The market has authors

Most trading games move prices with a random number generator. Here every tick has someone behind it.

60 whales run their own agendas. Accumulators buy your panic and sell your greed. Swingers ride the cycle. Pumpers execute the full playbook: quietly build a position in an illiquid coin over hours, spike the price, then dump the entire bag on everyone who came running — and move on to the next victim.

Underneath them, a retail crowd does what retail always does: buys what already went up, sells what already fell. After roughly a day and a half of nonstop green, the crowd overheats and starts taking profit — and the pump collapses on its own, without any script telling it to.

Every order leaves a mark

Order impact is not a penalty. It is the core mechanic.

$3,000 into BTC moves the price by 0.016%. The same $3,000 into a coin with $100k liquidity moves it 6%.

Impact decays with a half-life of about two game hours, and only 40% of it is permanent. So yes — you can move the market. Not for free, and not forever.

A terminal, not a menu

• 1,000 coins across 15 sections — blue chips, memes, DeFi, GameFi, AI, Layer 2, new listings, and coins flagged as high risk
  
• Custom chart engine: candlesticks, Heikin Ashi, line and area · 1m to 1D with up to 2.5 years of history · MA, EMA, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, RSI, MACD, volume
  
• Your positions drawn on the chart — entry price, live PnL, the red liquidation line, limit orders, take-profits and stops
  
• Drawing tools: trend lines, horizontal levels, rectangles, Fibonacci retracements
  
• Live order book and trade feed, maker/taker fees, VIP volume discounts

Leverage that bites

Longs and shorts up to x125 — but the ceiling is the lower of two limits: your capital tier and the coin itself. BTC allows x125. Micro caps allow x2. Scam-tier coins have no futures at all.

Liquidation is computed honestly: you are closed when losses eat 90% of margin. At x10 that is a 9% move against you. At x50 it is under two percent.

Funding settles three times a game day, per coin, derived from actual crowd skew — and it runs both ways. In a downtrend, shorts pay you.

From one trader to an empire

Reputation (0–100) is the spine of the whole game. At spotless standing everything costs you 60%. At toxic, 140% — and the regulator starts paying attention.

• Trading bots — Grid, DCA, Sniper, Arbitrage. The Grid bot feeds you in chop and loses badly in a strong trend, selling the rally far too early
  
• Insiders — every news event is decided hours before it becomes news. An insider contact shows you that queue, so you can be in position before the candle moves. Each one carries a daily chance of being exposed
  
• PR campaigns from small bloggers to a top influencer — and the crowd gets tired. Each campaign on the same coin lands weaker than the last
  
• A media holding — buy a crypto outlet and you write the news. Honest analysis nudges the price and builds trust. A fabricated scoop pumps tens of percent, then gets fact-checked and drops the coin below where it started
  
• Your own token — name, ticker, supply, liquidity. The decision that defines your run is made at launch: lock the liquidity and earn the market's trust, or leave it open so you can pull it whenever you like
  
• Copy trading — a live leaderboard of 40 traders who genuinely trade the simulation. Some are frauds with a painted equity curve, and you can spot them by the zero drawdown. Real trading never looks like that. Late in the run, subscribers start copying you, amplifying your own orders

And consequences

Tax declarations every 90 days on realized profit. You can underreport. Do it twice and your accounts freeze for a week — bots included. Four offshore jurisdictions will shelter money you are not allowed to trade with.

Loans at 25% over 180 days. Miss the deadline and the run is over.

Dump a large position right after your own PR campaign and the market notices, names it, and takes 14 points of reputation. Pull the liquidity on your own token and you gain a fortune — and every coin you ever launch again starts with the stigma.

Every run is a different market

A generation seed defines the entire universe: procedural coin names and parameters, liquidity, volatility, scam risk, cycle length (70–115 game days), whale objectives, and which phase you start in. Restarting to replay a pump you already know does not work.

Also in the box

• 2,241 unique headlines built from 72 templates, sized to the coin — micro caps catch bridge hacks and delistings, majors get ETFs and halvings
  
• A 7-phase market cycle — Accumulation, Bull, Euphoria, Distribution, Bear, Capitulation, Depression
  
• Scam coins that rug pull for −99.9% instantly, honeypots that will not let you sell, and slow bleeds
  
• Hardcore mode, on by default — bankruptcy wipes every save of the run
  
• 19 global achievements that survive bankruptcy and accumulate across all runs
  
• A world wealth ranking built on a power law, topping out near $1.5 trillion. Your starting $1,000 puts you around ten-millionth place
  
• Five fully localized languages — English, Ukrainian, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese. Even the news feed retranslates retroactively
  
• Fully offline. No account, no server, no connection required

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Fear & Greed: Trading Empire is a work of fiction. All coins, companies, funds, exchanges and people in the game are invented. Nothing here is financial advice.