Contest 10 Winner: Taylor Smith

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Contest 10 Winner: Taylor Smith

Jamie McCorriston

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With the conclusion of Contest 10 a couple of weeks ago, we have another winner to announce: Taylor Smith. Congratulations!

Taylor is a graduate student of agriculture and applied economics at Texas Tech University. He has been interested in trading for about 10 years, previously trading on behalf of his parents, and paper trading some of his own ideas. He joined Quantopian’s community while looking for an automated trading platform.

Taylor first joined Quantopian with ideas to implement, but no programming experience. With the help of examples from the community, he learned quickly, and began implementing some of his ideas. Taylor learned quickly that some of his original ideas didn't work as well as he had hoped but kept conjuring new ones until he found something that worked.

Taylor credits his success in the contest to the turmoil around slumping oil and commodities prices, as his algorithm performs better in times of high volatility.

We've already paid out over $15,000 in contest earnings. Are you the next contest winner? Submit your algorithm by the next deadline on May. 2 at 9:30AM ET!

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2 responses

Congratulations Taylor!

Congratulations Taylor!

My special congratulations to Peter Bakker for his productiviest, sharpiest, sortiniest and stabilitiest algo.

216
61.15
Peter Bakker

174
Paper Trading Score
61.15
1
Annual Returns
663.7%
596
Annual Volatility
83.97%
1
Sharpe
7.882
529
Max Drawdown
-31.50%
1
Stability
0.9808
1
Sortino Ratio
12.35
526
Beta
1.124
Correlation
-6.876%

@ Quantopian staff.
This algo deserves to be in Top 100.
If you do not have spare tshirt, please send mine to Peter Bakker.

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In addition, the material offers no opinion with respect to the suitability of any security or specific investment. No information contained herein should be regarded as a suggestion to engage in or refrain from any investment-related course of action as none of Quantopian nor any of its affiliates is undertaking to provide investment advice, act as an adviser to any plan or entity subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity, or give advice in a fiduciary capacity with respect to the materials presented herein. If you are an individual retirement or other investor, contact your financial advisor or other fiduciary unrelated to Quantopian about whether any given investment idea, strategy, product or service described herein may be appropriate for your circumstances. All investments involve risk, including loss of principal. Quantopian makes no guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of the views expressed in the website. The views are subject to change, and may have become unreliable for various reasons, including changes in market conditions or economic circumstances.