TOP TRADER
Awarded to the Trader with the highest Account value
at the end of the contest period.
Prize consists of:
One (1) 52” Sony BRAVIA
S-Series LCD HDTV
(retail value $2399.99CAD ea)
One (1) Sony Blu-ray Disc™ Player
(retail value 349.99CAD ea)
One (1) One-ounce gold bar
(retail value $1000 CAD)
A one-ounce gold bar, courtesy of Questrade Inc., the only Canadian online discount brokerage where you can buy, sell and hold real gold bullion in any registered or regular trading account.
TOP INVESTOR
Awarded to the Investor with the highest Account value
at the end of the contest period.
Prize consists of:
One (1) 52” Sony BRAVIA
S-Series LCD HDTV
(retail value $2399.99CAD ea)
One (1) Sony Blu-ray Disc™ Player
(retail value 349.99CAD ea)
One (1) One-ounce gold bar
(retail value $1000 CAD)
A one-ounce gold bar, courtesy of Questrade Inc., the only Canadian online discount brokerage where you can buy, sell and hold real gold bullion in any registered or regular trading account.
WEEKLY PRIZE
Awarded to player with the largest percentage gained over a week. Weekly prizes will be determined based on player’s portfolio value on Monday morning before market open. Player must login at least once during that week in order to be eligible.
Thirteen (13) Weekly Prizes total. One (1) prize awarded each week to Weekly prize winner.
Prize consists of:
One (1) Sony Digital Reader eBook
(retail value $279.99CAD ea)
coupled with one (1) of the following prizes to be determined by National Post:
Course: Professional Trader
Part 1 & 2
(retail value $6000 CAD)
Online Trading Academy’s intensive seven-day signature course is held in a state-of-the-art training facility. Students are taught by professional traders using direct-access trading platforms in a live market. The course is available in Online Trading Academy’s Toronto or Vancouver locations.
Course: Active Investor
(retail value $2000 CAD)
A two-day course for investors who want personal control over their financial portfolios. Taking you through each and every step of developing and implementing an active investor portfolio, this hands-on course gets students to make their stock selections, perform the disciplined screening, and plan and set up the trade execution. The active investor course applies specifically to U.S. equities, but answers questions for most long term instruments. The course is available in Online Trading Academy’s Toronto or Vancouver locations.
Course: Personal Trading Plan
(retail value $3000 CAD)
The personal trading plan course helps traders tackle one of the most challenging and often overlooked obstacles in trading: developing a coherent and decisive trading plan
CD library: The Ultimate Professional Trader Plus
(retail value $1025 CAD)
A CD library package with over 38 hours (24 CDs) of trading education. The course opens with foundational topics for novice traders, and moves through progressively more complex and specialized subject areas. This comprehensive CD library has complete navigation and online testing capabilities, so you can learn and test at your own pace. Topics include broad market analysis, power trading in globalization, technical analysis 1 and 2 for the professional trader, Nasdaq TotalView, Fibonacci, stress management, risk management, short selling, e-minis, options, and forex.
MONTHLY PRIZE
Monthly prizes will be determined based on player’s percentage gain on the last day of each prizing month after market closes. In order to be eligible for a Monthly Prize, a player must have minimum of $25,000 in their account at the beginning of each month during the contest period.
Three (3) Monthly Prizes in total.
Prize consists of:
One (1) Sony's VAIO® Z-Series Notebook PC
(retail value $2,299.99CAD ea)
LOYALTY POINTS PRIZE
One (1) Loyalty Points Prize awarded to the player who accumulates the most amount of points by the end of the contest period.
Prize consists of:
One (1) Sony's VAIO® Z-Series Notebook PC
(retail value $2,299.99CAD ea)
One (1) CD library: The Ultimate Professional Trader Plus
(retail value $1025 CAD ea)
A CD library package with over 38 hours (24 CDs) of trading education. The course opens with foundational topics for novice traders, and moves through progressively more complex and specialized subject areas. This comprehensive CD library has complete navigation and online testing capabilities, so you can learn and test at your own pace. Topics include broad market analysis, power trading in globalization, technical analysis 1 and 2 for the professional trader, Nasdaq TotalView, Fibonacci, stress management, risk management, short selling, e-minis, options, and forex.
RANDOM DRAW PRIZE
The Random Draw Prize will be awarded to one (1) registered player from all registered players at the end of the contest period. In order for registered players to receive additional entries into the Random Draw Prize, they must invite friends and those friends must officially register for the game. For each friend that registers, the game player will receive the equal amount of entries into the Random Draw Prize.
Prize consists of:
One (1) 52” Sony BRAVIA
S-Series LCD HDTV
(retail value $2399.99CAD ea)
INVITE-A-FRIEND PRIZE
Awarded to the player who accumulates the most amount of friends by the end of the contest period.
Prize consists of:
One (1) Sony VAIO® P Series Pocket-Style PC
(retail value $999.99CAD ea)
One (1) Ultimate Professional Trader Plus CD library
(retail value $1025 CAD)
A CD library package with over 38 hours (24 CDs) of trading education. The course opens with foundational topics for novice traders, and moves through progressively more complex and specialized subject areas. This comprehensive CD library has complete navigation and online testing capabilities, so you can learn and test at your own pace. Topics include broad market analysis, power trading in globalization, technical analysis 1 and 2 for the professional trader, Nasdaq TotalView, Fibonacci, stress management, risk management, short selling, e-minis, options, and forex.
To review Financial Post Stock Market Challenge rules, please click here.
There is one (1) Random Draw Prize available to be won during the Extended Training Period consisting of: One (1) Sony HD Memory Stick Handycam® (approximate retail value is six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents CDN$699.99). The Random Draw Prize will be awarded from all registered players at the end of the contest period. In order for registered players to receive additional entries into the Random Draw Prize, they must invite friends and those friends must officially register for the game. For each friend that registers for the game, player will receive an equal amount of entries into the Random Draw Prize. The Random Draw Prize is non-negotiable. There is one (1) prize available to be won by the Registrant with the highest accrued Loyalty Points at the end of the contest period. Loyalty Points Prize consists of a Sony Reader Digital Book e-book (approximate retail value is two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents CDN$279.99). The Loyalty Points Prize is non-negotiable.
There is one (1) Top Trader prize available to be won during the contest period consisting of: One (1) 52” Sony BRAVIA S-Series LCD HDTV (retail value $2399.99CADea), one (1) Sony Blu-ray Disc™ Player (retail value 349.99CADea) and one (1) One-ounce gold bar (retail value $1000CAD). The Top Trader Grand Prize will be awarded to the Trader with the highest Account value at the end of the contest period. There is one (1) Top Investor prize available to be won during the contest period consisting of: One (1) 52” Sony BRAVIA S-Series LCD HDTV (retail value $2399.99CADea); one (1) Sony Blu-ray Disc™ Player (retail value 349.99CADea) and one (1) One-ounce gold bar (retail value $1000CAD). The Top Investor Grand Prize will be awarded to the Investor with the highest Account value at the end of the contest period. There are thirteen (13) Weekly Prizes (each a Weekly Prize) available to be won during the contest period consisting of: one (1) Sony Digital Reader eBook(retail value $279.99CAD ea) and one (1) of the following: Course: professional trader part 1 & 2 (retail value $6000 CAD) OR Course: active investor (retail value $2000 CAD) OR Course: personal trading plan (retail value $3000 CAD) OR a CD library: the ultimate professional trader plus (retail value $1025 CAD ea). National Post, in their sole discretion, will determine which of the following will be awarded to the Weekly Winner. There are three (3) Monthly Prizes to be won during each of the following months of the contest: October, November & December. Only one (1) Monthly prize will be awarded in each of the aforementioned months. The prize consists of a Sony's VAIO® Z-Series Notebook PC (retail value $2,299.99CAD ea). Each Monthly prize will be awarded to the player with the largest percentage gained on the last day of each prizing month after market closes. There is one (1) Loyalty Points prize available to be won during the contest period consisting of one (1) Sony's VAIO® Z-Series Notebook PC (retail value $2299.99CAD ea) and one (1) CD library: the ultimate professional trader plus (retail value $1025 CAD ea). The Loyalty Points prize will be awarded to the player who accumulates the most amounts of points by the end of the contest period. There will be one (1) Invite-a-Friend prize to be won during the contest period consisting of one (1) Sony VAIO® P Series Pocket-Style PC (retail value $999.99 CAD) and one (1) CD library: the ultimate professional trader plus (retail value $1025 CAD ea). The Invite-a-Friend prize will be awarded to the player who accumulates the most amounts of friends by the end of the contest period. There will be one (1) Random Draw prize available to be won during the contest period consisting of one (1) 52” Sony BRAVIA S-Series LCD HDTV (retail value $2399.99CAD ea). The Random Draw prize will be awarded to one (1) registered player from all registered players at the end of the contest period. In order for registered players to receive additional entries into the Random Draw Prize, they must invite friends and those friends must officially register for the game. For each friend that registers, the game player will receive the equal amount of entries into the Random Draw Prize.