Humans

14 tribes

AI

Artificial intelligence

Monkeys

The Dartboard

AthenAI

2026 - 2027 edition

Quantitative competition

TOP QUANT ARENA

Humans vs AI vs Monkeys
The market decides who advances

Three ways to take on the market.

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Next milestone

The lab

  • Backtesting
  • Market reveal
  • Live session

Time left

44 days 16 hours

Battles & ongoing learning

  1. Registration open
  2. The lab
  3. Phase 1
  4. Phase 2
  5. Phase 3
  6. Phase 4 The final battle
  7. The arena closes

Status

Registration open

Backtesting

15 DEC 2026

Competition start

15 JAN 2027

Ranking

Public

To register you will need an official identity document.

Backtesting access: Access to a simulation environment that will let you design and evaluate investment strategies using historical data, compare their behaviour with a benchmark (reference index) and analyse their results against a broad set of random strategies. The aim is to give you a practical tool to design, test and refine your strategies before the competition starts, scheduled for 15 January 2027.

US$1 BILLION OF CAPITAL TO MANAGE

US$1,000,000,000 across the four phases of Top Quant Arena

HUMANS / 14 TRIBES

5 ORIGINS. 14 TRIBES. ONE SINGLE ARENA.

Different disciplines. Different ways of thinking. One single market to put them to the test.

Will knowing the market be enough to master it?

  • Finance professionals
  • Traders
  • Finance lecturers

Will those who turn the market into models win?

  • Mathematicians
  • Physicists

Will those who can turn an idea into a system win?

  • Engineers
  • Computer scientists
  • Telecommunications engineers
  • Python community

Will those who can separate the signal from the noise win?

  • Data Engineers
  • Data Scientists
  • Machine Learning Engineers
  • AI lecturers

Will the new generation be the one to defy every forecast?

  • Students

Your background defines where you start. The market decides how far you go.

WHAT IS AT STAKE

HUMAN TOP 30 · DARWINEX ZERO

€3,150,000

OF REAL CAPITAL UNDER MANAGEMENT

DARWINEX ZERO BOOSTER

€100,000 for each human participant ranked from 2nd to 30th place, for 6 months.

HUMAN TOP 30 · ATHENAI

100% SCHOLARSHIP

Complete Quant Essential + Top Quant programme

€27,500 per person

For the 30 best human participants within the final Top 100.

TOP HUMAN · ATHENAI + DARWINEX ZERO

GUARANTEED JOB OFFER

€250,000 IN TOTAL REAL CAPITAL UNDER MANAGEMENT

Darwinex Zero booster for 3 years for the highest-ranked human participant in the final Top 100.

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THE ARENA IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

Take the skills you put to the test in Top Quant Arena even further.