The Crash

MSFT 89.38 −1.20% CSCO 65.31 +0.86% INTC 56.78 −0.42% ORCL 38.94 +2.10% QCOM 64.50 −3.04% AMZN 67.50 +1.18% EBAY 70.13 −2.81% NVDA 27.94 +4.75% AMAT 105.06 −1.62% MU 47.13 +0.27% TXN 86.81 −1.05% TWX 79.56 +0.38% QQQ 100.31 −2.04% SPY 134.97 −0.90% DIA 99.15 +0.12% IWM 50.13 +0.34% CL 30.43 +0.92% GC 294.20 +0.41% EURUSD 0.9712 −0.18% USDJPY 110.04 +0.22% MSFT 89.38 −1.20% CSCO 65.31 +0.86% INTC 56.78 −0.42% ORCL 38.94 +2.10% QCOM 64.50 −3.04% AMZN 67.50 +1.18% EBAY 70.13 −2.81% NVDA 27.94 +4.75% AMAT 105.06 −1.62% MU 47.13 +0.27% TXN 86.81 −1.05% TWX 79.56 +0.38% QQQ 100.31 −2.04% SPY 134.97 −0.90% DIA 99.15 +0.12% IWM 50.13 +0.34% CL 30.43 +0.92% GC 294.20 +0.41% EURUSD 0.9712 −0.18% USDJPY 110.04 +0.22%

The setup

Three things make this not a game.

Most trading sims feed you fake price action. The Crash doesn't. Every candle, every gap, every news headline is from the real tape between Feb 2000 and Jun 2003 — the worst three years to be wrong.

01 / DATA

Real instruments. Real prices.

Equities, ETFs, futures, forex & bonds.

12 aggressive techs, 13 conservative blue-chips, 4 index ETFs, 10 commodity futures, 10 currency pairs, 11 sovereign bonds. Hourly & daily OHLCV, the same data your Bloomberg terminal would have shown you in 2000.

02 / STAKES

$50,000

Starting capital. Don't lose it.

Pay your family's bills, every month.

Rent, groceries, kids’ school, taxes — auto-debited on the last trading day of each month. Run out of cash and the run ends. The market doesn't care that you have a wife.

03 / TEST

818

Trading days. The dot-com crash.

Get out of 2003 with capital intact.

The Nasdaq peaks at 5,048 on March 10. Then it falls 78% over two and a half years. The S&P loses half its value. If you can survive this run profitably, you can survive any market.

The household

Your wife. Your kids.
Your monthly burn.

On the last trading day of every month, the broker debits your living expenses before you place a single trade. Miss a payment and the run ends — not because you blew up, but because life kept moving while you were watching candles.

$4,820 / mo baseline · scales with career path & family size

Statement

HOUSEHOLD — MAR 2000

DEBIT

Mortgage · Brooklyn 2BR−$1,950.00

Groceries & household−$ 720.00

St. Joseph's tuition · 2 kids−$ 860.00

Health insurance−$ 410.00

Con Edison · phone · cable−$ 240.00

Auto · gas · MetroCard−$ 290.00

Federal & state withholding−$ 350.00

Net debit · 03/31/2000 −$4,820.00

Cash on hand after debit must be ≥ $0. Margin does not count.

The run

Three years. One real chart. No restarts.

You start at 9:30am ET on Feb 28, 2000. You finish at 4:00pm ET on Jun 2, 2003 — or you go bust before then. There is no fast-forward through the bad parts.

Start

Feb 28, 2000

End

Jun 2, 2003

Trading days

818

SPX peak → trough

−49%

NDX peak → trough

−78%

S&P 500 · MONTHLY CLOSE SOURCE: REAL HISTORICAL OHLCV

Career paths

Pick a desk. Inherit a roster.

Each mentor opens a different career. Their starting watchlist determines what you can trade and what you have to learn. You can switch later — but the first hundred days will be on their book.

Blue-Chip Equities

Margaret Wells

GE, XOM, JNJ, WMT, PG. Slow money. Boring is the point.

Tech Aggressive

Alex Turing

MSFT, CSCO, INTC, NVDA, QQQ. The desk most likely to blow up.

Index & Macro

David Chen

SPY, DIA, QQQ, IWM. Trade the whole market, not the names.

Commodities & Futures

Ray Nakamura

CL, GC, SI, HG, NG. Leverage cuts both ways.

Forex & Bonds

Sofia Reyes

EURUSD, USDJPY, US10Y. Macro, slowly. Then all at once.

Study hall

Learn it here. Use it there.

Every concept the game tests you on is taught in the in-game Study Hall first. Glossary entries, pattern libraries, indicator math, and the psychology of losing money on purpose.

86 lessons across nine disciplines.

Chart Reading /05

Candlestick anatomy
Trends & channels
Support & resistance
Timeframes
Volume

Patterns /15

Doji, Hammer, Hanging Man
Engulfing (bull & bear)
Morning & Evening Star
Three Soldiers, Shooting Star
Head & Shoulders, Cup & Handle
Triangles, Wedges, Flags
Double Top / Bottom

Indicators /11

Moving Averages
RSI, MACD, Stochastic
Bollinger Bands, ATR
ADX, CCI, Williams %R
OBV (volume)

Trading Mechanics /14

Long & short
Order types
Bid & ask
Stop-loss / take-profit
Position sizing

Strategies /10

Trend & mean-reversion
Day, swing & pattern trading
News, options, arbitrage
Forex & futures

Psychology /12

Fear, Greed, FOMO
Revenge trading
Loss aversion, Anchoring
Confirmation bias, Overconfidence
Herd behavior, Discipline
Journaling

History /04

The Crash of 1929
The Dot-Com Bubble
Key events & recovery

Elliott Wave /10

5-3 structure, fractals
Corrective waves, Fibonacci
Personality & rules
Limitations & practice

Tools /05

Trendlines
Horizontals
Measurement
Position markers

The roster

Every instrument. Every class.

60 tickers across six asset classes. Each one carries the real OHLCV data from the era — including the names that didn't make it out: WCOM, ENRN, LU.

MSFTMicrosofttech

CSCOCisco Systemstech

INTCInteltech

ORCLOracletech

TXNTexas Instrumentstech

QCOMQualcommtech

EBAYeBaytech

AMZNAmazontech

AMATApplied Materialstech

MUMicron Techtech

NVDANVIDIAtech

TWXTime Warnertech

GEGeneral Electricblue

XOMExxonMobilblue

IBMIBMblue

JNJJohnson & Johnsonblue

WMTWalmartblue

PFEPfizerblue

MRKMerckblue

PGProcter & Gambleblue

KOCoca-Colablue

HPQHewlett-Packardblue

GSGoldman Sachsblue

CCitigroupblue

AIGAIGblue

SPYS&P 500etf

DIADow Jonesetf

QQQNASDAQ-100etf

IWMRussell 2000etf

CLCrude Oilfut

GCGoldfut

SISilverfut

HGCopperfut

NGNatural Gasfut

ZCCornfut

ZWWheatfut

ZSSoybeansfut

KCCoffeefut

CTCottonfut

EURUSDEUR / USDfx

GBPUSDGBP / USDfx

USDJPYUSD / JPYfx

USDCHFUSD / CHFfx

AUDUSDAUD / USDfx

USDCADUSD / CADfx

NZDUSDNZD / USDfx

EURGBPEUR / GBPfx

EURJPYEUR / JPYfx

GBPJPYGBP / JPYfx

US10YUS 10-Yearbond

US30YUS 30-Yearbond

US5YUS 5-Yearbond

US2YUS 2-Yearbond

DE10YGerman 10-Yearbond

UK10YUK 10-Yearbond

JP10YJapan 10-Yearbond

TLT20+ Year Treasurybond

AGGUS Aggregatebond

LQDIG Corporatebond

SURVIVE
THE CRASH.

Three things make this not a game.

Equities, ETFs, futures, forex & bonds.

Pay your family's bills, every month.

Get out of 2003 with capital intact.

Your wife. Your kids.
Your monthly burn.

Three years. One real chart. No restarts.

Pick a desk. Inherit a roster.

Learn it here. Use it there.

Every instrument. Every class.

DAY ONE.
YOUR MONEY.

Three things make this not a game.

Equities, ETFs, futures, forex & bonds.

Pay your family's bills, every month.

Get out of 2003 with capital intact.

Your wife. Your kids.Your monthly burn.

Three years. One real chart. No restarts.

Pick a desk. Inherit a roster.

Learn it here. Use it there.

Every instrument. Every class.

DAY ONE.YOUR MONEY.

Your wife. Your kids.
Your monthly burn.

DAY ONE.
YOUR MONEY.