Planned Release Date: Jul 3, 2026

About This Game

It is February 28, 2000. The Nasdaq sits at 4,696. You have $50,000, a family depending on you, and 818 trading days ahead.

The dot-com bubble bursts in 11 days. You don't know that yet.

Trade the Crash is a historically grounded single-player trading simulator covering one of the most dramatic market collapses in history: the dot-com bust of 2000-2003. Choose a career path, manage capital, pay monthly living expenses, and trade across real instruments using real historical price data, candle by candle.

There is no undo. No speed multiplier. No second chances. One candle at a time, you live the crash.

Trade Across 63 Real Instruments

Choose a career archetype and trade a curated set of real instruments from that asset class:

• Tech Trader - MSFT, CSCO, INTC, ORCL, QCOM, NVDA, QQQ, SPY, and more

• Blue Chip Analyst - IBM, GE, JPM, C, XOM, WMT, DIS, KO, and more

• Futures Trader - Crude Oil, Gold, Silver, Natural Gas, Corn, Wheat, and more

• Forex Trader - EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CHF, and more

• Bond Trader - US 2Y, 10Y, 30Y Treasuries, TIPS, and more

Every price is real. Every candle happened.

86 In-Game Study Hall Lessons

Trade the Crash is built as a learning environment. An integrated Study Hall teaches you as you play, covering:

• Chart Reading - candlesticks, timeframes, support & resistance, volume, trends

• Patterns - Head & Shoulders, Cup & Handle, Double Top/Bottom, Flags, Wedges, Triangles, and 10 more

• Indicators - RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, ATR, ADX, Stochastic, OBV, CCI, Williams %R, Moving Averages

• Order Types - Market, Limit, Stop, Stop-Limit, Stop Loss, Take Profit

• Trading Psychology - Fear, Greed, FOMO, Loss Aversion, Revenge Trading, Anchoring, Herd Mentality

• Risk Management - position sizing, the bid-ask spread, P&L, drawdown

• Elliott Wave Theory - 10-lesson deep dive from basics to the dot-com crash through a wave lens

• Strategies - Day Trading, Swing Trading, Trend Following, Mean Reversion, Event-Driven

• History - the dot-com bubble, the March 2000 peak, Enron, WorldCom, 9/11, the Fed's response, and the recovery

Every lesson can be applied immediately on a live historical chart.

Key Features

• 818 Real Trading Days - February 28, 2000 to June 2, 2003. The full crash, candle by candle.

• 63 Real Instruments - historical OHLCV data across equities, ETFs, futures, forex, and bonds

• 5 Career Paths - each locked to a distinct asset class with a fresh perspective on the same crash

• 86 Study Hall Lessons - integrated education covering patterns, indicators, psychology, and strategy

• Realistic Market Conditions - cash trading for most assets, broker-style forex lot sizing and margin limits, commission per side, SL/TP per order.

• Monthly Living Expenses - $5,000/month deducted automatically. Survive the market and your bills.

• Roguelike Save System - no rewinding, no manual saves. One run, one outcome.

• Full Drawing Toolkit - trend lines, channels, Fibonacci retracements, position markers, measure tool, and more

• Multiple Timeframes - 1H, 4H, 1D, 1W, 1M chart views per instrument

• Steam Leaderboards - compete for the highest return by June 2, 2003

The Stakes

You start with $50,000. You pay $5,000 per month in living expenses: rent, groceries, bills. Three years ahead of you. That's $180,000 in expenses before the market gives you a single dollar back.

If your account hits zero, it's over.

The Nasdaq will lose 78% of its peak value. Stocks you recognize - Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm - will fall 70%, 80%, 90% from their highs. The news will be full of false bottoms and dead-cat bounces. Every rally will feel like the recovery. Most won't be.

Your job is to figure out which is which.

Not Financial Advice

Trade the Crash uses real historical market data for educational simulation. Game performance does not predict real-market performance. This is entertainment and education, not a trading signal or financial advisory service.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

A pre-rendered promotional cinematic/trailer used in marketing materials was created with generative AI cinematic tools. The game itself does not include live generative AI features, and players cannot generate AI content in-game.