PFGBEST.com Sponsors A New Trading Competition: BESTDirect Traders Challenge Begins...

PFGBEST.com Sponsors A New Trading Competition: BESTDirect Traders Challenge Begins on Monday, August 4

Weekly Cash Prize of $1000 to the Account with Greatest Profit
End-of-Contest Cash Prize of $50,000 for the Most Profitable Account
CHICAGO--(Business Wire)--
PFGBEST.com announced today a new competition for both futures and
forex traders, using the company's propriety electronic trading
platform, BESTDirect 8.0. The BESTDirect Traders Challenge runs from
Monday, August 4 through Friday, December 19, 2008.

Each week's winner, based on profit alone, receives $1,000 in cash
from PFGBEST.com. The second place winner receives $600 and third
place winner receives $400 - with these cash prizes all awarded on a
weekly basis on results calculated at 4:00 p.m. Central time on
Fridays. (1)

The contest is open to anyone who funds a futures, forex or
combined futures/forex trading account with up to $10,000 (maximum) in
funds, on the BESTDirect 8.0 trading platform. Contestants can enter
with more than one account and can begin participating at any time
during the span of the contest.

The competition helps further establish the track record for any
trader or money manager that participates. Entrants trade their own
strategies. This is a live trading event, created to further
PFGBEST.com's strategic movement into the managed futures arena. "The
purpose of the BESTDirect Traders Challenge is to identify talented
futures and foreign exchange fund managers and to potentially utilize
their abilities to respond to our clients' demand for alternative
investment vehicles," said Jim O'Connell, vice president of the
PFGBEST.com Managed Futures Division.

PFGBEST.com President Russ Wasendorf, Jr., said the firm has been
very successful at attracting emerging, accessible and
risk-appropriate investment programs. "PFGBEST.com offers clients an
affordable way to access risk-appropriate diversification strategies.
By fostering and showcasing emerging talent, we are able to help
create and distribute trading products where the barrier to entry is
greatly reduced, for investors with $5,000 to $25,000 to put into such
a strategy. This is part of our overall goal of leadership in
sustainable investing practices," he said.

PFGBEST.com also has sponsored, for more than six years, a
quarterly CTA Challenge for Commodity Trading Advisors. In it, winners
of each three-month competition receive a $250,000 allocation to trade
for PFGBEST.com. And, the company sponsors the CTA Championship
Showdown which features the winners of each quarterly CTA Challenge.
The most profitable competitor of the Championship Showdown receives a
$1 million account allocation to trade for PFGBEST.com.

The company also offers licensed versions of its suite of
BESTDirect trading platforms for use in MarketZAR trading
competitions, where newer traders compete for cash prizes in simulated
trading.

PFGBEST.com is one of the largest non-clearing U.S. futures
commission merchants, with customers, affiliates and brokerage offices
in more than 80 countries. It offers a diverse range of trading and
investor products and services for retail investors as well as for
commercial and institutional clients. The company is a leader in
managed funds and forex, full-service brokerage, trader education,
research, and direct online futures trading through its BESTDirect
platform, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. Please visit
www.pfgbest.com.

To learn more about BESTDirect 8.0 and to enter the BESTDirect
Traders Challenge: http://www.pfgbest.com/challenge/

Or, e-mail or call Ms. Debra Stepanek at dstepaek@pfgbest.com
(312) 775-3580 or toll free at (888) 706-0124.

(1)Certain conditions and trading parameters apply. Void where
prohibited by law.

PFGBEST.com
Media contact:
Patricia Campbell
312-775-3411
pcampbell@pfmail.com

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