Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation

In short, its a good place to start learning, but you gotta deal with a lot of bugginess.
Let me first say, this is a solid intro to stock trading. For the beginning stock trader, the ability to paper trade really helps (especially for a reasonable price on steam). The ability to control how fast the stock moves (days per second) means I can speed up and slow down time to see if my trade works out.
The game progression, while some have complained about, I think is a benefit. You start off with (basically) no indicators, just the candlesticks and volume. You can purchase indicators as you make money, then earn that money back from watching a in-game youtube video and answering a quick quiz. This forces you to return to basics and not get caught up in all the fancy indicators you could use.
Another huge benefit I love is not being able to see the name of the stock, industry or other indicators. That way it doesn't bias my judgement (ohh 2008 is coming up) etc.
The downside is the game is buggy af and some QoL stuff is lacking. A sample of the bugs I ran into today: Inputing a stop-loss on a stock, the price input is weird and will often not capture the price you entered (13.65 somehow becomes 103.65). MACD isn't lined up with the chart. 200 day MA will appear when the game is paused, but disappear when you play. I purchased the Fibonacci tool only to not be able to find it anywhere. You cannot directly input the moving averages you want to appear (e.g. typing 20/50/100/200), you have to drag a slider where you want (and sometimes you just need to settle for 99 instead of 100 days).
In short, if you're looking to a solid introduction to stock trading, and are willing to put up with some weird bugginess, pick it up.

In general very informative simulation tool. I have played for 10 hrs and didn't unlock much yet. I find it helpful in building up basics of trading and hopefully I can start building bots soon.
With that said, there are minor bugs here and there, hope they can get fixed soon,

Very good for learning the basics of indicators and even dives into some of the less-known indicators and their functions. Good for practicing.

Review updated after major bug patch that was giving me issues.
So a little under than a month after my review all my bugs got smashed, so bravo devs, very impressed. Still think the bot part of the game should be far more accessible as it is it takes days at a minimum of effort to unlock the lowest tier which seem baffling to me and the learning guidance could be smoothed out. But the core of my complaints get resolved in weeks, I give props. Very nice.
- Watching the prices on the graph will occasionally move beyond the screen if it moves to fast.
- And if you don't buy the, very pricey upgrades (brush or play/stop automatically) when you start off that allow you to cut out some of the graph? The game becomes unreadable after a certain amount of years in game.
Do certain upgrades break the game if bought out of order? Yes
Can I confirm that after $1000 the game doesn't seem to offer you any tools to automate trading which is what I bought the game for? Yes, also please note that you have one purchase at $500 that gives you $15 to bank in future runs and one more for $120 that banks $5, so to find out this information is probably going to take you hours at a minimum....yes I'm salty about it.
Have I learned things? Absolutely. For example if there isn't a certain minimum level of volume traded weekly chances are the stock just isn't going to go anywhere at any appreciable speed. Maybe not a problem later on in the game, but early you'd be better off skipping to the next stock.
The fact that I think the winning strategy is getting to the magical 20 dollars in profit so you can borrow $100 and get the $120 upgrade so you have the $5 permanent carryover. Then repeat it over and over to the point that you get a reasonable amount of money to play with. Either that or just buy immediately and just hope the stock goes up so you can get what you want.
I don't think paying $120 of game currency to turn on the "idle" part of this "game" is a fair buy in. Neither is the $400 to run the game while it's offline. Of which you can't benefit from because, once again, the automated tools don't seem to be unlocked until some nebulous time after $1000 because I haven't found the upgrade or any way to unlock it.
I've finally gotten to the point that I have some amount of success with certain indicators turned on. But buying all those at the start cleans me out. So once again, buying and resetting seems to be the desired gameplay loop.

the only think i do not like , the game doesn't save your progress

Learned a lot but i am still shit at investing.

qaa