About the Challenge

Joint-University Algo FX Trading Challenge 2021 (Global).

Ideate your trading algorithms, test on a robust back-testing platform, and compete to make a name for yourself!

Gain professional industry knowledge and practical skills to prepare yourself as the next-gen algo-trading professional. All undergraduate and postgraduate students from any faculty at participating universities are eligible.

Create teams of 1~4 members with diverse skills (maths, statistics, finance, coding, presentation) and register by 18 Oct 2021.



ideate

1st Round: Ideate

Registered teams of 1-4 students will prepare a trading proposal consisting of:

  • Executive summary
  • Trading idea description/logic
  • Team biography
  • Trading algorithm code

Coding is not required in this round


Submission deadline: 20 Nov 2021

Result announced: 30 Nov 2021


test

2nd Round: Test

Teams will code their trading algorithm and test on ALGOGENE's back-testing engine, then submit the code


Judges will backtest trading algorithms for return, volatility, robustness and practicality to select advancing teams


Submission deadline: 20 Jan 2022

Result announced: 31 Jan 2022


compete

Final Round: Compete

Each team need to compete in out-sample forward test and live paper trading


Live paper trading will last for 2 months from 1-Feb-2022 to 31-Mar-2022


Teams will present trading plan to judges in a 5-minute pitch session on final day


Judges will select winners in each of these categories:

  • Best Sharpe
  • Best Market Return
  • Best Strategy Design

Final Day: 3 Apr 2022


Judging Criteria

Registration

Form a team of 1~4 members with diverse skills (maths, statistics, finance, coding, presentation) and register by 18 Oct 2021.

Application is closed.


Resources

The dataset provided includes the latest trading records and bid-ask updates by the hour, and covers data from normal trading hours within every trading day from Jan 2010 to Dec 2019. Kindly note that data provided is strictly for trading strategy prototyping purposes only. Final round evaluations will be carried out using a new data set with the same structure but from a different time period. Thus, over-fitting of the data set is discouraged.


Trading Products

  • Foreign Exchange CFDs

Datasets

Provide access to required historical data for model development and testing

  • Market data
  • News
  • Economic Statistics

System

Access to ALGOGENE's back-testing engine, cloud simulation environment and relevant technical documents


Leaderboard

Parties

Event Sponsors:


Supporting Organizations:


Participating Universities:


Media Partners:


Co-organisers:

Results

The final result of the Joint-University Algo FX Trading Challenge 2021 (Global) comes out! Congratulation to all winning teams!


Best Return: live trading period 01/02/2022-31/03/2022




Best Sharpe: 1-year out-sample forward test 1/1/2021 - 31/12/2021



Rank Team Best Return
1 Plutus (CUHK) 26.05%
2 OnePunchMan (CUHK) 12.51%
3 Elk Grove (HKU) 4.75%


Rank Team Best Sharpe
1 Plutus (CUHK) 3.1845
2 WolfTraders (CUHK) 2.3439
3 OnePunchMan (CUHK) 1.0787


Rank Team Best Strategy Design
1 Plutus (CUHK) LSTM model on portfolio optimization based on daily economic data feed on FX. A day trading strategy using price and fundamental data feed into the pipeline.
2 Elk Grove (HKU) Time series mean reversion strategy with long short action based on the spread(bollinger bands or the log spread ratios) on FX.
3 WolfTraders (CUHK) BI-LSTM model to make prediction on FX based on news and technical analysis.



Media Coverage

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演算交易協會早前在線上舉辦第三屆國際聯校外匯算法交易挑戰總決賽,是全球首個運用區塊鍊及NFT技術的算法交易比賽,以培養下一代算法交易人才,推動不同地區的金融科技行業。賽事首次對全球所有大學生開放,獲全球各地約二百名學生報名參與,其中香港中文大學量化金融一年級生組成的Plutus團隊獲得「最佳回報」、「最佳夏普比率」、「最佳策略設計」各分項比賽冠軍,得獎隊伍們將獲總值$6,300美金作為獎金,並獲得主辦單位的實習或全職工作機會。

HKET

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HKCD

第三屆國際聯校外匯算法交易決賽 中大Plutus勇奪3獎成總冠軍, 香港商報網, Apr 5, 2022

演算交易協會(Algo Challenge Association, 簡稱ACA) 於 2022年4月3日 (星期日)在線上舉辦第三屆國際聯校外匯算法交易挑戰總決賽 (Joint-University Algo FX Trading Challenge 2021 Global)(下稱「比賽」),是全球首個運用區塊鍊及 NFT 技術的算法交易比賽。

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