Quantopian's community platform is shutting down. Please read this post for more information and download your code.
Back to Community
March Winner Dropped From Contest?

I just noticed that the March winner was dropped from the contest results. I'm new here, so is this a regular occurrence? Are past winners' results dropped from the contest page after a certain length of time? Or is it just those algos that hit the stop loss? If Szilvia Hegyi's algo hits the 10% drawdown limit will her result be dropped? Won't that lead to more confusion for new Quantopian users, seeing only the live algo results and none of the past results? Sorry for the questions, I just didn't expect to see the mistakes buried so quickly.

2 responses

This is definitely an issue.. even if the winner hits a stop loss, there is a need to keep the performance up on the page. Or else it would introduce survivor bias, something which we see everyday in all sorts of reported data.

The March Prize winner is actually the first winner who has reached the end of their prize, either good or bad. The Winners page just doesn't handle that concept yet - we put it up without building what happens after it starts trading.

We're going to update the page to include past winners' performance at some point.

Disclaimer

The material on this website is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation or endorsement for any security or strategy, nor does it constitute an offer to provide investment advisory services by Quantopian. 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.