The Contest "Autumn Trading Marathon" [FINISHED]

[MT5 Administrator]

Keeping the glorious tradition of MT5 Forum contests up, we invite you to take part in the autumn marathon! Perfect your strategy, analyze the fatal errors and draw the results of the year. Use your renewed vigour to take a lead and reach the profitable finish straight!

The contest is held with the support of MT5.com general sponsor InstaForex Company.

REGULATIONS

1. The contest is held 07.11.2011 00.00 (GMT+3) - 26.11.2011 00.00 (GMT+3).

2. The targets of the contest participants (referred to as "Participants"):
2.1. To work on the contest account with an aim to receive the highest possible profit shown in the "Equity" field by the end of the contest.
2.2. To get most likes and the highest level of the forumers' support, which is determined by the total quantity of "thanks" notes for his/her posts in the contest thread.

3. The Participant opens a demo account with InstaForex Company via a special form. The account parameters (USD 10,000 balance and 1:100 leverage) are set automatically. In the process of registration in the account holder field it is necessary to indicate the forum nickname. The Participant should keep the account password safe as it cannot be restored if lost.

4. No advisors are allowed to be employed on the contest account.

5. Working on the contest account should comply with the rules set by InstaForex Company for servicing real accounts.

6. It is possible to become a Participant at any time though not later than 48 hours before the end of the contest. The moment of the contest theme opening is considered the beginning of taking part in the contest.

7. The Participant has a right to register two sequentially opened accounts for the contest. The second account can be registered for the contest only after the first account is no longer part of the contest (closed).

8. The Participant opens his/her own contest thread in the section Autumn Trading Marathon contest specifying his/her account number and providing a very precise short description of the strategy in the form of, for example, "XXXXXX - trade midterm EURUSD, GBPUSD, GOLD, apply MACD", where XXXXXX is the trader's account number. The publication of the investor-password is required. If working on the first contest account was finished and then the second account was registered, the thread with the first contest account should be closed and the Participant should open a new thread. The headline of the thread is to contain [second attempt].

9. The Participant is to explain the actions in relation to every deal, open or close (partially close as well), or fixing profit in the topic thread (see point 8), in particular, what triggered the decision to open or close a deal. The description is to contain the number of a certain trade or order.

10. The Participant is to make at least 10 trades during the contest period (which are counted) with total volume of at least 50 lots.

11. The forumers show their liking and support to the Participant by voting for the messages clicking the "Thanks" button.

12. For the moment of the contest finishing all positions of the Participant should be closed. In case a position is open, the result is calculated using the rates of the market close.

13. "Final Absolute Result” is the crucial parameter. It is equal to "Equity" by the moment of the contest finish on the contest account adjusted by the values:
a) equal to 1+ [the sum of the votes of the forumers for the posts of the participant in his contest topic] /1000*.
b) -10 000 (minus ten thousand) in case the participant used 2 contest accounts.

14. The winners determination and prize awarding.
14.1. The winners of the contest shall be Participants with the highest final absolute result.
14.2. The prize-takers should demonstrate a positive result of the "Profit" setting.
13.3. The administrators of the contest set three main prizes and two recognition gifts.

The main prizes**:

1st - 350$
2nd - 250$
3rd - 150$

Recognition gifts:

4th - 50$
5th - 25$

14. Anti-Fraud policy.
14.1. The administrators of the contest warn that non-trading methods of competition leading to the guaranteed prize are prohibited, in particular, the confederacy of the Participants with a target of registering numerous accounts and opening differently directed deals on the same instrument. For such actions the Participants will be disqualified.
14.2. InstaForex Company has a right to ask the administrators of the contest to consider the issue of the Participant’s disqualification in case of revealing scam electronic advisors, using the faults of the Company's software support with an aim to get the guaranteed profit by the Participant.
14.3. For the actions which contradict the rules of the contest the Participants will be disqualified.


*For example, 30 votes will increase the result by 1.03 times, and 160 votes – by 1.16 etc. If the Participant opened the second contest account, only the "Thanks" from the second theme shall be counted.

**The amount of the prize is unwithdrawable. It is deposited to the InstaForex real trading account of the Participant attached to his/her forum profile. All the profit gained can be withdrawn by the Participant without restrictions.


Traders, ready for the marathon? On your mark, get set, GO!

The contest monitoring.

[fahids]

Fahids, you are a great trader and you would have been the first position, but you only had one challenge - Greed. My advise to you is that in the next contest, once you have achieved a high equity like you did before, stop trading for sometime.

Its not greed , Its a psychological pressure holding first place, The experience wasn't new for me, I have faced it before many times, I won only when I shutdown my pc for couple of days,
BTW Thanks for your advise.
One thing I should Learn from you, you did it excellent , you can cover your pressure, which I cant , and one think I enjoyed so much lol some People try to catch me and blow their account , and I try to run faster for them which bring me 1k after end of the contest, Now I got some experience with this contest , will try better in next one.
**Special thanks to PhAnToMtRaDeR79 you are the best one as a guy and as a mod
mt5 is my school and I failed my first exam

[KiRA]

Congratulations everyone! Well done.. it was fun trading with you guys Hope to see you in the next contest

[ragib]

thank you to all of you specially the insta forex , MT5 forum , MT5 admin for arranging this nice contest; all of the moderators, super moderators to monitor this contest nicely and my dear forum mates for supporting me. and specially fahids for encouraging me to enter the contest. this is my first contest and i enjoyed it very much . and thank you to all of you......

[nicotien]

thank 4 all

[chidi]

Congrats to all the winners. I wish u all green pips in all your trades. Good luck.

[NikitaBelle]

Wowwwwwww.....Congratulations to all winners...!!!
New breed of skilled and wise trader...well done...!!!

[cumil]

thank 4 all

congrates y kang.....
the winner from indo
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... unfortunately I was too greedy at the last day . I made ​​a mistake at last day maybe this is a lesson for me

[bigearners]

So many traders tried to show their best to win this marathon. Some of them fell out of the race, blown their accounts. But there are 5 champions who were the fastest and the strongest and eventually succeeded to cross the final straigh first:

5th position:

ragib with ending equity of $16420.97 and 9 total thanks. The total result is 16568.76.

4th position:

seadoffx with ending equity of $20137.03 and 22 total thanks. The total result is 20580.04.

3rd position:

Baguwah with ending equity of $20743.31 and 19 total thanks. The total result is 21137.43.

2nd position:

Chimasky with ending equity of $32417.51 and 2 total thanks. The total result is 22482.34.

1st position:

nicotein with ending equity of $26533.96 and 11 total thanks. The total result is 26825.83.

For some of these members this is not the first victory, we saw them among the winners in our previous contests. So, they proved their status of the best traders one more time. Congratulations to everyone of you! You give a good example to newbies! I wish you such a fabulous result you reached in the contest on your real account!

To other members - don't switch the channel, more interesting contest by MT5 are coming soon.

Congratulation for all the winners.
All of you had done great job into contest..hope you will keep on doing in future contest too.
great to see lots of winners are newbies.
Once again my friend baguwah is part of winner in the contest...great consistency.

Thank you so much Admin for another opportunity again. It is a pleasant surprise for me to be among the winners in this contest. Thank you so much.

Thank you Toxic for taking out time from your busy schedule to compile the statistics, we are so grateful.

Thank you PhAnToMtRaDeR79 for your support, both on this contest and on the job.

Thanks to all participants in the contest. You all did great.

Thank you to BH-Eurofighter and Bigearners for their good wishes, I hope to see you both at the top of the next contest.

Thank you to all the moderators you have been wonderful.

Now a big congratulations to all the winners, nicoten, chimasky, seadoffx and ragib. You are all great traders and you proved it. I wish you to make good profits with the prize bonus from this contest.



Fahids, you are a great trader and you would have been the first position, but you only had one challenge - Greed. My advise to you is that in the next contest, once you have achieved a high equity like you did before, stop trading for sometime.

I hope to see you among top winners of next contest because I know you can do it.

Good luck to all of you.

hey thanks for counting us..even after become winner of this contest..you are great guy..keep on doing n winning contest in future..
thanks to all mods, supermods and Admin for making such a nice contest..hope such type of contest in future too.

[blackprince4u]

Wow the contest is finished i didn't noticed so i am a bit late to congratulate the winners,.,.,..,Anyway
Congratulations to the all the winners.

Have safe trading with prize money.

[Passionate Pisces]

Congratulation all the winners

and wish you all best for your future trade, hope you all have safe and profitable trade with prize money