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MemLabs Trading Challenge #1
⚡ ACTIVE Ends May 31, 2026 -2 days left 6 participants
Prizes
- Free Annual MemLabs Subscription
- MemLabs t-shirt for top 3 submissions
- Winner is added to the Hall of Fame
- Introduction to quant recruiters
- MemLabs video interview (optional)
Build a systematic trading strategy using daily OHLCV data. Your strategy will be evaluated on its total log return over the competition period — the best compound rate of return wins.
1 day Metric: Total Log Return
View| Rank | User | Strategy | Equity Curve | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yoitspeter | AR(2) | +15.3425 | +0.01513 | 13.09 | 73.5% | -0.0392 | Private | |
| 2 | Arty | AR(2) | +14.9705 | +0.01368 | 12.54 | 73.6% | -0.0604 | Private | |
| 3 | Arty | Volatility regime conditional | +13.7260 | +0.01325 | 11.30 | 62.2% | -0.1048 | Private | |
| 4 | mrfu_0x | AR(1) + Treshold | +10.2193 | +0.01406 | 10.03 | 50.9% | -0.0108 | Public | |
| 5 | Arty | Volatility regime conditional v2 | +7.2150 | +0.00739 | 5.33 | 36.8% | -0.1772 | Private | |
| 6 | mrfu_0x | AR(1) | +6.7469 | +0.00616 | 4.88 | 54.7% | -0.1232 | Private | |
| 7 | yoitspeter | seasonal | +2.5087 | +0.00229 | 1.76 | 52.1% | -0.6408 | Public | |
| 8 | Arty | Generalized statistic | +1.5270 | +0.00230 | 1.36 | 32.1% | -0.4414 | Public | |
| 9 | scomil | Linear Regression with 3 log return lags | +1.3628 | +0.00140 | 1.03 | 44.9% | -0.6409 | Public | |
| 10 | scomil | Linear Regression over 2 log return lags | +1.3202 | +0.00136 | 1.00 | 44.7% | -0.6158 | Public | |
| 11 | memlabs | AR(1) | +0.9849 | +0.00068 | 0.24 | 49.5% | -1.7205 | Public |