You have $10,000 and eight years. You are dropped into a real stretch of market history — but you are not told which one. The companies have no names, the quarters have no dates, and the headlines name no events you could look up. Knowing what happened will not save you here. You have to read what is in front of you.
Your money$10,000Fake. Nothing here touches real money.
Your timeYearsOne click moves you three months forward.
Your jobDecideBuy, sell, or do nothing. All three count.
Every quarter, the game tells you what your decision cost — or earned — compared with leaving your money alone. That comparison is the whole point. Most people lose to it.
First — which stretch of history?
Choose your era
Four real periods, each with a different lesson and a shock that lands in a different year. You are told the character, never the dates — that comes at the end.
And how long?
Second — one thing before you start
Pick a rule and stick to it
Real investors don't decide in the moment — they decide in advance and then hold their nerve. Choose how you'll play. At the end, the game scores whether you actually kept your word, separately from whether you made money. Those are two different skills.
About the numbers, before you start
Real: the interest rates, inflation, and dividend yields in every era are historically accurate, and so is the order events happened in.
Not real: the three company share prices are composites — built to behave like real companies of that period, but not actual securities. Real price data is being wired in next. The index is modelled on a broad US market index.
This is a teaching game, not advice. Nothing here predicts any real result, and no outcome in it should inform a real investment decision.