5 ms·

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

34 points by davjhan 5y ago

davjhan 5y ago
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 https://github.com/davjhan/paper-trader-game
- Zababa 5y ago
  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.
  - davjhan 5y ago
    That's a great suggestion, to show potential max loss and max gain.
  - sen 5y ago
    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.
- quickthrower2 5y ago
  Feels like the flappy bird of paper trading! Short sweet and addictive.
theginger 5y ago
This is brilliant
Hydraulix989 5y ago
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 :)
anm89 5y ago
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.
muzani 5y ago
This feels rigged. It seems to go up when I sell and go down when I hold. It could just be that I'm a bad player, though.
- deepdmistry 5y ago
  Not rigged, i had opposite experience and made 500$ after a couple of tries
adibalcan 5y ago
If you are curious about the logic of values used in this game, I found a comment in the source code: /* * Generates price data by calculating a 0%..7% movement magnitude multiplied by the "market sentiment", * which is either super bearish, bearish, or bullish. The probabilities of the sentiment can also be configured * marketSentimentProbs. */
greatNespresso 5y ago
What a sweet game, really fun to play

34 points by davjhan 5y ago

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 https://github.com/davjhan/paper-trader-game

Zababa 5y ago
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.
- davjhan 5y ago
  That's a great suggestion, to show potential max loss and max gain.
- sen 5y ago
  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.
quickthrower2 5y ago
Feels like the flappy bird of paper trading! Short sweet and addictive.

theginger 5y ago

This is brilliant

Hydraulix989 5y ago

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 :)

anm89 5y ago

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.

muzani 5y ago

This feels rigged. It seems to go up when I sell and go down when I hold. It could just be that I'm a bad player, though.

deepdmistry 5y ago
Not rigged, i had opposite experience and made 500$ after a couple of tries

adibalcan 5y ago

If you are curious about the logic of values used in this game, I found a comment in the source code: /* * Generates price data by calculating a 0%..7% movement magnitude multiplied by the "market sentiment", * which is either super bearish, bearish, or bullish. The probabilities of the sentiment can also be configured * marketSentimentProbs. */

greatNespresso 5y ago

What a sweet game, really fun to play