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Alexander Nikolov, added 3% to his portfolio during the week and ended with total gain of 4.55%.

Entering the last week of April, the Hungarian Dénes Ferenc jumped in the lead of WTI with gains of 116% benefitting from the volatility in the forex market. Edmund Ganczar from Poland is now second with gains above 100% in 4 weeks.

Notheworthy is the fact that there is three Poles in the top three of WTI world ranking, with he best of them performing better than 130% in 3 weeks. Their strategy is based in speculative transactions in the forex market, that saw a whipsaw this week in dollar value

Patryk Hołody is the leader of the Polish League and also the leader fo WTI in this second week of the competition with gains of 32.34%.

It is the first week of the 3rd WTI and the main topic was the G20 meeting and the result was the weakening of the dollar.

The winner of World TopInvestor Competition 2007-08, Haochen Hu, has outperformed the world's leading hedge funds with gains of almost 785% over the competition period. The competition is a live, real money, capital markets trading competition lasting for a full year. The prize for the top investor is the management of a fund with an investment value of USD 250,000 sponsored by Saxo Bank...

Yesterday was the last day of the World Top Investor competition. The full year competition saw Hu Haochen winning with gains of 785% trading the forex markets. Amazing performance considering that the last 12 months...

What a difference a week makes. Across the board we had declines giving back much of prior week's gains. The market malaise in the US spread to Europe and Asia. The economic stimulus package passed the Senate, and although it reach a total of 168 billion the market...

The rebound for the Dow these past two weeks was 9.7% but the Dow is still down 3.9% year to date. The FED cut another 50 basis points giving to the markets demands. The SP gained 4.87% for the week and the Nasdaq 3.75%, but the strongest gains...

It was a week to be remembered, as the volatility was mind-blowing. Although a holiday in the US the futures index in globex made limit down. Tuesday saw the FED cut the federal funds rate by 75 basis points to 3.5% and the markets recovered almost all the losses...

Some say the market has become fundamentally cheap, but the truth is technicals are very weak with investors increasingly nervous as portfolio values decline. The US stock market has had the worst start in over 100 years. The SP is down 9.7% in just 3 weeks and the biggest weekly loss in five years...

Earnings season officially kicked off last week with Alcoa's earnings. Companies in various sectors came out with guidance but the market declined for the third week in a row. For the week the Dow declined 1.5% de SP 0.75% and Nasdaq 2.6%...

It was the first week of the new year, but a week to remember since we made market history. As the dollar weakened against the euro and the yen, gold hit a historic high of 871 usd an ounce, decimating the high of 850 set back in 1980, and oil broke through the 100 usd a barrel mark...

In case you missed the news this past week, the Fed cut rates both the Fed Funds rate and the Discount rate by quarter points. But apparently investors were expecting a little more and disappointed traders helped the Dow plummet 300 points in Tuesday session...

The Japanese yen was rising showing that traders are dropping their carry trades, but this week it recovered a little and is now above 111. Delayed market shocks from the subprime debacle are still dropping on investors but the market...