Darren O'Neill
Irish independent trader and founder of Vector Ridge. Audited every year from 2020 to 2025 — the #1 audited return in both 2023 (+178%) and 2025 (+168%), cross-referenced against World Cup Trading Championships results.
Headline metrics
Multi-year audited record
| Year | Return | Max Drawdown | Sharpe | Win Rate | Trades |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | +22% | 31% | 0.58 | 50% | 162 |
| 2021 | +16% | 34% | 0.41 | 48% | 174 |
| 2022 | +37% | 22% | 0.89 | 54% | 245 |
| 2023 | +178% | 14% | 2.57 | 67% | 34 |
| 2024 | +94% | 19% | 1.44 | 58% | 55 |
| 2025 | +168% | 12% | 2.10 | 65% | 30 |
Verification
Darren O'Neill holds the strongest verification standard in the database: a Multi-Year audit (six consecutive years, 2020–2025) that is also Cross-Referenced against independent competition results. Multi-year audits span multiple market regimes; cross-referencing confirms the broker-statement data against a second, independent source.
Championship cross-reference
O'Neill is the 2023 Trading World Champion (tradingworldchampion.com). His 2025 World Cup Trading Championships results — 4th in the Annual Forex division (168%), 5th in Q3 Forex (65.9%), and 1st in the October Monthly Forex division (59.35%), a 294% aggregate across all divisions entered — are real-money and independently verifiable on worldcupchampionships.com. The audited 2023 (+178%) and 2025 (+168%) figures reconcile with these competition records within rounding tolerance.
Audit details
Audit period: 2020–2025. Methodology: six-metric extraction from raw broker statements, cross-referenced against published championship results. All personal data redacted before publication.
Disclosures
AuditedTrader audits Darren O'Neill's submitted broker statements solely per our published methodology. See the editorial-board page for full ecosystem-relationship disclosure.