S&P500 - Weekly Forecasting Competition for 2023

[counter_violent]

4535.4 ta

 

[lexcorp]

4485

 

[counter_violent]

4515.4 ta

 

[IlIlIlIlI]

4575.1 please

 

[lexcorp]

4555

 

[lexcorp]

4570

 

[counter_violent]

4545.4 ta

 

[Oscar Reed]

4521 please

 

[IlIlIlIlI]

4596.8 please

 

[Sharky]

Thanks for the entries, update coming soon. In the meantime, I've been busy building our new contest application. Here's a sneak work-in-progress peek, still early days...

 

[Sharky]

I'm planning to launch the beta testing version of the contest application later today or tomorrow, stay tuned!

 

[counter_violent]

I'm planning to launch the beta testing version of the contest application later today or tomorrow, stay tuned!

Got any plans to get participation up ?

 

[Sharky]

Got any plans to get participation up ?

I think the ease with which you can enter will drive some participation! Let's see

 

[Sharky]

And we're live!

Check out the contest here:

https://contest.trade2win.com

Please report any bugs/issues/suggestions on this thread. If you can post your predictions both on the new website and here just until we know it's all working as expected.

 

[IlIlIlIlI]

It looks like the login on the contest URL does not work, I'm not really sure whether it should work.

 

[Sharky]

It looks like the login on the contest URL does not work, I'm not really sure whether it should work.
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Hey! No, that's correct, basically it's using something called Oauth2, you're probably familiar with it, when you sign in with your google or facebook account. It's basically asking for permission to read your user information on Trade2Win. Just click Authorise and you're good to go. You only need to do this once. If you're ever logged out afterwards, then clicking login will automatically log you back in. The reason for all this is because the contest is built on a different platform to Xenforo, even though it shares the same domain, this site and the contest are on two different subdomains, ie. www. and contest. so essentially they're different websites. Rather than get you to register a new account on the contest, I thought it would be easier to just use your T2W credentials. This whole authorisation process though as you can see from the screenshot is a bit clunky, it's not a great user experience; I can probably tweak this but it's just an off the shelf plugin that enables Oauth2 with Xenforo, which is the forum software we use.

Also I need to upgrade the session management on the contest website, every time I push an update to the live site it restarts the server and logs everyone out. I need to store the sessions in the postgresql database we use, that's on the to-do list.

I've also open-sourced the contest, so anybody can install it locally and improve if they choose, you can also report bugs there. Check out the github repo here: https://github.com/trade2win/sp500-competition

 

[Sharky]

Okay, with a bit of a push and a tweak, results are now in!

https://contest.trade2win.com/

Well done, @Oscar Reed who won gold this week, closely followed by @counter_violent and our own @T2W Bot who represents the average of all predictions each week.

 

[Sharky]

And the predictions for next week are now working too (after a little tweaking).. mine is 4525!

 

[counter_violent]

4444.4 ta, Just in case I screwed up entering on the app.

 

[IlIlIlIlI]

mine is 4525!

mine is a secret for insiders of the contest