LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 27, 2025--
The United States Investing Championship just announced its final results for 2024. There were four hundred fifty-one competitors, each of whom selected a real money account to be tracked before the competition began. Prior top performers include Paul Tudor Jones, Mark Minervini, David Ryan, Mark Strome, and Dr. Edward O. Thorp.
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In the $1,000,000+ stock division, setting a new record of + 353.9%, is J Law, from Hong Kong. Mr. Law broke Mark Minervini’s prior record of + 334.8%. Mr. Law is a student of Mr. Minervini. He has a YouTube channel, @jlawstock. In second place + 273.8% is J Law’s wife, Judy Lai. In third place + 153.2% is Deepak Uppal, from Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Uppal has an MBA from the University of Illinois. Other traders reporting significant profits are Aryan Khandelwal (TwoXCapital) + 123.5%, John Ward (Mystic Valley Investments) + 122.8%, Theo Gustincic + 107%, Anthony Shi + 101.2%, George Tkaczuk + 97.7%, Vibha Jha + 78.2%, Louis Carlos Tarin + 64.2%, Bhasker J. Patel MD, FACC + 43.7%, James R. Wombles, Jr. + 35.1%, and D I Trading + 32.1%.
In the $1,000,000+ enhanced growth division, which allows the trading of futures and options, the winner is Brandi Archer + 90.7%, a full-time trader from Chicago. Ms. Archer previously worked in real estate and has a law degree from Chicago-Kent. Finishing second is Matthew Pryzby + 59.1%, from Long Beach, California. Mr. Pryzby runs Trading Experts, an educational service for traders. Other traders reporting significant profits are Warren Straub + 39.6%, Magnus Sigurdsson + 37.8%, and SK Chong of Kamet Capital Partners + 28.6%.
Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in stocks, the winner is Judy Lai + 449.1%, the wife of J Law. Finishing second + 433.5% is Christian Flanders, from Puerto Rico. Mr Flanders played poker professionally for ten years and is a fencing champion. Finishing third + 409.6% is Leos Mikulka, from Prague, Czech Republic. Mr. Mikulka played professional football for the Czech Republic national team. He currently works in the IT industry. Other traders achieving gains of more than 100% are J Law + 397%, Mohamed Gad +308.8%, Martin Luk + 283.1%, Menelaos Fthenakis + 254%, Gabriel Blanco, CPA + 218.7%, Abinesh V. + 217.3%, Kelvin C.H. Wong + 180.6%, Javi Medina + 178.5%, Waddington J. G. Antonio + 138.9%, Steven Chase + 133.2%, Michael Seidler + 117.4%, Parin Vasava of Aartha Investments + 116.7%, and Matthew Moorman + 109.5%.
Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in the enhanced growth division, the winner is Brandon Frenchak + 482.6%, from Montgomery, Texas. Mr. Frenchak owns a data engineering consulting firm. Second is Anindo Majumdar + 389.3%, from San Diego. Mr. Anindo Majumdar quit his job as an engineer at Cisco Systems in 2006 and has been a full-time trader ever since. Third is Florian Philippi + 311% from Germany, now living in New York City. Mr. Philippi is a Data Engineer. Other traders with gains of more than 100% are Andrew O’Connell, CFA, FRM (Pristine Capital) + 254%, Dave Gagne + 217.6%, David Tarin + 217%, Satish Karanam + 201.1%, Christopher Boyd + 200.8%, Tim Emanuel + 192.2%, Holly Handy + 191.9%, Lai Lee + 163.9%, Bhushan Bhangale + 117.4% and Andrew Preston of Mark Anthony Trading + 105.9%.
Since its inception in 1983, the United States Investing Championship has attracted legendary traders, including Paul Tudor Jones, Mark Minervini, David Ryan, Sean Ryan, Louis Bacon, Dr. Edward O. Thorp, 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 financial-competitions.com along with articles about top performers from Business Insider, Institutional Investor, Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and other financial publications. The standings also appear on X at @USICOfficial.
Entries for the 2025 competition are currently being accepted at financial-competitions.com. Participants who enter late are tracked from the close on the day they enter.
The contest coordinator, Dr. Norman Zadeh (aka Zada), is also president of the Lotfi Zadeh Foundation, a charity created to build thousands of ultra-low-cost ($5,000/unit) residences in sparsely populated areas and fully take care of the homeless. (Visit lotfi-zadeh.com for more information.) Dr. Zadeh taught Operations Research in a visiting capacity at Stanford, UCLA, UC Irvine, and Columbia Universities between 1975 and 1983. He managed hedge funds from 1991 to 2012. His father, Lotfi Zadeh, created 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).
For more information, contact Dr. Norman Zadeh at normanz@earthlink.net or call 310-409-7193.
Leaders in $1 Million+ Division (Graphic: Business Wire)
