# AlgoÉTS MarkÉTS — first ÉTS paper-trading competition

> First MarkÉTS paper-trading competition at ÉTS: 4,154 orders, 170+ participants, 99%+ uptime, and a club grown to 20 members.

- HTML page: https://antoineboucher.info/CV/blog/posts/algoets-markets-first-competition/
- Language: en
- Translation (fr): https://antoineboucher.info/CV/blog/fr/posts/algoets-markets-first-competition/index.md
- Published: 2026-01-15
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- Tags: AlgoÉTS, MarkÉTS, Trading, ÉTS, Education
- Author: Antoine Boucher (https://antoineboucher.info/CV/index-en.html)While I was president of [AlgoÉTS](https://github.com/AlgoETS), the club ran its first campus-wide paper-trading competition on **MarkÉTS**. The numbers below come from the club summary featured on my LinkedIn profile.

![Audience during an AlgoÉTS event](https://antoineboucher.info/CV/blog/posts/algoets-markets-first-competition/images/evening-audience.png)

Over about four months:

- **4,154** orders executed
- **170+** participants
- Leaderboards with returns near **60%**
- Platform uptime above **99%**
- **15+** features shipped during the live competition
- **6** new developers, club size **20** members

MarkÉTS was built and maintained by students. Partners included ÉTS and FÉRIQUE. The next steps named in that summary were platform work, ML and AI strategies, and more contests.

Source: [LinkedIn featured post](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7413919859903938561/).