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Trade2Win has had a long history of competitions that dating back over 10 years (yikes!) to our first UK Share Competition in 2001, followed by the Dow Competition in 2002 and our first Forex Competition back in 2007.
More recently we ran contests for our 10 year celebrations and they proved extremely popular too with a lot of members asked us to bring back a regular weekly or monthly contest.
Well I'm excited to announce that starting this Sunday (15th May) we'll be running a new forex competition. It'll start out as a weekly contest then after we've ironed out the kinks we'll probably make it into a monthly contest. Your feedback is important!
The platform for the competition will be provided for by ForexDesk, a separate project we've been working on for some time and which recently launched in beta, so expect a few gremlins.
How it works
To participate you need to:
- Sign up to ForexDesk, it's free and takes just 2 minutes (see below).
- Each week create a new competition account ($50,000 USD standard account (100k lots)) on ForexDesk (see below).
- Trade that account during the competition week only.
- At the end of the week the trader with the most profit wins the prize.
The competition runs every week, starting on Sunday 5:15pm EST and ending on Friday 4:00pm EST and our first competition is 'Week 1' and will start this Sunday, 15th May. Only one account is allowed per player.
T2W Forex Competition Prize
Week 1 prize will be $100 to the trader who finishes the week with the most profit.
How to Play - Walkthrough
You need an account on ForexDesk (you can't use your T2W login). So head over to ForexDesk to view the sign up form...
Choose the same username as you use on T2W and the invitation code 'T2WCOMP'.
Fill out the rest of the details (full name is optional) and click 'Sign Up':
You'll receive an email with a link to confirm your email address and activate your account. On clicking that link you'll be logged in to ForexDesk:
Next step is to create your account for the competition. Each week you'll need to create a new account to play with. Click the 'New Practice Account' link, as below:
You can then fill out the new account form.
It's very important you put #{competition week} at the end of your account name. The is called a hash tag and is the way we can identify that this account is participating in the competition. The first week is simply #1, then subsequent weeks will be #2, #3 etc.
Leave the settings as they are - any changes to the account or lot size, will make this account invalid for the purposes of the competition.
Then just click 'Create New Account' as so:
Your competition account will be created and will appear on your dashboard:
When the forex markets open on Sunday, after the weekend, then you can start trading on this account either manually or using MetaTrader here:
To see how you're doing again other players, head over to the Accounts page and search for the hashtag of the competition, ie. #1 as so:
We'll also be posting a daily update of the leaderboard here on T2W.
The winner will be announced on the forums on Saturday after the markets have closed.
Good luck and Happy Trading! :clover:
More recently we ran contests for our 10 year celebrations and they proved extremely popular too with a lot of members asked us to bring back a regular weekly or monthly contest.
Well I'm excited to announce that starting this Sunday (15th May) we'll be running a new forex competition. It'll start out as a weekly contest then after we've ironed out the kinks we'll probably make it into a monthly contest. Your feedback is important!
The platform for the competition will be provided for by ForexDesk, a separate project we've been working on for some time and which recently launched in beta, so expect a few gremlins.
How it works
To participate you need to:
- Sign up to ForexDesk, it's free and takes just 2 minutes (see below).
- Each week create a new competition account ($50,000 USD standard account (100k lots)) on ForexDesk (see below).
- Trade that account during the competition week only.
- At the end of the week the trader with the most profit wins the prize.
The competition runs every week, starting on Sunday 5:15pm EST and ending on Friday 4:00pm EST and our first competition is 'Week 1' and will start this Sunday, 15th May. Only one account is allowed per player.
T2W Forex Competition Prize
Week 1 prize will be $100 to the trader who finishes the week with the most profit.
How to Play - Walkthrough
You need an account on ForexDesk (you can't use your T2W login). So head over to ForexDesk to view the sign up form...
Choose the same username as you use on T2W and the invitation code 'T2WCOMP'.
Fill out the rest of the details (full name is optional) and click 'Sign Up':
You'll receive an email with a link to confirm your email address and activate your account. On clicking that link you'll be logged in to ForexDesk:
Next step is to create your account for the competition. Each week you'll need to create a new account to play with. Click the 'New Practice Account' link, as below:
You can then fill out the new account form.
It's very important you put #{competition week} at the end of your account name. The is called a hash tag and is the way we can identify that this account is participating in the competition. The first week is simply #1, then subsequent weeks will be #2, #3 etc.
Leave the settings as they are - any changes to the account or lot size, will make this account invalid for the purposes of the competition.
Then just click 'Create New Account' as so:
Your competition account will be created and will appear on your dashboard:
When the forex markets open on Sunday, after the weekend, then you can start trading on this account either manually or using MetaTrader here:
To see how you're doing again other players, head over to the Accounts page and search for the hashtag of the competition, ie. #1 as so:
We'll also be posting a daily update of the leaderboard here on T2W.
The winner will be announced on the forums on Saturday after the markets have closed.
Good luck and Happy Trading! :clover:
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