Im impressed with these guys, would love for them to give out some tips.

I think you can see their results in both paper-trading and back-testing when you download the CSV from the leaderboard - https://www.quantopian.com/leaderboard/csv

What both of these guys have in common is great backtest results with phenomenal starts to their paper-trading - it'll be interesting to see if they can maintain those results as the paper-trading progresses.

Chris,

I have reviewed the leaderboard/csv before; however, I am interested in reviewing the individual trading results. This will determine whether they have SL and TP in place, the instruments they are trading, their average hold time, winning percentage and etc.

Revealing trades or what equities were traded would compromise the privacy of our members' algorithms.

Jon,

I totally agree with you regarding the members' privacy as many members are not willing to share their algos. This is fair.

Being it is a competition, there must be some transparencies. I think that this is a lesson learned, and it should be revised for future competitions. As a community, we are expected to contribute and learn from each other's, and the competition is a great way to do it. As a community, we can't grow and improve if nothing is shared. If members are not willing to share, then they can opt-out of the competition. If there is no openness for the competition, many members from the community will question whether the participants and their results are for real?

I would like to offer an alternative solution. For every even month, i.e. February, April, June, and so on, all competition trading results are hidden. For every odd month, January, March, May, and so on, all trading results are open to all members. This way for members who are extremely private, they can enter the competition during the even months. It is a reasonable request.

I assume Q will be considering adding top performers from contests into the managers program?
When is Q planning to open the hedge fund to investors?

Jeff,

I think that there must be more transparencies and openness for the top performers. As an investor, I would like to see at least 12 months of trading. Both hedge funds and investors will lose money if their decisions are based on the top performers of each month.

Uncle bob, I generally agree. As an investor, I would like to know that each algo being used in the fund has been running with real money for at least a few months. Also, it'd be nice to see the backtested consolidated performance from 12/31/2007, at least. I'm not sure, from a compliance standpoint, if Q will be able to show that?

Back to contest winners.....maybe Q could allocate 5-10% of their main fund to contest winners. Also, maybe Q could set up another fund of just contest winners that was much more aggressive.