How do you make a 10% return trading the Asia session?

What does Rihari say happened during this Asia session?

Rihari says that on a single Asia trading session, travelling from Queenstown to Wellington, he closed two trades for a combined gain of about 10 percent: a gold position worth roughly 6 percent and a JP225 futures position worth close to 4 percent. He frames it as a personal result from one session, not a formula.

The video opens the morning before this session with a recap of the previous night's trading, where Rihari says the team "didn't get into many shows last night" beyond one loss and one break-even trade, though a teammate reportedly closed a winning trade. That recap sets up the day's target: a better session than the one before it.

Before boarding a flight out of Queenstown, Rihari says the team placed a limit order on gold. He narrates the trade idea on camera: price had swept liquidity below a recent low and was reacting to a "point of interest" (POI), so the plan was to buy into that area and hold for a move higher into the London and Asia sessions. The order filled while the group was in the air or shortly after landing in Wellington.

Once on the ground, Rihari says gold was "pushing heavy" and that he closed the position for about 6 percent, explicitly declining to hold for a larger move he estimated at an extra 3 percent. He credits that decision to "lessons learned from last night," tying the day's discipline back to the earlier recap.

The final trade of the day, on JP225 futures, closed for close to 4 percent by Rihari's account, which he adds to the gold result to reach "about 10 percent for the day, and it's only Asia."

The video closes on a personal note rather than a sales pitch. Rihari thanks people who subscribed to the channel and joined the education platform, and thanks a list of community members by name, without stating what either group received in return or tying that thanks to the day's trading result.

Which trades count toward the 10 percent, and which one doesn't?

Only two trades make up the 10 percent figure Rihari states on camera: the gold trade, closed near 6 percent, and the JP225 futures trade, closed near 4 percent. A third trade, on US30, is discussed earlier in the video as a recap of a separate result and is not part of that total.

The US30 trade is the first one Rihari walks through, describing a read on market structure: price took out recent lows, then pushed up to a prior high, then pulled back into an area the team had marked. He says the trade was entered on that pullback and closed at a "one to two" reward-to-risk ratio. Rihari says he expected more continuation but that price lacked the volume to keep pushing, so the team "moves on to the next day" rather than treating it as a loss.

Because this US30 review happens before the day's flight and before the gold and JP225 trades that Rihari later sums to 10 percent, it reads as context for the day, not a contributor to the headline number. Readers comparing the claim to the video should treat the US30 result as a separate, earlier trade.

A brief note on the tickers involved for anyone unfamiliar with them: US30 is a common broker shorthand for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, gold is typically quoted as XAU/USD, and JP225 is a common shorthand for Japan's Nikkei 225 index, which Rihari says in the video he traded as a future rather than a CFD.

Rihari says on camera that he had "never heard of" JP225 until a fellow trader, Chanel, introduced him to it and that he had not previously realised it could be traded as a futures contract. That detail matters for context: the JP225 trade that supplies roughly 4 of the claimed 10 percentage points was, by Rihari's own account, on an instrument and contract type he had only recently started using.

How does Rihari describe finding these entries?

The video does not present a formal trading system, but Rihari narrates the same basic sequence for both the gold and JP225 trades that make up the 10 percent claim. The numbered steps below describe what the video shows him doing on camera, not a set of instructions to copy.

1. Review the previous session's result first. Rihari opens by recapping the prior night's Asia session, a loss and a break-even trade, and says that recap shaped the caution he applied later that day.
2. Watch for a liquidity sweep. On both the US30 and gold trades, Rihari points to price taking out a recent high or low before reversing, which he treats as a sign the move is about to turn.
3. Wait for price to tag a small-timeframe point of interest. He refers to a "one-minute POI" on both the gold and JP225 trades, in one case lining it up with what he calls a "point of control."
4. Enter with a pending limit order rather than chasing price. The gold order was placed before the flight and filled without Rihari watching it live; the JP225 order, he admits on camera, was one he had "forgotten" was even working.
5. Take a defined profit instead of holding for the full expected move. Rihari says he closed gold at 6 percent rather than holding for a further 3 percent, calling it "lessons learned from last night."
6. Repeat the same read on a second, unrelated instrument in the same session. Closing gold did not end the day; Rihari applies the same POI-and-sweep logic to JP225 before totaling the two results.

A few of the terms above are worth defining plainly, since the video uses them without explanation. A "liquidity sweep" describes price briefly pushing past a recent high or low, often taking out other traders' stop-loss orders, before reversing. A "point of interest" or POI is a specific price area a trader has marked in advance as likely to cause a reaction. A "point of control" usually refers to the price level where the most trading volume has occurred over a chosen period. A "reward-to-risk ratio" of one to two, the figure Rihari cites on the US30 trade, means the profit target was set at twice the distance of the stop-loss from the entry price, not that the trade returned twice the amount risked.

What happened when a trader in the video pushed past a similar gain?

The video also includes a conversation between Rihari and another trader that works as a direct counterpoint to the 10 percent day. That trader says he was once up close to $10,000 in a session, then kept trading until he had given it all back, calling it being "way too greedy."

The same conversation adds two more details about that trader's account: a $2,000 account that grew to roughly $3,800, a gain of about 90 percent, off a single signal, and a separate funded-account challenge that trader says he failed. A funded-account challenge, sometimes called a prop-firm challenge, is a common industry structure in which a trader is evaluated on a demo or firm-owned account under set rules, with a share of future profits on offer if the evaluation is passed and losses staying with the firm rather than the trader.

Rihari's response in that exchange is not that the loss was acceptable, but that the trader stayed in the game because, in his telling, he had "a whole community to fall back on." The video does not show account statements, broker records, or any other verification for these figures, Rihari's own 10 percent day included. The contrast is worth naming directly: on the same day Rihari says he took a smaller profit than he could have "so as not to be too greedy," the second trader's account of an earlier session is offered as an example of what happens when that same discipline is not applied.

How does this compare with independently verified facts about CFD and forex trading?

Everything above is a claim made on camera by people in the video, not an audited result. Independent, publicly available data on retail CFD trading points to a very different base rate for outcomes than a single winning day suggests, and that gap is worth sitting with before treating any session's result as a guide.

| Claim in the video | Who says it | Independently verified? | |---|---|---| | Gold trade closed near 6 percent | Rihari | No, no broker statement shown | | JP225 futures trade closed near 4 percent | Rihari | No, no broker statement shown | | Combined Asia session gain of about 10 percent | Rihari | No, no broker statement shown | | US30 trade closed at a 1:2 reward-to-risk | Rihari | No, no broker statement shown | | A 10 percent (about $10,000) gain given back entirely | Second trader in the video | No, no broker statement shown | | $2,000 account grew to about $3,800 on one signal | Second trader in the video | No, no broker statement shown | | 68 percent of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in FY2024 | ASIC | Yes, published regulator data | | Average daily OTC FX turnover was US$9.6 trillion in April 2025 | BIS | Yes, published central-bank survey data |

ASIC Report 828: Risky business recorded that 68 percent of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in the 2024 financial year. That figure covers the same broad product category, CFDs, that gold and index trades like the ones in this video are commonly traded through, and it describes outcomes across a full year for a large sample of accounts rather than a single session for one trader.

The video also leaves out several details that would be needed to independently check the 10 percent figure. It does not show the size of the account the percentages are measured against, the leverage applied, the position size on any of the three trades, or a broker statement or trade-history export covering the period. A 6 percent gain on a small account and a 6 percent gain on a large one carry very different amounts of money and risk, and none of that is stated on camera.

How big is the market behind an Asia session trade?

The BIS 2025 Triennial Survey reported average daily OTC foreign-exchange turnover of US$9.6 trillion in April 2025. That figure covers the wider foreign-exchange market trading around the clock, including the Asia session referenced in the video, though it measures market-wide turnover rather than the gold or index-futures markets Rihari specifically traded that day.

That scale of turnover is part of why the Asia session exists as a distinct trading window at all: it is one of the periods, alongside the London and New York hours, when a large share of that daily volume changes hands. Size and liquidity in a market are not the same thing as an edge inside it, and the BIS figure says nothing about whether any individual trader's approach, including the one shown in this video, produces winning results over time.

Is a 10 percent single-session gain typical, or something to expect?

No. The video itself contains a direct example of a similar gain being given back in full, and the independently verified ASIC data shows most Australian retail CFD accounts lose money over a full year, not just some of them. A single profitable session, verified or not, does not describe what happens to the average account.

Rihari does not claim in this video that the result is typical, that it is repeatable, or that it reflects what a student following his approach would achieve; he presents it as one day's outcome, expressly a livelier one than the session before it. Readers should treat the 10 percent figure as a personal, unverified account of one trading day, not as evidence about expected returns, and should weigh it against the ASIC finding that most retail CFD traders in this same product category lost money over the most recent full financial year on record.

What is this video, and what should it not be read as?

This video is a personal vlog: a day-in-the-life recording of Rihari and a small team travelling in New Zealand, reviewing trades and talking through results on camera. It references a mentorship, an education platform, and a podcast Rihari says he runs, but states no prices, enrolment terms, or promised outcomes for any of them here.

Because the video itself supplies none of those details, none are reported in this article. Nothing in the video amounts to financial advice, a licensed offering, or a guarantee of income, and nothing here should be read as one either. The trading figures quoted are Rihari's own on-camera claims and one other trader's on-camera claims, unverified by any account statement shown in the video, sitting alongside two independently sourced facts, the ASIC loss-rate finding and the BIS turnover figure, that describe the wider market and its outcomes rather than this specific video's results.