How to play Chart Duels
Everything you need to know in two minutes. Or skip it and learn by playing.
Skip the crap and play →The goal
You get the real daily chart of a large US company, with its name and dates hidden. Each session you decide whether to buy, sell, go short or wait. Your benchmark is buy and hold: someone who bought on the first session and never touched anything. Beat them.
Reading the chart
Each candle is one trading day: open, high, low and close. Prices are rescaled so the close before session 1 equals 100, so the price level doesn't give the stock away. You start with 60 earlier sessions of context. Drag the chart to scroll, and hover or tap a candle to read its values.
Trading
You always trade at the close of the last visible candle. Choose a size (25%, 50% or 100% of your cash) and press Buy, Short, or Sell/Close. You can't be long and short at the same time. Keyboard: C buys, S shorts, V sells or closes, → moves to the next day.
Leverage and liquidation
×2 or ×3 leverage multiplies your gains and your losses. The position box shows the price at which you'd be liquidated. If the position loses all of its margin, it's closed automatically and that money is gone, but never more.
Guess the stock
When a stock ends you pick which of four companies it was. In Story mode and in live leagues, a right answer adds $500. In Practice and Ranked it's just for your stats.
Game modes
Practice: one stock, 200 sessions, at your own pace; doesn't affect your rating. Ranked: same rules, counts for ELO, you must play to the end. Live league: everyone trades the same stocks at the same time, one session per second, with prep time to set indicators. Story mode: ten stocks in a row, your money carries over.
ELO rating
Ranked games are a duel against the market. Beat buy and hold by more than 1 point: win. Trail by more than 1 point: loss. Anything in between: draw. Everyone starts at 1200 and the first 10 games are provisional. Leaving a ranked game unfinished counts as a loss.
Tips
Don't over-trade: staying in cash is a position too. Turn on one or two indicators you understand rather than all of them. In falling markets, shorting or staying out can beat buy and hold. Use the Learn section to see what each indicator really measures.