Investment Trader Chuck Hughes in Lead for Unprecedented Seventh World Cup Trading Championship®

Online, December 8, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Chuck Hughes, an established trader who has achieved exceptional investment returns for over 24 years, is leading the World Cup Trading Championship® with a 122% real-time return year-to-date as of October 30th 2009. If Mr. Hughes wins, it will be his seventh championship in a competition that is 27-years-old.

Mr. Hughes has developed proprietary trading systems that follow market trends and his innovative approaches have garnered exceedingly positive returns in more than two decades of implementation. The World Cup Trading Championship® is a real-time, real-money trading competition that includes traders from across the globe. Mr. Hughes is the competition's most decorated winner and has earned first place six times.

"The World Cup Trading Championship® is a unique competition that features some of the brightest minds in trading from around the world," noted Mr. Hughes. "I am very honored to have won the competition six times and I hope to add another championship this year," he added.

To learn more about the World Cup Trading Championship®, please visit www.robbinstrading.com/worldcup/standings.asp

About Chuck Hughes
Chuck Hughes is an innovative financial trader who has been trading stocks, options, currencies, and commodities for more than 24 years. He has developed simple trend following systems that trade with the trend. When the price trend is up, purchases are made; when the price trend is down, the system recommends selling short. This simple methodology includes multiple proprietary and unique nuances and has achieved exceptional returns for more than two decades. When Mr. Hughes started his trading career in 1984, he began with a $4,600 trading account. In his first two years of trading, he made over $460,000 in profits; he has made over $4.5 million in actual profits since then. To learn more about Chuck Hughes, please visit www.chuckhughes.com.