1. General Rules

Each participant must register and bring their college ID card for verification.
Participants must report at least 10 minutes before the event starts.
Any disputes must be raised immediately during the event; later complaints will not be entertained.
Price money is variable according to the number of participants of this event.
Electronic devices, external help, or internet use (other than the provided event materials) are strictly prohibited.
Participants must respect time limits strictly. Late submissions or trades after the time ends will not be counted.
Any form of malpractice, collusion, or tampering with sheets leads to direct disqualification.
Participants must not disturb or distract others during mini games or trading sessions.
Judges’/Organizers’ decision is final and binding.
In case of technical issues, organizers reserve the right to pause, reschedule, or adjust scoring fairly.

2. Trading Rules

This is a simulation-based competition for individual participation, no real money or actual stocks are involved.
Trading will be done using 10 predefined F1 team stocks only.
Each participant starts with ₹10,000 virtual money.
The event consists of:

3 trading sessions (15 minutes each).
2 mini games (speed typing + debugging), placed between sessions.
5-minute break after each mini game. Breaks are strictly 5 minutes only; late return = deduction of ₹500 virtual money.

Stock prices will fluctuate throughout session.
Participants cannot trade outside the given stocks or borrow/swap money with other participants.
Short selling, fake entries = immediate disqualification.
At the end of Session 3, total profit made will be considered as the participants’ total portfolio value.
If there is a tie, participants’ total portfolio value = profit + total number of stocks will be considered as tie breaker.

A list of paragraph/sentences with different bonus money will be given.
Participants must type exactly as written — no spelling/grammar mistakes allowed.
Only fully correct paragraph/sentences will be awarded bonus.
Only paragraph/sentence typed within the time limit will be considered for bonus evaluation.
No external typing tools, autocorrect software, or devices (other than the provided event materials) allowed

Participants will be given a code with intentional errors.
Each error will carry specific bonus, clearly mentioned on the sheet.
Correctly identifying and fixing errors = bonus earned.
Unclear or incorrect fixes = no bonus.
If every error is debugged and the program is running perfectly extra bonus will be awarded.
Only the errors fixed within the time limit will be considered for bonus evaluation.
The given code should not be changed except for debugging purpose.
Participants cannot copy from others or use external references.

The participant who made the highest profit(Profit=money made from trading + Bonus from mini games) wins.
Mini game points will be converted into bonus money and added to trading capital for the next session.
If two participants finish with the same total profit: