Sign Up TODAY! Excel Markets BURN TO WIN $10,000 Demo Contest

NEW DEMO ACCOUNT TRADING CONTEST Hosted by the folks at myfxbook, Contest Registration for the Excel Markets-sponsoredBURN TO WIN ENDS on Saturday, 14th September 2013. Be sure to register by that date, as you cannot sign up for this contest AFTER the 14th. The Excel Markets BURN TO WIN demo trading account contest runs from 15th Septembertil 15th October. Read the full contest rules HERE and register RIGHT NOW for your chance to share some of that $10,000 USD prize money! The top-10 demo traders will receive the following: 1st: $5,000 USD 2nd: $2,000 USD 3rd: $1,000 USD 4th: $500 USD 5th: $500 USD 6th - 10th: $200 USD CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE TRADING CONTEST

FXOpen Launches the Forex Article Contest

FXOpen invites everybody to take part in a contest judging the best article about Forex. You have an opportunity to not only win the prize money, but also to discover hidden, new talents. The contest starts on 1^st September and is open to all.  

There are two categories in the competition: “Forex Theory” and “Forex Success Story.” 

To participate in the category “Forex Success Story,” you are required to send to us an article about your personal achievements in Forex. Your success story may be told in various ways: you may wish to describe your effortless conquest of the Forex market or regale the reader with a story of a thorny path to Forex trading but with a long-desired happy end in the form of steady profits. You may wish to tell the reader about a “successful” debut in Forex associated with your first losses or you may speculate on what you believe represents true success in Forex and how it is implemented in your life. All narrative forms including humorous, will be judged equally.

The articles in the category “Forex Theory” should have a different focus i.e., you are required to have a more academic approach when working on the articles and demonstrate deep understanding of the market and its specifics. You are free to write about any aspect of Forex, about the pros and cons of various trading strategies, about the most innovative and effective Expert Advisors and, most importantly, about how it fits into your life.

Basically, it is the main requirement for the works in this category to provide useful, original and informative content, supported by examples from the personal working experience, as well as screenshots, charts and graphs. Market analytics however will not be accepted.

Authors of the three best articles will receive:

The category “Forex Theory” 

1^st place – US$500

2^nd place – US$250

3^rd place – US$150

The category “Forex Success Story”

1^st place – US$250

2^nd place – US$100

3^rd place – US$50

The articles will be published in the company’s official blog and will be announced inFXOpen Facebook. Sign up and be the first to read stories from your peers!

The winners will be voted for using FXOpen Facebook i.e., the number of 'likes' and appropriate comments. Your fellow traders and social network users will thus decide the final outcome of the competition. There will also be a randomly chosen voter who will receive a US$100 bonus!

The event organizers – FXOpen team – reserve the right to judge the ranking of the competitors and will ensure that fair play is observed at all times. The contest will be prolonged in case of insufficient number of quality works. FXOpen employees are not allowed to take part in the competition.

The prizes will be added to the participants’ ECN accounts registered in FXOpen.

Important!

To participate in the contest you need a trading account with FXOpen (Registration) and an account on FXOpen Forum (Registration).

The articles must be between 400 to 1,500 words and written in English.

For the works to be accepted, the articles must not contain any promotional material or criticisms or defamatory comments of other brokers and the services they provide. The content should contain interesting facts that may be useful to other traders and those new to Forex.

They must also contain quality content i.e., duplicate, previously published or plagiarised content, low-quality material, extremely short notes with no illustrations or ‘cut and paste’ articles will not be accepted. 

The closing date for entries is 1^st October.

To participate in the competition, e-mail your entry to contact@fxopen.com. Ensure that you provide your FXOpen eWallet number along with FXOpen Forum login and to write “FXOpen Article Contest” in the email subject line. If your work has passed moderation, you will receive a confirmation e-mail that your article has been accepted. It will be published in the company’s blog with a note that this article figures in the contest. You will also be able to see other contestants’ stories in the company’s blog.

Enjoy!

FXstreet.com announces the Trader of the Year Contest 2013, 2nd edition

FXstreet.com will organize another edition of the Trader of the Year Contest 2013 starting on September 30th, with the sponsorship of Hantec Markets.

The 7th edition of the Trader of the Year Contest - the 2nd for the year 2013 - is a competition organized by FXstreet.com where participants trade on a DEMO account and those with the highest Account Equity at the end of the contest win prizes. All individuals who are minimum 18 years old at the time of the contest start, excluding residents of the US, Iran, Syria and North Korea, are allowed to register. Contestants must a demo account with Hantec Markets through FXstreet.com website. Registration opens on August 19th, 2013 at 21:00 GMT.

The contest will start on September 30th, 2013 at 23:00 GMT and will end November 1st, 2013 at 22:00 GMT, when all open positions will be closed and all profit and loss (P&L) will be realized. All contestants will start with USD 25,000 of virtual funds in their trading accounts and will all have a leverage of 1:100. Contestants are allowed to use all of the features of Hantec’s MT4 trading platform and use any Expert Advisors (apart from unethical trading). The scores of the top ten performers at any given point in time of The Trader of the Year Contest 2013 will be displayed on FXstreet.com and hantecfx.com throughout the lifetime of the contest.

“Due to the high demand from brokers and traders, this year we decided to organize a second edition of our Trader of the Year Demo Contest”, explains Carolina May, CEO of FXstreet.com. “That represents another opportunity for traders to show their skills, share trading ideas, try new strategies and have fun. And of course, win great prizes.”

The top ten performers will receive prizes of varying sizes, provided by the sponsor of the competition, Hantec Markets, and by the Media Partners: ForexTrading.TV, fxKnight.com, Pro Trader Strategies and DayTradeIdeas.com.

1st Prize
• $5,000 live trading account with Hantec Markets*
• 3 Month Subscription to EURUSD Daily Technical Analysis report by daytradeideas.com

2nd Prize
• $2,500 live trading account with Hantec Markets*
• 6 month subscription to ForexTrading.tv's LIVE Technical Analysis TV Channel

3rd Prize
• $1,000 live trading account with Hantec Markets*
• 6 month subscription to ForexTrading.tv's LIVE Technical Analysis TV Channel

4th-6th Prizes
• $500 live trading account with Hantec Markets*
• 1 Month Subscription to EURUSD Daily Technical Analysis report by daytradeideas.com

7th-10th Prizes
• $100 live trading account with Hantec Markets
• A DVD from FXstreet's expert series


*Restrictions apply to withdraw profit from the live accounts. Check the Contest Rules Interested Forex traders who want to compete can register through this page: http://www.fxstreet.com/contest/

Sign Up To New Two-Week Demo Account Trading Contest

Achieve Your Best Equity Increase – While Keeping Your Drawdown Less Than 10%.

Forex Razor is hosting another trading contest - The Safe Trader's Contest - with thousands in cash prizes just hours from now, don't worry registration is still open :)

Leverage 1:50; Opening Demo Account Balance $5,000USD; Contest Duration 2 weeks

Contest begins Wednesday 3rd July, 11 a.m. UTC - $3,500 USD Cash Prizes

Why maximum 10% Drawdown?
There are many contests geared for performance-at-all-costs, where traders put the pedal to the metal and trade like demons, over-leveraging on various pairs in the hopes of achieving a fast gains with scant regard for account safety.

We want to reward those able to establish a high return using low risk.

Why should YOU sign up?

• Totally Free
• Zero Risk - all trades are placed on Demo accounts
• $3,500 Cash Prizes!
• Winners are paid in Cash, not trading credits
• Top 6 traders are paid Cash
• Moderated to ensure a level playing field

Hurry and register NOW for your chance to WIN!

Forex Broker Liquid Markets Demo Competition

Liquid Markets is happy to announce that it is offering traders the opportunity to participate in its MT4 Top Trader Demo Competition. This exclusive contest gives traders the chance to apply their trading skills and win up to $5,000 without risking their own funds.

Liquid Markets’ demo contest is designed to test traders’ online trading skills and reward traders who have great forex trading abilities. All traders with demo and live Liquid Markets accounts can enter the contest. There is no fee to enter the contest. The demo account will be held in USD and traders will obtain $100,000 virtual money to be used for the contest.
The traders with the three highest closing balances in their demo accounts at the end of the competition will be awarded three prizes ranging from $1,000 up to the maximum payout of $5,000. The prize amount will be credited to the winners’ Liquid Markets real trading account and all prizes are 100% withdrawable.

The contest will run throughout August, starting on August 4th 2013 and finishing on August 30th 2013. However, registration for this competition ends on July 31st 2013.

To learn more about Liquid Markets’ exclusive demo contest, or to open a trading account, visit theLiquid Markets website now.

Enjoy!

DF Markets - Trading Masters Contest

WIN UP TO €1,500

Each month DF Markets is giving away €2,000 in prizes, which will be distributed among the top 3 participants with the highest balance in their demo accounts.

HOW TO ENTER?

Register for a free DFTrader/DF WebTrader account with an initial capital of €10,000, and start trading Forex, Gold and Silver, as well as CFDs on Shares, Indices, Futures, and ETFs.

Saxo Bank's Tour de Trading Competition

Even among die hard cyclists and bicycle enthusiasts (including me!), pro cycling doesn't seem to exist except for three weeks a year in July, when suddenly it comes to life and is in the spotlight every day -- and worldwide, with all eyes on France. And Saxo Bank, a longtime backer of the Tour de France, is taking full advantage of its sponsorship of Team Saxo-Tinkoff, led by Alberto Contador, Tour winner in 2007 and 2009.

Saxo Bank is running a parallel Tour de Trading contest alongside the Tour de France, with a most-profit winner over the July 1-19 period taking first prize, the actual Tarmac SL4 bike used in the Tour de France by Alberto Contador. Other prizes include authentic Tour gear. While the monetary value of the prizes being offered are much less than those of some of the other promotions we have been reviewing (see below), the timeliness and things-you-can't-get-anywhere-else type prizes are likely to gain the attention of a lot of sports-minded traders.

Note that the contest is a risk-free one, with trades happening in a demo account mode. As such, unlike several other contests we have covered (see below), Saxo Bank's Tour de Trading seems to be aimed mainly at attracting new clients, rather than encouraging existing clients to trade more. Saxo Bank's investment in TV spots being run promoting the contest seem to confirm that. (We should also note that Saxo Bank won two prizes at the 34th Annual Telly Awards for their SaxoCycling.com spots, taking Best Financial Services/Ba​nking and Best Sound/Sound Design bronze awards.)