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To: SE who wrote (46497)	6/22/1998 10:47:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 58727

The problem with that contest from my point of view is that it is skewed from the perspective of value. That is to say, I keep a lot of excess funds in my account. Let's say Ann had $250K in her account and Barbara had $50K. Barbaara makes a few 2 contract trades and hits for 10K net for a 20% return. Ann hits regularly on 4 contract trades and nails 40K. Ann loses because her account is 5x larger. I'm not going to trade larger size if I don't need to. The contest should be relegated to percent return per contract traded.