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Trading CompetitionsLeaderboards · Prize Pools

Competitions that drive volume, not gambling.

Seasonal leaderboards, themed challenges, prize pools, anti-gaming logic and risk-adjusted scoring — designed so the traders who win are the ones operators want to keep.

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Inside Trading Competitions.

Six surfaces that make Trading Competitions feel less like a feature list and more like an operating environment for the work this team actually does every day.

SEASONS

Seasonal structure

Weekly, monthly and quarterly seasons, with carry-over, themed competitions, and tier brackets.

  • Weekly · monthly · quarterly
  • Carry-over
  • Tier brackets
SCORE

Risk-adjusted scoring

Sharpe, Sortino, drawdown-adjusted PnL — not raw % gain. Designed to reward skill, not luck.

  • Risk-adjusted
  • Drawdown-aware
  • Skill-rewarding
BOARDS

Live leaderboards

Real-time rankings with tier brackets, fairness audits, and dispute flows.

  • Real-time
  • Tier brackets
  • Disputes
PRIZE

Prize pools

Cash, scaling unlocks, payout speed-ups, exclusive challenges — paid through Treasury.

  • Cash
  • Scaling unlocks
  • Treasury-linked
ANTI

Anti-gaming

18 native patterns: collusion, account-stuffing, identity overlap, hedge-pairing, last-minute submission.

  • 18 patterns
  • Collusion
  • Hedge-pairing
FAIR

Fairness audits

Public rules, post-season audits, dispute flows and transparent winner verification.

  • Public rules
  • Post-audit
  • Disputes
FLOW

End-to-end, observable, addressable.

Where Trading Competitions sits in the lifecycle — and why each stage is measurable, not implied.

01STAGE 01

Author

Operator defines theme, rules, brackets, prize pool.

42
concurrent
02STAGE 02

Open

Sign-up, eligibility gates, KYC and tier checks.

58k / mo
participants
03STAGE 03

Run

Live trading · live leaderboard · risk-adjusted scoring.

Real-time
rankings
04STAGE 04

Police

Anti-gaming patterns score every entry.

18
patterns
05STAGE 05

Judge

Risk-adjusted scoring + fairness audit at close.

Risk-adj
no raw %
06STAGE 06

Pay

Treasury-paid prizes, with audit trail.

$1.2M / mo
paid out
COMPETITION LIFECYCLE
SPOTLIGHT

Reward skill — not the trader who YOLO’d on Friday.

Raw-PnL leaderboards reward luck and incentivize risk that operators have to clean up later. Trading Competitions scores on Sharpe, Sortino and drawdown-adjusted PnL — so the winners are traders operators actually want to fund and keep.

RISK-ADJUSTED, NOT RAW

Reward skill — not the trader who YOLO’d on Friday.

Raw-PnL leaderboards reward luck and incentivize risk that operators have to clean up later. Trading Competitions scores on Sharpe, Sortino and drawdown-adjusted PnL — so the winners are traders operators actually want to fund and keep.

  • Sharpe-weighted
    Returns scaled by volatility
  • Drawdown-adjusted
    Max-drawdown gates the leaderboard
  • Per-bracket fairness
    Account size and tier brackets, not free-for-all
  • Anti-gaming
    18 patterns flag collusion and stuffing
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SEASONSWeekly · monthly · quarterly
Seasonal structure
Carry-over
SCORERisk-adjusted
Risk-adjusted scoring
Drawdown-aware
BOARDSReal-time
Live leaderboards
Tier brackets
PRIZECash
Prize pools
Scaling unlocks
ANTI18 patterns
Anti-gaming
Collusion
FAIRPublic rules
Fairness audits
Post-audit
TRADING COMPETITIONS · TRADER EXPERIENCE
OPERATING SCALE

Trading Competitions, in numbers.

A snapshot of where Trading Competitions runs at production scale across QTG operators.

Concurrent42live competitions
Participants58k / moactive
Prize pools$1.2M / mopaid
Anti-gaming18patterns
CONNECTED TO

How Trading Competitions composes with the rest of QTG.

Components aren't bolted on per platform — they share one identity, one event bus, and one reporting plane. Adopt one. Plug in the next.

Trader Dashboard
Live rankings on the trader home.
Open
Loyalty Program
Seasons feed loyalty milestones.
Open
Risk & Rules Engine
Anti-gaming wired to risk plane.
Open
Payments & Payouts
Prize pools paid through Treasury.
Open
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