United States Investing Championship Six Month Results

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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