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I wanted to play an arcade-style game that let's you practice (or learn) stock trading while you play, but it didn't exist, so I just started making it. After about a year of sporadically working on it my free time, I finally released an early access version of it on today and would be grateful for any feedback on it.

HYPERBOLIC Arcade Trading
https://hyperbolic-me.itch.io/hyperbolic-arcade-trading

Please let me know what you think / any suggestions / etc.

Please note:
1) It has not been optimized for laptops, so running on desktop is strongly recommended!
2) I'm waiting for friends to check the Mac and Linux builds install and run correctly, so you may run into issues there.

Thanks!!

* This FAQ is updated on an ongoing basis. 

Answered:

★ What does ‘Hyperbolic’ mean?
★ Don’t you need to study about the companies or follow the news to trade?
★ What can you learn / practice?
★ How does the early access version differ from the final version?
★ What technical indicators are included?
★ What will be the platforms, release date, and price?
★ The game runs slow / doesn't install. What should I do?

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★ What does ‘Hyperbolic’ mean?

‘Hyperbolic’ is borrowed from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber in Dragon Ball – it’s a room where time and gravity are compressed to allow the Dragon Ball heroes to train in extreme environments for the maximum results in a short amount of time. It’s the perfect analogy for this trading trainer, which delivers compressed-time training in an enhanced trading environment.

★ Don’t you need to study about the companies or follow the news to trade?

Hyperbolic Arcade Trading is based upon trading by technical analysis (purely following price movement) as opposed to fundamental analysis, which analyzes the underlying business. 

★ What can you learn / practice?

Gameplay in HTT translates to reading candle patterns, reading price movement, risk management, and using optionally using a variety of technical indicators. 

★ How does the early access version differ from the final version?

In two words: a LOT!

• The early access version is limited to 5 trading sessions, and repeats once the fifth stage is reached. The final version is planned to include over 50 stock years of price data for tickers such as AAPL, AMZN, FB, NFLX, SPY, as well as cryptocurrency and forex price data.
• There are still bugs to be fixed.
• There is still much performance optimization to be done.
• The in-game tutorial is not implemented.
• The early access version is based on day trading game play. Swing trading (over multiple days) mode will be added to the final version.
• More detailed tracking of trading will be added. 
• The final version will include a practice mode allowing replay of trading sessions.
• Placeholder (but real) price data is used. The final version will use actual historical daily and intraday data (vendor TBD).
• More Japanese candlestick patterns will be added. Presently included are:

            - Tweezer Tops
            - Tweezer Bottoms
            - One Black Crow
            - One White Soldier
            -  Bullish Engulfing
            - Bearish Engulfing
            - Three White Soldiers
            - Three Black Crows

★ What technical indicators are included?

• 9, 20, and 50 simple moving averages 
• VWAP (volume weighted average price)
• Japanese candlestick patterns

★ What will be the platforms, release date, and price?

• Planned platform are: Windows PC, Mac OS, Linux.
• The release date is TBA, but planned for spring 2020.
• Pricing is TBA

★ The game runs slow / doesn't install. What should I do?

• On Windows: Check that the latest DirectX runtime components are installed by running dxwebsetup.exe in the game folder. 
  If you still experience issues after installing dxwebsetup.exe, especially crashes, poor performance or graphical glitches, check that your graphics driver is up to date as many issues can arise from out-of-date drivers. On OS X and Linux The most common problem with OS X and Linux is the execute permission for the executable files. On OS X and Linux, executable files have no special file extension, instead requiring an "executable" file permission to be set.  
• On Linux, the following command enables execute permission for the file 'mygame'. Run this from the terminal to ensure the file can be run: chmod a+x mygame