Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation

Could be a fun little trading game but right now it's got a lot of little annoyances which add up and make me not enjoy spending all that much time in it.

Right off the start, the most basic thing such as zoom & pan isn't available and you have to unlock it. Fair I suppose, it's a game, it's gotta have challenges. So you unlock the brush which allows you to do that but now after every step/new candle it resets your view, and honestly the controls for it are really not that great. Just make them the same as they are in Trading View. Also after every step the slider on the left which determines your position size gets reset for no reason. There's also no way to change the time frame which is such a basic essential thing. There's no way to set position size based on a % and no way to set a stop loss or a take profit. No way to customize the chart and change candle/background colors. People trade in all kinds of different ways but it seems like the game is only catering to a specific type of trader. It's possible that some of these get resolved further down the line, I just couldn't be bothered to get that far.

I'd be happy to change this to a positive review if some of these get resolved because I do think the game has lots of potential especially considering the lack of competition but right now it feels really bare bones and frustrating. Using an analogy, it feels more like an arcade racing game than a sim.

As someone who has a Finance Minor from a university, and actively trades stocks and stock options for over 5 years but has been seeking an understanding at what trading on technical analysis really is.. I super want to recommend this to others but simply cannot. I really like the concept, and some elements of the execution but others I simply cannot get over.

Pros:
- you get a chance to really see how you could preform moving through a historical ticker
- you get exposure to the tools that technical traders use

Cons:
- the quizzes while a great item to include in theory, in practice sometimes ask questions where multiple answers are partly true but you have to guess which partial truth the developer had in their mind when they wrote the question.
- You cant see when quarterly earning are? In this simulation you are simply blindsided by sudden extreme volume, and subjected to wild swings from big investors trading outside of market hours on an event you should clearly know is coming up. Not a good comparison to the real world.
- are not notified when some major news releases on your ticker. even a simple "major event happened, positive/neutral/negative sentiment related" would really help bridge the gap between the real world and this level of simulation.

Somewhere in between:
- YouTube training material is another great in theory but poor in practice item where you sometimes get great content showcasing and supporting a given tool and other times are shown a stock bro trying to sell you on their STONKS only go up idea of an indicator.
- although I understand the reason, I would never trade a ticker that I knew literally nothing about, could be fixed by adding early on things like industry indicators so you can not only compare your ticker to whatever index its on the same exchange of, but also compare it to its peer group
- you can only see daily candles, I unfortunately know the root of this, in that people hide intra-day data behind absurd paywalls, but ultimately the space where technical analysts have their strongest sway in the market is while everyone is already running off the same news and reacting differently to it, would love to trade 5m candles instead of dailies.

+50 hours in.

I never leave reviews, but I would feel like a thief not to leave one for Trade Bots after the content I got.

...and I still have not covered much, but I only restarted twice...short of being wiped out.

This is an excellent trading simulation - truly a great practice/learning tool.

As you progress, you get more tools and trading flexibility (going short, stop loss, trailing stop, etc.). If you don't know what these terms mean, don't worry it will guide you with sufficient information. Also, the tools provided are not "bubble gum tools" but reflect realistic indicators used in real trading context.

This is really a good simulator to learn about trading because it let's you control the pace. This is way better then paper trading platform offered by brokers (i.e. Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, etc.). Because you don't have you don't have to wait for the next day or week to see if your trade position worked or not and if you need to adjust. This quasi immediate feedback is key for understanding. It helps make sense of chart patterns, candlestick patterns, resistance area by allowing you to test your trading approach against real stock behaviour. It keeps you in the game in a much more direct way that day to day trading or swing trading (i.e. trading over longer period of time) would allow on a broker's platform.

Very importantly, it feels real enough (given it is based on real stocks) that you will be exposed to trading psychology. This in itself is key. If you loose your s***t here along with all your play money - Then you definitely need to hone your skills and your risk management.

If you loose it all. You start over. Fair enough - better than your real money.

I have been trading for a few years, nothing professional or anything like that, but am familiar with trading platform to recognise that Trade Bots hits in a area where few have been or are interested to go (when it comes to commercial trading platform).

Sure, there are few glitches and some improvement that could be done. But there is already way plenty on the table to learn a bunch. This being said, the guys are having regular updates, you can see they are interested in this game.

I hope down the road that there would be a place to add options trading - which is surely more complex, but this kind of environment would be ideal to learn to trade them.

Anyway, if you are interested in trading and honing your skills - I hope this helps tip the balance. I would recommend getting some additional content to test your trade strategies - anything basic on youtube can help (price action, chart patterns, etc.). Take some pieces and try to make sense out of the charts.

Cheers