In the last post I said the shift I'm betting on for the next two years isn't an asset class. Here it is.
It's the format. Specifically, competitive trading.
Let me back into it from where the industry actually is right now.
Every venue out there - centralized, decentralized, big or boutique - is fighting for the same finite resource: serious traders. Not tourists. Not airdrop hunters. People who put real size on, stay engaged, and generate the volume that pays for the books. The acquisition cost for that kind of user has gone vertical. Referral programs aren't enough anymore. Fee discounts aren't enough. The platforms know this. They're searching for a format that solves three things at once: bring traders in, prove who's actually good, build a community around the proof.
That format already exists. It's just been underused. Trading tournaments. Real prize pools. Public leaderboards. Finite windows. Provable performance.
Two reasons this matters to you, not just to platforms.
1. Tournaments produce what no certificate can - verifiable edge.
You can read books, take courses, post on TradingView for ten years. None of it confirms whether your system actually holds up under real pressure against real operators on a clock. A tournament does. Prize fund on the table, leaderboard public, time-boxed. You find out what your system does, or you find out it doesn't do what you thought.
For traders who came to this industry only to make money - fine, ignore this. For traders who came to become something - to confirm an edge, to compete at a level, to be measurable - competitive trading is the most direct route I see right now.
2. Tournaments are where community actually compounds.
Solo is brutal. Every honest trader knows this. The best ideas, the early-warning signals, the counter-arguments that save you from your own bias — they come from other people. But "community" as a chat-room concept is broken. Most groups are P&L-dumping grounds. Real community forms around shared stakes.
You enter as an individual or a team, you compete, you debrief, you learn faster in three weeks than three months alone. You didn't sign up for a community. The format built one anyway.
I'm not theorizing. I ran one in March.
49 verified traders signed up to compete on the same clock. Best result: +157% ROI in 30 days. About a third never placed a single trade. That gap - between people who say they'll show up and people who actually trade under public stakes - is the most honest filter in this industry.
The leaderboard was the visible result. The thing I didn't expect was everything around it.
As for me, I share all my work, indicators and trades with my people, which is really necessary.
Over the past 9 months, I've done a lot to provide tools that work.
Traders who'd never spoken started comparing entries in real time. Debriefing each other's setups. Calling out each other's blind spots. Sharing what worked the first week and what blew up the second. By the end, the community around the leaderboard was as valuable as the leaderboard itself - because that's where everyone figured out, together, what actually works and what doesn't. Not in theory. In live conditions, on the same clock, against the same market.
The next layer is already forming on the same logic: bots against bots, with the builders behind them publicly accountable for results. Whether the operator is human, machine or hybrid, the format becomes the proving ground.
What to do, concretely, this quarter.
1. Enter one tournament you're scared to enter. Pick a venue you respect, a format that's a stretch but not impossible, a window you can fully commit to. The point isn't winning. The point is finding out where your system breaks under real conditions and a public clock.
2. Find or build a team before the next major bracket. You don't have to compete solo. The traders who compound fastest from here will operate in small high-trust teams — three to five people, complementary edges, ruthless debriefs. If you don't have that already, this is the year to build it.
3. Start thinking about your bot - even if you'd never call yourself a quant. The next layer of competition is partly automated. Operators who learn to instrument their own decisions in code will pull away from those who don't. Start with one rule from your discretionary system. Codify it. Backtest it. Track it live. Just one. Build from there.
If you've competed - in any format, any venue - tell me in the comments what the format got right and what it got wrong. I'm building the next one and I'm reading every answer in the first 24 hours.
Best regards EXCAVO
It's the format. Specifically, competitive trading.
Let me back into it from where the industry actually is right now.
Every venue out there - centralized, decentralized, big or boutique - is fighting for the same finite resource: serious traders. Not tourists. Not airdrop hunters. People who put real size on, stay engaged, and generate the volume that pays for the books. The acquisition cost for that kind of user has gone vertical. Referral programs aren't enough anymore. Fee discounts aren't enough. The platforms know this. They're searching for a format that solves three things at once: bring traders in, prove who's actually good, build a community around the proof.
That format already exists. It's just been underused. Trading tournaments. Real prize pools. Public leaderboards. Finite windows. Provable performance.
Two reasons this matters to you, not just to platforms.
1. Tournaments produce what no certificate can - verifiable edge.
You can read books, take courses, post on TradingView for ten years. None of it confirms whether your system actually holds up under real pressure against real operators on a clock. A tournament does. Prize fund on the table, leaderboard public, time-boxed. You find out what your system does, or you find out it doesn't do what you thought.
For traders who came to this industry only to make money - fine, ignore this. For traders who came to become something - to confirm an edge, to compete at a level, to be measurable - competitive trading is the most direct route I see right now.
2. Tournaments are where community actually compounds.
Solo is brutal. Every honest trader knows this. The best ideas, the early-warning signals, the counter-arguments that save you from your own bias — they come from other people. But "community" as a chat-room concept is broken. Most groups are P&L-dumping grounds. Real community forms around shared stakes.
You enter as an individual or a team, you compete, you debrief, you learn faster in three weeks than three months alone. You didn't sign up for a community. The format built one anyway.
I'm not theorizing. I ran one in March.
49 verified traders signed up to compete on the same clock. Best result: +157% ROI in 30 days. About a third never placed a single trade. That gap - between people who say they'll show up and people who actually trade under public stakes - is the most honest filter in this industry.
The leaderboard was the visible result. The thing I didn't expect was everything around it.
As for me, I share all my work, indicators and trades with my people, which is really necessary.
Over the past 9 months, I've done a lot to provide tools that work.
Traders who'd never spoken started comparing entries in real time. Debriefing each other's setups. Calling out each other's blind spots. Sharing what worked the first week and what blew up the second. By the end, the community around the leaderboard was as valuable as the leaderboard itself - because that's where everyone figured out, together, what actually works and what doesn't. Not in theory. In live conditions, on the same clock, against the same market.
The next layer is already forming on the same logic: bots against bots, with the builders behind them publicly accountable for results. Whether the operator is human, machine or hybrid, the format becomes the proving ground.
What to do, concretely, this quarter.
1. Enter one tournament you're scared to enter. Pick a venue you respect, a format that's a stretch but not impossible, a window you can fully commit to. The point isn't winning. The point is finding out where your system breaks under real conditions and a public clock.
2. Find or build a team before the next major bracket. You don't have to compete solo. The traders who compound fastest from here will operate in small high-trust teams — three to five people, complementary edges, ruthless debriefs. If you don't have that already, this is the year to build it.
3. Start thinking about your bot - even if you'd never call yourself a quant. The next layer of competition is partly automated. Operators who learn to instrument their own decisions in code will pull away from those who don't. Start with one rule from your discretionary system. Codify it. Backtest it. Track it live. Just one. Build from there.
If you've competed - in any format, any venue - tell me in the comments what the format got right and what it got wrong. I'm building the next one and I'm reading every answer in the first 24 hours.
Best regards EXCAVO
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Questions?
TT - trading-tournaments.com/tournaments
Free analysis → t.me/+Qm96gDz3qdyNOs8t
Indicators → excavo.com/
Strategies → t.me/ExcavoPulseBot
🎓 Get EXCAVO Core,VIP, Academy → t.me/EXCAVOREFF_bot
Free analysis → t.me/+Qm96gDz3qdyNOs8t
Indicators → excavo.com/
Strategies → t.me/ExcavoPulseBot
🎓 Get EXCAVO Core,VIP, Academy → t.me/EXCAVOREFF_bot
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ข้อมูลและบทความไม่ได้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อก่อให้เกิดกิจกรรมทางการเงิน, การลงทุน, การซื้อขาย, ข้อเสนอแนะ หรือคำแนะนำประเภทอื่น ๆ ที่ให้หรือรับรองโดย TradingView อ่านเพิ่มเติมใน ข้อกำหนดการใช้งาน
TT - trading-tournaments.com/tournaments
Free analysis → t.me/+Qm96gDz3qdyNOs8t
Indicators → excavo.com/
Strategies → t.me/ExcavoPulseBot
🎓 Get EXCAVO Core,VIP, Academy → t.me/EXCAVOREFF_bot
Free analysis → t.me/+Qm96gDz3qdyNOs8t
Indicators → excavo.com/
Strategies → t.me/ExcavoPulseBot
🎓 Get EXCAVO Core,VIP, Academy → t.me/EXCAVOREFF_bot
คำจำกัดสิทธิ์ความรับผิดชอบ
ข้อมูลและบทความไม่ได้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อก่อให้เกิดกิจกรรมทางการเงิน, การลงทุน, การซื้อขาย, ข้อเสนอแนะ หรือคำแนะนำประเภทอื่น ๆ ที่ให้หรือรับรองโดย TradingView อ่านเพิ่มเติมใน ข้อกำหนดการใช้งาน