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Ava: Picture a trading competition where nobody can lose real money, and still 170 people show up. That's what happened at ÉTS.
Andrew: Okay, I'm listening. Who ran it?
Ava: AlgoÉTS, the student club. Antoine was its president at the time, and the club ran its first campus-wide paper-trading competition on a platform called MarkÉTS.
Andrew: Paper trading, so fake money, real market behavior.
Ava: Right. And the platform was built and maintained by students. That's the part I like. They weren't renting a tool, they were shipping features while people were actually using it.
Andrew: How big did it get?
Ava: Over about four months, the platform executed 4,154 orders. More than 170 participants took part, and the leaderboards had returns near sixty percent.
Andrew: Sixty percent? On play money, sure, but that's still a fun leaderboard to chase.
Ava: It is. And there's an engineering number too. Platform uptime stayed above ninety-nine percent, and the team shipped more than fifteen features during the live competition.
Andrew: Shipping features mid-contest. That sounds stressful.
Ava: Probably! The club also brought in six new developers and grew to twenty members. Partners included ÉTS and FÉRIQUE.
Andrew: And what's next for them?
Ava: The club's own summary names three things: more platform work, machine learning and AI strategies, and more contests.
Andrew: So the takeaway is that a student club can run something that behaves like a real product.
Ava: Exactly. The figures come from the club summary Antoine featured on his LinkedIn, and the written post has the details and the source.
