2025 United States Investing Championship First Half Results

By: United States Investing Championship via Business Wire

July 30, 2025 at 08:15 AM EDT

The United States Investing Championship just announced its results for the first half of 2025. There are five hundred sixty-seven 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 six months, + 184.3% is J Law, from Hong Kong. In 2024, Mr. Law set a new world record of + 353.9%, breaking Mark Minervini’s prior record of + 334.8%. Second + 53.9% is Joseph Pullig, from Haughton, LA. Mr. Pullig owns a company that harvests and processes lumber. Third + 49.3% is George Tkaczuk of RCM Wealth Advisors in Chicago. Mr. Tkaczuk won the 2020 $1,000,000+ stock division with a gain of 119.1%. He finished eighth in the 2024 competition, + 97.7%. Other traders reporting profits of ten percent or more are Christian Flanders + 44.4%, Ron Bagley of Bagley Capital Management + 37.2%, Theo Gustincic + 32.1%, Danfung Dennis + 30.3%, Tong Wang of ViZen Management + 27.8%, Steve McIntosh of the Nighthawk Management Group + 27%, Mathey Laydon Capital Management + 24.7%, Joshua Wat + 19.9%, and William Lappas, Axios Fund LP + 17.9%.

In the $1,000,000+ enhanced growth division, which allows the trading of futures and options, the leader after six months + 84.4% is Omar Abdul-Hameed. Second + 77.3% is the Fortune Reliance Fund, managed by Maziyar Yousefizad of Derivatix Capital Management. Mr. Yousefizad won the 2023 competition, + 91.7% and the 2022 competition, + 44.4%. He lives in Toronto. Mr. Yousefizad previously worked as a senior risk analyst at CIBC, TD, and Scotiabank. Third + 37.6% is Evan Wong of Flamestone Capital. Evan was born in Hong Kong and graduated from UCLA with a degree in economics. Other traders reporting profits exceeding ten percent are Daniel Lee + 36.7%, David Forehand + 24.3%, and Vikash Raniga + 21.1%.

Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in stocks, the leader at the end of six months is Y. Chiu + 299.7%, from Hong Kong, China. Mr. Chiu runs chill-trading.com. Second + 254.1% is Gowthaman Vijayan from Santa Barbara, CA. Mr. Vijayan is originally from India. Third + 183.6% is Martin Luk. Mr. Luk finished 6^th in the 2024 competition + 283.1%. Also reporting gains in excess of 30% are Rajnus Capital LLC + 155%, Richard Yeo + 87.9%, Forte H. of Forte Charts + 87.1%, Clement Ang + 70.6%, Nick Weiant + 64.6%, Bejo Mathew + 64.3%, Alexander Vargas + 62.4%, Jan Dudek + 59.4%, Mike Chester + 43%, Aidan Oster + 39.3%, Henry Hunt + 37.8%, Gary Taylor + 33.8%, and Mike Silva + 32.2%.

Among participants trading less than $1,000,000 in the enhanced growth division, the leader after six months, + 1110.1% is Bob Doviak from Dallas. Mr. Doviak is in the process of setting a new record. Second + 450% is Emanuela Elias from Morrisville, NC. Ms. Elias publishes The Trader Reset, a free financial newsletter. Third + 348.1% is Andrew Rocco. Other traders with gains of more than 30% are Victor Presenti + 108.6%, Jiri Jilek + 92.8%, Baran Kayhan, CFA + 91.1%, Kishor Limbu + 90.1%, Norman Choi + 77.8%, Omar B. + 76.8%, Carson Davis + 70.7%, Senthil Kumar + 52.7%, Gabriel Blanco, CPA + 47.5%, Vincent Yao of Trading Patterns + 42.7%, Siddu S. + 34.5%, Matt Kilmer + 33.8%, and Win Wind + 30.3%.

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 University 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: Hold'em Poker Super Strategy (released in 2020), Winning Poker Systems (Prentice Hall, 1974), The Rise and Fall of Perfect 10 (released in 2021), and Fox News: The Enemy Within (released in 2021).