Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation

Review updated after major bug patch that was giving me issues. So a little under than a month after my review all my bugs got smashed, so bravo devs, very impressed. Still think the bot part of the game should be far more accessible as it is it takes days at a minimum of effort to unlock the lowest tier which seem baffling to me and the learning guidance could be smoothed out. But the core of my complaints get resolved in weeks, I give props. Very nice. - Watching the prices on the graph will occasionally move beyond the screen if it moves to fast. - And if you don't buy the, very pricey upgrades (brush or play/stop automatically) when you start off that allow you to cut out some of the graph? The game becomes unreadable after a certain amount of years in game. Do certain upgrades break the game if bought out of order? Yes Can I confirm that after $1000 the game doesn't seem to offer you any tools to automate trading which is what I bought the game for? Yes, also please note that you have one purchase at $500 that gives you $15 to bank in future runs and one more for $120 that banks $5, so to find out this information is probably going to take you hours at a minimum....yes I'm salty about it. Have I learned things? Absolutely. For example if there isn't a certain minimum level of volume traded weekly chances are the stock just isn't going to go anywhere at any appreciable speed. Maybe not a problem later on in the game, but early you'd be better off skipping to the next stock. The fact that I think the winning strategy is getting to the magical 20 dollars in profit so you can borrow $100 and get the $120 upgrade so you have the $5 permanent carryover. Then repeat it over and over to the point that you get a reasonable amount of money to play with. Either that or just buy immediately and just hope the stock goes up so you can get what you want. I don't think paying $120 of game currency to turn on the "idle" part of this "game" is a fair buy in. Neither is the $400 to run the game while it's offline. Of which you can't benefit from because, once again, the automated tools don't seem to be unlocked until some nebulous time after $1000 because I haven't found the upgrade or any way to unlock it. I've finally gotten to the point that I have some amount of success with certain indicators turned on. But buying all those at the start cleans me out. So once again, buying and resetting seems to be the desired gameplay loop.

This is a powerful trading simulator with a lot of potential. Yes, it may have a few bugs, but I believe the most annoying ones have been fixed on a fresh install. This isn't a game anymore: it's an experiment and you are the lab researcher. The game has so much potential. It could have a script engine where people could directly experiment with more complex algorithms. (I guess the graph view for algorithms is alright, but being able to code something like "The Farmer Was Replaced" would be quite awesome.) Some suggested features would be: adding a real-life mode where you actually put a bit of your salary every month. Then adding the ability to trade Forex, Futures, etc. Maybe it could go even further by allowing trading on multiple tickers at the same time or adding the ability to actually buy the whole company and manage it. The game deserves more love. It's a great way to start learning about the stock market, and I believe that's what's important. Perhaps a new version of the whole game could bring this game to the next level. The developer is certainly busy, but he usually answers emails about issues and such in a reasonable amount of time. I think this game it's an good take on interactive learning and should be taken in that spirit for someone that alway want to learn more.

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Me gusta mucho pero odio que no se guarden en los servidores de Steam los datos de mi partida, y cada vez que lo instalo en otro lado, se me reinicia todo mi progreso.

I like the concept of this game, but it's no longer starting successfully on my mac. The developer open sourced the project, which is cool, but github does not reflect the latest version, and they aren't responsive on either github or discord. Wish they'd lean in to the open source spirit a bit more, as this really was a very interesting learning environment, and I'd love to help it along.

BUG FEST

Looked like a fun game. Doesn't work sadly all prices and values are blank, ?????, or NaN with the exception of taking out a loan. Money and shares disappear and I managed to soft lock the game instantly by taking both free upgrades before the tutorial told me to. Seems to be broken maybe I'll try again later and it'll be fixed.