A live candlestick market streams past as you open leveraged long or short positions, bank your gains or get margin-called, with a single circuit breaker to freeze the chaos.
Prices update in real time across several correlated sectors. Pick a sector, choose long or short, set your leverage and margin, and open a position. Watch the candles fly: close to bank a profit, or get liquidated if the move runs against you. Once per run you can trip the circuit breaker to halt trading and think. Finish the run with the biggest account you can.
Short Fuse is about leverage, margin and market volatility, turning fast candlestick trading into a lesson in risk.
Choosing long or short, setting leverage and margin, and watching correlated sectors move in real time is derivatives trading with the risk mechanics intact.
Making leverage a dial is the original emphasis.
Leverage is the variable that matters and the one beginners misjudge. It multiplies gains and losses equally, so a position that would have been survivable unleveraged is liquidated at a modest adverse move — and correlated sectors mean the diversification that looks protective often is not.
Short Fuse is an original free browser game about leverage, margin and market volatility, turning fast candlestick trading into a real-time test of nerve. Built in-house for PlayPendium.