The race is on. Last week, we gave five experts in different fields (and our own Investing Monkey) £500 and challenged them to turn it into £10,000 as quickly as possible.

Money Mail’s ground-breaking experiment will test how easy it really is to grow a sizeable pot of cash and what the best strategy is.

A strong first week for cryptocurrencies propelled Will Nutting, founder of NutStuff Investment newsletter, into an early lead.

Meanwhile Investing Monkey, who is dabbling in the stock market on a random basis, is ahead of This Is Money’s Simon Lambert, who has been strategically placing his investments in the stock market.

While they are technically behind, Jess Morton, who is reselling vintage clothing, and antiques dealer Gordon…