2024 United States Investing Championship Final Results

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2024 United States Investing Championship Final Results

2025-01-27 21:16 Last Updated At：21:31

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.

Abridge and Availity Collaborate to Redefine Payer-Provider Synergy at the Point of Conversation

SAN FRANCISCO & JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 12, 2026--

Abridge, the leading enterprise-grade AI for clinical conversations, is collaborating with Availity, the nation’s largest real-time health information network, to launch a first-of-its kind prior authorization experience. The engagement uses cutting-edge technology grounded in the clinician-patient conversation to facilitate a more efficient process between clinicians and health plans in medical necessity review.

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Rather than creating parallel AI systems across healthcare stakeholders, Abridge and Availity are working together to ensure shared clinical context at the point of conversation powers administrative processes, such as prior authorization review and submission, improving outcomes for patients and the teams delivering care.

This collaboration unites two trusted and scaled organizations: combining Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI platform, serving over 200 health systems and projected to support over 80 million patient-clinician conversations in 2026, with Availity’s next-generation, FHIR-native Intelligent Utilization Management solution, which helps payers and providers digitize and operationalize coverage requirements within administrative workflows.

Availity’s FHIR-native APIs enable fast, scalable, and secure connectivity of payer information across the entire healthcare ecosystem. With Abridge’s Contextual Reasoning Engine technology, clinicians can gain visibility into relevant clinical information during the conversation to support documentation aligned with prior authorization requirements.

“At Availity, we’ve invested in building AI-powered, FHIR-native APIs designed to bring clinical policy logic directly into provider workflows,” said Russ Thomas, CEO of Availity. “By embedding our technology at the point of conversation, we’re enabling faster, more transparent utilization management decisions rooted in clinical context. We’re excited to collaborate with Abridge and to demonstrate what’s possible when payer intelligence meets real-time provider workflows.”

The development of real-time prior authorization is just a component of a broader revenue cycle collaboration that is focused on applying real-time conversational intelligence across the patient, provider, and payer experiences. The companies intend to support integration by collaborating on workflow alignment between their respective platforms in the following areas:

“Abridge and Availity are each bringing national scale, deep trust, and a track record of solving important challenges across the care and claims experience to this partnership,” said Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge. “We’re building real-time bridges between patients, providers, and payers, unlocking shared understanding, focused at the point of conversation.”

About Availity

Availity empowers payers and providers to deliver transformative patient experiences by enabling the seamless exchange of clinical, administrative, and financial information. As the nation's largest real-time health information network, Availity develops intelligent, automated, and interoperable solutions that foster collaboration and shared value across the healthcare ecosystem. With connections to over 95% of payers, more than 3 million providers, and over 2,000 trading partners, Availity provides mission-critical connectivity to drive the future of healthcare innovation. For more information, including an online demonstration, please visit www.availity.com or call 1.800.AVAILITY (282.4548). Follow us on LinkedIn.

About Abridge

Abridge was founded in 2018 to power deeper understanding in healthcare. Abridge is now trusted by more than 200 of the largest and most complex health systems in the U.S. The enterprise-grade AI platform transforms medical conversations into clinically useful and billable documentation at the point of care, reducing administrative burden and clinician burnout while improving patient experience. With deep EHR integration, support for 28+ languages, and 50+ specialties, Abridge is used across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, emergency department, and inpatient.

Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI platform is purpose-built for healthcare. Supported by Linked Evidence, Abridge is the only solution that maps AI-generated summaries to source data, helping clinicians quickly trust and verify the output. As a pioneer in generative AI for healthcare, Abridge is setting the industry standard for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems.

Abridge was awarded Best in KLAS 2025 for Ambient AI in addition to other accolades, including Forbes 2025 AI 50 List, TIME Best Inventions of 2024, and Fortune’s 2024 AI 50 Innovators.