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!

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 :-)