Greetings from WnCC and Quant Club! Following our previous communication regarding the rescheduling of the Black-box Signal Hunt, we are delighted to announce that the quantitative trading competition is officially returning. We highly appreciate your continued enthusiasm and patience, and we are pleased to officially reopen registrations for teams that wish to participate. Conducted by The Motilal Oswal Centre for Capital Markets, this competition is designed to challenge your analytical thinking, mathematical reasoning, and systems-building skills. Participants will work on a 10-year high-frequency dataset containing 50 assets and attempt to isolate a hidden alpha signal, while also building a fast and efficient custom backtesting engine. Competition Highlights - Quant Hunt: Mathematically isolate a hidden “alpha” signal buried in a 10-year dataset of 50 assets. - Alpha Puzzle: Identify the single tradable asset (TICKER_00) hidden among 49 predictors and structured noise. - Systems Sprint: Build a custom backtesting engine in C++, Rust, or optimized NumPy capable of processing millions of rows in under 15 seconds. - Low-Latency Challenge: Optimize for speed and efficiency under strict runtime constraints on large-scale data. Registration Details Registration Link: https://forms.gle/5fne8C85U1iLU72A8 Registration Deadline: 30th May 2026, 11:59 PM Note: Previously, registered teams do not need to register again. Important Rules and Constraints - Team Size: 2–3 members per team - No AI/ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn are permitted. - Both a long-only strategy with a $1 million cap and a long-short strategy with a $2 million cap must be deployed simultaneously. - If a strategy’s Net NAV drops to zero or below, the game ends. - Submissions must include precise 5-column transaction logs for automated grading. Join the WhatsApp group for further updates: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Dp0mRSEmliFBZMuzQkrZYa Warm Regards, Avnish | Mithra 9167339950 | 8762070856 WnCC Managers, 2026-27 Innovate.Tinker.Create Best Regards, Veeraditya Karan Parakh, General Secretary, Technical Affairs 2026-27 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Contact: +91 94490 007525 https://tech-iitb.org https://insti.app/org/techiitb