Participation in competitions can increase your confidence.
We are able to decide our overall performance with others, i admit maximum of the buyers that win those contests are precise, but few also makes use of some manipulation techniques and a few ea's that may not paintings on real account. So, don't assume which you lost the competition but look out the general benefit of your account and drawdown you attained and so on., even the top three investors at the competition i posted hyperlink of, typical that they're the use of some ea's that do not work on stay bills, when I contacted them.