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!

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:-)