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Manifold is hosting a competition for the best automated trading bot over our prediction markets. 

Total prizes will be at least M$100k mana, or equivalent in merch/USD. At least the top 5 bots will get a prize.

As soon as you complete these steps, Manifold will grant your bot an additional M$5000 to trade with. You can continue to modify your bot until September 30th.

Your bot will be judged by the Manifold Team on the amount of profit it earns (primarily in the last week of the competition), as well as other factors like how much it contributes to the community or how cool it seems.

This market will resolve to include all bots that won prizes, in proportion to prize value won.

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Alright, we have 6 awesome submissions to the trading bot competition!

The bots ordered by their profit in the past week is as follows:

All of the bots were profitable, except for Liquidity Bonus Bot which didn't run this last week.

And now... let's announce the prizes! We have M$100,000 to give out.

Congratulations to all the winners! I'll be messaging you shortly with a Manalink to your winnings, which you can gain to any Manifold account.

Thanks for your participation! Bots can do a lot to make our markets more efficient and accurate. They are already making an impact, and I know they will only become more important over time.

I hope that anyone who has ambitions for writing their own bot will be able to get started more quickly by reading and/or copying code from the above bots. In that way, these entrants have blazed a trail in service to the Manifold community.