Quantitative trading competition Q12, Guaranteed investments of $2,250,000

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The biggest algorithmic trading competition
The best 3 algorithms get guaranteed investments of:
$1,000,000  |  $750,000  |  $500,000
You pocket half of the performance fees as long as your algo performs.
Submit your trading algorithm before January 1 2019
HOW IT WORKS
OBJECTIVE
Write a trading algorithm on futures and submit it to the Quantiacs platform before the deadline. Your code remains a black box and you always keep the IP. Use Quantiacs’ free futures data and the free and open source back testing toolbox.
 
TIME LINE
There are two main phases in the competition: The submission period and the live simulation period.
Deadline for trading algorithm submissions:   12/31/2018 (11:59:59PM PST)

Once your trading algorithm is uploaded you cannot change it but you can submit new versions of it (up to 10 submissions per day). All submitted trading algorithms will be simulated for 4 months with live market data.
Live simulation period:   01/01/2019 – 4/30/2019 (11:59:59PM PST)
 
SCORING
Your final score is the lower of your Sharpe Ratio of your backtest and the Sharpe Ratio of the live simulation (Min[Sharpe Ratio backtest, Sharpe Ratio live]). If you submit several trading systems we will take the one with the highest score. We will announce the winners beginning of June 2019. The three best algorithmic trading systems get guaranteed investments of $500,000, $750,000, and $1,000,000.

IMPORTANT
To score in the competition your trading algorithm:
• Trades futures (you can use stocks in your indicators)
• Evaluates in less than 30 minutes on our servers (rule of thumb)
• Returns the same result if it is run twice (deterministic)
• Does not use ex post common knowledge (e.g. ‘don’t trade in 2000 and 2008’)
• Uses a maximum lookback of 2520 trading days
 
For a detailed collection of all rules please see the official rules.
 
RANKING

Backtest

Live Test January 2019 to April 30 2019

Rank
Name
Score
Upload Date
Trading System
Yearly Perf. Yearly Vola.
Sharpe Ratio
Sortino Ratio
Performance Volatility
Sharpe Ratio
Sortino Ratio
 Rank: 651
 
Cosmo Connor
 
Q12 contest
-0.42
07/22/2018 04:47
CosmoCAT_30_100_1201807221347
1.38%
5.39%
0.28
0.39
-0.33% 0.00%
-0.42
-0.64
 Rank: 652
 
charless
 
Q12 contest
-0.42
11/14/2018 17:38
Q12-031
32.69%
4.64%
7.50
15.44
-0.40% 0.00%
-0.42
-0.73
 Rank: 653
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.43
10/17/2018 09:55
1810110QKXX28
4.61%
8.03%
1.06
1.61
-1.59% 0.00%
-0.43
-0.72
 Rank: 654
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.43
10/17/2018 10:20
1810110QKXX28
4.61%
8.03%
1.06
1.61
-1.59% 0.00%
-0.43
-0.72
 Rank: 655
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.44
12/26/2018 13:05
181222OR0S0F3LKJJ15
2.55%
2.58%
1.04
1.62
-0.31% 0.00%
-0.44
-0.70
 Rank: 656
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.48
11/14/2018 06:18
1810230QKXX104
9.77%
7.02%
1.43
2.25
-0.74% 0.00%
-0.48
-0.79
 Rank: 657
 
durasm
 
Q12 contest liquid
-0.48
12/27/2018 00:18
Limited
114.82%
11.18%
11.21
22.24
-1.64% 0.00%
-0.48
-0.77
 Rank: 658
 
ivanllt
 
Q12 contest liquid
-0.50
12/01/2018 07:12
myStrategySMA
1.21%
5.53%
0.25
0.34
-0.63% 0.00%
-0.50
-0.91
 Rank: 659
 
rawlund
 
Q12 contest liquid
-0.51
12/02/2018 07:33
c0212
-1.37%
12.50%
-0.07
-0.18
-1.35% 0.00%
-0.51
-0.79
 Rank: 660
 
amellish
 
Q12 contest liquid
-0.53
12/14/2018 09:35
trendFollowing
-0.08%
5.81%
-0.05
-0.02
-0.75% 0.00%
-0.53
-0.76
 Rank: 661
 
charless
 
Q12 contest
-0.55
10/31/2018 22:07
Q12-008
34.26%
4.36%
8.33
17.87
-0.45% 0.00%
-0.55
-0.96
 Rank: 662
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.56
12/31/2018 13:27
181228OR0S0F5HLKJJ4
3.71%
4.66%
1.28
1.88
-0.76% 0.00%
-0.56
-0.70
 Rank: 663
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.57
10/18/2018 12:31
1810110QKXX40
8.82%
6.49%
1.42
2.24
-0.77% 0.00%
-0.57
-0.93
 Rank: 664
 
mwalimudan
 
Q12 contest
-0.57
12/30/2018 06:39
SmellitBang
13.51%
10.79%
1.25
2.09
-1.40% 0.00%
-0.57
-0.86
 Rank: 665
 
robin997
 
Q12 contest liquid
-0.57
12/31/2018 04:26
Test1
-9.21%
14.95%
-0.57
-0.99
0.40% 0.00%
0.12
0.18
 Rank: 666
 
hstayte
 
Q12 contest
-0.57
12/27/2018 15:10
NotsoMagicAlgorithm
4.65%
5.42%
0.97
1.29
-0.41% 0.00%
-0.57
-1.08
 Rank: 667
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.58
10/16/2018 10:19
1810110QKXX22
8.33%
15.69%
1.71
2.63
-4.38% 0.00%
-0.58
-0.88
 Rank: 668
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.58
12/21/2018 08:02
181220OR0S0F1KJJ4
5.44%
13.16%
1.35
1.90
-3.96% 0.00%
-0.58
-0.84
 Rank: 669
 
charless
 
Q12 contest
-0.59
11/14/2018 17:40
Q12-039
40.87%
4.51%
9.56
22.00
-0.66% 0.00%
-0.59
-1.08
 Rank: 670
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.62
10/27/2018 00:20
1810230QKXX42
4.80%
11.97%
1.13
1.64
-2.75% 0.00%
-0.62
-0.97
 Rank: 671
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.62
10/26/2018 02:04
1810230QKXX27
6.30%
6.45%
1.20
1.64
-1.72% 0.00%
-0.62
-1.03
 Rank: 672
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.62
10/26/2018 08:56
1810230QKXX30
8.64%
7.55%
1.21
1.98
-1.97% 0.00%
-0.62
-1.02
 Rank: 673
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.64
10/17/2018 14:09
1810110QKXX29
7.72%
7.45%
1.12
1.69
-1.25% 0.00%
-0.64
-0.87
 Rank: 674
 
chojamaru
 
Q12 contest liquid
-0.64
08/22/2018 13:11
temp
0.90%
3.98%
0.18
0.36
-0.60% 0.00%
-0.64
-1.06
 Rank: 675
 
KOBAS
 
Q12 contest
-0.65
12/27/2018 15:58
181222OR0S0F3LKJJ32
9.91%
9.45%
1.48
2.41
-1.57% 0.00%
-0.65
-1.04