TRADING CONTEST: THE BIGGEST TRADING COMPETITION
IN EUROPE SINCE 1999
WITH A FOREX CONTEST CATEGORY
The oldest trading contest is the « US Investing Championship » which was run from 1983 up to 1997 by Norm Zadeh, a visiting professor at the Columbia University, Ucla and Standford. In the following years this trading contest became well known all around USA and the weekly magazine Barron's was the official media partner of the trading competition.
The US Investing Championship was featured in the book seller autobiography ?Pit Bull? by Martin Schwartz, a 3 times in a row winner of this trading contest.
Just one year later in 1984 began the « World Cup Trading Challenge », maybe the most famous real money trading contest worldwide, organized by the US broker Robbins (www.robbinstrading.com). In 1987 Larry Williams with a starting capital of $10.000 managed to end up after 12 months of trading competition with $ 1.000.000 (+11.376%) and he became the most renowned trader around. And still today he is. Last year more than 100 traders joined the Robbins World Cup.
Since 1999 LombardReport.com organizes in Europe the ?International Top Trader Championship with real money?, a trading contest that in 2006 will arrive to its eighth edition (www.toptradercup.com). In 2004 7 Italian, Swiss, German and Spanish brokers entered the competitionunder the sponsorship of Eurex.
Since 2002 in France the monthly magazine Capital and the French broker Cortal organize a national trading contest under the name of «les Trophées Capital de la Bourse» (www.capital.fr).
What is a real money trading contest
There is a deep difference between a virtual trading game and a real money trading contest: the first is truly a ?game? where fortune accounts as much as the trader forecasting skill, the latter is a trial where bravery, personality and a professional trading approach has the better of fortune. In case of a real money trading contest, winners have a high reputation to spend in the industry like newsletter and book writers, trading educators, testimonials, etc. etc. On the contrary history has not so far proved evidence of some winners of a virtual trading contest that were able to profit from their title.
We can conclude that a real money trading contest produces a high credibility that can hardly be matched by a virtual trading contest.
Just to evaluate the return in terms of media visibility please check the press review of the Top Trader Championship trading contest for all the editions 1999 – 2005 at http://www.toptradercup.com/tt/stampa.asp.
Check also the unbelievable returns that trading contest participants were able to get in the past 7 editions at http://www.toptradercup.com/tt/albo_oro.asp .
Among the best traders around you will find Achille Capecce, winner of the Italian trading contest category for three times in a row with a return of +601,87% in 1999, +1703,38% in 2000, +1710,8% in 2001, and the International Top Trader Mario Zurita, from Spain, winner of the International trading contest edition in 2003 with a return of +40,10% in only 1 month, and Domenico Foti, from Italy, winner of the International trading contest edition in 2004 with a return of +55,62% in three month.
The forex contest category
Since 2006 a category of the trading contest is devoted to the forex traders. Here in 2008 Stefano Trully made a +400% returns in a 2.5 months. It is surely the most interesting arena of the trading competition.
Top Trader trading contest's sponsors up to nowadays
From 1999 up to nowadays Top Trader Championship trading contest was sponsored by Eurex, the European magazine for active traders TRADERS', the press agency Bridge, the brokers E-Trade, CK BANK (Germany), Refco, Activtrades.com (Switzerland), Estubroker (Spain), Directa, Fineco, IW Bank, Intesa Trade (Italy), the Italian financial magazines Borsa & Finanza and Milano Finanza, TerminTrader.de in Germany, Finanza.com and FinanzaOnLine.com in Italy.
The International Top Trader Championship: a unique trading contest with a dedicated forex category
Our trading contest traditionally starts end-February and ends in May. The resulting 3 first classified in each category (including forex category) will be entitled to enter the international trading contest final round in Rimini, Italy, during the ITF Fair in May where the Champions will trade in real time with real money in front of the audience (5000 visitors). Traders will explain their methodologies, their tricks and will comment their trades while placing them. There will be a wall screen where the single monitors of the traders will be projected so that everybody in the hall will be able to follow closely the trading contest. A journalist will moderate the final round and questions from the public are well accepted and solicited.
During our trading contest the partial weekly standing (including forex contest category) will be published on the media partners with interviews, comments, analysis, forecasts by the first traders classified in the competition. In that way the media partners will be able to have an exclusive information content which is much appreciated by the readers since these traders are ?next door heroes? and not superstar trader or financial guru. A newsletter with all this information will be issued on a weekly basis and distributed to a 100.000 database made up with the mailing list of all the supporting partners: LombardReport.com, Trading Library, Visual Trader, etc.
DOWNLOAD TRADING CONTEST RULES
http://www.toptradercup.com/getfileX.asp?id=1090
DOWNLOAD TRADING CONTEST REGISTRATION
http://www.toptradercup.com/getfileX.asp?id=898
OPEN AN ACCOUNT AT THE NEXT TRADING CONTEST WITH THE BROKERS
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Trading contest Organizer Contacts:
Emilio Tomasini – LombardReport.com srlVia Pascoli, 7 41057 Spilamberto – MOITALY tomasini@lombardreport.com
