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Sally Sanford
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Seeking Help Contest Hedge Fund

Three of first four contestants stopped out after 10%. First four contestants all negative as are six of seven winners. Overall compounded performance, including $2300 payout exceeds -10%. Ouch.

Picking capital investments is a different process than picking stocks, but you knew that already right?

                Start   Last   Total  Daily  STD  Wins  Losses BatAvg

Grant Kiehne 03/02 08/20 -10.2% -8 86 58 63 48%
Simon Thornington 04/01 09/30 -7.7% -6 101 72 53 57%
Jeff Koch 05/01 10/29 -3.2% -2 60 51 56 41%
Szilvia Hegyi 06/01 11/11 -10.4% -10 44 48 65 42%
Michael Van Kleeck 07/14 11/13 3.0% 3 27 46 36 53%
Spencer Singleton 09/21 11/13 -1.3% -3 29 21 18 54%
Pravin Bezwada 11/09 11/13 -0.3% -6 22 1 4 20%

2 responses
Grant Kiehne

It is also interesting to note that for Contest 1 there were 183 total entries. For the most recent Contest 12, to-date there are 861 entries, so participation is up. However, for Contest 12, only 160 entries qualify for all three "badges" (which are required to win, as I understand). So, back-of-the-envelope, there are roughly 50 Quantopian users actively participating in the contest (assuming that each user submits 3 algos). The total number of Quantopian users is over 40,000 reportedly, so we have only 0.1% participation in the contest.

Vladimir

As of 11/12/2015

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