A handful of stocks, a string of headlines, and one shared market for the day, buy, sell and ride the news to finish worth more than the index.
You start with cash and a small market of stocks. Each trading day brings headlines that hint at where prices are heading. Buy and sell across the tickers, then advance the day to lock in your moves and reveal the next. When the window closes, your portfolio is measured against the index, beat it for a positive score.
Ticker is about market economics and active investing, where a shared seeded market lets you learn risk and return.
Trading on headlines that hint at where prices are heading is a market simulation, and the honest lesson is the efficient-market hypothesis.
Delivering news before the move is the original simplification.
Real markets do not work this way, and knowing that is the takeaway. Public information is priced in almost immediately, so the edge a headline seems to offer has usually gone by the time an ordinary trader can act — which is why the simulation's generosity is itself informative.
Ticker is an original free browser game about market economics and active investing, where a shared seeded market lets everyone chase alpha on the same news. Made in-house for PlayPendium.