I am currently ranked 187 in the cme challenge

[ThunderThor]

Prize Details:

First Place Prize: $1,000
Second Place Prize: $750
Third Place Prize: $500

 

[ironchef]

This is me and I only traded 3 days. Challenge ended last week.


"Your final position on the leaderboard:
24 of 1659 participants"


Start $100,000.00
Balance $113,545.00

Total 8 Trades.

I had the least total trades of all 1659 participants.

Challenge Leaderboard for Back to School Trading Challenge
9/10/2017 - 9/15/2017

Rank Username Balance

1 bedros.ohanian $150,356.25 Total Trades 25

2 wschweizer27 $132,607.30 Total Trades 11

3 hwilfon $131,708.02 Total Trades 19

4 rubeniii $131,036.88 Total Trades 16

5 domin323 $124,267.65 Total Trades 430

6 theconnor $123,821.10 Total Trades 40

7 taxationistheft $119,631.25 Total Trades 27

8 dwillett $118,970.21 Total Trades 69

9 boyderi1 $118,310.51 Total Trades 19

10 timework $117,582.45 Total Trades 295

11 rickyeo $117,397.22 Total Trades 34

12 fabricio1987 $116,761.80 Total Trades 32

13 mdavis00 $116,693.65 Total Trades 20

14 rncorradini $116,245.46 Total Trades 105

15 kicktothehead $115,767.63 Total Trades 49

16 56soleil $115,201.91 Total Trades 66

17 gioperez01 $115,054.90 Total Trades 37

18 lhora89 $114,734.06 Total Trades 36

19 superren $114,614.50 Total Trades 10

20 ying.mao $114,452.25 Total Trades 69

21 lparker $114,061.83 Total Trades 19

22 dice $113,883.85 Total Trades 87

23 tgauthier $113,739.25 Total Trades 9

24 thunderthor $113,545.00 Total Trades 8

25 ghem $113,508.22 Total Trades 143

Someone made 430 trades! Algo trader or HFT?

 

[ThunderThor]

Someone made 430 trades! Algo trader or HFT?

That's the first thing I thought of when seeing 430 trades, Algo /HFT .

That's 86 trades a day !

 

[Pekelo]

430 is only 1 trade in every 4-6 minutes, not that many that you need an algo. But #2 guy made 40% more with 40 times less trades...

 

[ThunderThor]

430 is only 1 trade in every 4-6 minutes, not that many that you need an algo. But #2 guy made 40% more with 40 times less trades...

4-6 minutes is without sleeping,could be a retail trader testing his Algo.

 

[Pekelo]

4-6 minutes is without sleeping,could be a retail trader testing his Algo.

Actually, no. It depends on if I account 7 or 9 hours of trading per day for a week. 8 hours : 430/40 = 11 trades per hour so a trade in every 5 minutes, can be easily done manually.