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Contest Results

Trader & place		Prize, $		Quality	Popularity, points	Dukascopy	Overall
	SpecialFX 1st place	1300	View review	100	100	90	290
Dukascopy mark and review Another great article was posted by SpecialFX. This month, the work is on How to Catch Profitable Trends with the Vortex Indicator. The author explains how to trade using one of the less common indicators. Nicely written and illustrated.
	AdrianWS 2nd place	600	View review	100	95	80	275
Dukascopy mark and review AdrianWS's article Budget and High Performance Computers is a good basic overview of what hardware one could get for trading, and what does it cost. Though it's not strictly an article about forex, it is a welcome new angle.
	Bluedragon 3rd place	600	View review	95	88	90	273
Dukascopy mark and review Bluedragon submits yet another great work - Trade Simple with Fibo_dec Strategy. His explanation of the strategy is well-illustrated and clear. The system itself is also pretty straightforward. Only the language, which is hard to read at times, kept the author from receiving the maximum mark.
	Likerty 4th place	300	View review	100	90	80	270
Dukascopy mark and review Likerty posted a well-written and rather clever article titled Picking Tops and Bottoms. It offers some interesting points on psychology and behavior behind price action. It doesn't offer any kind of tutorial, rather something to think about.
	legs 5th place	300	View review	100	76	90	266
Dukascopy mark and review legs explains Trading Breakouts in Forex, and does it pretty well. The work is easy to read, and the instructions are clear. This is one of the simplest strategies we've seen.
	ante777 6th place	300	View review	85	86	90	261
Dukascopy mark and review The idea behind A Systematic Review of Dukascopy Contest Articles is quite original. ante777 drew up a summary of articles published in the contest, outlining what he thinks is key. Most points are truly of high importance, making it a useful and quick read for any new trader.
	Vasyl 7th place	200	View review	95	81	75	251
Dukascopy mark and review Vasyl, in his work Stability in Chaos of EUR/USD, explains how to trade liquidity gaps. It's nice that this author provides some statistics. Sadly, the article lacks clear steps explaining entry and exit. Otherwise, a great submission.
	Sintano 8th place	200	View review	100	80	70	250
Dukascopy mark and review Sintano discusses A Perfect Set of Technical Indicators. The article does a good job introducing the different types of indicators. The author also brings up a couple important points, e.g. using a small basket of different indicators and understanding there are different signals.
	scramble 9th place	200	View review	80	83	80	243
Dukascopy mark and review A New World by scramble is far from an article on forex and trading. This participant decided to submit a short story. Use of language is strange at some points, but the illustrations are great. But the experts didn't seem to like the lack of usefulness of this work.
	jipper 10th place	200	View review	100	87	55	242
Dukascopy mark and review The Emotional Control System described by jipper is yet another article about emotions, which the experts don't value too high. Yet this submission is easy and fun to read, being well-structured, honest and full of quotes. The point about changing the rules until you can respect them is especially good.
	charmtrader 11th place			90	89	60	239
	captain 12th place			100	82	55	237
	kelvindfxguru 13th place			80	75	75	230
	sengeevenindia 14th place			70	85	60	215
	fxsurprise8 15th place			80	73	60	213
	aris25 16th place			80	78	40	198
	rubencouto 17th place			70	79	45	194
	shahdad 18th place			55	84	50	189
	Drift 19th place			60	74	0	134
	ZHOU 20th place			50	77	0	127