Trading contest with cash prize

Discussion in 'Professional Trading' started by proptrdr, Aug 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM.

  1. proptrdr

    proptrdr

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  2. 2rosy

    2rosy

    2 months of time to maybe win 1st prize 12.5k. Looks like a cheap internship or possible hiring test. Claim minority on application and goodmajor at good school
     
  3. MarkBrown

    MarkBrown

    just the rules make my head spin 360 degrees
     
  4. Fonz

    Fonz

    This is puzzling to me: If your are that good and you go for the big prize, why would you work 2 months free with no garantee?
    The jackpot is $6,250 per month...
     
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  5. MarkBrown

    MarkBrown

    exactly they are like @newwurldmn when he posted i want a wall street quant to work for minimum wages. lol not to mention his IT department is flying in to meet him about AI.

    I looked this companies web site up they want python coders and basically tout themselves as system traders but only 1 single person is in charge of that think worldwide they have 1 guy lol.

    there big companies are so far behind it's impossible for them to get on track no matter what they do. they hire the brightest minds while high school dropouts on the floor run circles around them. there is a big disconnect from perception "needing phd's" and actually making money.

    this competition is basically a primal cry of a dying regime
     
  6. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    Mark, how does it feel to be so old and such a failure at life that you have to pretend on ET that you are a success?
     
  7. MarkBrown

    MarkBrown

    guess i learned from you lol mr big stuff - are you just another one of des usernames? how does it feel to really see greatness? i have no peers...
     
  8. Why are all of these trading competitions about futures only? Why not options as well? They always have alot of stipulations. Just let the traders go cowboy any way they want to.

    Any serious trader, anyways, wouldn't waste their time with this fantasy nonsense just to showoff The Big Boner award trophy. Just to brag about a gambling game that's luck.
     
  9. MarkBrown

    MarkBrown

    i think they should have competitions where the winner controls risk myself.
     
  10. Anyone can make the options markets work for them, but futures is a completely different beast.
    Since you often speak as if you possess supreme knowledge, you should be aware of that.
     
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