Prize / Competition · LG AI Research / Kaggle / KDD Finance Day

XForecast Challenge @ KDD 2026

News-grounded financial forecasting with FinTexTS market and news dataset

open hybrid remote

Program overview

high

Notes

Official Kaggle task, rules, and prize pages plus LG AI Research organizer post confirm current status, FinTexTS task, and 2026-07-26 AoE deadline; team pool excluded from normalized personal payout

View official program ↗

Quantiacs Contest 25 · Quant research challenge

Compete for $2M in strategy allocations.

Submit a unique trading system. The seven highest Contest Scores receive one-year notional allocations with performance fees currently based on a 10% profit share.

1st$1M
2nd$500K
3rd$250K
4th$100K
5th–7th$50K each

Unique systems only. Quantiacs applies a correlation filter, and allocations may be reduced or eliminated if a winner’s live Contest Score falls below its score at contest close.

Sponsored registration link. Prize amounts are notional strategy allocations; payouts are performance fees under Quantiacs’ Relative Performance Model. Winner allocations commence within 30 days after the contest ends. Eligibility and official rules apply; no purchase is necessary.