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QuantCon Hackathon Guide

If you are joining us for our QuantCon Hackathon on April 10th, please see this notebook for guidelines.

Update: 4/27/2016

I'm happy to announce that Luke Lee has won this year's QuantCon Hackathon held on April 10th, 2016 in NYC. Luke is currently an undergraduate senior studying mechanical engineering and will be going for his masters in computational finance and risk management in the fall.

We had over 200 registered hackers for the competition and the winner received $1,000+ in dataset subscriptions as well as a $300 cash prize.

Our next hackathon will be held on May 14th, 2016 in Boston. You can find more information about that hackathon here.

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  1. Please Remove _hackathon from your datasets
  2. Two backtests:
    September 1, 2012 ~ April 1, 2014
    April 1, 2014 ~ December 31, 2015

Please follow the submission guidelines found in the hackathon guide

We've announced the winner for this year's QuantCon hackathon. Please see the first post for full details!