Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation Reviews

Buggy. Chart completely disappeared, empty screen.

Just like the real stock market, the stock plummets as soon as I buy in. 10/10\ Note to Dev: some of your youtube embedded videos are no longer available. You need to make videos part of the game and not linked to a source you can't control...

In short, its a good place to start learning, but you gotta deal with a lot of bugginess. Let me first say, this is a solid intro to stock trading. For the beginning stock trader, the ability to paper trade really helps (especially for a reasonable price on steam). The ability to control how fast the stock moves (days per second) means I can speed up and slow down time to see if my trade works out. The game progression, while some have complained about, I think is a benefit. You start off with (basically) no indicators, just the candlesticks and volume. You can purchase indicators as you make money, then earn that money back from watching a in-game youtube video and answering a quick quiz. This forces you to return to basics and not get caught up in all the fancy indicators you could use. Another huge benefit I love is not being able to see the name of the stock, industry or other indicators. That way it doesn't bias my judgement (ohh 2008 is coming up) etc. The downside is the game is buggy af and some QoL stuff is lacking. A sample of the bugs I ran into today: Inputing a stop-loss on a stock, the price input is weird and will often not capture the price you entered (13.65 somehow becomes 103.65). MACD isn't lined up with the chart. 200 day MA will appear when the game is paused, but disappear when you play. I purchased the Fibonacci tool only to not be able to find it anywhere. You cannot directly input the moving averages you want to appear (e.g. typing 20/50/100/200), you have to drag a slider where you want (and sometimes you just need to settle for 99 instead of 100 days). In short, if you're looking to a solid introduction to stock trading, and are willing to put up with some weird bugginess, pick it up.

the simulation seems good but the technical analysis tools are locked and must be unlocked with in-game capital which is kind of annoying. and the game is not comprehensive: to progress in the game and unlock all the tools, you will need an internet connection to watch the embedded youtube video (from a third party) and perhaps leave the game to understand the concepts also ETF mode is totally broken. also game has ads of developer's other games would be a thumbs up if progression was optional. i.e. allow user to remove the game aspects and focus purely on the learning and simulation