Most games make money when prices rise. Here you do the opposite: sell high, buy back low. Short a falling simulated stock, cover at the bottom, and profit from the drop. Play money, no sign-up.
Short selling flips the usual buy-low-sell-high order on its head. You borrow shares, sell them now at today's price, and aim to buy them back later — to cover — at a lower price. The gap between your sell price and your buy-back price is your profit. If the stock rises instead, covering costs more than you sold for, and you take a loss.
In this short selling game you start with $10,000 of play money and one simulated ticker, FADE, that tends to drift lower with plenty of noise. Open a short while you read weakness, then cover near a low. The dashed gold line marks your entry, and the chart turns green whenever the price is below it — because for a short, down is good.
The short loop: sell borrowed shares high → wait for the price to fall → buy them back low → pocket the difference. You are simply trading in reverse order.
The taller the drop between your short entry and your cover, the bigger your gain — the mirror image of going long.
Big warning: real short selling carries theoretically unlimited loss, borrow fees, and margin calls, and can be subject to short-sale restrictions. It is an advanced strategy. This is a free educational game, not financial advice — read the SEC's explainer at investor.gov.
Prefer betting on rising prices? Go long in the stock market simulator, or learn the difference between optimism and pessimism in what is a bull market and what is a bear market.
Short selling is borrowing shares, selling them at today's price, and buying them back later. If the price falls you keep the difference; if it rises you lose. This game lets you practice that with play money.
Open a short while the price is high, then cover (buy back) after it falls. Your profit is your entry price minus your cover price, times the number of shares.
In the game your loss is capped for safety, but in reality short selling has theoretically unlimited loss because a stock can rise without limit. That risk is why it is an advanced strategy.
No. The price is a seeded random-walk simulation and all balances are play money saved in your browser. This is a free educational game, not financial advice.