Interesting fact to see that those who has only few PIPS, however equity is very high, still on top. I think, first parameter for any strategy should be PIP, then performance after that Dukascopy ranking, and later popularity. Now, Weight of ranking evaluation should be 50 (PIP), 20 (performance), 20 (Dukascopy Ranking), 10 (Popularity).

50(PIP) + 20(performance) + 20(Dukascopy Ranking) +10(Popularity) = 100 %

The reason, I have noticed that few participants first opened high lot size of trade, and one they got equity above 150%, they reduced lot size after updating version of strategy, and in result, they have only few PIP point and still have equity. Second point is popularity, if popularity will have less weight on ranking evaluation, so participants will not spam each other for popularity point.

What do you say?

I'd love to see popularity drop to 0, to improve the standard of comments.
There's the danger that no-one would ever make a comment, but I think that would be unlikely.

I agree. Popularity is not an indicator of good programming-trading capability.
I should suggest to save the idea of popularity, with its mechanism of comments and votes, but I should not add the points of popularity to the Overall Points so :

1. traders will be more free to post comments and votes and they will be out of "I post a comment and I vote your trade to obtain in exchange a comment and a vote on my page"
2. the quality of comments very probably will be higher
3. the most popular Trader-Strategy will be "more truly" the most popular

best regards,
Frank

i think if you dont like Dukascopy rules you should stop participate in this conest or stop bother us with your rules....