Opportunity brief
Overview:
Are you interested in stock markets, trading strategies, and financial research? Here's your opportunity to put your knowledge to the test!
Stocks Sena AlphaQuest 2026 is a pan-India competition designed for students passionate about financial markets, trading, and investment research. Organized by Stocks Sena, the competition challenges participants to test their knowledge, explore financial research tools, and experiment with trading strategies.
About Stocks Sena:
Stocks Sena is a stock market research platform built to make financial research more accessible and comprehensive. It brings together company financials, market-related news, portfolio tracking, and research tools to help users explore listed companies and financial markets.
Discover Backtest Lab:
One of the key features of Stocks Sena is Backtest Lab, which allows users to define trading strategy parameters and generate backtest reports showing how those strategies would have performed over a selected historical period.
Participants can experiment with different parameters, evaluate historical strategy performance, and gain practical exposure to systematic trading strategy analysis.
Competition Structure:
The competition consists of three rounds:
Round 1: Financial Markets Quiz
Test your understanding of financial markets, fundamental analysis, valuation, technical analysis, and investing concepts.
Round 2: The Stocks Sena Advantage Challenge
Explore Stocks Sena's features and demonstrate your understanding of how the platform can support financial research and market analysis.
Round 3: Backtest Lab Challenge
Use Stocks Sena's Backtest Lab to test a trading strategy over a specified historical period and submit your results for evaluation.
Cash Prizes:
Compete for a total national cash prize pool of ₹15,000.
- All-India Rank 1: ₹10,000
- All-India Rank 2: ₹3,000
- All-India Rank 3: ₹2,000
Potential Internship Opportunities:
The competition also offers an opportunity to stand out beyond the leaderboard.
National podium finishers may be considered for potential internship opportunities with Stocks Sena, based on their performance, skills, and the company's requirements.
This is an opportunity to showcase your understanding of financial markets, analytical abilities, and interest in financial research and technology.
Who Can Participate?
Students from colleges and universities across India who are interested in stock markets, financial research, investing, or trading strategies are encouraged to participate.
Whether you're beginning your journey in financial markets or already have experience analyzing companies and trading strategies, AlphaQuest offers an opportunity to learn, experiment, and compete.
Certificates:
Participants who meet the competition's participation requirements will receive a digital participation certificate.
Join the Challenge:
Explore the markets. Test your strategies. Compete with the best student talent across India.