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Re: Show HN: A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock

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In practice, you're not just betting on a random walk, you're also reading the news and thinking about the company's outlook, its thesis, and its public sentiment. You also have other indicators like volume, and fundamentals such as earnings. There's day trading and longer time horizon investing. As you can see, it's a bit easier to do the latter instead :)

Re: Show HN: A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock

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Hey, I want to share a small game I made. Here's the link to the github. [1] This was made with Sveltekit, TailwindCSS, ChartJS, and hosted as a static website on netlify. [1] https://github.com/davjhan/paper-trader-game

It's a fun game! A nice addition would be to tell the player at the end what was the maximum that they could make, and how.

Re: Show HN: A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock

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Hey, I want to share a small game I made. Here's the link to the github. [1] This was made with Sveltekit, TailwindCSS, ChartJS, and hosted as a static website on netlify. [1] https://github.com/davjhan/paper-trader-game

It's a fun game! A nice addition would be to tell the player at the end what was the maximum that they could make, and how.

That's a great suggestion, to show potential max loss and max gain.

Re: Show HN: A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock

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Hey, I want to share a small game I made. Here's the link to the github. [1] This was made with Sveltekit, TailwindCSS, ChartJS, and hosted as a static website on netlify. [1] https://github.com/davjhan/paper-trader-game

Feels like the flappy bird of paper trading! Short sweet and addictive.

Re: Show HN: A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock

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Hey, I want to share a small game I made. Here's the link to the github. [1] This was made with Sveltekit, TailwindCSS, ChartJS, and hosted as a static website on netlify. [1] https://github.com/davjhan/paper-trader-game

It's a fun game! A nice addition would be to tell the player at the end what was the maximum that they could make, and how.

Or seeing a "ghost" line showing either what a (simple/mostly-random) AI/NPC is doing, or other current/previous players of the same seed.

Something to make it more competitive/addictive.

It's still pretty fun though for sure.

Re: Show HN: A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock

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It feels like the goal is to make some point about how stock trading is gambling or just a losing proposition but you'd have to be a total idiot to trade in a manner anything like this game in real life.

Of course if you treat a random stock as a roulette wheel you might lose. That's not much of a profound insight.

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