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8 live equity-market trading contests: the U.S. Investing Championship, broker CFD tournaments, and challenger circuits. The credential end of the sport.
Stock trading tournaments split into two very different formats. The credential end is the U.S. Investing Championship (USIC) : a multi-decade real-money stocks championship running since 1983, scored on audited percentage return of a real brokerage account. USIC winners (Marty Schwartz 1984, David Ryan 1985-87, Mark Minervini 1997, Oliver Kell 2020, Roy Mattox 2022) become career-grade references.
The retail end is broker-run stock CFD tournaments: short-window, cash-pool events on demo or micro-live accounts, hosted by multi-asset brokers. Format mirrors crypto exchange tournaments: opt in, trade the window, rank by ROI or volume, take a cash prize. Prize pools $10K-$200K, entry usually free.
Related surfaces: USIC deep dive, options trading competitions, all championship-tier events.
A time-boxed competition scored on stock-market trading performance. Two formats dominate. Credential circuit: the U.S. Investing Championship (USIC): real-money brokerage account, calendar-year percentage-return scoring, running continuously since 1983. Retail circuit: broker-run CFD tournaments: demo or micro-live accounts, ROI or volume ranking, cash prize pool, days-to-weeks window.
The U.S. Investing Championship (USIC), organized by Money Manager Verified Ratings (MMVR). Multi-decade record of real-money verified returns. Winners are cited by name in financial media decades after the fact: Marty Schwartz's 781% in 1984, Mark Minervini's 155% in 1997, Oliver Kell's 941% in 2020. Tournaments on broker platforms are entertainment; USIC is a credential.
Yes on the retail side: CFD tournaments pay prize-pool cash after settlement, typically $10K-$200K distributed across top places. On the USIC side the prize is prestige and a permanent leaderboard entry: the money comes from what you built on top of the credential afterward (education franchises, RIAs, published records).
USIC accepts international entrants; multiple non-US champions are on record. Broker CFD tournaments follow the broker's regulatory footprint: some are US-restricted, some EU-restricted, some are open to APAC and LATAM. Each tournament card lists the geo restriction on that specific event.
Yes: USIC runs Quarterly and Enhanced Growth divisions with shorter windows; broker CFD tournaments regularly run day-trading brackets. See our /tournaments/day-trading landing for the short-horizon subset, and /tournaments/championships/usic for the annual credential circuit.
