You start with $500, a job that pays $62 a shift, and a phone.

APEX Trading Life is an endless multi-asset trading simulator. Four desks are live from

the first minute — crypto, equities, twelve leveraged forex pairs and property. None of

them are locked behind a tutorial. What limits you is what you can afford.

A market with its own reasons

Prices are not a random walk wearing a skin. Underneath sit regimes that turn, sector

cycles that rotate, an event engine that writes the news the market then reacts to,

splits, and a sentiment index you can read. Analyst sources come with track records

scored in front of you, so you can work out which ones are worth listening to and which

one has been wrong all year.

The life around the desk

Rent arrives every week whether the market cooperated or not. You take shifts to cover

it — eight rungs from Diner Dishwasher to Portfolio Manager, each with its own briefing

and its own lifestyle creep. You can enrol in a degree and spend a hundred and fifty

days on half pay for a door it opens later. Life events land uninvited. Your mother

texts. So do numbers you don't recognise, some of which are worth reading.

And you can quit. Walking out of the job to trade full time is the moment the game is

built around.

Getting bigger changes what you are allowed to do

Brokers rank you: Retail, Silver, Gold, Prime, Institutional. Retail cannot short, has

no credit line, holds two resting orders and pays the worst fees. Every tier above buys

back a piece of that. The ladder is the progression — not experience points.

Other things that compound

Five mining rigs from a single gaming GPU to a warehouse cluster. Staking that pays a

chain's yield, or cash if you'd rather take it. Eleven kinds of property from a parking

space to a business park, with rent, renovation, and managers once you own more than you

can personally look after.

The taxman

The tax year is a hundred game days. He is not optional and he does not forget.

In the box

• Four asset classes, all live, all simulated the same way

• Eight job rungs, degrees, weekly bills and a life that continues without you

• Five broker tiers gating shorting, margin, order slots and fees

• Mining, staking, property, renovation and rent

• 30 milestones, and a trophy case that shows you the ones you haven't earned

• Three difficulties — Easy, Normal and Hard — and a marker for reaching a million on

each

• A mods folder: add your own coins, or rename the ones that ship

• A real desktop application with its own runtime. No launcher, no account, no

internet required

There is no win condition. The market opens again tomorrow.