Texas A&M Foreign Currency Trading Competition

[emil]

Buying low & Selling high on EUR/USD got me into this state :

Cash:
60,060.39

UPL:
5,618.21

Floating P/L:
0.00

Equity:
65,678.60

Margin:
0.00

Avail. Eq.:
65,678.60


Used the protection on Limit to close a particular trade.

 

[bhargav]

How is everyone else doing after 1st phase? I am up 5K right now after huge swings in my P and L.

 

[John Jurcevic]

Nice work Emil! I was up 15k this morning but now it is 12k. I need the JPY to crash

 

[dstefan]

How did people do in the end?

 

[emil]

RoR = 59.32%

At least last night, when I was still able to access the system, this was my standing:

Cash:
69,806.58

UPL:
9,857.50

Floating P/L:
0.00

Equity:
79,664.08

Margin:
0.00

Avail. Eq.:
79,664.08

Though, I think I might have not respected the "Maximum of 8 contracts per currency pair." requirement.

 

[bhargav]

Total Equity: 92,028.81 USD

How did other participants do?

 

[emil]

The final individual results are attached.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Congratulations to the top finishers. I see about a dozen QuantNet members from that list. Did you guys win anything?