Trading Blitz tournaments are free, competitive events where traders compete head-to-head in a single-elimination bracket. Every match uses the same format as a standard Two-Player Challenge: both players are served the same anonymous historical stock chart and have a set amount of time to trade it. The better trader in each match advances. The last trader standing wins.
Tournaments are free to enter. Prize tournaments offer a variety of prizes including cash prizes and free Premium memberships.
The Two Types of Tournaments
Automated Tournaments
Automated tournaments are created by the platform automatically when enough eligible traders are online at the same time. They are named sequentially — Trading Blitz 1, Trading Blitz 2, and so on — and are always free to enter. When an automated tournament is detected, a waiting room opens and eligible online players receive a real-time notification. Learn more about automated tournaments.
Organizer-led Tournaments
Organizer-led tournaments are created and hosted by traders who have earned Organizer status through the Trading Blitz affiliate program. Organizers can configure the tournament title, bracket size, entry fee, round duration, and a meeting room link. These tournaments are typically announced in advance and are listed on the Tournaments page.
Live YouTube Tournaments
Live YouTube tournaments — where Trading Blitz goes live on YouTube and runs a prize tournament in real time — are a special category of Organizer-led tournament in which traders compete for the prizes described above. Here's where live tournaments happen.
How a Tournament Plays Out
- Waiting room opens. Players join the waiting room at tradingblitz.com/tournaments. The waiting room has a countdown timer. When the timer expires, the bracket seeds and the tournament begins.
- Bracket seeds. Players who registered are randomly seeded into the bracket. The bracket supports sizes of 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or 256 players. If more players registered than the bracket holds, the earliest registrants get spots. If fewer players registered than the bracket size, the bracket automatically downsizes to the next valid size.
- Round 1 begins. The platform automatically creates a Challenge match for each pair of players and sends both players a match invitation. Players are redirected to their match automatically.
- Players complete their match. Each match is a standard two-player Challenge game on the same anonymous chart. The player with the higher return on that chart wins and advances.
- Bracket updates in real time. Results are reflected on the live bracket immediately after each match completes. The next round starts automatically once all matches in the current round are finished.
- Final round. The last two players compete for first place. 3rd place is determined by comparing the two semifinal losers' performance in their respective semifinal matches.
Match Format Inside a Tournament
Each tournament match works exactly like a Two-Player Challenge, with one difference: there is no entry fee or wager between players in a tournament. The $1,000 Solo balance wager only applies to regular Two-Player matches, not tournament matches. Both players are given a fresh $500,000 virtual Challenge balance for the duration of each match.