Maria Helena Coutinho
A Portuguese female teacher is the winner of the first Top Trader 2005 - 2006, with gains of 96.57% over 12 months. This trader started with an account of 16.994 USD and transformed it in 33.406 trading Futures, Forex, Commodities, CFDs and equities. You can check the trade activity of Maria Helena Coutinho Top Trader account. See how she moves from forex to stock index futures and from here to equities. Maybe you can understand her strategies, which she is not willing to explain.

Maria Helena Coutinho had a period of drawdowns that wiped out 85% of the equity, but then she was off to the races, beating Julian Olmedo a Spaniard trading only forex that came second.

Julian Olmedo
Julian Olmedo is the winner of the Forex league table. With a surprinsigly low number of trades in a volatile market like forex, Olmedo also had a very low draw down in his closed positions. Trends in forex can be very short, changing quickly and reversing. With 46 open trades Julian did not catch many trades, but is win loss ratio is impressive with 6.6 winning trades for each losing trade. His maximum trade loss was 3.88% although at times he had his portfolio losing 25%, but this is the nature of the Forex market.

Tom Dorsey
Tom Dorsey is Top Trader of the equity league. Trading only equities Tom Dorsey realized a net annualized return of 13.99% commencing live trading in early November 2005 till November 2006. Tom Dorsey is the mentor of the very successfull Sector rotation model and country rotation model with ETFs.
Tom Dorsey is also President of Dorsey, Wright & Associates & Author of 6 books including Point & Figure Charting. He speaks all over the world. Dorsey, Wright & Associates is a premier Techncial Analysis firm homebased in Richmond Virginia, U.S.A. They are the spokesman for Barclays Bank on the "ETF" Exchange Traded Funds product.