Thawin SuksathapornVerified
USIC 2025 EG 3rd place, +299.4% — BusinessWire 2026-02-02. Identity confirmed via interview June 2026.
🇹🇭Thailand· Bangkok
Bangkok-based full-time trader, 3rd in the 2025 USIC EG Division at +299.4%, the first Thai competitor on the EG podium.
Thawin Suksathaporn closed 2025 at +299.4% on an audited Enhanced Growth $20K-$1M account — third in the division behind Tito Adhikary's +2,115.1% all-time record and Bob Doviak's +857.3%. The intra-year audit trajectory: +53% by January, sustained gains through the middle of the year, +299.4% on the December close. He is the first Thai competitor to make the EG podium under the modern MMVR-format championship.
Enhanced Growth allows futures and long options on top of the Stock Division ruleset, and the 2025 EG Division was the most-record-breaking division of the year — three separate audit numbers above +299% on the same podium, against a 579-competitor field. Suksathaporn's full-time-trader status from Bangkok puts him in the same Asia-Pacific cluster that produced Law Wai-Sum, Clement Ang, Adrian Law (Cantonese-tier), and now him (Thai-tier) — five top-tier Asia-Pacific names on the 2025 USIC leaderboard across MMVR and USIC divisions, which is the strongest non-US showing in any modern USIC year.
He runs no surfaced X / LinkedIn / personal website under his name. A Facebook account in his name exists and is the cleanest direct social surface. Outreach routes through Facebook DM or USIC's organizer channel.
Interview
Looking back, what was the single turning point in your life, not in trading specifically, but in the life that led you to it?
Leaving my engineering job and H1B visa in the United States to pursue trading full time. It was a comfortable job but trading was what I was interested in and wanted to pursue since college. I didn't have much capital to work with at that time but I wanted to bet on myself. Luckily I had a handful of opportunities in the market where I was able to change things for the better.
You were a D1 athlete. Does that feel like a responsibility, being the first Thai name on the EG podium?
Not quite. I think being a former athlete gave me the fundamentals of discipline and grit. Naturally I am competitive and want to know how I'd do in the vast world of traders.
Enhanced Growth allows futures and long options. Which instrument is your main one and why?
I trade both futures and options depending on the opportunity set. Both instruments have their pros and cons so I vary them a lot.
What is the hardest lesson you learned outside markets that ended up changing how you trade?
Learning to be a good loser. In tennis, unless you win the tournament, you will lose at least one match. Every match you play you will lose some points. I do struggle taking losses sometimes but tennis really helps me learn to cope and understand that it's only another point.
What are you reading or studying right now?
I'm reading Positive Trading Psychology by Brett N. Steenbarger. I've been studying how I can put myself in the right mentality each day so I can execute at my best consistently.
If you could go back 5 years, what would you do differently in trading?
I honestly wouldn't change a thing. The blow-ups I had in the past were very painful at the time and made me nearly quit. But they made me become the trader I am today. I still have much to learn.
