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Anyone can become a trader regardless of their country of residence or career field, and the winners of Grand Capital contests are excellent proof of this maxim. We will tell you about a businessman from Indonesia, a philosophy student from Krasnoyarsk and a trader from Ukraine, who are all united by their passion for Forex.

Volodymyr Gridin, Ukraine, the winner of the 222nd round of Rally Trade, received $500 no-deposit bonus

• Trading experience: 6 years
• Preferred trading instruments: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, GBP/JPY, GOLD, EUR/GBP, NZD/USD
• Trading strategies: scalping

I’m 45 and I’ve been trading on Forex since 2012 but I hadn’t had much success until recently. I became a trader by chance, came across an ad of a training group and completed a course for beginners. I like that trading allows me to work from home and gives me the freedom of choice: when to work and how to work. I participate in contests because I want to save up the prize money for deposits for trading. Mostly I trade with major currency pairs, but my favorite instrument is NZD/USD.

When choosing a broker, the first thing that I pay attention to is how long they have been in the market. Grand Capital has been around for 11 years, that’s why I chose them. I participated in Rally Trade contest several times and even made it to the top, but I wanted to take the first place! And finally it happened! The competition was tough, sometimes my opponents broke forward by a small margin. I went to bed at night and when I woke up I saw that my GBP/USD trades went below zero. I already wanted to give up, but suddenly turned my attention to EUR/USD pair, closed my GBP/USD trades and started scalping EUR/USD. In the end I left my opponents behind and took the first place. I wouldn’t recommend newcomers to rely on chance and to wait for the trade to change its direction for the favorable one. Better to close a trade with a small loss than to blow your entire deposit.

Mohamed Subekti, Indonesia, the winner of the 425th round of Drag Trade, received real $200

• Trading experience: 2 years
• Preferred trading instruments: major currency pairs

I’m 48 and I own a store. I’m interested in all kinds of business that can potentially bring profit. I learned Forex trading on my own, read educational materials online. Also, my business colleagues showed me the ropes. I’d like to continue learning about Forex because I think it can become a financial basis for my business. I’m really pleased when a strategy brings the desired result just as I planned. I usually close trading terminal in order not to get upset when a price moves in a wrong direction.

I’m not very ambitious and sometimes I bear losses from trading. I think of a broker as my business partner, and the most important thing about partnership is trust. Grand Capital has earned an excellent reputation on the market, that’s why I chose them as my partner. I really like Grand Capital contests, because thanks to them I can earn prizes as well as train. I won Drag Trade contest on my birthday. My piece of advice for beginners is to learn more, because knowledge helps to analyze the market.

Timur Adzhimurzaev, Russia, the winner of 223rd round of Rally Trade, received $500 no-deposit bonus

• Trading experience: 5 years

I’m 28 and I work in construction and study philosophy. For the first time I got into Forex 5 years ago. I borrowed from a friend several CDs with trading lessons and Platform 4. Then I became interested in coding indicators, but due to the lack of time and programming knowledge I can’t do it on a professional level. I tweaked several indicators to match my trading manner and strategy that is based on tick volumes. I liked Rally Trade contest because it lasts only 24 hours. My trading strategy doesn’t allow trading longer than that because it requires extreme concentration and attention. If I write a robot, I would likely participate in longer contests on real accounts. I’m thankful to Grand Capital for the provided opportunity to test my skill in Rally Trade without risking real money. I wish you all success!

Read full contest rules and sign up for the next round here.

We have rounded up the best results of the past trading week.

The most active client

Placed 609 trades, including 301 trades, including 308 that resulted in a loss. The majority of trades involved EUR/JPY, EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GOLD, USD/CAD, GBP/USD, USD/CHF.

Maximum deposit growth

For one week on a single trading account was $78,334.87.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$7,422. The trade was opened on the 30th of May at 19:32 and closed on the 25th of June at 16:30.

The most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders last week:

• @CHF — Swiss franc to the United States dollar rate futures. The size of the contract is 125,000 francs. Minimum price fluctuation is $0.0001 per 1 franc or $12.5 per contract;
• #KO (The Coca-Cola Company) — an American food company, the world's largest producer and supplier of non-alcoholic beverages. The company’s most famous product is Coca-Cola drink. Included in Fortune 500 list for 2015 (62nd place). Market capitalization: $200.11 billion (2018);
• #FGBL — futures contract for German long-term bonds EUROBUND;
• ORANGE JUICE — orange juice futures contract. The contract size is standard and equals 15,000 pounds (approximately 6.9 tons). One tick is 0.05 and costs $7.5;
• #INTC (Intel Corporation) — an American producer of electronic devices and computer components, including microprocessors, chipsets, etc. Revenue: $59.4 billion (2016).

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Dear clients!

Independence Day is celebrated in the United States on the 4th of July. Please take into consideration the changes in trading schedule.
 

• On July 4th at 5:30 PM GMT trading futures contracts on Brent and WTI will be closed. 
• Futures on metals, E-mini S&P 500, E-mini NASDAQ 100, E-mini Russell 2000, E-mini Dow indices, CFD Softs, CFD Meats, CFD Grains and American stock CFDs will also be closed.

On ECN accounts trading spot metals, Brent, WTI, and DJI30, SP500, NQ100 indices will be closed at 11:00 PM GMT. 
 
All other instruments will be traded as usual. All the company’s services will be working as usual.

Trading will be resumed in the ordinary course on July 5th.

Please, take this information into account when planning your trading activity.

Grand Capital team

From June 15th to July 31th Grand Capital  holds a promotion “Gather Your World Cup Team”.

If you have already created a team and now it has only 4 players, add 4 more! If there are players on your team who have already left the World Cup, you can replace them before 8 PM GMT!

Register on our website and create  a team to participate in the promotion.

Moreover, starting from June 29th, you will be able to replace any 4 players on your team with the ones with better results.

The replacements will be available:

• from June 29th until 2:00 PM (UTC) on June 30th
• from July 4th until 2:00 PM (UTC) on July 6th
• from July 8th until 6:00 PM (UTC) on July 10th
• from July 12th until 2:00 PM (UTC) on July 14th

The points for the previous games will be added according to the terms of the promotion after you deposit at least $100 to your Grand Capital trading account.

Deposit

Gather the best team for the World Cup!

Grand Capital traders are successfully breaking the previous weeks’ records. This time the most impressive result was the amount of the maximum deposit growth. Learn other notable trading results of the last week in our traditional recap.

The most active client

Placed 446 trades, including 249 profitable ones and 197 that resulted in a loss. The majority of trades involved EUR/USD, GBP/USD, EUR/JPY, USD/CAD, GOLD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF.

Maximum deposit growth

For one week on a single trading account was $62,314.31.

The most profitable trade of the week

Resulted in a profit of +$5.610. The trade was opened on the 2nd of May at 6:24 PM and closed on the 18th of June at 4:30 PM.

The most interesting trading instruments chosen by traders last week:

• S&P 500 — a futures mini contract for S&P 500 stock index. The size of the mini contract for S&P 500 index is calculated by multiplying $50 by the index quotation value. One tick equals 0.25 index points and costs $12.50. S&P 500 index is a stock index which includes the selected 500 US public companies with the largest market capitalization;
• #FGBL — futures contract for German long-term bonds EUROBUND;
• #CSCO (Cisco) — an American transnational company. Cisco develops and sells network equipment for large organizations and telecommunications enterprises. One of the world's largest hi-tech companies;
• COPPER — copper futures. Contract volume is 25,000 pounds (around 11.34 tons). Minimum price step is $0.0005 per pound ($12.5 per contract). Millions of investors follow the copper quotations every day. Copper was the first metal to be worked and used by man. Total world production of copper is about 16 million tons per year;
• CRUDE OIL LIGHT SWEET — Light sweet crude oil futures. The contract size is 1000 barrels (42,000 gallons). Minimum price fluctuation is $0.01 for a barrel or $10 for a contract. Products of crude oil: gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel. The price of crude oil may also be influenced by gasoline and heating oil prices.

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