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Dear all,
some of you might know that I'm one of the guys behind the community. This is true, I'm a project manager. And from now on, since we have a blog, I'll communicate with you with its help.
Here you can ask questions, offer me something, share your feedback. From my side, I'll give you info about what we are doing, what we expect from you and what we want to achieve.
This year, DFC has been pronounced as a very important project for our Bank's development, therefore the things are now changing faster than they used to. We have just revealed 2 new contest for you. There might be some bugs, mistakes and minor issues. Feel free to post them in comments to this post.
This is a long-term competition between Participants of the Trader Contest. Once you take part in the Trader Contest, you are automatically registered to Signal Provider Grand Prix.
The Contest has 2 nominations – 6 months and 1 year, where leaders are determined according to their average performance in the Trader Contest and the popularity among Signal Copiers, both DEMO and LIVE.
The yearly prize fund is 34 000$. Prizes are awarded in form of deposits to LIVE accounts with Dukascopy Group. There are 2 nominations: 6 months and 12 months. Results are announced every 3 months. Winners are rewarded as follows:
12 month nomination:
- 1st place - 2,500 USD
- 2nd place - 1,500 USD
- 3rd place - 1,000 USD
6 month nomination:
- 1st place - 2,000 USD
- 2nd place - 1,000 USD
- 3rd place - 500 USD
To be eligible for the prize, one has to be an active Trader Contest participant for at least half of the respected period (3 months for 6 month period and 6 months for the yearly period), where participation in the last month each quarter is obligatory.
Prizes are credited to the winner’s LIVE account with Dukascopy Group. (An account is opened if there is none) To withdraw prizes, winners must reach a minimum turnover of 0.2 mio$ per 100$ won.
This is a monthly competition between the users of Dukascopy Forex Community. The Contest participants submit their argumented technical analysis for at least one currency pair for the predefined date and time, which is afterwards evaluated on the basis of its accuracy and quality.
Every month the prize pool of USD 5000 is distributed among 15 winners.
- 1st place - 2000 USD
- 2nd place – 1000 USD
- 3rd place - 500 USD
- 4th-5th places - 250 USD
- 6th-15th places - 100 USD
Prizes are credited to the winner’s LIVE account with Dukascopy Group. (An account is opened if there is none) To withdraw prizes, winners must reach a minimum turnover of 0.2 mio$ per 100$ won.
Other changes:
- Personal Blog
- Linking account with Twitter/ Facebook
- plenty of minor fixes and changes
Later this month we will deploy more new projects.