Quantitative trading competition Q9, 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 October 1 2017

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 backtesting toolbox.
 

TIME LINE


There are two main phases in the competition: The submission period and the live simulation period.

                                                                          Deadline for trading algorithm submissions:   09/30/2017  (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:   10/01/2017 – 01/31/2018  (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 system we will take the one with the highest score. We will announce the winners in February 2018. 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 Oct. 2017 to Jan. 31 2018

Rank
Name
Score
Upload Date
Trading System
Yearly Perf. Yearly Vola.
Sharpe Ratio
Sortino Ratio
Performance Volatility
Sharpe Ratio
Sortino Ratio
 Rank: 126
 
k3oni
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.56
09/26/2017 10:14
Panda126
8.63%
15.11%
0.56
0.91
11.89%
11.47%
6.49
1.74
 Rank: 127
 
KOBAS
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.55
09/27/2017 02:26
170927E1Q177028XKJJAv2
3.01%
5.22%
0.55
0.92
5.24%
5.67%
0.99
1.84
 Rank: 128
 
KOBAS
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.55
09/27/2017 02:25
170927E1Q177028XKJJA
4.91%
8.35%
0.55
0.92
14.64%
11.60%
1.71
2.52
 Rank: 129
 
coinlab
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.55
08/27/2017 21:11
coinlab_long_ml_only_4
7.36%
13.42%
0.55
0.85
2.42%
13.97%
5.92
0.49
 Rank: 130
 
KOBAS
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.54
09/25/2017 06:12
170925E1Q55740X4KJJAv3
5.19%
9.71%
0.54
0.85
1.07%
13.17%
1.12
0.24
 Rank: 131
 
SebastianCaan
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.51
05/14/2017 08:06
VWAP long only
2.56%
3.59%
0.73
1.15
-0.75%
2.52%
0.51
-0.52
 Rank: 132
 
ProfJ
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.51
04/14/2017 21:23
totallyovertrained201704142223
29.10%
7.97%
3.68
7.16
4.18%
6.35%
0.51
1.25
 Rank: 133
 
ProfJ
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.51
04/14/2017 21:23
totallyovertrained201704142223
29.01%
7.97%
3.68
7.14
2.61%
6.36%
0.51
0.76
 Rank: 134
 
Sun73
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.50
09/24/2017 04:22
sun73_v3i201709240822
7.24%
13.55%
0.50
0.81
16.29%
15.55%
5.28
1.82
 Rank: 135
 
s_poramet
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.50
09/12/2017 09:19
DAV Normal
7.32%
5.19%
1.48
2.40
-4.62%
6.28%
0.50
-1.22
 Rank: 136
 
administrator
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.50
04/20/2017 14:37
TrendFollowing20174201438
2.80%
5.68%
0.50
0.78
-0.66%
3.51%
1.36
-0.33
 Rank: 137
 
KOBAS
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.49
09/27/2017 03:29
170927E1Q240570XKJJL
0.73%
3.55%
0.49
0.38
-5.50%
16.23%
2.83
-0.83
 Rank: 138
 
SakalouskiA
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.49
05/05/2017 04:07
WhiteRusskiResting
1.86%
3.91%
0.49
0.71
1.82%
6.85%
4.56
0.45
 Rank: 139
 
charless
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.49
09/30/2017 12:00
Mintz
97.98%
7.20%
13.98
38.64
-2.57%
6.22%
0.49
-0.72
 Rank: 140
 
ProfJ
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.48
04/14/2017 17:06
overtrained201704141807
35.28%
11.81%
3.02
5.61
2.85%
8.66%
0.48
0.61
 Rank: 141
 
MAOMAO
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.46
08/30/2017 10:21
F_combine_inturn_v2
14.19%
6.73%
2.14
3.63
-1.55%
4.74%
0.46
-0.58
 Rank: 142
 
amp123
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.45
08/07/2017 10:57
trendFollowing
2.57%
5.79%
0.45
0.70
0.02%
3.79%
2.13
0.01
 Rank: 143
 
ultranoob
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.45
05/09/2017 07:31
firstTS
2.57%
5.79%
0.45
0.70
0.02%
3.79%
2.13
0.01
 Rank: 144
 
girishpn
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.45
05/24/2017 20:01
myFirstTradingSystem
2.57%
5.79%
0.45
0.70
0.02%
3.79%
2.13
0.01
 Rank: 145
 
Kneikjen
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.45
08/05/2017 02:59
trendfollowing201708051200
2.56%
5.81%
0.45
0.70
0.02%
3.79%
2.13
0.01
 Rank: 146
 
sandeepsharmaiit
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.44
06/14/2017 00:21
sandeepsharma
2.46%
5.81%
0.44
0.67
-2.71%
3.74%
1.39
-1.30
 Rank: 147
 
sandeepsharmaiit
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.44
06/14/2017 00:23
sandeepsharma
2.46%
5.81%
0.44
0.67
-2.71%
3.74%
1.39
-1.30
 Rank: 148
 
k4therin2
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.44
04/29/2017 08:24
k4
2.53%
5.84%
0.44
0.69
-0.33%
3.76%
1.16
-0.16
 Rank: 149
 
KOBAS
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.44
09/22/2017 04:11
170922E1Q503860KJJL
0.79%
2.29%
0.44
0.66
3.52%
5.68%
0.70
1.01
 Rank: 150
 
quantkh
 
Q9 contest liquid
0.43
08/05/2017 10:29
svmtest
2.36%
5.59%
0.43
0.66
-0.11%
4.06%
3.12
-0.05