2026 FIVE-MONTH STANDINGS (672 Entrants)

Performance through May 31, 2026

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

MONEY MANAGER VERIFIED RATINGS ($1 Million+ Accounts)

Stock Division

Sheri Marcus 52.1%

Abdulmajid M. Al Qurashi + 51.3%

George Tkaczuk + 47.7%

Inverteum Capital (Inverteum.com) + 41.9%

Ron Bagley (Bagley Capital Management) + 26.6%

BJ Trading + 23.3%

Alavanca Trading + 22.5%

Eric Evans (Trahecta Invstment Partners LP) + 21.4%

Sean Lefort (@lefortaments) + 21.2%

Herbert Veisman 20.9%

Jan Dudek + 20.7%

Jason Speziale (@jason_speziale) + 16.9%

Craig Thompson (Asset Solutions) + 11.4%

Kohei Yamada @khyymd2 + 8.4%

Anil Pandit + 7.5%

David Forehand + 6.4%

Oscar Gonzalez (@oscargonzalx) + 4.1%

Enhanced Growth Division (allows futures and/or long options)

Baran Kayhan + 330.6%

Ashwin Raghavan (@GripFangWolf) + 190.2%

Azo Cheng (@AloQuant) + 124.4%

Tim Garner (@timgarner4F) + 123%

MC Diau (Assetswise Private Fund) + 57.6%

Tong Wang (ViZen Management) + 55.3%

Chandrashekhar Nimbal + 54%

Daniel Lee (45MinuteTrader.com) + 38.5%

Gravity Analytica (@GravityAnalyti1) + 32.7%

Joshua Wat (JW Capital) + 26.7%

Ankur Shah (Ashva Capital Management, LLC) + 19.8%

Omar Abdul-Hameed (ManageValue.com) + 11.7%

Shijo Jose + 11.4%

Andrew O’Connell, CFA, FRM (pristinecapital.net) + 5.7%

UNITED STATES INVESTING CHAMPIONSHIP ($20,000+ Accounts)

Stock Division

Tom Doub, Ph.D. (Arcadia Analytics) + 453.1%

Tin Chun Jimmy Li (@tcjimmyli) + 431.5%

Martin Luk + 345.6%

Heather Qi + 335.9%

William Haocheng Wang + 315.9%

Nicholaos Stroumpakis (@Nickstro_) + 227.5%

JY Trading (@Laymen_Stock) + 196.6%

Emmett Iheagwara + 182.3%

Adam R. Graham, P.E. + 159.5%

M Suk Capital + 158.2%

John Rodrigues @corkyinvestor + 147.6%

Gangbin Lee + 132.4%

Mario Fuchs (@MrNiceGuy1402) + 120.4%

Tyler Lorenzen + 110.3%

Sihan Lin + 70.1%

Baser Naser Rashed Alfadhli (@Bader1886trading in YouTube) + 80.1%

Jacob Engel CFA (Engel Capital) + 73.2%

Sihan Lin (@Trillionaire Yin) + 70.1%

Milan Kharal + 67.7%

Thanapol C. (@ThanapolC1) + 67.4%

Anthony Derrer + 66.7%

Gianluca Aversano + 65.8%

Greg Palmieri + 52.8%

Sean Sharpe (stocksinplay.net) + 52.4%

Tharindu Mathew + 50.3%

Bo Hu + 46.2%

Desop Lee + 43.4%

Matthew Wilson + 40.4%

Sherry Niu + 38.4%

Naser AlRasheedi (@N_Alrasheedikw) + 38%

Richard Leung + 35.7%

Joshua Taylor (@tronicjosh) + 35.4%

Jaroslav Oborny + 35.3%

Dr. Kaushal, MCh Neurosurgery + 34.4%

Sharon Leighty Bressound + 34.2%

Michael Kwok (@MichaelKTrades) + 33.2%

Don Taggart - OVTLYR + 33%

Tharindu Mathew + 32.5%

Jerome Fong (@itsjeromefong) + 32.2%

Jeff Locke + 31.8%

Hanaa Lahlal + 29.9%

Travis Hopp + 28.8%

Gowthaman Vijayan + 28.7%

Steven Kao + 28.3%

Venu Ganipisetti + 27.9%

Christian Fromhertz + 27.4%

Elvis Vocaj + 27.4%

Max Li + 25.3%

Patrick Anderson (@clayfultrader) + 21.1%

Anton Strobl (@ASTCKT_Trade) + 21.1%

Karanbir Janjua (@Karanbir_Janjua) + 21%

Erwin Ng + 21%

T. Garwe, Ph.D. (@therealtabgee) + 19.6%

Tom-Elias Knosp (Macro Sniper Report) + 19.4%

Mansoor Ekhlas + 18.9%

Andy Emmanuel Leong + 18.1%

Brock Burleigh + 16.9%

Mahmud Ahsan (@mahmudahsan) + 16%

Bobby Graham + 15.8%

Simon Contrarian + 15.8%

Dale Henry + 15.3%

Justin Furniel + 14.9%

Lorenzo Giacomino + 14.6%

Ryan Rodenwald + 14.1%

Joachim David (@David’s Edge) + 13.6%

Sebastien Oddos + 13.3%

Imam Sharif (@ImamSharif099) + 12.3%

We Bin Ong + 12%

Dan Lawler + 11.5%

Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa (@lhakpasb07) + 11%

Jose Burgos (@Puerto_Rico___) + 10.5%

Arshad Ahmed + 10.4%

G. J. Y. Ho + 10.4%

Ashvin Vallabhaneni + 10.1%

Suryansh Advani + 9.9%

Shyam Sundar (Kanida.Al) + 9.2%

Franklin Hsu + 8.8%

Matt MacClary (@riskcog) + 8.4%

Sotiris Stamou + 8.2%

Henrique Centieiro + 8.2%

Enshuo Chiu + 8.1%

Steven Wong Tak Ming + 7.7%

Robert Schwagerl + 6.8%

Jay Zhou (JZRS Limited) + 6.5%

Forte H. (@ForteCharts) + 3.1%

Pradyumna Swain + 2.8%

Christian Presant + 2.5%

Samir Warid + 1.6%

Christopher Sandiha (@chrissandiha) + .9%

Enhanced Growth Division (allows futures and/or long options)

Baran Kayhan + 594%

John Rodrigues @corkyinvestor + 332.9%

Caiyi Tang + 257.8

Emanuela Elias (The Trader Reset) + 115%

RC Investments + 97.6%

Cody Satterlee + 97%

Nathan Bancroft + 85.7%

Jim R – OVTLYR + 84.2%

Sanjay Vig + 70.4%

Ashish Kumar (@allaashish) + 70%

Michael Ablan + 67.7%

Jason Jacobsen + 61.4%

Shrikant Nadkarni + 59.2

Jim Schreder + 57%

Matthew Sandhia + 48.8%

Williams Reategui (@lefinancialwiz) + 48.5%

Brian Hooven + 48.1%

Derek Quick + 46.8%

Chris Nickles (@will-trade4food) + 40%

Karl Domm + 39.2%

Velmurugan Sankaranarayanan + 37.2%

Omar Abdul-Hameed (ManageValue.com) + 33.7%

Brandon Koh (@TMarketJournal) + 30.5%

Sheetal Thakur - OVTLYR + 29.9%

HolguinTrades.com + 27.2%

Cecil Chen + 24.2%

Maverick Capital (Henrique Centieiro) + 22.8%

Bob Doviak + 20.7%

Mark Viola +19.3%

Nick Hotz + 17.7%

Mixolydian Capital + 16.8%

Wai Hong Lee + 15.6%

Dicky CCY (AI Trading Academy HK) + 13.9%

Ben Wee + 13.8%

Zach Yam + 12.1%

Greg Diamond (@DiamondTrader10) + 9.2%

Brandon Janssen, MD (@brankjanssen) + 8.8%

Alberto Zaldivar + 1.6%

ABOUT THE

UNITED STATES INVESTING CHAMPIONSHIPS

AND

MONEY MANAGER VERIFIED RATINGS

Prior participants include legendary traders–Paul Tudor Jones, Mark Minervini, David Ryan, Louis Bacon, Edward O. Thorpe, Mark Strome, Doug Kass, Gil Blake, Sheen Kassouf, Marty Schwartz, Frankie Joe, Tom Basso, Cedd Moses, Robert Prechter, Jr./Elliot Wave Theorist, Bruno Combier, and Gerald Appel.

Are you a rising financial star? Would you like to become internationally recognized for your trading ability? Manage billions? Financial publications, be they the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Business Insider, Institutional Investor, Forbes, Money, Fortune, or Investors Business Daily, are always looking for top up-and-coming managers to interview. As you can see from the attached press articles, our participants have received an enormous amount of invaluable press coverage.

UNITED STATES INVESTING CHAMPIONSHIP

The minimum account size is $20,000. (If you use less than $20,000, your profit will be divided by $20,000 to determine your percentage increase.) There are two divisions, stock, and enhanced growth. Accounts with futures or long option positions are placed in the enhanced growth division. All other accounts are placed in the stock division. In the stock division, you are allowed to hold everything other than futures and long option positions. You can go long or short, use leverage, trade ETFs, foreign stocks, and write options.

HOW TO SIGN UP

To enter the 2026 competition, click on the “SIGN UP HERE” button. As long as you enter before January 2, 2026, your starting value will be your account value as of the close on December 31, 2025. You do not need to close open positions. If you enter after January 2, 2026, you will need to email to normanz@earthlink.net a photo or print screen of your account value as of the close on the day you enter. That will be your starting value for percentage increase computation purposes.

MONEY MANAGER VERIFIED RATINGS

This competition is designed for traders who are managing money but would like to manage a lot more. The minimum account size is $1 million. It is possible to enter with less than $1 million. If you do so and do not add money, your profit will be divided by $1 million to determine your percentage increase.

HOW TO SIGN UP

The procedure is the same as that for the United States Investing Championship described above, except that you click on the MMVR link and pay $1,000. As long as you enter before January 2, 2026, your starting value will be your account value as of the close on December 31, 2025. If you enter after January 2, 2026, you will need to email to normanz@earthlink.net a photo or print screen of your account value as of the close on the day you enter. That will be your starting value for percentage increase computation purposes.

ADVANTAGES

By doing very well in one competition, or reasonably well in several competitions, you will become internationally recognized. That will enable you to raise substantial funds on your own, work for a hedge fund, or otherwise use your documented ability to make potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. Several of our top traders have done just that. If you click on the “Press” link to the left, you will see how Mark Strome benefited from entering our MMVR competition. He was on the cover of Barron’s and featured in Barron’s multiple times. When Bruno Combier did well years ago, he was on the front page of virtually every major publication in France. This is an international competition. Are you up for it?

Looking forward to your participation and success.

Norm Zadeh, Ph.D.