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Cornell Hackathon 2015 - Contest Algorithm

Algorithm written to do 1-day forward price prediction for the Cornell Hackathon.

Hackathon Contest Rules

Clone the given algorithm. Write an algorithm to predict future the next day’s returns for Tivo. At the deadline, reply to this post with your algorithm entries. We will run them over a the last 3 months with a new stock that will be randomly picked at that time. The winner will be the one with the highest Sharpe ratio over the new stock.

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11 responses

Simple buy low, dump high strategy.
~Jaffe Greenwald

Erica Zhang's attempt :)

Low vol strategy. - JF

Han Hong's work. PPO

Jin's attempt

Dora and Zichen

Lizhuo

Sandeep

Zihao's tryout

Congratulations to Jaffe, the winner of the highest Sharpe ratio. The randomly selected out of sample security was MUH.

Congratulations to Erica, the winner of the highest returns.