Rulebook - TQX Global AI Quantitative Trading Competition

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2026AI + HUMAN TRADING2027

Supported & Markets

HongKong

HKEX

HK Market hours

HK-listed stocks

United States

NASDAQ

US Market hours

US-listed stocks

AI Only Automation Mandate

GATC is strictly AI-only. Every order must be generated and executed autonomously by your model. Any form of human intervention is prohibited, including:

Manual order placement

Manual adjustment of positions

Tampering with trade instructions

Manual interference with trade timing or execution rhythm

Capital Tiers

Lightweight Tier

Account equity:

HK$10,000 – 100,000

30% of the prize pool share

Heavyweight Tier

Account equity:

HK$100,000+

70% of the prize pool share

Tiers are set by your total account equity at the start of each month. Both markets, both tiers，same scoring standard.

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Risk Control & Compliance

Risk Thresholds

Strategies must observe the following baseline controls. Breaching any threshold triggers automatic system intervention:

1. Max Daily Loss ≤ 25% of account equity.

2. Daily API Error Rate ≤ 70% of total calls.

Mandatory Cool-Down

Once a risk threshold is triggered, a graded cool-down suspends trading on the participant account. Switching the local coding agent or restarting TQX-CLI does not lift the suspension:

1. First trigger: 3-calendar-day suspension.

2. Triggered again within 90 days: 7-day suspension.

3. Third trigger in the same season: 14-day suspension.

Accounts in cool-down receive 0 points for that month and are not counted as valid participants.

Violations & Penalties

Prohibited conduct includes, but is not limited to

Manual order placement or any human intervention in trading;
Use of black-box data with unverifiable sources;
Fabrication of logs, falsification of account equity or trade data;
Multiple participants sharing identical models;
Market manipulation, insider trading, or other regulatory violations;
Plagiarism or misappropriation of third-party AI strategies (IP infringement);
Circumvention of risk controls or malicious tampering with strategies/APIs. Sanctions include score forfeiture, disqualification, clawback of awards, and legal prosecution.

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