Jigsaw Leaderboard - 32% Profitable! But those gamers.....

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by JigsawTrading, Aug 6, 2018.

  1. It's been a while since we announced the Jigsaw Leaderboard results. Mostly because in our audit of the results in May - we found people attempting to game the system.

    In particular, a few traders were scaling into big offside positions to try & get a higher win rate. Trouble is - we do manually check the results - and any trading that looks 'too good' is investigated.

    We re-coded the algorithms to take into account intra-position drawdowns and then the fun started...
    To cut a long story short - I've taken some flak for "changing the rules" by traders that thought going offside 5000 contracts on a SIM account and scaling in till it came back was within the spirit of "consistent trading".

    The whole point of this though - is reward for good trading behavior. ​

    Anyway - it's all sorted now and so the contest can continue! Scaling in to massive offside positions now gets you heavily demoted.

    Gekko did win in May but he felt it unfair that he should hog the top spot and offered to retire. My thoughts were that he's a good inspiration and should stay there but that we should effectively leave him out of the comp.

    So for May, the $500 prize goes to LzardKing. 271 participants and 89 made a profit for the month of May.

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    As you can see he's very consistent in terms of winning days, number of trades per day & ability to recover from an early loser. His losing days have fewer trades and the days with more trades have a higher P&L.

    For more on Mays results, click here
    You can browse the real-time leaderboard if you click here
     
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