The United States Investing Championship just announced its six
month standings for 2024. There are four hundred thirty-seven
competitors, each of whom selects a real money account to be
tracked before the competition begins. Prior top performers include
Paul Tudor Jones, Mark Minervini, David Ryan, Mark Strome, and Dr.
Edward O. Thorp.
In the $1,000,000+ stock division, leading with a six-month gain
of 67.4% is Deepak Uppal, from Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Uppal has an
MBA from the University of Illinois. Second is Anthony Shi + 55.7%,
from Hong Kong. Mr. Shi was born and raised in Australia. He is a
co-founder of Altus Capital. Third is Aryan Khandelwal of
TwoXCapital + 50.7%. Mr. Khandelwal is a Division 1 squash player
at Dartmouth College. He co-manages TwoXCapital with his brother
Tanmay, who won this division in 2023 with a gain of 129%. Other
traders reporting significant profits are Vibha Jha + 40.7%, James
R. Wombles, Jr. + 34.4%, Ravi Gullapalli (Fastra Investments LP) +
26.5%, and John Ward (Mystic Valley Investments) + 21.6%.
In the $1,000,000+ enhanced growth division, which allows the
trading of futures and options, the leader after six months is
Brandi Archer + 54.2%, a full-time trader from Chicago. Ms. Archer
previously worked in real estate and has a law degree from
Chicago-Kent. Second is Magnus Sigurdsson + 49.3%, from Great Neck,
New York. Mr. Sigurdsson was born and raised in Iceland. He has a
graduate degree from MIT and has worked for twelve years in fintech
and asset management. Third is Matthew Pryzby + 40.7%, from Long
Beach, California. Mr. Pryzby grew up in Long Island, New York. He
runs Trading Experts, an educational service for traders. Other
traders reporting significant profits are SK Chong of Kamet Capital
+ 14%.
Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in stocks, the
leader after six months is James Hatzigiannis + 584.9%, from
Chicago. He has a degree in Business Administration from the
University of Missouri. Second is Adam Graham + 289.3%, from
Charlotte, NC, a civil engineer who invested heavily in NVDA. Third
is Christian Flanders + 267.1%, from Puerto Rico. Mr Flanders
played poker professionally for ten years and is a fencing
champion. Others achieving gains of more than 100% in six months
are Leos Mikulka + 248.6%, Javi Medina + 230.6%, Menelaos Fthenakis
+ 157%, Pankaj Agarwal + 150.3%, Angel Pandev + 131.2%, and Shreyas
Bharadwaj + 115.6%.
Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in the enhanced
growth division, the leader after six months is Holly Handy +
129.5%, from Advance, North Carolina. Holly is a stay-at-home mom
with a Master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology. Second is
Anindo Majumdar + 127.7%, from San Diego. Mr. Majumdar is
originally from New Delhi, India. He immigrated to the United
States in 1989. Third is Brandon Frenchak + 119.8%, from
Montgomery, TX. He runs a data engineering consulting firm. Also
achieving gains in excess of 100% are Stephen Dingler + 118.5% and
Florian Philippi + 100.7%.
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.
Entries for the 2024 competition are currently being accepted at
financial-competitions.com. A new website, moneymanagerratings.com,
has been launched for accounts solely over $1,000,000.
The contest coordinator, Dr. Norman Zadeh (aka Zada), is also
president of the Lotfi Zadeh Foundation, a charity created to build
thousands of low-cost 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). Dr. Zadeh owns a small record label called Zada
Records (see zadarecords.com). He is also a songwriter. His songs
include Dreaming of You, It's Christmas, Someday, I Just Need a
Chance, For You, and Lifetime in Love.
For more information, contact Dr. Norman Zadeh at
normanz@earthlink.net or call 310-409-7193.
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