🥇Rank 1
- Cash prize
- 20,000USD
- Maximum allocation
- 50,000,000USD
- Performance share
- 20%
Paper trading contest · Registration open
Global Strategy Challenge
For quant firms, individual PMs and quant enthusiasts;
bring your own strategy or generate one in the workbench, compete on paper trading, ranked daily;
strong strategies enter the strategy marketplace and win direct investment from the Avenir family office.
012026-08-01
Registration opens
Submit your materials and clear eligibility review
022026-11-01
Qualifier starts (paper trading)
Paper trading runs; the board updates daily
032026-12-16
Live Finals Qualification
Top 10 per category, 30 advance in total
Prize Settings
Cash prize pool 50,000 USDAllocation ceiling 50,000,000 USDTop 100 enter the PM leaderboard
🥈Rank 2
- Cash prize
- 12,000USD
- Maximum allocation
- 20,000,000USD
- Performance share
- 20%
🥉Rank 3
- Cash prize
- 9,000USD
- Maximum allocation
- 10,000,000USD
- Performance share
- 20%
Special awards:Highest Return Award·Highest Trading Volume Award·Most Consistent Profit Award3,000 USD each
Contest Groups
Individual Group
Simulated capital
100,000USD
- Eligibility
- Submit complete contest materials and pass platform eligibility review
- Registration cap
- Unlimited
Institution Group
Simulated capital
100,000USD
- Eligibility
- Submit complete contest materials and pass platform eligibility review
- Registration cap
- Unlimited
Strategy categories and advancement
Ranked independently by strategy category · 30 entrants advance to the live final
Arbitrage
A same-asset hedge the fills can prove
Opposite directions held at the same time on the same asset, where the trades prove the hedge.
Top 10 advance
Market neutral
A long/short structure that keeps net exposure low
Long and short held together so that net exposure stays low over the run, cross-asset hedges included.
Top 10 advance
Other
No hedged structure of the two kinds above
One-way trading, timing, trend following and grid — and long/short books whose net exposure is not kept low.
Top 10 advance
Contest Leaderboard
Updated daily during the contest · Top 10
Preview · not scored
Contest Flow
01Register
Submit your entry and pick a group
02Eligibility review
Platform reviews eligibility and materials
03Strategy connection
Connect your strategy to the paper account
04Compete
Runs live on paper; daily leaderboard
05Review
Judged on return and risk metrics
06Awards
Winners announced and prizes awarded
Schedule Timeline
Judging
- Score composition
- Quant performance 100%+Judge review 0%
- Review dimensions
- InnovationStrategy LogicRisk ControlRobustnessPresentation
- Panel lineup
- Well-known industry figures · announced before the contest
Contest Risk and Compliance Statement
- This contest uses paper trading. Leaderboards and performance data are simulated results, not real-money trading results, and do not constitute return promises, investment advice, or recommendations. Simulated performance does not indicate future results.
- In-contest leaderboards are provisional. Results do not become final rankings or award bases until certified by the platform. The platform may recalculate leaderboards due to data correction or eligibility review.
- Any post-contest capital allocation or matching opportunity is at the platform's sole discretion. Participation or awards do not constitute a funding commitment.
- Markets involve risk, and strategy allocation should be handled cautiously. Participants make independent decisions and bear corresponding risks.