2025 United States Investing Championship First Quarter Results

By: United States Investing Championship via Business Wire

April 29, 2025 at 08:30 AM EDT

The United States Investing Championship just announced its results for the first quarter of 2025. There were five hundred thirty-four 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.

Leading the $1,000,000+ stock division at the end of the first quarter + 30.2% is Ron Bagley of Bagley Capital Management in Bountiful, Utah. In second + 11.4% is Joseph Pullig, from Haughton, LA. Mr. Pullig owns a company that harvests and processes lumber. Other traders reporting profits are John Ward (Mystic Valley Investments) + 6%, Christian Flanders + 4.9%, David Forehand + 4.3%, and Alavanca Trading + 2.4%.

In the $1,000,000+ enhanced growth division, which allows the trading of futures and options, the leader after three months + 64% is the Fortune Reliance Fund, managed by Maziyar Yousefizad of Derivatix Capital Management. Maziyar lives in Toronto. He previously worked as a senior risk analyst CIBC, TD, and Scotiabank. Second + 24.5% is Vikash Raniga, from Fremont, CA. Mr. Raniga has an MBA from MIT. He is former head of Product Strategy & Marketing at META. Third + 19.5% is Evan Wong of Flamestone Capital, based in Hong Kong. Evan lives in Los Angeles. Also reporting a profit was Andrew O’Connell of Pristine Capital + 3.2%.

Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in stocks, the leader at the end of three months is Gowthaman Vijayan + 104.1% from Santa Barbara, CA. He is originally from India. Second + 83% is Ty Rajnus of Rajnus Capital from Reno, NV. Third + 65.6% is Aidan Oster, who attends Lehigh University. Other traders achieving gains of more than 10% are T. Garwe, Ph.D. + 57.2%, Martin Luk + 46.2%, Clement Ang + 30.9%, Dheeraj Kumar Sharma + 24.8%, Alexander Vargas + 24.3%, Tze Ching Abraham Ho + 23.4%, Brandon Janssen + 20.6%, Ayman E. Ahmed + 16.5%, Michael Chester + 15%, Landon Timothy + 14%, Manoj Giri + 12.6%, Nick Weiant + 11.4%, Ahmad N. Chaudhry + 10.1%, and Anuj Rakheja + 10%.

Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in the enhanced growth division, the leader after three months + 336.9% is Tito Adhikary from Boston. Tito has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences. Second + 264.5% is Bob Doviak from Dallas. Third + 109.1% is Emanuela Elias from Morrisville, NC. Emanuela publishes The Trader Reset, a free financial newsletter. Other traders achieving gains of more than 10% are Blake Bracco + 102.2%, Kyle Walter + 84.6%, Carson Davis + 74%, Alan Chiu + 43.7%, Victor Presenti + 41.9%, James Schreder, CLFP + 39.6%, Jiri Jilek + 31.2%, Kishor Limbu + 27.8%, Senthil Kumar + 27.7%, Tigran Mandalian + 23.4%, Sergej Nekora + 15.5%, Daniel Duque Giraldo + 14.3%, and Daniel Lee + 12.2%.

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, MarketWatch, 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).