Saxo Bank Announces the Launch of Parallel World Cup Competition on its Social Trading Platform
Saxo Bank Announces the Launch of Parallel World Cup Competition on its Social Trading Platform
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HELLERUP, Denmark, June 12, 2014/PRN=KYODO JBN /--
Saxo Bank, the leading online trading and investment specialist, has invited
traders to predict the outcome of the World Cup based not on sporting prowess,
but economic metrics.
The competition will be based on the official World Cup tournament's groups.
The winning country for each match will be determined by metrics such as the
relative strengths of GDP growth, currencies, equities, inflation,
unemployment, commodities and other macro data. The metric for each game will
be drawn at random on the morning of the match. The two countries that emerge
from each group in the pool round will be those with the best performance,
according to our market/financial metrics.
For instance, the US is due to play Portugal in Group G. If the selected
metric is FX, the winner will be determined by the performance of the euro vs.
dollar on the day of the match. Traders might favour the dollar given its quiet
comeback since the spring, but equally market volatility might give the euro an
unexpected edge. In a similar way, other outcomes will be judged on the best
equity market performance, or the average return of two key exporting goods
such as cotton or crude oil.
The competition is open to all through the TradingFloor.com platform, Saxo
Bank's proprietary social trading platform which allows users from around the
world to share their trading strategies and performance across a broad range of
asset classes. Participants simply need to register and name their chosen
winner from the 32 countries to be eligible for the prize.
A dedicated webpage http://www.tradingfloor.com/worldcup2014 will provide
interactive tables and scores as well as serving as a forum through which
participants can debate the match outcomes.
Steen Jakobsen, Chief Economist & CIO at Saxo Bank, commented:
"There are manifold similarities between playing the markets and playing the
beautiful game. Whilst Spain has dominated the sport since the last World Cup,
its dominance in Brazil is by no means assured; the familiar investment
disclaimer, "Past success is no guarantee for future success", is equally true
for football. Both the markets and competitive sport are subject to unforeseen,
disruptive forces which make picking winners difficult to predict.
"Football continues to be the one game which can get us all excited. If
politicians and policy makers had been active footballers, they would
understand that football has all the solutions to the world's economic
problems: a strong team has a great defence, skills and individualism in
midfield and a vanguard of clinical strikers."
About Saxo Bank
Saxo Bank is a leading online trading and investment specialist, offering
private investors and institutional clients a complete set of tools for their
trading and investment strategies. Its financial community portal,
TradingFloor.com, is the first multi-asset social trading platform. A fully
licensed and regulated European bank, Saxo Bank enables clients to trade FX,
CFDs, ETFs, Stocks, Futures, Options and other derivatives on our award-winning
SaxoTrader platform, accessible on PCs, tablets or smartphones through a single
account and available in more than 20 languages. The platform is white-labelled
by more than 100 major financial institutions worldwide. Saxo Bank also offers
professional portfolio and fund management as well as traditional banking
services through Saxo Privatbank. Founded in 1992, Saxo Bank is headquartered
in Copenhagen and has offices in 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, the
Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Australia.
SOURCE: Saxo Bank
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