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Ford Cotton Maintains Lead

Posted on February 22, 2010 at 8:36 PM
John VanSickle offers this report on the FACTSim competiton as of Feb.

Team Standings

Ford Cotton09 leads the competition again this week being led by Steve Ford. The Florida Milk Money team is currently running second in the competition with Keith Shiver leading the way for that team. The third place team is the Volunteer One team led by Emmitt Rawls. The Okaloo Farm Traders team from Florida is the final team to qualify with a positive profit in the competition.

1) Ford Cotton09 (AL) $212,268

2) Florida Milk Money (FL) $63,974

3) Volunteer One (TN) $23,974

4) Okaloo Farm Traders (FL) $8,245


Individual Standings

We have 33 traders who currently have active accounts in the competition. Of these, 21 traders have registered a profit in the competition and 12 have registered a loss. The results of the traders are shown below with the profits earned at the December 17 holiday break and the profits earned since the competition restarted on January 21.

Steve Ford continues to lead the competition with a strong showing in the second part of this competition. He is doing it in the cotton market and has shown an ability to identify turning points in the market. Tim Doggett of AIR Team 2009 is in second trailing Steve Ford by almost $15,000.

1) Steve Ford, Ford Cotton 09                    $135,566.25

2) Tim Doggett, AIR Team 2009                  $120,650.00

3) Keith Shiver, Florida Milk Money              $100,342.50

4) Eric Evers, Okaloo Farm Traders              $ 48,502.50

5) John VanSickle, Florida Milk Money           $ 39,627.11

6) Curt Lacy, Georgia Bulldawgs                  $ 38,717.50

7) Nick McMichen, Ford Cotton 09               $ 28,575.00

8) Nick Lamparelli,MEGA CATS Team            $ 14,608.03

9) Neal Isbell, Ford Cotton 09                      $ 13,713.78

10) Shannon Nixon, Okaloo Farm Traders   $ 10,730.00

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