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Is it possible for others to see the source code of the submitted algorithms or is that reserved only for the Quantopian employees?

If you have a good algorithm, why would you share it with anyone? A good one would be worth more than $100k.

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A good algorithm is useless unless you have enough capital to work with. You might have to spend years just building up enough capital to make a decent income off your trading; or, lack of capital might well induce you to trade at high levels of risk, and lose the little capital that you have.

We don't look at the source code of algorithms submitted to the contests, and the code is not made public unless the entrant chooses to share it in our forum.

(I work for Quantopian.)

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