{"id":7217,"date":"2008-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"individual-outperforms-hedge-funds-at-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2008\/individual-outperforms-hedge-funds-at-competition.html","title":{"rendered":"Individual Outperforms Hedge Funds at Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Haochen Hu won this year&#8217;s World TopInvestor competition with gains of almost 785% over 12 months. He outperformed the world&#8217;s leading hedge funds over the competition period. <\/p>\n<p>The competition is a live, real money, capital markets trading competition lasting for a full year. The prize for the top investor is the management of a fund with an investment value of $250,000 sponsored by Saxo Bank, a global leader in online trading and investment services. <\/p>\n<p>The winner of the 2007-08 competition, Hu,&nbsp;is a&nbsp;seasoned investor from Hong Kong,&nbsp;followed by&nbsp;Guo Hanqui with a net gain of 630%, Julian Szkirpan from the United States with 555%,&nbsp;and Hungarian investors Gy&ouml;rgy Doleschall with a 315% gain and Tam\u00e1s Czajner with 135%. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Losing money is bad, but it is much worse when you don&#8217;t know why you lost. I have traded online for eight years and you must study and be familiar with the product you want to invest in. My strategy was simple. I focused on currency trading and used the higher leverage when I felt the chance was there,&quot; commented Hu. <\/p>\n<p>Next year&#8217;s World TopInvestor Competition is open to all entrants willing to open an account with any Broker sponsor. Among this year&#8217;s sponsors of the World TopInvestor competition were several leading online investment banks and brokers from all over the world including: Saxo Bank, Commodity Broking Services, BenchMark Finance, Cambiste, Finexo, Buda-Cash Br\u00f3kerh\u00e1z, TMS Brokers, Banco Best, Poteza BPD, Dif Broker and RCG FX Trader.<\/p>\n<p>Alex&nbsp; Akesson<\/p>\n<p>Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/news\/02\/news\/02\/news\/02\/news\/01\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgefundtools.com<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Haochen Hu won this year&#8217;s World TopInvestor competition with gains of almost 785% over 12 months. He outperformed the world&#8217;s leading hedge funds over the competition period. The competition is a live, real money, capital markets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}