Providing additional incentives for the further growth of the Trader contest Dukascopy makes another step towards widening the prize range of the competition. Starting from the July 2011 contest, in addition to the prizes in form of Live accounts received by the top-10 participants and the invitation to Geneva Forex Event of the 1st place winner we will complementarily offer 100 USD worth motivation bonuses for those traders ending the month on positions from 11th to 20th.

To learn more, please see the updated Awarding Rules and Prizes sections.

Starting from July, the structure of the evaluation system is undergoing another change. The weight of popularity is decreased to 50 from 100 points (~14 % of the total score). Also, the components of the Dukascopy real-time evaluation are getting amended. To find the detailed breakdown please refer to the

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Please see the final standings in the "Contest results". Find the monthly endnote to learn our observations from the last contest month.

Note that no bonus points were attributed to any of the traders. We believe that he top-10 final standing is fair and reasonably reflects the results of the month.

Dear contestants, this message is to remind you about the respect of the Rules and Recommendations.

With the end of the contest period approaching (tonight) some traders decide to break into frauds in order to boost their rankings. Sometimes this rally is based purely on rules violation. Such an approach is the shortest way to disqualification.

The trader SFKN has just been disqualified due to a severe rules violation. Namely, massive self-commenting and self-voting from fake accounts. Prior to disqualification, this trader was on the 2nd position in the overall ranking.

Please be cautious and remain fair in your actions. There is always the next contest month to try.

Don't forget to join and get your June trading credentials already now.

We remind that your May trading account will be active until the end of the month. Respectively, your June account will be automatically activated on June, 1st.

The profile pages have just been updated. Now the stats are organized into logical groups and presented in form of tabs.

Drawdown statistics were added to the stats and they are now included in the Dukascopy evaluation. From now on the Maximum drawdown (%) will substitute the Share of positions closed by SL/TP in the Dukascopy evaluation.

To see the updates methodology of Dukascopy points calculation please see the Rules.