About This Game

[h1]LEARN TO TRADE ON CHARTS NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN[/h1]
CandleBook is a trading simulator that teaches you how to trade. Start with zero experience and learn to read candlesticks, place orders, size positions and manage risk on a trading terminal built to work like a real broker platform.

Every chart is generated fresh, so you can never memorize it, look it up or know what comes next. You have to read the market in front of you, exactly like a real trader does.

Everything is unlocked from the first launch. No DLC. No microtransactions. No subscription. One purchase gets you the full game: 45 interactive lessons, 18 markets, 3 training markets and the complete trading desk. You only ever trade with virtual money.

[h1]WHY IT'S THE MOST COMPLETE WAY TO LEARN TRADING IN A GAME[/h1]
Many trading games give you a price line and a buy button. CandleBook gives you what a real trader works with, and what a beginner needs to learn it:

• Markets that never repeat. Endless new charts, so you practice reading, not remembering.
  
• A real trading terminal. Market, limit and stop orders, stop loss, take profit, trailing stops, leverage, indicators and drawing tools.
  
• Real execution. Spread, slippage, gaps, commissions, overnight costs and liquidation all apply.
  
• 45 built-in tutorials. Taught on the live chart, from your first candle to drawdown control.
  
• A journal that coaches you. It finds your bad habits and shows what they cost.
  
• No extra purchases. The whole app is yours from day one.

[h1]MARKETS YOU CAN'T MEMORIZE[/h1]
Historical replay has a problem: the second time you trade an old crash, rally or breakout, you already know what happens next. You're not reading the market anymore. You're remembering it.

CandleBook builds every session from real market structure: accumulation, markup, distribution, markdown, rallies, selloffs and quiet ranges. Candlestick patterns form inside that structure instead of appearing on cue. Volatility, liquidity, spread, gaps and news behavior differ by market. Gold doesn't move like Bitcoin, and here it doesn't pretend to.

The result is a new, plausible chart every time you play. You can't search it, replay it or ask someone where it goes next. That's what makes the practice honest, and it means you can train session after session without ever seeing the same market twice.

[h1]A TERMINAL BUILT LIKE THE REAL THING[/h1]
The CandleBook trading desk is modeled on professional broker platforms. The controls you'll use in real trading are here, and they behave the way they do when real money is on the line.

• Orders: market, limit and stop entries with stop loss, take profit, TP1/TP2 brackets, trailing stops, partial closes and automatic break-even at 1R
  
• Sizing: size by risk or by amount, with your maximum loss shown in dollars and percent before you confirm
  
• Stops: set them in percent or ATR multiples to fit each market's volatility
  
• Indicators: fast and slow EMA, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, ATR, VWAP, volume and pattern detection, all configurable
  
• Drawing tools: trendlines, horizontal levels, rectangles, measuring tools and armed price alerts
  
• Timeframes: daily and weekly charts, with indicators recalculated for the weekly view
  
• Portfolio risk: the combined maximum loss of every open position, always visible

Learn on this desk, and the first time you open a real platform the screen will already feel familiar.

[h1]EXECUTION HAS CONSEQUENCES[/h1]
In real markets, how your order fills is part of the trade. CandleBook models it:

• Preview your fill before you commit. Large market orders get worse fills as liquidity thins.
  
• Stops and targets can slip. They fill inside the candle's real range, not magically at your price.
  
• Gaps can jump your stop. If the market opens beyond it, you're filled at the open.
  
• Costs are always on. Spread, commissions and overnight carry hit every position.
  
• Leverage is visible risk. Trade from 1x to 10x with your liquidation price drawn on the chart.

[h1]45 INTERACTIVE LESSONS. NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED.[/h1]
No videos to sit through. No glossary detached from the chart. Every tutorial happens on the live trading desk, with the market moving and a real decision waiting for you.

Go from candle anatomy and market regimes to moving averages, VWAP, ATR, position sizing, stop placement, R-multiples, partial exits, trailing stops, drawdown control and news filtering. Then take the exams: the guidance disappears and the chart is in your hands.

[h1]ONE CLICK IS ONE DAY[/h1]
Advance the market one simulated day at a time. Read the price action, place your orders, set your risk, then see what the next candle brings. A month of market can take ten minutes. A year can take an evening.

Prefer to let it run? Auto-play from 0.5x to 8x speed, and the market pauses when an order fills, a stop triggers or a price alert fires. There is no rewind and no answer key. Just the chart, your plan and the risk you chose.

[h1]READ THE NEWS. FILTER THE NOISE.[/h1]
More than 20,000 fictional headlines cover central banks, earnings, macro data, geopolitics, supply and sentiment. Scheduled events are announced in advance and can gap the price at the open. Some headlines matter, some are noise, and some are deliberately misleading.

After every session, review what you traded through, what it pointed to and what the market actually did. Find out whether you reacted to information, to noise or to your own bias.

[h1]THE MARKET SETS THE CHALLENGE[/h1]
Every session has a return target and a loss budget adjusted to that market's volatility. A good result in EUR/USD isn't a good result in Bitcoin, and the game knows it.

Profit only counts if it fits inside your risk budget. Each session gets a grade from S to F with an explanation: Market Wizard, Fund Manager, Efficient, Over-Risked, Under-Deployed, Bled by Carry, Defensive, Paper Hands or Liquidated. The goal isn't just to make virtual money. It's to make decisions that survive review.

[h1]A JOURNAL THAT FINDS YOUR COSTLY HABITS[/h1]
Every closed trade feeds one career journal: expectancy, profit factor, win rate, average payoff, R-multiples, maximum drawdown, and results by market, setup and regime. Export your full history to CSV, or print a session report with your equity curve, trade log, regime review and headline audit.

The journal also detects seven recurring trading leaks and estimates what each one cost you:

• Letting winners turn into break-even trades
  
• Cutting winners too early
  
• Revenge trading after a loss
  
• Oversizing positions
  
• Trading without a stop
  
• Fighting the market regime
  
• Sitting idle until the session runs out

See which habit hurts you most, then watch your process improve.

[h1]18 MARKETS + 3 TRAINING MARKETS[/h1]
Indices: USA 500 · US Tech 100 · Germany 40 · Japan 225
Forex: EUR/USD · GBP/USD · USD/JPY · AUD/USD · USD/MXN
Metals: Gold · Silver · Copper
Energy: Crude Oil WTI · Natural Gas
Agriculture: Wheat
Crypto: Bitcoin · Ethereum · Solana

Three training markets isolate one skill each:
Chart Trainer: read price action without news.
News Trader: learn to filter a hostile news feed.
Risk Trainer: practice sizing and stops in a market built to punish poor risk control.

[h1]EVERYTHING INCLUDED. ONE PURCHASE.[/h1]

• No DLC, no microtransactions, no subscription
  
• Every market, lesson and tool unlocked from the first launch
  
• No account, no login, no data feed, no internet connection needed to play
  
• Sessions of 30, 180 or 365 simulated days
  
• 35 achievements and Steam Leaderboards
  
• Saves stay on your PC, and you can export your journal anytime

[h1]BUILT FOR FOCUS[/h1]
A fixed, readable desk at any window size. Light and dark themes, a high-contrast mode and a color-blind mode mean the chart never depends on color alone: candles use solid and hollow bodies, and price moves use arrows and signs. The optional trading-floor ambience and spoken session voice turn off instantly, and tooltips can be hidden once you no longer need them.

[h1]FEATURES[/h1]

• Trading simulator for beginners and experienced traders, with 45 interactive lessons and exams
  
• Synthetic market generator: a new, plausible, unrepeatable chart every session
  
• 18 markets (forex, stock indices, gold, oil, crypto and more) plus 3 training markets
  
• Trading terminal modeled on real broker platforms
  
• Market, limit and stop orders with TP1/TP2, trailing stops, partial closes and automatic break-even
  
• Realistic execution: spread, liquidity impact, slippage, gaps, commissions and overnight carry
  
• 1x–10x leverage with a visible liquidation price
  
• Risk-based position sizing, with stops in percent or ATR multiples
  
• EMA, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, ATR, VWAP, volume and pattern detection
  
• 20,000+ fictional headlines, scheduled events and post-session news audits
  
• Market-adjusted targets, loss budgets and S–F session grades
  
• Career trading journal with expectancy, profit factor, R-multiples, drawdown and 7 detected behavioral leaks
  
• Printable session reports and full CSV export
  
• High-contrast and color-blind modes, light and dark themes, configurable tooltips
  
• 35 achievements
  
• One-time purchase. Everything unlocked. No DLC. Fully offline.

[h1]WHAT THIS IS NOT[/h1]
CandleBook is not financial advice, not a broker and not a promise of profit. No real money moves at any point.

It is not a tycoon, story or idle game. There are no upgrades to buy, no characters to manage and no real-world market data to chase. It is a practice environment: a synthetic market, virtual capital, a chart that moves one candle at a time, and an honest record of the decisions you made.

[h1]IMPORTANT[/h1]
The markets are synthetic. CandleBook generates its markets from modeled market structure. They are not historical datasets and do not represent any real market, index, security, benchmark or future market behavior.

Results are simulated. They do not predict real-market behavior or trading performance.

This is not financial advice and this is not a broker. All capital in the simulator is virtual, has no real-world value, and cannot be bought, sold, redeemed or withdrawn.

Headlines are fictional. They are written offline, reviewed before release and included with the game. Nothing is generated while you play, and no connection is required.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Headlines are fictional, written offline with the help of a language model, and reviewed before they ship. Nothing is generated while you play.