Hey traders! It’s been 36 hours since the Round of 16 started and we already have some traders who managed to double their bankroll. Additionally, no trader is down a lot, which made it hard to choose the worst trade of the day!
With only the top 16 traders left the level of competition has risen substantially. And surprisingly, weather traders do not have it so easy as they compete with some of the absolute best political and sports traders.
Let’s see who managed to get an early lead!
Quick Rules Summary
Finalists go 1v1, seeded by group score. Both traders reset to $500 for a short head-to-head window; whoever makes more profit advances. Single elimination, until one champion is left.
Best Trade of the Day
The best trade of the day goes to bernardbulletin, who correctly predicted that Graham Platner would drop out of the Maine election for $300 profit early in the duel. Congrats!
Thanks to that, he now has a chance to beat WeatherOnly, one of the weather traders dominating the tournament.
Worst Trade of the Day
With only the top 16 traders left, bad trades happen less often. However, we still do see some of them—short-term form of the tournament forces traders to take more risk sometimes. Today, it’s HondaCivic who ended up on the wrong side of variance:
He lost $84 wrongly predicting the highest temperature in the NYC. This is probably the best of the worst trades to date, but hey, someone needed to get this title ;)
Round of 32
Joker_Poly vs PROPHET
Joker_Poly took an early lead in our duel. While I’ve been inactive, Joker_Poly made $127 trading esports and box office markets. I definitely need to start trading, otherwise the difference will grow too large by tomorrow!
Maskache vs ClydeCash
Maskache continues to prove that he is one of the best traders in the tournament. After only 36 hours, he managed to make $631 trading weather markets. ClydeCash is trying to give him a good run for his money. However, $115 in profit is not enough against this weather trader.
We do expect further action in this duel as ClydeCash has repeatedly shown that he is not afraid to go big.
Raskell vs OnlyLuckNoBrain
OnlyLuckNoBrain had a tough start. The weather gods were not kind to him and they sit on $106 loss after 36 hours of the Round of 16. Raskell is also trying out weather markets, along with his usual trades on the World Cup.
Raskell is in a slight lead with $52 in profit. However, we know that both traders can do a lot better and we expect more action in the next 2.5 days.
HondaCivic vs PMKFund
PMKFund continues his strategy of patience. With no trade done, he currently leads as HondaCivic had a rather rough day on weather markets. With $123 loss he has little time to build an advantage over the unpredictable PMKFund.
BeefSlayer_ vs whiggeries
whiggeries is trying his best trading political markets against one of the top weather traders, BeefSlayer_. whiggeries managed to make $373, however it was not enough.
BeefSlayer_ tops the global leaderboard this round with $757 profit already! 2.5 days remain to see if there’s any stopping to the absolutely dominating weather traders.
bernardbulletin vs WeatherOnly
bernardbulletin is also not giving up against another weather trader. He made $384 trading Graham Platner markets for a slight lead over WeatherOnly.
With only $73 between the two traders it shapes up to be one of the most competitive duels of this round.
aenews vs Rex416
Rex416 does not feel intimidated by trading agains tone of the Polymarket OGs, aenews. With $517 in profit from a wide variety of markets, they are well ahead of aenews, who managed to make $121 in 36 hours.
Duels last only four days, making each small decision count and Rex416 proves that he can make tough decisions under pressure.
Fuentes 99 vs thonka
Fuentes99 is off to a bad start. The single trade he made backfired and now he needs to make up $87 just to break even. In the meantime, thonka is trading sports, and despite some losses, he is $64 in the green.
However, we know that Fuentes99 is not afraid to go big. This lead is too little to call the race, especially with 2.5 days left.
Wrap Up
That’s all for today! The Round of 16 is off to a rather slow start. However, we expect it to fire up today as traders will try to make big moves to lock in their current advantage. Tomorrow’s recap will show who managed to do that and who needs to fight till the last minute.
See you tomorrow for another HIVE World Cup Recap!
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