Roll up Roll up for the seasons most eagerly anticipated awards ceremony..well since last year's award ceremony anyway!

Yes it is that time of year again when we ask you to vote for the MoneyAM Xmas Lunch Awards 2006. Competition as always will be fierce as all the categories are once again hotly contested. On a special note, although thousands of you will no doubt want to cast a vote for me in some of the more esteemed categories, however, as co presenter I am ineligible. This is to ensure the integrity of these awards (plus I count the votes, so that would hardly be fair). Having said that I am hoping to be up for the lifetime achievement award in 2015, which gives me plenty of time to work on the speech!

So here we go ladies and gentlemen, I give you the categories:


Thread of the Year 2006

Trader of the Year 2006

Poster of the Year 2006

Ramper of the Year 2006

Most Helpful Poster 2006

Funniest Poster 2006

MoneyAM Users Special Award 2006 (Vote for a fellow poster and let us know why they deserve an award)


To vote for any of the awards above, simply add your comments here or alternatively please send your selections to ian@moneyam.com

We will total up the votes using the US General Election automated vote counters from the Florida ballot of 2001 to ensure complete fairness and impartiality :)

Awards will be presented on Friday 8th December at the lunch if we can be heard over the inevitable heckling!

Job done back to catching up with my kip.

Martini,

I have received your votes - should have mentioned that you can't vote for yourself :)

Ian

Thread of the Year 2006 ,got to be the joke thread,

Trader of the Year 2006 hard one as all been pretty quiet on the traders thread this year, but i will go with sputnik even though he doesnt post much, some of his trades are top notch stuff, great entries and exits.

Poster of the Year 2006 , Spaceman for all hard work with the concorde system

Ramper of the Year 2006 Gausie,

Most Helpful Poster 2006 Kayak

Funniest Poster 2006 no question, Iain, sense of humour is superb


MoneyAM Users Special Award 2006 (Vote for a fellow poster and let us know why they deserve an award)
Jules, for just being Jules

thread of the year : joke thread particularly for the "got any bread" joke

trader of the year: Boyse , without whom the traders thread might have died , just wish he would answer questions now and again.

poster of the year: Maestro , for more nonsense than i have seen ever! and somehow he is still around , must have a deep pocket!.

Ian
Damn new email on the way
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Ruthie - moi? Ramper? I've not mentioned PDX for almost a year now .....

Thread of the year:	iSoft: Keep an eye on these guys - a lot of traders made a lot of dough on that thread. And those who are currently long have a lot more still to make....
Trader of the year:	Dailos (for trading IOT particularly well)
Poster of the year:	Treble - some insightful posts on the IOT thread.
Ramper of the year:	Dil - He's still ramping that bloody Eboo cowboy outfit, although he's shut up at last about nord anglia
Most Helpful Poster:	Dominic Simpson - For keeping Dil partially in check
Funniest poster:	SueHelen - we had a lot of fun with him on DMR
Special Award:	Tossup between JT, Dominic Simpson and the one who gets my vote: Mr "Wrong Place and Wrong Time" Euro

Am compiling my thoughts, will post in due course.
Dominic Simpson esq (aka Edward Scissorhands)

Compilation error on line 1

Had forgotten we needed to vote! ;-))

Thread of the Year 2006 - MINE by M_P_H - it's rare you get a thread begun right at the start of something. It's all we've traded all year, ain't it? ;-)

Trader of the Year 2006 - Boyse - no competition!

Poster of the Year 2006 - Kyoto - not only trading, but blogging too! ;-)

Ramper of the Year 2006 - everyone!

Most Helpful Poster 2006 - Digger

Funniest Poster 2006 - maestro - wot a plonker!

MoneyAM Users Special Award 2006 (Vote for a fellow poster and let us know why they deserve an award) - Martini - always around, always interesting and never boring. ;-)

It's always tricky coz you generally have 2 or 3 culprits for each category, but that's my lot.

Thread of the year: Mine thread and Vix thread set up by M_P_H last week.

Trader of the year: Ruth, quick learner and now an acomplished trader.

And a special award to someone who posts how many points they made when closing/covering a trade whilst failing to post that they were opening a position in it in the first place! :-)

Poster of the year: Treblewide, haggis eating lesbian from Jockland.

Ramper of the year: Dil, an English born transvestite.

Most Helpful Poster: Kayak, cos im thinking of buying a canoe.

Special Award: Gausie, i met him at Hampstead Heath a few weeks back, caught him coming out of a secluded area, hand in hand with Mr Ashley James!

Poster of the Year: Ruth (when she's away the place dies)

Trader: =1st Ruth/Kyoto/Splat
Boyse gets an assist only-never quite sure what he's saying-let down recently by M&S & Burberry (unless you can wait 2-3 weeks))

Lousiest Rugby Correspondent: DIL (fanatical, racist & a little too biased!)

Most Honest: CC (love his end of day up-date-reminds me of my daily mistakes!)

Most helpful: Kyoto/Kayak

Best Analyst: Little Woman

Where the **** are they now: Blackadder!

Thread of the Year 2006; anything by maestro

Trader of the Year 2006; maestro the qxl legend

Poster of the Year 2006; maestro

Ramper of the Year 2006; maestro

Most Helpful Poster 2006; maestro for the education on zionist fascists.

Funniest Poster 2006; maestro

At least I've put our village team Ebbooo on the map Gausie and as for you Sonofagun how the hell can I be racist when no one on the planet likes the English :-)

Most helpful poster ... Martini for not giving me any of his crap tips this year.

Most accurate thread title of the year : England WC ... No Stadium , No Manager , No Chance :-)

Ramper Of The Year : Gausie SOR and YOO

Thread of the year - for sheer bloody-mindedness, or not knowing when to step off the railway track when there's a train coming, or for demonstrating that there are no one-eyed men in the land of the blind, or for pure unbridled optimism that all will be rosy at the bottom of the cliff.................."Stanelco....a new thread"!

Trader of the year - I haven't read the thread much as I'm doing very little myself except for some in the SIPP and I'm busy as hell with work, so let's say Dil as he has successfully traded off the insecurities of English sportsmen :)

Poster of the Year 2006 - Joint vote: Fred1New for constantly winding up MightyMicro with his anti-American rants, and MightyMicro for rising to the bait every time.......

Ramper of the Year 2006 - Everyone on the Stanelco thread.

Most Helpful Poster 2006 - Kayak and his supporting cast on the PC Clinic thread.

Funniest Poster 2006 - Everyone on the Stanelco thread.

MoneyAM Users Special Award 2006 - Big Al - for the lasting memory of his impression of Billy Connolly playing a Glaswegian drunk in the pub after the 2005 Xmas bash. I know of no other person who can get so potted yet stay on their two feet in a crowded barroom and conduct an everlasting conversation and still not get into a fight.........shame you can't come down to town this year, Al :)

I vote for Ashley James in each category, just so long as Gausie is giving out the prizes!

Can't have that Welsh tw*t winning anything.

DS

Now now DS - Ash and I have kissed and made up. DS esq will attest to it.

Last Ebbooo coach was ex boxing champ .... me and Ash currently in training to punch both yer bloody lights out.

Make sure your mobile working tommorow bully boy ... I feeling lucky :-)

Dil; Not watching the England game, too busy checking to see if my family lived in Argentina before moving to Wales:-0).

Hi all
To celebrate my Knighthood i thought i'd vote too.

I would like to nominate Gausie for all the awards.

By the way, in our more intimate moments he asks me to call him "Bernie".

Cheers
Ash.

As long as it's not Bernice, Ash! ;-))))))

God how embarrassing are you, Dad?

Ashley jnr.

Oh yeh and Mum says it's ok to say what you call Mr Boydell if you don't stump up my pocket money quick.

Ashley jnr.

A lot of Ashley Jameses around all of a sudden!

There always were too many, some said! LOL!

Bones - I thank you for your vote. Rule 1 is always not to fall over BTW. To stagger and sway is acceptable however. ;-))

Thread of the Year 2006 Shafted

Trader of the Year 2006 M_P_H

Most Helpful Poster 2006 DIGGER

Trader of the year - Boyse/Dailos 1st=
Funniest poster - Iain/chocolat 1st=
Thread of the Year - Shafted
Ramper of the year - acaldin
Poster of the year - M_P_H
Most helpful poster - Kayak

Trader of the year = Big Al (pops up every now and then with gems on AQP)
Poster of the year = boyse (always ahead of the curve with news and alerts)
Most helpful poster = digger (superb links every day on the traders thread)
Thread of the year = "ETHANOL -> will move Grain Prices" (For calling the start of one of the biggest up moves in corn for years)

Ian, Herewith my votes.....

Thread of the Year 2006: -
The 'GOLF' thread by PTHolden (because it has encouraged huge debate and attracted an ever increasing audience, incl. non-golfers!).

Trader of the Year 2006: -
Anyone who has 'shorted' my Portfolio (enough said on this subject!).

Poster of the Year 2006: -
Markusantonius (because of the discrete, professional and grammatically error-free way in which he posts without being unduly offensive or using any foul language whatsoever!).

Ramper of the Year 2006: -
EWRobson (because he still thinks that Stanelco will make him a m*naire and expresses himself with such aristocratic charm!).

Most Helpful Poster 2006: -
=EWRobson (Eric does explain himself very clearly and tries to justify his statements with substance - he does get it right sometimes!).
=Ruth (because she's answered all of my questions and put herself out to make me feel very welcome, at the latest NW Night Out!).

Funniest Poster 2006: -
Chocolat ("Oh, blimey!").

MoneyAM Users Special Award 2006 (Vote for a fellow poster and let us know why they deserve an award): -
Markusantonius (because M/AM has cost The Shark over 20k indirectly by "listening" to some of its posters!).

IanT - Any chance we can have some stats please e.g. most posted thread, biggest poster, poster with most threads.... Wonder who'll win the obsessed with moneyam award then?? Will be back either way with my nominations, just thought the info would be of interest.

Ian, Any chance we can have a "Most Sensitive Poster Award", please?

I hereby nominate: PTHolden.

err
Can we have the 'biggest tosser award', answers on a post card.
Enjoy :-)

Sorry, Pete, but you are not allowed to vote for yourself apparently!
So perhaps you may wish to withdraw your Q. (above) to Ian?

Thread of the year - has to be the Traders Thread
Boyse and Ruth jointly for trader of the year
Poster of the year has to be Boyse - cheers for the Nymex charts!
Ramper of the year - Appears to have left the board now and left such a huge impression on me I can't remember their name!
Most helpful poster - Kyoto, Publisher and many others
Funniest poster - Joke thread contributors.

Thread of the year - the retirement SIPP/ISA one which contains some well considered posts.
Poster of the year - Boyse and his useful charts
Most helpful poster - Digger for morning links and excellent links he sent me when I raised a candlestick query earlier this year

Thread of the Year 2006 - The Forex thread - cos it's where I am at the moment

Trader of the Year 2006 - CC ; he just tells it how it is - all the ups and downs, runner up Gausie for the IOT research he did.

Poster of the Year 2006 - Boyse - just posts the stuff whether he thinks anyone's looking or not. And he's always one step ahead with his trading ideas.

Ramper of the Year 2006 - I don't look at the ramp-up posts any more so have no idea!!!

Most Helpful Poster 2006 - Hilary - for having the patience of a saint with all the questions she's asked on the Forex thread.

Funniest Poster 2006 - Spaceman - his dry humour in Lambykins Dutch Coffee House is great!

Thread of the year.........The traders thread and shafted
Trader of the year........Ruth and Boyse
Poster of the year....... Big Al as he is never too busy to get that weekend thread up
Ramper of the year....... Acaldin
most helpful poster of the year.... Ruth, as she is never too busy to help a fellow trader out
funniest poster...... choccie and spaceman..They are so quick witted.
special award.... supermum for all the work she puts in for the stock of the week whilst trying to hold down numerous jobs
Also think that Greystone, Kyoto and Digger deserve awards for their tireless postings in the morning.

I would like to vote for myself, since being male, I still think of myself as wonderful as the wife told me I was before we got married. Although I must admit that despite her constant efforts to improve me, she thinks I now have lots of faults. Some of these are a figment of her imagination eg. I do not watch too much sport, nor do I waste valuable time posting drivel on non stock threads on various BBs.

In support of my claim for trader of the year I would like to mention the high regard my trading skills are held by Gordon Brown; judging by the letter he sent me last week demanding huge amounts of CGT. (I seem to have been so clever this tax year that he might not send me a similar letter next year, but that is another story)

Ramper of the year is one award that I am not so confident about winning, but I am willing to give it a go now! BUY WIN (WNN) and help Me win ramper of the year. This key part of Me portfolio is in the mobile phone business, which, as my children tell me regularly, is no longer about making 'phone calls (!) They don't agree with my view that it is about parting the young from their money, but since the latest RNS from the winning Win (epic:WNN) indicates everyone should put all their portfolio in this wonderful company please liquidate all your holdings, raid the children's piggy banks and do so!!!!

A wonderful tip like this shows what a helpful poster Me is.

Funniest poster of the year award might, I appreciate, be more difficult to give Me after this serious, intellectual post, but go on, you might as well give Me that too - you know it makes sense!

Oi, Jules

Poster of the year....... Big Al as he is never too busy to get that weekend thread up

Yes he bloody is -- how many times this year have we had to recycle one of his old ones because he wouldn't get out of bed?

Derek... ok then, you can have the prize;-)

ROFLMAO!!!

It's sponsered by David Cameron, MM. ;-0

very suprised to notice Alan not on the funniest poster list-he certainly has made me laugh this year.

Jules, Big A:and taxed by Gordon Brown. That'll be 10 per post, y'ken . . . and I'll spend it all on Edukashun . . .

The Guvnor has to remain impartial I suppose & is noticeable by his absence
Maybe of course this is not up for debate
Bring back Blackadder (don't all speak at once!)

Ladies and Gents,

The winners of this years MoneyAM Xmas Lunch awards are as follows:

Traders of the Year: Ruth
Poster of the Year: Boyse
Ramper of the Year: Gausie
Most Helpful Poster: Kayak
Funniest Poster: Chocolat
Users Special Award: Big Al
Thread of the Year: Hilary (the Forex Thread)
Special Contribution Award: Digger

Gausie, Kayak and Chocolat collected their awards last Friday at the lunch.

The other winners awards will be sent out in due course, Digger, as your award was added last minute yours will be delivered after Xmas when we have had it engraved.

Ian

Oh my god im shocked , i really am, but thanks for the votes , im really chuffed.

I'd just like to say a big thanks for that, everyone.

Ramper? Ramper??????

I thought I'd won Rampant of the year

Ram - pants more like!

;-))))

well done winners, well deserved and spot on.... well all except Ruth's, I am sure she got hers by promising not to send any more grannies to bullies xmas parties...

I was going to nominate Big Al for the oldest poster but I was to late .....

"special award" for Al.....i know what award I would give him........you should not encourgae the pensioners on here...he will be starting threads about how he helped beat the germans in the frst world war...that is all we bloody need...dont say i did not warn you lot.....

special award my arse :-))))))

Your prize would be a visit to Santa's grotto, weegie. ;-)))))

As for age, well Spacie. You were right you were too bloody late. My info is it was already in the post to your's. ;-)))

Spaceman, Bully still fantasises about that granygran,i think he secretly would have liked another one this year:-)

Ruth; I am still having treatment for it. My shrink says I will be scarred for life:-)

C'mon Mikie - you had the job lot all engraved the same :)
Mine says Ramper of the Year.

Thats funny - mine says 'naughtiest mischiefmaker'

Choccie; Think someone, no names, switched a few things round when you were busy looking for your specs:-)

Mine said "helpfull" on the box so I opened it with dreadful anticipation but it was right inside :-)

Thank you once again chaps. There are so many who are helpful though particularly on the PC clinic thread that I am embarrassed to be singled out each year.

Canoe,

that us me spelin I an afraid on the box, lookily I got it write on the engravy

Ean

Either of you two played with them in the bath yet? :o)

Played with what?

Your little boat.

Thought the man was supposed to be in the boat, not fiddling with it!

;-0

my boat is bigger than yours...

Thought about playing with my new boat in the bath, but then I thought what might happen if it capsized.

Spacie

There's probably a reason for that ............. hmmmm

;-0

It would help if I could find the rudder, K.

You were looking for it on Friday, choccy - no?

;-)))

Was I?
Must've been anudder rudder.








Sorree :S

Hey but I just found my pink specs though :))
Well actually, the cat did. She was busy eating the polystyrene that she fished out of the box that the boat was in, when out they popped.

chocky, what popped out?

Spaceman: They popped out.

We know they did, Choccy said so, but what about the specs?

Just posting to say it arrived!!!

Thanks again all. ;-0