Competition & private leagues
Free forever · no cardLearn to invest by competing. Without risking real money.
The DeepTicker Official Competition gives you a virtual portfolio of $50,000 to practice with real market prices, compete against other users and measure your decisions with serious metrics.
You can take part in the official tournament, compete against the 🤖 DeepTicker AI, create private leagues with friends and follow your progress with ranking, return, Sharpe ratio, drawdown and Alpha DeepTicker.
The competition and private leagues are free forever. Even if you do not activate Premium, you can keep practicing, competing and learning inside DeepTicker.
Two ways to compete
The official tournament or a league with your friends.
🏆 Official Competition
Compete against all participants and against the 🤖 DeepTicker AI. Each user starts with $50,000 in virtual cash, trades with real prices and appears in a shared ranking.
The Official Competition may include prizes and Alpha DeepTicker: a score that measures your risk-adjusted performance and helps you see whether you are truly improving as an investor.
To be eligible for prizes you have to meet a few simple rules on activity and risk management. DeepTicker shows you at all times whether you are eligible for prizes, which requirement you are missing and what action you need to take to meet it again.
🤝 Private Leagues
Create a private league in a minute, invite your friends with a link and compete with the same base rules: $50,000 in virtual cash, real prices and a live ranking.
Private leagues are designed to learn, have a bit of friendly rivalry and compare investing styles as a group. They do not change your Alpha DeepTicker from the Official Competition and have no official DeepTicker prize.
Why it exists
Serious data. Real learning. Without risking money.
DeepTicker exists so that investing stops feeling like a closed language. The platform turns financial, regulatory and market data into information that is easier to interpret: stock analysis, market context, portfolio tracking and hands-on learning.
The competition does not replace analysis: it turns it into practice. You can study companies, make decisions with a virtual portfolio, see how your strategy reacts to the market and learn from your mistakes without putting real money at risk.
⚠️ Notice: DeepTicker is a platform for information, analysis, education and financial entertainment. It does not provide financial advice or personalized investment recommendations. Investment decisions and their consequences are the sole responsibility of the user.
What it is
What the DeepTicker Official Competition is
The Official Competition is a free virtual investing competition. You get $50,000 in virtual cash and compete against other users trading with real market prices.
It is a hands-on way to learn the stock market: you make decisions, see the result, compare your portfolio with other participants and find out whether your strategy works beyond theory. You can use it to practice before investing real money, test ideas, understand risk better and develop your own investing style.
When you want to take what you have learned to your real portfolio, you can use My Portfolio to record trades, measure return and compare your progress against the S&P 500.
How it works
From zero to competing in two minutes.
No deposits, no broker and no card. You sign up, enter the active competition and start building your virtual portfolio.
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You get $50,000 in virtual cash
When you join the competition you have a virtual portfolio with $50,000. The cash is virtual, but the prices are real. You practice with market data without risking your capital.
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You trade with clear rules
You can buy and sell stocks and ETFs available within the competition universe. Every trade is recorded so you can review your history, your wins and your mistakes.
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You manage your portfolio
You can adjust your positions, reduce concentration, rotate between assets and schedule orders such as take-profit or stop-loss when available. The idea is not to trade for the sake of it, but to practice real decisions: when to enter, exit, hold or cut risk, and to review the impact of each move.
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You compete in the ranking
All participants appear in a single ranking, sorted by return. Next to each user, DeepTicker shows whether they are eligible for prizes or not. If a participant finishes in a prize position but does not meet the requirements of the edition, the prize passes to the next eligible user in the ranking.
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The DeepTicker AI narrates the competition
The 🤖 DeepTicker AI sums up how the tournament is evolving with recaps of the session: leaders, comebacks, drops, standout moves and major changes in the ranking. The goal is not only to compete, but to understand what is happening inside the competition.
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You can win prizes
The Official Competition may include prizes for the best participants and special rewards for those who finish ahead of the 🤖 DeepTicker AI. Always check the rules of the active edition to see dates, prizes, conditions and requirements.
Rules to be eligible for prizes
One ranking. Clear rules. No zombie portfolios.
All participants can play, trade and appear in the ranking. But to be eligible for prizes you have to meet some minimum conditions on participation and risk management.
DeepTicker shows your status at all times inside the competition: whether you are eligible for prizes, whether you are missing a monthly trade, whether you hold a position that is too concentrated or whether you fail to meet a requirement of the edition.
Monthly activity
To be eligible for prizes, each participant must make at least 1 valid trade per month. A valid trade is a buy or sell executed for a minimum amount of $1,000.
This rule prevents abandoned portfolios without forcing you to trade every few days.
Concentration limit
You cannot make a buy that would leave more than 50% of the total portfolio value invested in a single ticker. The limit is checked at the moment you buy.
If a position goes above 50% because the price rose, you are not forced to sell. While it stays above the limit you cannot buy more of that ticker; you can still hold or sell (in full or in part).
Already-concentrated positions
If a participant already holds a position above the allowed limit, DeepTicker will show a warning on their dashboard.
To become eligible for prizes again, they must reduce that position until it meets the rule. The system indicates which position breaks the rule and what to do to get back on track.
Prize status
- ✅ Eligible for prizes. You meet the requirements of the active edition.
- ⚠️ Action required. You need to make a valid trade, reduce concentration or meet some pending requirement.
- ⛔ Not eligible for prizes. You can keep playing and appear in the ranking (dimmed, with a "Not eligible for prizes" label), but without receiving prizes until you comply.
Ranking and prizes
All participants appear in the same ranking. Prizes are assigned to the first eligible participant: if a non-eligible user finishes in a prize position, the prize passes to the next one who does meet the requirements.
This way the ranking stays transparent, but prizes go to those who took part within the rules.
Active edition
The current edition of the Official Competition runs from 8 June to 8 December 2026.
Dates, prizes and conditions may vary in future editions. Always check the full rules and the legal terms before taking part.
What makes it different
A stock market competition that also teaches.
DeepTicker does not frame the competition as a gamble. It frames it as training: you make decisions, see consequences, compare strategies and learn to read your own portfolio.
Session narration
The 🤖 DeepTicker AI turns the ranking into a recap that is easy to follow: who is leading, who is climbing back, which portfolios moved the most and which decisions are shaping the competition.
Full virtual portfolio
Your tournament portfolio shows positions, return, P&L, trades and scheduled orders. You can review what you did, when you did it and how it affected your result.
Ranking with metrics
It is not all raw return. DeepTicker shows metrics that help you understand risk better: Sharpe ratio, drawdown, performance against the market and Alpha DeepTicker.
That makes it easy to tell apart someone leading on one extreme bet from someone building a more solid portfolio.
Public portfolios inside the tournament
Participants' portfolios can be viewed inside the competition to learn from other investing styles.
You can see which companies each user holds, how they are managing risk and which decisions explain their position in the ranking.
Alpha DeepTicker
Winning is not enough. How you win matters.
Alpha DeepTicker is a score of the Official Competition that measures your risk-adjusted performance. It does not reward big returns alone: it also takes into account how you achieved them. The goal is to prevent an extreme bet from looking like a great strategy only because it worked out once.
Alpha DeepTicker values factors such as:
- ·Return against the market.
- ·Drawdown control.
- ·Risk management.
- ·Diversification.
- ·Consistency throughout the competition.
The score is only calculated in the Official Competition. Private leagues are for competing with friends, but they do not change your Alpha DeepTicker.
Alpha DeepTicker levels
As you improve your score, you level up inside the competition:
The idea is that the competition measures not just a single edition, but your progress as a participant over time.
Why it works
It looks like a competition. It is investing practice.
You learn to measure yourself better
The competition teaches you to look beyond "I am up" or "I am down". You see return, risk, drawdown, the Sharpe ratio and comparison against the market.
You learn to manage risk
A very concentrated portfolio can rise fast, but it can also fall hard. DeepTicker helps you spot whether you are betting too much on a single idea or whether your risk is poorly spread.
You learn to review decisions
Every trade is recorded. You can go back, analyze what worked, what failed and what you would do differently next time.
You learn by watching others
The public portfolios in the tournament let you observe different strategies: users who are more concentrated, more diversified, more defensive or more aggressive. Seeing how others play also helps sharpen your own judgment.
You practice without real money
Learning happens when you make decisions and see consequences. Here you can do it without putting your capital at risk.
Official Competition prizes
Playing is free. Winning can come with a prize.
Each edition of the Official Competition may include prizes for the best participants. Example prizes from one edition:
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1st place
$250 in cash
+ 1 year of Premium subscription
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2nd and 3rd places
1 year of Premium subscription
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4th and 5th places
6 months of Premium subscription
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DeepTicker AI challenge
Anyone who finishes ahead of the 🤖 DeepTicker AI can receive 1 month of Premium subscription.
Prizes, dates and conditions may vary by edition. Each person gets only one prize per edition. Always check the full rules of the active competition and the legal terms before taking part.
The challenge
Can you beat the 🤖 DeepTicker AI?
The 🤖 DeepTicker AI also takes part in the Official Competition under the same rules as everyone else: virtual portfolio, real prices and a shared ranking.
Its role is to serve as a benchmark. If you finish ahead of it, you prove that your decisions beat the machine in that edition.
Accept the challenge · freePrivate Leagues
Create your private league and compete with friends.
Prefer to compete only with your group? Create a private league, invite whoever you want and set up your own ranking. Private leagues are perfect for friends, communities, classes, investing groups or teams that want to practice together.
You choose the duration
You can create leagues of different lengths depending on the kind of challenge you want to set up.
You invite with a link
You share a link and participants join with no hassle. Each user starts with the same virtual capital.
Everyone starts equal
Each participant gets $50,000 in virtual cash and trades with real prices. Same starting point, different decisions.
Live ranking
The league shows standings, progress and portfolios so everyone can follow the rivalry transparently.
No official prize
Private leagues have no official DeepTicker prize. They are designed to compete with friends, practice and learn as a group.
Can you beat the rest? Prove it.
Create a free account, enter the Official Competition or set up your own private league. Practice with $50,000 in virtual cash, real prices and serious metrics.
The competition and private leagues are free forever.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the competition and private leagues
What is the DeepTicker Official Competition?
It is a free virtual investing competition where you get $50,000 in virtual cash and compete against other users using real market prices. It is built to help you practice, measure your decisions and learn without risking real money.
Is the competition free?
Yes. The Official Competition and private leagues are free forever and no card is required. Even if you do not activate Premium, you can keep taking part.
What do I have to do to be eligible for prizes?
You have to meet the requirements of the active edition. In this edition, that includes making at least 1 valid trade per month and respecting the per-ticker concentration limit. Inside the competition, DeepTicker shows you whether you are eligible for prizes, whether any action is required and whether you are missing a requirement.
What is a valid trade?
A valid trade is a buy or sell executed for a minimum amount of $1,000 within the universe available in the competition.
What happens if I do not make the monthly trade?
You can keep playing and appear in the ranking, but you will not be eligible for prizes until you meet the requirements of the edition.
What happens if I hold more than 50% in a single position?
If a position goes above 50% because it rose in price after you bought it, you are not forced to sell. But you cannot buy more of that ticker while it stays above the limit. If you already hold a position above the limit and the edition requires meeting that rule for prizes, DeepTicker will warn you and tell you what to do to become eligible again.
Does everyone appear in the same ranking?
Yes. All participants appear in the same ranking. The difference is that DeepTicker shows who is eligible for prizes and who is not. If a non-eligible user finishes in a prize position, the prize passes to the next eligible participant.
What prizes does the Official Competition have?
Prizes depend on each edition. There may be prizes for the top positions and special rewards for those who finish ahead of the 🤖 DeepTicker AI. Always check the rules of the active competition to see dates, prizes and conditions.
Is there an AI competing in the competition?
Yes. The 🤖 DeepTicker AI takes part in the Official Competition under the same rules as the users. It works as an extra benchmark: you can compare your performance against other participants and against the machine.
What is Alpha DeepTicker?
Alpha DeepTicker is a score of the Official Competition that measures your risk-adjusted performance. It values not just how much you make, but how you make it: drawdown, diversification, risk control, consistency and how you compare against the market.
Do private leagues change my Alpha DeepTicker?
No. Alpha DeepTicker is only calculated in the Official Competition. Private leagues are independent and are designed for competing with friends or groups.
Can I create a private league with my friends?
Yes. You can create a private league, invite your friends with a link and compete with $50,000 in virtual cash each. Private leagues have their own ranking and are great for practicing as a group.
What can I learn in the competition?
You can learn to measure a portfolio, control risk, compare decisions, review mistakes, understand drawdowns, use metrics like the Sharpe ratio and check whether your strategy holds up beyond a single lucky trade.
Do I need prior experience?
No. You can take part even if you are just getting started. The competition is designed to practice, understand concepts and learn by doing, without risking real money.
Is this financial advice?
No. The Official Competition and private leagues are tools for financial education and entertainment. This is not financial advice or personalized investment recommendations. Decisions and their consequences are the sole responsibility of the user.