I’ve just read “The Trading Game” by Gary Stevenson and was reminded of this absolute gem from Bloomberg I first wrote about in 2015. If you want to do a bit of paper trading but aren’t interested in a demo account then take a look at Bloomberg’s Trading Game.
On the basis that you no longer have a corporate server as you’re working from home and you’re not blocked from browsing miniclip for the umpteenth time give this trading game by Bloomberg a go (hopefully they won’t have blocked Bloomy too).
It’s a bit like those old space invaders games, but instead of shooting baddies you’re buying and selling historic stock charts (you don’t know what they are until afterwards).
The objective is to tap the chart to buy and outperform the market and if you look at the analysis most people do. In a typical Bloomberg way it’s been put together by some clearly very smart people, and there is probably some super sinister hedge fund behind it mining the user data to auto-trade the market with a high-frequency algo on tick charts. But probably best not to think about that side of things….
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