Answer: Dukascopy Demo contests are open to any person who is at least 18 years of age, irrespectively of whether he/she is an existing Dukascopy Bank client or not. Participation in LIVE Contests require opening LIVE trading account with Dukascopy Bank.
Answer: Yes, participation in the contest is fully free of charge.
Answer: Dukascopy Bank expects the comments to be sensible and meaningful. The comment should reflect the grounds or factors that drove the trader to effectuate the particular trade.
Senseless, run-around comments are not tolerated. Even though Dukascopy will not delete them unless they contain any sort of abuse, advertisement or any other kind of spam, the trader hasto be aware that a predominance or considerable share of ineligible comments will significantly decrease his odds to receive any extra bonus points when being analyzed by the Dukascopy evaluation committee (4th factor of the total score).
Examples of undesirable comments that will not be valued by Dukascopy when attributing theexpert score:
"Good", "Ok", "1.5697", "Buy", "Sell" etc.
Please see the Code of conduct for thecomments in the Dukascopy Forex Community.
Answer: No, the 2-level registration system requires the participant to have a central Community account. A lot of contests functionalities are located at the Community level and in future the integration will be even more intensive.
Answer: After having created a Dukascopy Community account you may register to any demo contest via one click.
During the 1st registration to one of the contests you will be asked to complement the account data with your contact details. This is done in order to ensure the completeness of your account and its eligibility to an eventual prize. Therefore, the data has to be true and correct. Awarded Live accounts are opened on its basis and according to the rules the prize can be canceled in case the real data of the prize claimant does not correspond to the one indicated in his contest account.
All further registrations do not require any additional information and are processed on a "one-click" basis.
LIVE contest account registration requires following of the instruction provided on the particular LIVE contest page.
Answer: Although we attentively process all incoming mails and draw valuable conclusions or insight from reasonable proposal, we affirm that the rules of the Traders contest were elaborated with thorough evaluation of all relevant factors and are balanced enough to cater for the aims of the contest. The point of the contest is to reward best performers. Participants should be aware that the rules are fixed and are to be accepted by the contestants in their present form.
However, Dukascopy admits that it collects the feedback from participants and takes it into account for further improvements.
Answer: In accordance with the rules Community prizes can only be credited to dedicated LIVE Prize accounts. LIVE Prize accounts can be credited only with prize money. Clients are not allowed crediting their own funds on this type of account. Please note that it is impossible to indicate any Introducing agents or register the prize accounts through Forex cashback services.
Answer: The second set of login information is dedicated for trading purposes. I.e. it is your logininformation for entering the contest trading platform (<a href="https://demo-login.dukascopy.com/fo/platform/?jnlp=jforex">https://demo-login.dukascopy.com/fo/platform/?jnlp=jforex).
Your main, Dukascopy Forex Community account is your central account. It allows entering thecommunity, register to any of the Dukascopy Demo contests, leave comments and evaluate thetrades of the participants.
Answer: No, the participation in the contest is allowed only with accounts created through the contestregistration form. These accounts have certain technical differences from regular Demo accounts.The limitations existing in the contest accounts are implemented in order to ensure theircompliance to the rules of the contest. Besides, in contrast to standard Demo accounts, which arevalid only for 14 days, contest accounts are valid during the whole month of the contest and areautomatically expired in the end of the contest.
Answer: Comments to the trades are passed via the pop-up window appearing on order creation in thecontest Demo platform. It is technically impossible to make a trade leaving the comment areaempty.
Then the comments appear in the traders' blog of the JForex community and in the personalblog of the trader. Any contestant or authorized user of the JForex community if allowed toevaluate and comment on the posts made by other traders/users.
Answer: In order to attach the screenshot of your platform's chartplease mark the ""Send charts image"" checkbox in the order creationpop-up of the contest platform. The checkbox appears right afterthe comment area.
Answer: Dukascopy Bank expects the comments to be sensible and meaningful. The comment should reflect the grounds or factors that drove the trader to effectuate the particular trade.
Senseless, run-around comments are not tolerated. Even though Dukascopy will not delete them unless they contain any sort of abuse, advertisement or any other kind of spam, the trader has to be aware that a predominance or considerable share of ineligible comments will significantly decrease his odds to receive any extra bonus points when being analyzed by the Dukascopy evaluation committee (4th factor of the total score).
Examples of undesirable comments that will not be valued by Dukascopy when attributing the expert score:
"Good", "Ok", "1.5697", "Buy", "Sell" etc.
Please see the Code of conduct for the comments in the Dukascopy Community.
Answer: The expert evaluation accounts for 25% of traders' total monthly result. It is intended toevaluate additionally the quality of participants' analysis and their stickiness to forecasts. Besides, thisfactor evaluates the conformity of the traders to the requirements set by Dukascopy. Currently thestandard set of the evaluation criteria is based on 3 factors: 1. Share of positions opened with entryorders (the more - the better); 2. The share of positions closed by SL/TP (the more – thebetter); 3. Pips win/loss ratio.
In addition, Dukascopy reserves the right to award extra bonus points to the participants,whose activity it considers to be particularly outstanding or noticeable. However, the subjectivepoints cannot exceed 25% of the Dukascopy evaluation factor. For more information on how toimprove the Dukascopy evaluation factor, please check the Recommendations page.
Answer: This will be surveyed by Dukascopy expert's. Remember, this is not the only criteria and we haveenough experience to recognize cheating. All IPs are tracked and we are able to detect duplicatedregistrations, self-voting as well as other fraudulent activity. Dukascopy registers all those cases andwill take them into account when making the final evaluation. Traders are encouraged to perceivethis information with full seriousness and be aware that their final standing may be substantiallyaffected if they intentionally undertake fraudulent actions.
Answer: It is an analytical contest. The contest results will determine the traders with the most accuratemarket forecasts. We do not focus on pure performance. We want the trader to be consistent,rational, and confident in his own actions. Moreover, via these limitations we limit the risk ofcheating on certain factors.
Answer: JForex Strategy Contest is a competition between participants using DEMO accounts forautomated trading. The main skill required to enter the contest is the ability to create a fullyautomated trading script based on the JForex programming interface.
Answer: As the strategy contest is intended for automated strategies, the manual trading is stronglyprohibited. However, the participants can close positions manually in exceptional cases and underthe condition that the total volume of manually transacted trades is less than 10% of the totaltrading volume.
Answer: The custom indicators can be used on the strategy contest. In order to use a custom indicator,you need to make implementation in a nested class and register it in onStart method.
Answer: In order to run the strategy, the participant can use the remote server that will keep running thestrategy during the contest month.
Answer: According to the contest rules, the participant can maintain only 1 open position group. Anyfurther requests to open a new position or place a pending order will be rejected.
Answer: The participant may use any strategy published within the current or any previous contests.
Answer: Only Jforex strategies written in Java are qualified to participate in the contest. However, theparticipant might use Strategy Converter to obtain a java code.
Answer: Dukascopy FX Video Contest is a unique competition elaborated for participants simultaneouslypassionate about Forex and about filming videos. Unlike other contests held by Dukascopy, thevideo contest does not presuppose the conduction of trading activities. Neither manually, nor withan automatic strategy. Instead, the entire concept is built around the video content. Whichever isthe idea you want to share in a form of a short video, as long as it is related to Forex, it is thetarget material for the contest.
Answer: The video should be a YouTube-accepted format with a length of maximum 5 minutes. It's title on YouTube is to be compiled according to the following sample: "Dukascopy FX video contest - [Name of the video] - [month & year]".
The beginning of the tape should contain a slide with the information on the video.
Please see the Rules for more details.
Answer: The format of the content is absolutely free and features only one indispensable prerequisite - thevideo has to be Forex-related. That can equally be an educatory or analytical video on Forextrading, an interview or a comic Forex-related cartoon. Any innovative approach to the coverage ofa Forex-related issue will be much valued.
Answer: A YouTube account is needed because the videos are submitted to Dukascopy in a form of a linkto YouTube.
Answer: You can upload 1 video per week in every Contest period.
Answer: "Unique IP visits" accounts for 33% of participant's popularity rating. Since it's based on the number of unique visits to the profile page and the contestant may have more than one video uploaded during the Contest Period, the collected IP visits are attributed to every of those videos.
That factors in a extra bonus to popular participants when they upload new videos. Those videos receive points in the "unique IP visits" sub-category of the popularity rating straight away after being uploaded.
Answer: Dukascopy FX Article contest is a unique competition elaborated for participants simultaneously passionate about Forex and writing about it. Unlike other contests held by Dukascopy, the article contest does not presuppose the conduction of trading activities of any kind or coding strategies. In contrary, the concept of the contest is built around the text content. Any article or publication dedicated to the subject of FOREX is a candidate for participation.
Answer:
To participate you should
a) be at least 18 years old;
b) register with the Dukascopy Forex Community and apply for the Contest;
c) submit at least 1 FOREX- related article, composed in English, comprising of 400 to 1500 words.
For more detailed info, please read the rules
Answer: The simple answer is FOREX. The article can be technical - you can write about your tradingsystems, strategies, methods, techniques, tips, secrets, etc. It can be analytical - you might haveyour own opinion about the world economy and how the fundamental factors influence thecurrency exchange rates. There is also a wide variety of other topics that are closely related to FX -risk management, trading psychology, your own experience, even humor.
Answer: You can use graphical materials, such as images /videos and quotes. Dukascopy will offer you handyinteractive embeddable elements; thus you can embed deals from the Trading and StrategyContests to illustrate your thoughts as well as the rankcharts. You can upload snapshots of yourtrading platform (one of Dukascopy products) or even a YouTube video, if it is necessary to give abetter idea about what your text is.
Should you want to quote some other sources, please format the quote accordingly (italic font,quotation marks around the phrase) and put the source in brackets.
For example: "European stocks are expected to start higher Tuesday" (Dukascopy Forex Overview, June 28, 2011)
Answer: You may submit up to 1 article per week.
Answer: This means that all the current Participants are automatically registered for the participation in theContest for the next month, keeping their popularity and views points. These participants will be stillallowed to submit more articles (1 per week), but just 4 (or less, if less have been submitted) best-performing articles will be used to determine the final rank.
Answer:
The ranking of the submitted articles is determined based on 3 factors that may totally give a maximum of 300 points:
Answer: Case if you noticed some fraud, such as copyright infringement, please file the complaint form whichcan be launched with pressing the respectful button under each article. Add some additionalcomments in the text field so that it is clear what rule was violated.
Answer: For feedback, questions, or comments, please send an email
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