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Major trading championships are an important venue for the most talented traders to establish their credentials...the focus
is primarily on trading stocks and futures as these offer 100+% gain potential...some championships may also include options...

There are likely no mutual fund trading championships due to the fact that almost all mutual funds are already actively managed/traded by their fund managers...index funds trading championship might be feasible but many index funds have ETFs or other instruments which closely correspond to their performance (such as QQQ approximating NDX)...

Here is a great source of info on trading/investment books linked to Amazon (bottom of the page):
http://www.sharelynx.net/Books/BookIndex.htm

Personally, however, standard trading/investment books are of little interest to me at this point...my sole interest is in identifying the top traders in terms of their historical performance and only then reading what they have to say...for example, the Turtle Trader method in general and the ideas of Richard Dennis in particular are of great interest to me:
http://www.turtletrader.com/
http://www.turtletrader.com/trader-dennis.html