🎯 2025 Trading Performance - Year in Review
As 2026 is just getting started, I want to take a step back and review the year across my trading portfolios, not just in terms of returns, but in terms of process, discipline, and decision quality.
This post is intended as a transparent year-end record.
No hindsight optimization.
No cherry-picked performance.
Just what happened, why it matters, and what I’m carrying forward.
All trades are always shared live on X.com/tradergu - Not Financial Advice
🧭 Before the Numbers
My approach hasn’t changed:
- High-timeframe focus (weekly & monthly)
- Infrequent, high-conviction trades
- Defined risk & clear invalidation
- Long periods of doing nothing
- Trading designed to fit alongside a full-time career
2025 was a year where I started increasing risk on my portfolio and also going public with my trading journey. A lot has happened.
📈 Portfolio Overview – 2025
I currently execute my High Conviction Swing Trading strategy in 4 accounts:
- Main Trading Account
- 25 Year Trading Experiment
- Crypto Gu
- Options Gu
All my accounts are traded in SEK and evaluated on actual P&L
Main Trading Account (Equities – Swing Trading)
This portfolio remains my primary focus for long-term capital growth.
The year ended with +13%, and outperformed the global index by 10% 💪.
Compared to previous years, the performance is lower on a percentage basis but significantly higher in P&L as the portfolio is larger, mainly due to deposits throughout the year.
Portfolio performance - Main Trading Account
Key takeaway:
The more I keep trading, the more confident I get and am able to deposit more capital into my trading account. Percentage growth is great but what ultimately matters is how much P&L you do relative to keeping everything in a global index fund.
Trade Activity and P&L
I opened 18 trades in 2025, significantly more than previous years, and I ended up closing 14 of those trades as well as 2 trades from previous years.
Current statistics, inception to date:
- Winning trades: 13 (2 from previous years)
- Losing trades: 4
- Break-even trades: 4
- Open trades at year end: 6
Win rate:
- ~76% excluding break-evens
~62% including break-evens
- 🟢 13 Winners
- 🔴 4 Losses
- 🟡 4 Break-even (+/- 3%)
Trade P&L - Main Trading Account
Average trade duration is 154 days.
✅ 2025 Winners & Losers
The biggest winners of 2025 are my $CRSP, $AMD, $ASML, $OSCR, and $BRKR trades. Check out my published trade reviews for details.
Open Trades (Carried Into 2026)
The following positions remain open. Their results belong to 2026.
- $BABA (🟢 in profit)
- $JD (🔴 in drawdown)
- $PYPL (🔴 in drawdown)
- $NOVO (🔴 in drawdown)
- $NOVO (🟢 in profit)
- $TGT (🟢 in profit)
₿ Crypto Gu - Equity Trades with Crypto Exposure
Crypto Gu focuses on crypto-related equities, traded with the same high-timeframe, High Conviction Swing Trading strategy but with higher risk on invested capital.
- 2025 P&L: 🟢 +107%
Performance - Crypto Gu
This was the strongest-performing portfolio of the year, benefiting from volatility, but still executed selectively. No leverage.
Trade P&L - Crypto Gu
High risk potential for high reward.
Options Gu - Most recent portfolio
Options Gu is my most recent trading account where I’m utilizing my Swing Trading strategy in the options market. Recently started in December, and the P&L is unrealized. Looking to add more capital to this portfolio going forward.
- 2025 P&L: 🟢 +8%
Performance - Options Gu
The 25 Year Trading Experiment
2025 marked the foundation year of the 25 Year Trading Experiment
I won’t go deep here.
📅 January 22 marks exactly one year since inception, and I’ll publish a full deep dive covering:
- Active trading vs passive investing
- Capital flows & psychology
- What worked / what didn’t
- Early structural lessons
- 100% transparency
Stay tuned.
Trade P&L - 25 Year Trading Experiment
Did I outperform the index in 2025 - summary
- Main Trading Account: 10% 💪
- 25 Year Trading Experiment: 7% 💪
- Crypto Gu: 104% 💪💪💪
- Options Gu: 8% 💪
All my accounts are compared to the Storebrand Global All Countries A SEK which tracks the MSCI ACWI global index in SEK.
Trade P&L and Comparison to the Global Index - Overall
What 2025 Reinforced
A few things became even clearer this year:
- Overtrading is still the biggest enemy
- Public transparency improves discipline but adds pressure
- Adding capital mid-year distorts percentage metrics
- Except for the 25 Year Trading Experiment which tracks the difference transparently
- Patience remains my strongest edge
- The best trades are difficult to carry to target
Or simply:
I’m not here to be right. I’m here to be profitable.
Looking Ahead to 2026
The trading plan remains intentionally boring:
- Fewer trades
- Higher conviction
- Continued transparency
- Improved risk scalability
- Increase risk and keep depositing to my money making machines
I’ll continue documenting trades, insights, and mistakes publicly, not as financial advice, but as a public journal, and honestly it makes the lonely life of a trader more fulfilling.
Final Thoughts
2025 wasn’t perfect from a P&L perspective, but looking at the growth numbers from a percentage standpoint, it’s clear that I’m on a good track to keep being consistently profitable and outperform the overall global index.
One of my main accomplishments for 2025 is venturing out on my journey with the 25-year trading experiment, which is the best way of comparing your performance to the global market in a portfolio where you do monthly or bi-monthly deposits.
One of my best outcomes after 2025 is also the fact that I started my options trading account, which I’ve been thinking about for years but now finally went ahead and deposited the money into my Interactive Brokers account. It’s been a very exciting journey, short but volatile, and I’m really looking forward to seeing how I can take my swing trading to the next level, both by increasing risk, focusing on higher conviction setups, and scaling my P&L using options trading.
If you value patience and following a transparent trading journey, you’re exactly who this work is for.
Thanks for following along this year.
More to come in 2026.