5 reasons you should check the Numerai Competitions.
I’ve been competing in the Numerai Quant competitions ( there are 2 ) for the past 3 years and thought it could be interesting to write a follow up to my previous two posts as a way to catch up…
Previous posts you might like:- Numerai walkthrough: Quantitative Analysis & Machine learning for fun and profit. The practical parts are now outdated, but the introduction explanation is still relevant. - Practical Keras Simple regression for the Numerai Tournament An up to date (late 2020) technical look at setting up a Neural Network for the tournament.
What is it again ?
In a nutshell Numerai is a Hedge Fund with crowdsourced elements in the form of two quant competitions, the main tournament ( numerai ) and the newer ( signals ). The main tournament consists of an obfuscated dataset that represents years of market and financial information and you are tasked with predicting a future date. Signals in its current form is closer to traditional stock picking/portfolio construction in that you submit a list of tickers with short/long ranks and are scored on returns over a shorter weekly period.
