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Suggestion: Award prizes for educational algorithms/notebooks

Q is currently spending >$5k per month awarding prizes for the best performing algorithms.

How about another competition to award a weekly prize of $100 for a good educational article that would enrich Q's content? Or maybe better, invite the community to submit educational articles via the forum and give $ for any you choose to showcase (maybe by making a blog entry). That way nothing is wasted.

For example, suppose someone implements "Triple Screen" trading strategy by Alexander Elder and posts it up as a forum thread together with notebook and algorithm. The community could tidy it up, Q staff could apply final quality-control and paste it up on the site, sending some $ to the original author.

It isn't a fully formed idea, but maybe there is something in it.

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