Alfa Connectome: Wunder Fund Launches $13,600 ML Competition
Wunder Fund has launched the Alfa Connectome machine learning competition, offering a $13,600 prize pool for building predictive models on real trading data.
Alfa Connectome: ML Competition by Wunder Fund
A new machine learning competition has started from Wunder Fund, a company specializing in high-frequency trading (HFT) with a daily turnover of over $10 billion since 2014.
The Task
Participants will analyze historical trading data for two related financial instruments. The goal is to build a model that predicts price movement indicators for one of the instruments based on:
- Order book information;
- Trade data;
- Additional metadata.
Essentially, this is a classic quantitative research task, allowing participants to work with real exchange data.
Competition Details
- Dates: September 11 — November 15
- Prize Pool: $13,600
Rewards
Winners will receive:
- Cash prizes.
- An invitation to interview with Wunder Fund.
- Significant intellectual satisfaction and experience in handling complex financial data.
Why it matters
AnalysisThis competition provides a unique opportunity for data scientists and quants to showcase their skills on real-world financial data and potentially secure a job with a leading HFT firm.
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