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.
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How to play
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.
Read the day's headlines for directional hints
Buy and sell shares across the tickers
Advance the day to move the market forward
Finish above the index to win your alpha
Controls
Desktop: click a ticker tab, use Buy / Sell / Buy Max / Sell All, then Next Day.
Phone & tablet: tap the trade buttons and Next Day, touch supported.
Game modes
Daily: the same seeded market for everyone that day
Practice: a fresh random market each time
Tips & strategy
Headlines move the named stock, weight your buys toward the strongest signals
Don't sit fully in cash; the index keeps climbing, so you need positions to beat it
Take profits before the window closes rather than holding through a known fade
What you'll learn
Ticker is about market economics and active investing, where a shared seeded market lets you learn risk and return.
Skills: stock markets, investing, risk and return, market dynamics
Best for: roughly grades 8–12 (ages 13+)
For parents & teachers: investing basics in a safe, simulated market.
About Ticker
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.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
