Short Fuse

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.

How to play

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.

• Select a sector, side, leverage and margin, then Open
• Close positions to realise gains before a reversal
• Higher leverage means bigger swings and a closer margin call
• Trip the one circuit breaker to freeze the market when it's wild

Controls

• Desktop: click sector tabs and the Long / Short, leverage and margin toggles, then Open and Close. Click the breaker once per run.
• Phone & tablet: tap the toggles and buttons — touch supported.

Game modes

• Daily: one shared seeded run per day
• Practice: fresh real-time runs

Tips & strategy

• Lower leverage survives the whipsaws; high leverage liquidates on a small adverse tick
• Sectors move together — read the cascade and don't stack correlated positions that all blow up at once
• Save the circuit breaker for a violent move, then close into the halt instead of panicking

What you'll learn

Short Fuse is about leverage, margin and market volatility, turning fast candlestick trading into a lesson in risk.

• Skills: leverage and margin, volatility, risk, trading
• Best for: older teens (roughly grades 10–12)
• For parents & teachers: the danger and mechanics of leveraged trading.

About Short Fuse

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.

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