Just The Markets

Stock market games

Practice rounds where the score comes from the quality of each decision, so a lucky outcome earns nothing and a sound call that loses still counts.

  • Game · Investing · Beginner

    Build It, Then Break It: A Portfolio Stress Test Game

    Whether you can hold a portfolio through made-up shocks by rebalancing to a rule, without panic selling or chasing the latest winner.

    Build a portfolio, then play the rounds

  • Game · Swing Trading · Intermediate

    Grade the Decision: A Stock Trading Practice Game

    Whether you can choose an entry, a stop and a share count that fit a swing setup and a written risk rule, and judge a trade apart from its result.

    Scenario rounds, scored on reasoning

  • Game · Economics · Intermediate

    Risk-On, Risk-Off or Sit Tight? A Market Regime Game

    Whether your risk decisions follow a written plan and the evidence in front of you, and whether you can resist chasing the last move.

    Scenario rounds, scored on reasoning

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How the scoring works

Each decision offers several choices worth two points, one point or nothing. Two points go to the choice with the soundest reasoning given what you know at that moment; one point goes to a defensible choice with a flaw; nothing goes to a choice driven by hope, fear or the last price move. The feedback explains every score.

Markets in the games are hypothetical, and so are their moves. In the portfolio game the value of your holdings changes with the allocation you picked, while the score still comes only from the decisions, which keeps luck out of the grade. For the reasoning behind the rounds, read the viewpoints or take the course on market cycles.