Transferring prizes after winning Alpha Competitions

I took 3rd place in the Quant League: Alpha Competition for week's 11, 12, and 13.

In the Algorithm Lab backend, there's a button to "Withdraw" -- clicking this after week 11 to claim the $50.00 prize reduced my balance to $0.00, showing "Balance Withdrawal: -$50.00" but without asking me where to send these funds. After winning week 12, then Withdraw button claimed the minimum amount needed to withdraw funds was $100. After winning again, I'm now reluctant to try it again, as the first $50.00 disappeared.

I emailed QuantConnect via the Contact form a couple times without a reply, and reached out on Twitter without a reply. How does one collect their winnings on this site (which should now be $150.00 for my account) ?

Hi andrew martin czeizler ,

There are a couple of issues in the algorithm. First, it doesn't set self.week after the if-condition is not met. Also, since the averages are updated by the CoarseFundamental.AdjustedPrice, we cannot return when the if-condition is met, so we need to move it down in that method:

    def CoarseSelectionFunction(self, coarse):
        for cf in coarse:
            if cf.Symbol not in self.averages:
                self.averages[cf.Symbol] = SymbolData(cf.Symbol)

            avg = self.averages[cf.Symbol]
            avg.update(cf.EndTime, cf.AdjustedPrice)

        current_week = self.Time.isocalendar()[1]
        if  current_week == self.week:
            return Universe.Unchanged
        self.week = current_week

        values = list(filter(lambda x: x.is_uptrend, self.averages.values()))
        values.sort(key=lambda x: x.scale, reverse=True)

        return [ x.symbol for x in values[:self.coarse_count] ]

Please note that we need, at least, 300 trading days to warm up the indicators, so the StartDate-EndDate range should be greater than 300 trading days.

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Awesome, thanks Jared!

For what it's worth, I sent the messaging via https://www.quantconnect.com/contact I wanted to do it via the terminal page's Support tab, but it was $60 for the Bronze support ticket package.

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