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Openbook Investing Competitions
Build your strategy. Prove it on the leaderboard.
Compete with virtual funds, research real UK stocks, and test your investment decisions in an educational simulation with transparent scoring.
Virtual funds only · No real-money trading · Educational simulation · Event rules and eligibility apply
UK Investing Challenge
Virtual portfolio · Illustrative 12-week competition
Portfolio value£108,420Virtual funds
Total return+8.4%+2.7% vs market
Current rank18thof 642 participants
Risk score47 / 100Moderate
Competition performance
Since competition startMy virtual portfolioFTSE All-Share
Leaderboard snapshot
Live positions1
North StarRisk score 51
+14.8%£114,800
2
Value HuntersRisk score 44
+13.9%£113,900
3
Long ViewRisk score 48
+13.2%£113,200
18
Your portfolioRisk score 47
+8.4%£108,420
Competition leaderboard
Illustrative rankings| Rank | Participant | Portfolio | Return | Risk | Consistency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Star | £114,800 | +14.8% | 51 | 82 |
| 2 | Value Hunters | £113,900 | +13.9% | 44 | 86 |
| 3 | Long View | £113,200 | +13.2% | 48 | 79 |
| 4 | Compound Club | £112,740 | +12.7% | 39 | 88 |
| 18 | Your portfolio | £108,420 | +8.4% | 47 | 76 |
Virtual holdings
Top positionsRR
Rolls-Royce18.0% weight
+18.4%HSBA
HSBC Holdings15.5% weight
+10.1%AZN
AstraZeneca14.2% weight
+9.3%ULVR
Unilever12.6% weight
+4.7%Sector allocation
Virtual portfolioIndustrials
28%
Financials
23%
Healthcare
17%
Staples
14%
Cash
18%
Virtual fundsno real capital at risk
Live rankingthroughout each event
Real stockswith connected research
Fair playrules and monitoring
Risk-free simulation
Make the decisions. Leave real money out of it.
Build and manage a virtual portfolio using simulated funds while market prices move. Test ideas, learn from mistakes, and develop a repeatable process without placing real trades.
- Start every participant with defined virtual capital.
- Buy and sell eligible securities inside the simulation.
- Review each decision against later performance.
Virtual portfolio activity
No real-money transactionsStarting funds£100,000
Invested£82,000
Virtual cash£18,000
RR
Added Rolls-Royce20 virtual shares · Week 2
+18.4%since entry
HSBA
Added HSBC Holdings100 virtual shares · Week 3
+10.1%since entry
AZN
Added AstraZeneca35 virtual shares · Week 4
+9.3%since entry
Transparent scoring
Compete on more than one lucky return.
Each event can define its own methodology, combining portfolio growth with risk, consistency, compliance, or strategy quality so participants know how performance is evaluated.
- See the scoring criteria before the competition starts.
- Track rank and portfolio metrics throughout the event.
- Keep fair-play and eligibility rules visible.
Illustrative scoring breakdown
Event methodology may varyPortfolio return
84
Risk management
71
Consistency
76
Diversification
68
Rule compliance
100
Connected research
Turn every portfolio move into a researched decision.
Use the same Openbook tools available across the platform to screen ideas, understand companies, compare stocks, and review the risk behind each virtual holding.
- Find eligible companies through the Stock Screener.
- Open financials, valuation, forecasts, and risks.
- Compare your reasoning with the final outcome.
Competition research toolkit
Connected Openbook featuresDeep Research
Inspect the financial story, expectations, and material risks.
Stock Scores
Compare Reward, Risk, and visible factor drivers consistently.
Stock Comparison
Put competing ideas side by side before allocating virtual funds.
For universities and societies
Run an investing challenge your whole community can follow.
Competitions can give students and investment societies a structured reason to research companies, explain decisions, and discuss performance over time.
- Create an educational event around virtual portfolios.
- Give participants a shared leaderboard and timeline.
- Define eligibility, scoring, prizes, and submission rules per event.
Competition formats
Configured for each eventUniversity challenge
IndividualStudents compete individually under published eligibility and event rules.
Investment society league
CommunitySociety members compare virtual portfolios across a shared period.
Team strategy event
TeamTeams research, document, and manage a collective virtual portfolio.
Stock pitch challenge
ResearchPortfolio performance can be paired with written or presented analysis.
How it works
From registration to final ranking.
Every competition has its own published rules, but the experience follows a clear educational journey.
Join an eligible event
Register, verify any required eligibility, and review the competition period, scoring, securities, and fair-play rules.
Build your virtual portfolio
Research eligible investments and allocate the simulated funds provided for that competition.
Track, learn, and finish
Follow your rank, manage the portfolio within the rules, and review the decisions behind your final result.
Important: Dates, eligibility, permitted securities, starting funds, scoring, prizes, and winner selection are defined separately for each competition. Prizes are not guaranteed unless confirmed in the applicable official rules.
Common questions
Investing competitions, explained.
No. Openbook investing competitions use simulated funds with no real monetary value. Portfolio transactions and results exist inside the competition environment and are not real-world trades.
Eligibility depends on the specific event. A competition may be limited by age, location, student status, university affiliation, society membership, or other published criteria. Participants should review the applicable rules before registering.
Each competition publishes its own methodology. It may consider total return, risk-adjusted performance, consistency, diversification, strategy quality, compliance, or a combination of criteria.
Some competitions may offer prizes, while others may focus on recognition or education. Any prize amount, distribution, eligibility, verification, and tax responsibility will be stated in the official rules for that event.
No. A simulation simplifies real markets and cannot reproduce every cost, constraint, behaviour, or risk. Competition results are educational and are not indicative of future real-world investment performance.
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