Can you make money trading while playing golf?

Can you make money trading while playing golf?

Rihari says yes — he describes closing a $109,000 profit on a single gold trade while on a golf course, with his stop loss already moved to break-even to protect the position. That's one trader's account of one trade, not a verified business result, an income promise, or proof that trading while distracted is safe.

The video opens mid-round: "Stop losses at break even. I am now risk free in this trade. I'm at golf. I'm going to take the trade out." Rihari then walks back through the setup he says he had already built before he left for the golf course, framing the whole clip as a trade breakdown rather than a highlight reel. He is explicit that the outcome was unusual for him, saying later in the video, "I don't make that much all the time," directly after describing the trade as "something that I take on a daily basis." Those two lines sit side by side in the same video: the setup he uses may be routine for him, but a $109,000 result from it, on his own telling, is not.

This matters for anyone reading the headline and assuming a formula: play golf, get rich. Rihari's own framing is narrower than that. He says the position was already open, already profitable, and already protected by a stop loss moved to break-even before he arrived at the course. What he did at golf, by his own account, was decide when to close a trade that was no longer risking his own capital, not open a new position blind while distracted on the fairway.

It is also worth being precise about what the video does not claim. Rihari does not say in this video that he runs a trading business, that he manages other people's money, that this outcome is typical, or that anyone following his approach would achieve a similar result. He presents it as a single trade he wants to walk viewers through, "everything of what I was looking at, what I looked at," in his own words, as a teaching example rather than a performance record.

What actually happened in Rihari's $109,000 gold trade, according to the video?

The video says gold had just hit an all-time high before reversing sharply, wiping out leveraged positions across the market; Rihari says he watched the pullback, identified where buyers were likely to step back in, and entered once price reacted the way he expected at that zone. He closed the position mid-round for a $109,000 profit.

Rihari describes the backdrop first. "After the all-time high was hit, price action just started melting. People just started getting liquidated," he says, adding his own estimate that "within about 3 weeks or 2 weeks or something, like 15 trillion dollars was erased from gold and silver." That figure is Rihari's own recollection stated on camera; this article treats it as his claim, not an independently confirmed number, and no external source is cited to verify it.

He says the sell-off took "about 3 days" to run from the recent high back down to a level he had marked as significant, and that once price arrived there, he was watching for a specific kind of reaction: a stop to new lows, followed by the start of a higher low and a higher high, what he calls a "change of character." He says he had this setup "marked up" before he went to golf that day, meaning the level and the type of reaction he wanted to see were decided in advance rather than discovered live.

From there he says price pulled back into a zone he had flagged, reacted the way he wanted, and he entered. He moved the stop loss to break-even once the trade moved in his favor, which he describes as becoming "risk free in this trade." He says he exited later that day, mid-round, at a level he was not entirely certain of on camera, telling viewers "I got out at I think it was 8 uh 481 11 ... or 4812, somewhere around there." He puts the closed profit at $109,000.

He also places this specific trade within a wider timeline, noting the sell-off ran "from sort of the end of Jan, coming all the way to the start of Feb" in his account. That places the events he describes within a roughly one-to-two-week window by his own telling, not a single day, even though the exit itself happened during one round of golf.

What is "market structure" and why does Rihari say he trades around it?

Rihari defines market structure as the pattern of highs and lows a price makes: lower highs and lower lows form bearish structure, and higher highs and higher lows form bullish structure. He says he waits for that pattern to flip, a "change of character," before treating a move as a genuine reversal rather than a bounce.

He describes reading the chart on multiple timeframes at once. On the hourly chart, he says he tracked the shift from "lower low, lower high, lower low, lower high" during the sell-off to the first "higher high, higher low" sequence that told him buyers had taken control. He calls that shift a change of character and says it is the first thing he looks for before considering an entry.

He then narrows to smaller timeframes to time the entry itself, referencing a "15-minute point of interest" and a "5-minute point of interest," which he describes as zones where he expects price to react if his read on the bigger picture is correct. Once in the trade, he says he watched the 1-minute chart for the same higher-high, higher-low pattern to appear internally, telling viewers, "If I know what the right one-minute structure is doing, then I'm more confident that I can be in the trade and hold the trade." He frames this multi-timeframe check as a confidence tool for staying in a position, not as a guarantee that the pattern will repeat.

Rihari also uses the phrase "internal structure" to describe this same higher-high, higher-low read applied to the smaller timeframe while a trade is already open, distinct from the "external" structure on the hourly chart that told him to look for a trade in the first place. He presents the two as working together: the larger timeframe tells him what kind of trade to look for, and the smaller timeframe tells him whether to keep holding one already open.

What steps does the video say Rihari follows to find and manage a trade like this?

Rihari lays out a sequence in the video rather than a single decision: read the bigger trend, wait for a change of character, time an entry at a smaller-timeframe zone, then manage risk before deciding whether to hold. The steps below summarize what he describes doing on this specific trade, not a guaranteed or universal system.

1. Watch for a major move and liquidation event, then wait for price to stop making new lows. Rihari says gold's sharp reversal from its all-time high, and the liquidations that followed, set up the conditions he was watching for.
2. Mark the shift from bearish to bullish structure. He calls this a "change of character": the point where lower highs and lower lows give way to a higher low followed by a higher high.
3. Wait for a pullback into a lower-timeframe "point of interest." He references zones on the 15-minute and 5-minute charts where he expected price to react if his broader read was correct.
4. Enter once price reacts at that zone in the way he was expecting, rather than entering the moment the zone is touched.
5. Move the stop loss to break-even once the trade is in profit. Rihari describes this explicitly: "Stop loss is at break even. I am now risk-free in this trade."
6. Check the smaller-timeframe structure for confirmation. He says watching the 1-minute chart for its own higher-high, higher-low pattern gave him confidence to keep holding the position rather than closing early.
7. Exit on signs of hesitation, even without a fixed rule. Rihari says he closed the trade when price began "consolidating" and showing "a little bit of rejection," rather than at a predetermined target.

This sequence describes Rihari's account of one trade. He does not present it in the video as a mechanical system that removes discretion, and this article does not present it that way either. Step 7 in particular shows discretion, not a rule, deciding the outcome: by his own account, the same setup continued higher after he closed it, meaning an earlier or later exit on this exact trade would have produced a different result.

Is one winning trade proof that Rihari's trading strategy works?

No. Rihari's own account of this trade includes a large missed opportunity and an admission that the result was not typical for him, which undercuts any reading of the video as proof of a repeatable edge rather than a single favorable outcome.

He tells viewers directly that he exited early: "Which, like, regrettably I did get out early." He then narrates what happened after he closed the position, that price went on to make the higher high his own framework predicted, adding "I probably missed out on another $100,000... could have been a 200k trade." By his own description, the same structure he says he trades every day produced a materially different outcome depending on when he chose to exit, and his exit that day was driven partly by impatience at the golf course rather than a signal on the chart: "Stuff it. I'm at golf. I'm going to take the trade out."

He also directly separates the setup from the result, saying the entry method is "something that I take on a daily basis. Simple. Very very simple," while immediately qualifying that "I don't make that much all the time." Read together, those lines describe a trading approach he says he repeats often and a dollar outcome he says he does not repeat often. This article treats the $109,000 figure as a single, self-reported result from one trade, not as evidence of a business, a service's typical outcome, or an income level available to anyone using the same approach.

Rihari's closing comment in the video reinforces the same point rather than contradicting it: "You're not going to catch them all the time, but when you do, well you can make a lot of money." That is a statement about variability, some trades work out large and others presumably do not, not a claim that this outcome, or one like it, is the norm.

How risky is retail CFD and forex trading, really?

Independent regulatory and central bank data, separate from anything said in this video, shows that most Australian retail investors who traded CFDs in the 2024 financial year lost money, in a market so large that any single trader's result is a rounding error against total turnover.

ASIC Report 828: Risky business records that 68% of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in the 2024 financial year. That figure comes from Australia's corporate and financial services regulator, not from Rihari or this video, and it describes the aggregate outcome across retail CFD traders in that period, not the outcome of any specific trader or strategy.

Separately, the BIS 2025 Triennial Survey reported average daily OTC foreign-exchange turnover of US$9.6 trillion in April 2025. That figure, from the Bank for International Settlements, describes the scale of the global currency market as a whole. It is useful context for how large the market is that instruments like gold and forex trade within, and it says nothing about any individual trader's odds of success.

The table below separates what Rihari says in the video from what is independently verifiable from outside sources.

| Claim | Source | Independently verified in this article? | |---|---|---| | Closed a $109,000 profit on one gold trade while at golf | Rihari, this video | No, a single, self-reported personal trading outcome | | "About 15 trillion dollars was erased from gold and silver" in the sell-off | Rihari, this video | No, his own on-camera estimate, no external source cited | | Missed roughly another $100,000 by exiting early | Rihari, this video | No, his own estimate of a hypothetical, unrealized outcome | | 68% of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in FY2024 | ASIC Report 828 | Yes, published regulator data | | Average daily OTC FX turnover was US$9.6 trillion in April 2025 | BIS 2025 Triennial Survey | Yes, published central bank survey |

Nothing in this article should be read as a statement that trading CFDs or forex is safe, that losses described in ASIC's data do not apply to strategies like the one in this video, or that Rihari's result is typical of what any other trader, using any method, could expect to achieve. The two verified figures in the table above exist to give scale and context to Rihari's claims, not to confirm or contradict them.

What did Rihari say about being away from the charts while the trade played out?

Rihari says he was physically at golf for most of the trade, not watching live charts, and that his final decision to close the position was driven as much by being away from his desk as by anything the chart was showing him at that moment.

He repeats his location several times in the video: "I'm at golf. I'm going to take the trade out," and later, "keep in mind at this point I'm still at golf. So, I'm still playing golf. I'm not on the charts, like, watching it." He frames the stop loss at break-even as the mechanism that let him step away at all, since it removed the risk of losing his own money on the position while he was not monitoring it live.

But he is candid that the exit itself was not a clean, rule-based signal. He describes seeing "a little bit of rejection" and price starting to consolidate, then says, "Stuff it. I'm at golf. I'm going to take the trade out," before immediately admitting he "did get out early" and that the trade kept running in his favor afterward. His own account is that being away from the charts made the position safer from a risk-of-loss standpoint once the stop was at break-even, but it did not make his exit decision more precise; by his own admission, it made it less so.

What does Rihari say new traders should take from this trade?

Rihari frames the video as an educational example, telling viewers the goal is to show "how you guys can do the same thing if you're getting into trading," and closing with general encouragement to build chart-reading knowledge rather than a specific promise about results.

His closing message centers on preparation rather than outcome: "The more knowledge you have, the better decisions you're going to make when it comes to trading." He also repeats that the underlying method, reading market structure and waiting for a reaction at a point of interest, is something he says he uses "on a daily basis," while separating that from how often a trade produces a result the size of this one. He points viewers to his social media accounts for further content, describing it as "a lot of value to help you guys become better at trading."

This article does not treat that closing pitch as a business, licensing, or performance claim. It is presented here only as Rihari's own stated framing for why he made the video, not as an endorsement, a recommendation to seek out paid instruction, or a claim that following his content leads to a specific outcome. Readers weighing any trading approach should treat a single filmed trade, however detailed the breakdown, as one data point, and weigh it against independently published risk data such as the ASIC and BIS figures cited above.