BAN POPULARITY!!!

Apart from that.... This contest absolutly Rocks.

Popularity could be part of "Expert rating score".
It would be more fair than now.
Who can rate the best trader in the world how he have to trade?!?

yeah me too say the same ...ban popularity

It may be better or not. From ban popularity contest will be not social.
I think (but this is just my opinion) organizer comes to building communities.
Eager participants in this interfere, but the current rules are optimally tuned

It is quite time consuming to manage Popularity Score because this contest is more about (1) Score (2) Expert use of Pips and (3) ratings by duka_contest_team from qualities of comments and styles of trading. Hence, to earn Popularity points, a contestant will have to sit up to respond to contestants or else it may deem to be impolite. Please consider.

SO You need multitasking skills

I agree BAN ! It's to simple to crack net systems.. (Priv msgs... vote for me vote.. lol .. )

I also agree with you to ban popularity. I only collect points . No points for you, no points for me. Thats make sense.

And what to comment if trading is by auto strategy.. ?

I agree aswell it is unfair system and verry hard to get popularity points and when you comment on somebody you get private messages that they report you for spam crazy

I'm not agrree...with that the contestant who being lazy to comments and selfish becouse the in the contest who wish to gain position has to dedicate and not comming sky and rock to best of 10th.with out commenting each other idia of strategy.

In my experience i have get more idea from community as a beginer more helpful with popularty then only contestants share each other with their helping.See specially only those who come to 10th place then only burgain
from the weak contestants an share their knowledge as i think those who gambler irretate populartiy becouse rather than community they want to gambling.

I have noticed recently lot of participants are complaining about popularity points and suggesting changes in Dukascopy calculation criteria. I think Dukascopy Traders Contest is one of the best contest out there, because the winner is not determined only by highest profitability but by various factors such as profitability, pips earned, popularity, maximum equity drawdown, average pips gained on positive trades, average pips lost on negative trades, # of conditional orders, win/loss ratio.

You won’t get such varieties to determine a winner in other demo contests. Ever wondered, why we have similar contestants every month and very few newcomers. The reason is the new contestants realize it’s not easy to win this contest, because it’s not as simple as other demo contest, whereby you just have to trade and earn profit.

Here is one of the monthly demo contest, whereby the winner turned initial deposit of $3,000 into $66,000 that’s a whopping profit of more than 2000% and you would be amazed to know the monthly prize for 1st Place winner was JUST $500. Ever wondered why this guy did not participated in Dukascopy Contest, because Dukascopy doesn’t determine winner just based on profitability. The trader also has to participate and communicate with the community, control drawdown, win/loss ratio, cannot lose lot of pips on negative positions, cannot open all order as Market Order etc etc.

One thing is for sure that a contestant cannot win Dukascopy contest solely based on popularity points. A winner should have all the ingredients to be successful viz. trade reasonably with proper risk management with good communication skills.

It’s just my point of view. Thanks

And yes I am writing this post as a guest and not with my nickname, because I don’t want to be in the line of fire and cannot afford my popularity points to go down.

This is precisely why they do the popularity portion of the competition. They want traders to be able to learn from what others are doing! You don't learn Integrals from a calculus teacher that stands at the black board and says "Integrate!" Besides, if you don't like talking FX, why would you be here anyway?

Dukascopy have to do such window, that is impossibile paste text into. Window should be open only 24 hours.