Notes from Awarnda
Ideas for your next contest, honest comparisons, and what we are building.
Why a trading league beats a one-off contest for a community
A contest is an event. A league is a season: placement points across rounds, a table that moves every month, and a champion. How to run one for any community.
How to keep a trading competition alive after the first week
Most contests die in week two. Seven organiser habits that keep a demo trading competition busy to the final day: standings posts, rivalries and loss limits.
The best markets for a beginner trading contest
Which markets to include when most players have never traded: five instruments people already understand, and the ones to leave out of a first demo contest.
A Christmas trading competition for the office: the complete plan
Swap the footy tipping comp for a Christmas trading competition. Dates, rules, how to announce it, and how to keep the office talking about it until the last day.
Demo trading competition vs paper trading: what is the difference?
Paper trading is practice on your own. A demo trading competition is the same practice with other people, a deadline and a leaderboard. That changes everything.
How to run a trading competition in your Discord server
A step-by-step plan for running a demo trading competition for a Discord community: picking rules, announcing it, keeping the chat alive and crowning a winner.
Why highest-return contests crown lucky winners (and what to use instead)
Scoring a trading competition on percentage return alone rewards the biggest bet, not the best trader. The maths, and the alternatives that keep a contest fair.
Free alternatives to TradingView community competitions
TradingView lets paid subscribers create paper trading contests. If you want a demo trading competition without a subscription, here is how the options compare.