This is the 18th report corresponding to the follow up of the 2018 CRYPTO RACE.

• After a short survey launched in steemit , 9 ''WINNING HORSES'' were selected for the 2018 CRYPTO RACE (You can see the starting grid in this POST ) .

• For each horse, 1000 USD has been invested on the 1st of January.

• Very weird lap this time, just LITECOIN and IOTA have maintained the good pace, the rest have failed .

• IOTA has won the lap with more than 13% profit in a week, followed by LITECOIN with 12% .
• STELLAR, STEEM and EOS have stopped abruptly.
• The worst Horse has been EOS which has lost -15.32%

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• From the initial ''virtual'' Investment of 9000 USD (1000 USD per horse) after 17 weeks we have....8921USD... Losing more than 460 USD in a week, we are in the limit of our initial investment.

• The OVERALL race is still dominated by EOS with 100% profit since the initial investment on the 1st of January, followed by TRON (85%). The cue is occupied by RIPPLE(XRP) which is now losing -62%.

Remember that you can always check the WINNING HORSES PORTFOLIO following this link: https://www.cryptocompare.com/portfolio-public/?id=229404

THIS LAP NO ONE HAS BET FOR IOTA AS THE WINNER so the 50% of the SBD of this post is accumulated as a jackpot for the current lap!

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And now, the main question, Could you bet which horse will perform better during the next 7 days?

Remember that the WINNING HORSES participating at the CRYPTO RACE are:

STELLAR, CARDANO, BITSHARES, EOS, RIPPLE, IOTA, LITECOIN, TRON and STEEM

I will use the calculations of CRYPTOCOMPARE to decide which horse has been the best.

CONTEST REWARDS: The 50% of the SBD earnings of this post will be distributed equally between the winners after 7 days of its publication.

RULES: 

• In order to participate in the contest you have to upvote the post, Resteem it and put a comment with your bet.
• Choose only one of the ''Horses'' participating in the Crypto Race (XLM, ADA, BTS, EOS, XRP, IOTA, LTC, TRX, STEEM)
• Just one vote per contestant is allowed. 

- VERY IMPORTANT: The contest will close in 24h from the publication of the post. Contestants participating later on will not be rewarded. 

ENJOY THE RACE!!!!

*Thanks to @beiker , @bubke , @cryptographic , @iamredbar , @javirid , @snrm and @cryptotem , @matthewwarn , @thezonderproject , @thepassenger , @g-dubs , @cryptotem , @wolfje and @lauriki for helping me while setting the HORSES of the starting Grid

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