- Built businessesLearned how value is created — the hard way.
- Made expensive investing mistakesA leveraged loss in 2017 wiped out roughly $28,000 of savings. The lessons stayed.
- Studied financeMaster's degree in Finance. CISI qualified.
- Built a seven-figure portfolioFrom scratch, over nearly a decade of compounding.
- Became a full-time investorInvesting stopped being the side project.
- Wrote The Freedom InvestorHis investing philosophy, in book form.
- Now invests publiclyAn Elite Pro Investor on eToro. Everything visible.
Tony Mai · Investor · Author
I invest in the future. And I do it in public.
I'm Tony Mai, a full-time investor focused on the technologies shaping the next decade. My portfolio, performance and investment decisions are publicly visible on eToro.
Tony Mai · eToro Elite Pro Investor · The Freedom Investor
9+ Years Investing
Master's in Finance
CISI Qualified
eToro Elite Pro Investor
Public Track Record
Long-Term Investor
Author of The Freedom Investor
01 — Verified track record
Don't take my word for it.
My investment history is public. Every position, every drawdown, every decision — visible on eToro, open to anyone.
Source: BullAware / eToro · Snapshot as of 31 July 2026
Performance snapshot · 31 July 2026
+47.77%
Annualised return
5/10
Risk score
567
Copiers
$2M–$5M
AUCAssets under copy
View Live Performance
Independently tracked on BullAware
Investing involves risk. Copy trading does not guarantee returns, and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Your capital is at risk.
02 — How I invest
There's a system behind every investment.
A long-term, data-driven strategy combining macro trends, powerful growth narratives and disciplined portfolio rotation.
First
Macro
Identify the macro direction — what's changing in the world?
Then
Narrative
Invest in the strongest long-term growth narratives.
Finally
Rotation
Rotate capital as conviction and opportunity change.
A core of long-term holdings, complemented by satellite positions where the opportunity is strongest. High conviction, held with the willingness to change when the evidence changes — over a 5+ year horizon, without leverage, and with risk diversified across ideas and themes.
03 — Where I'm investing
Investing in the next decade.
Structural growth themes I believe will define the coming ten years.
T·01 Artificial Intelligence Machine intelligence compounding through every industry.
T·02 Robotics The automation of physical work, from factory floors to homes.
T·03 Semiconductors The chips every other technology is built on.
T·04 Cloud Computing The infrastructure layer beneath the digital economy.
T·05 Space Orbital infrastructure becoming an investable economy.
T·06 Genomics Programmable biology and the future of medicine.
04 — Portfolio & risk
Returns are only half the story.
Diversified by theme, sized by conviction.
No single position gets to decide the outcome. Allocation follows rules, not excitement.
Drawdowns are shown, never hidden.
Every downturn in my history is visible on the record. Risk taken is part of every return earned.
A long-term horizon, not a news cycle.
Structural change plays out over years. I position for that — and accept the volatility and drawdowns that come with it.
Risk is managed before returns are chased.
No leverage. Deliberate position sizing and patience do the risk management. Prediction doesn't.
05 — Invest alongside me
Invest alongside me. Stay in control.
01
Join eToro.
Open a free account on the platform where my portfolio lives.
02
Choose your allocation.
Decide how much you want to allocate. You set the amount — and you can change it.
03
Copy the portfolio.
Your allocation mirrors my portfolio proportionally, trade by trade, automatically.
You remain in control.
Copying mirrors my portfolio in proportion to what you allocate — if a position is 5% of my portfolio, it's 5% of your copy. Your money stays in your account. You can pause, adjust or stop at any time.
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06 — Why I invest
Wealth was never the destination. Freedom was.
Money is a tool. Its real value is the control it eventually gives you over your time — what you work on, who you spend your days with, and what you say no to.
Building wealth
The discipline is structured, repeatable and unglamorous.
- ResearchDaily
- Position sizingRules-based
- Portfolio reviewContinuous
- Time horizonDecade
Owning your time
The dividend is a calendar that belongs to you.
Not yachts. Not status. Just the freedom to think slowly, choose deliberately and live on your own schedule.
07 — Meet Tony
Nine years, one direction.
08 — The book
The Freedom Investor
How I Escaped the 9-to-5 and Built a 7-Figure Portfolio from Scratch
A practical philosophy for building wealth for one reason: to own more of your time.
09 — The Freedom Investor series
Investing lessons you'll actually remember.
A story-driven investing series that uses real experiences, mistakes and lessons to explain how wealth is built over time.
Real experiences told as stories — the mistakes, turning points and lessons behind building wealth over the long term, from someone who lived them.
Explore the Series10 — The invitation
See everything for yourself.
My portfolio. My performance. My risk. My investment history.
Investing involves risk. Copy trading does not guarantee returns, and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Your capital is at risk.
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