How long will out scope data be for the first task?

We are being evaluated on a model performing well on some smp stocks, but how long will the test data be (ie years or months).

Also are we guaranteed the SMP will have at least 500 companies at any point we are deciding upon/ will the list of companies to select from (their ticker) names be identical to some list we can access, like the list here?

 alphien.data.getTickersSP500()

Hi.

We cannot reveal information about the test data. S&P index on any given day is always made of 500 stocks. Stock tickers might be different based om which companies are included in the index.

Manas