I am not sure why there are some contestants having Dukascopy points already which is pushing their rank higher even though their 'performance' and 'pips expert' points are not high. This seems to be an unbalanced advantage enjoyed by just some of the contestants and skews the level playing field. Sam thing with 'popularity' points which are absurd as well. This seems to be a loophole for some traders to take advantage like setting up fake profiles and or colluding with each other to post comments and increasing their comments count and page visits etc. As long as these absurdities are present they are promptly taken advantage by some. Why does Dukascopy not review these practices and do away with all those fancy points system instead of simplifying the points system such that it will not get abused? Trading should just be based on 'performance' and 'pips expert' criteria alone. Adding more and more is counter-productive and open for abuse and manipulation.

i am on your side according to popularity points...absurd 100%. May be the coruption has own place in this contest and i very sorry about that but this is the life

"paulito is so selfish and for instance on 31 jan morning he/she had 0 points popularity and now with a miracle has 13 points how??????????????????
because she/he has only 80 visitors and more than 400 comments
the imagine of that contest is suffer a lot because of that moves of corupt traders

Dukascopy should tighten the rules and make it more simpler and less manipulative by the abusers.

I think Paulito popularity rank is fair, people who like his last few days performance those helped him with the Popularity. However look at [sannandogar]'s blog and there is definitely something wrong. Same 4 persons commented each trade, 6 likes versus 1 comment. It looks like TEAM voting and commenting. He also claims his 10 NEW friends visited his blog the last day , but no IP's registered on his blog.

DayTradingFx how u know about my comments regarding 10 new friends visited my page when my comments r still not published..DUKASCOPY there is some thing really wrong going on plz clarify,how a person knows about my comments when they r still not published

DayTradingFx U NEED TO READ THE DUKASCOPY RULES AGAIN ,THEY HAVE SUGGESTED THE WAYS TO INCREASE UR UNIQUE IP,S AND I DID ACCORDINGLY BUT U TELL ME HOW U KNOW ABOUT THIS WHEN MY THESE COMMENTS R NOT PUBLISHED YET?

I think you should check your posts before claiming that. You can do that on 32nd page by following this link :

viewtopic.php?p=60575#p60575

why my name has been removed from the list of top 10 for jan,,,is it due to the fact that i caught dukascopy red handed cheating and favouring daytradingfx by showing him my unpublished comments

guys, understand the beauty of the contest. unlike other contests, this contest is not do what u want to do but get the highest returns to win.

the core of the contest is that you develop some kind of discipline in your trading so, they have limitation on tp/sl.

try to have a lower risk and higher reward ratio so they give you more points if your winning pips is more than the losing pips. in all dukascopy is trying to implement discipline and patience to those who are involved in the contest.

not just trading, but you should also recognize and respect the fellow traders and develop communication skill and to come out of the monotonous trading environment was the idea behind the popularity points which was misused.

Overall, i'm personally impressed by the concept of this contest over many other contests which are held else where.

In my opinion, traders should stop complaining rather follow the rules for THEIR OWN BENEFIT of improving their overall skill

NagarajaAdiga u said very well but my question is how come a trader knows about my unpublished commenst in the forum,,,what does this mean,,according to me just 2 things,,,either he is an employee of dukascopy or some one from dukascopy is helping him out,,,,in both the cases is it fair with other traders,,i just want reply to my querry that how daytrading forex has come to know about my unpublished comments