Registration Occurs in November, challenge occurs from February through April
Competition only longs equities so usually relies on fundamental analysis, manually entering trades
However we might be able to run it through QuantConnect as QC supports connection to Bloomberg Terminal, Jared said it's cool to allow us to have institutional access
Would need to reach out to Bloomberg about competition rules, accessing API, John Miller at UIC to make sure everything is good with algorithmically trading our portfolio
Every Year Bloomberg hosts a Trading Challenge where University Students all around the country can submit an algorithm to test on Bloomberg's Terminal. The link below has more information
Below are important sub-pages with extra information
Winning Presentation for past year's team