Demo Competition — Fall 2026

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The always-open public competition. Submit any strategy from the missions and see how it ranks against reference baselines and other participants.

Ready to compete?

Sign up for free, run Mission 1 in Colab, and submit your strategy in under 30 minutes.

How it worksSign up free

How scoring works

OOS Sharpe

Measured on a hidden holdout period. The only trusted score.

Overfitting ratio

OOS ÷ IS Sharpe. Target ≥ 70%. Penalizes in-sample curve fitting.

Forward Sharpe

Updated nightly on fresh synthetic data. Tracks real generalization.

How to participate

  1. Follow the getting-started guide — takes about 30 minutes.
  2. Run Mission 1 in Colab. No local Python install needed.
  3. Create an account and submit your strategy from the editor.
  4. Your OOS Sharpe appears on this leaderboard after grading (under 5 minutes).