26.3%; Kevin Sufflebeam, + 25.1%; Keegan Acheson, + 21.5%; Lei Wei, + 15%: Sam Calvanese, + 14.9%; Marcin Dydak, + 11.6%; Mike Dompierre, + 11%; Joshua Pilgreen, + 6.2%; BA Capital, + 4.9%; JE Arteaga, + 4.7%; and Naoufel Taief, + 4%.
Since its inception in 1983, the United States Investing Championship has attracted legendary traders, including Paul Tudor Jones, Louis Bacon, Mark Minervini, David Ryan, Dr. Edward O. Thorpe, Mark Strome, Doug Kass, Sheen Kassouf, Marty Schwartz, Frankie Joe, Tom Basso, Cedd Moses, Gil Blake, Robert Prechter, Jr., and Bruno Combier.
The standings appear on the website financial-competitions.com. Financial-competitions.com allows traders to enter the competition and provides copies of past articles about top performers from Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and other financial publications.
Entries for the 2023 competition are currently being accepted at financial-competitions.com. A new website, moneymanagerratings.com, has been launched for accounts over $1,000,000.
The contest coordinator, Dr. Norman Zadeh (aka Zada), taught Operations Research in a visiting capacity at Stanford, UCLA, UC Irvine, and Columbia Universities between 1975 and 1983. Dr. Zadeh managed hedge funds from 1991 to 2012. He is the son of Lotfi Zadeh, the creator of fuzzy logic. Norm is the author of four books, Fox News: The Enemy Within (released in 2021), The Rise and Fall of Perfect 10 (released in 2021), Hold 'em Poker Super Strategy (released in 2020), and Winning Poker Systems (Prentice Hall, 1974). Dr. Zadeh owns a small record label called Zada Records and is running a $50,000 search for top singers from the website zadarecords.com. He is also a songwriter. His songs include Dreaming of You, Someday, I Just Need a Chance, It's Christmas, and Lifetime in Love.
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