Participate
Who can apply
Students and researchers: BTech, MTech, MSc, PhD and similar. Take part alone or in a team of up to four. Please register with your institutional email ID if you have one.
What you need
Python and pandas, and some comfort with statistics or machine learning. No finance background is required.
How to take part
Register your team.
The form takes a few minutes: team name, members, a contact person and a short description of the team.
Get your ticket number.
It arrives by email as soon as you register. Quote it in every message to us.
Hear from us on Thu 1 Oct.
Selected teams receive the data pack, the full rules and a worked example.
Build.
A second data file arrives on Fri 16 Oct.
Submit
between Sat 17 Oct and Mon 19 Oct, 5 pm IST, through the link sent to your registered email.
Registration closes Wednesday 30 September.
Timeline
Thu 24 Sep
Registration opens
Wed 30 Sep, end of day
Registration closes
Thu 1 Oct
Selected teams receive a confirmation, the data pack and the full rules
Fri 16 Oct
A second data file, covering 25 Sep to 16 Oct
Sat 17 to Mon 19 Oct, 5 pm IST
Submission window. The link is sent to your registered email
20 to 26 Oct
The organizers run and review every submission
Early November
One-to-one calls with prize contenders, then verdicts
Questions
Contact
Email contact@commodity-open.xyz and quote your ticket number.