AlphaNova Weekly: Feb 28, 2026

Welcome to the AlphaNova Weekly -- your digest of platform activity, top strategies, and community highlights.

This Week in Numbers

• 47 new submissions across all competitions
• 12 new community members joined
• 3 new forum threads with 50+ upvotes

Strategy Spotlight

This week's featured strategy comes from EnsembleKing, who achieved a remarkable 2.14 Sharpe in the Q1 Momentum Challenge using a stacking ensemble of gradient boosting models.

Community Picks

• "Best practices for feature engineering" -- the most-upvoted thread this week
• "Kalman filters for dynamic factor loading" -- a deep dive into state-space models

Coming Up

• Q1 competition final leaderboard freeze: March 15
• Q2 competition announcement: March 15
• Team registration opens: March 20