A Trader's Sketchbook

Trading in a sketchbook

A Trader’s Sketchbook is a hand-drawn roguelike about trading liquidity in a sketchbook. You play against rival traders and yourself, using cards to print candles and avoid aggressive margin calls. Your profits come from the other market participants in the queue, whose positions can be swept out by your candles.

Rival traders

The traders around you have different weaknesses. Stoploss Stan sets tight stop losses and panics when a candle comes close to his position. Diamond Hands treats an 80% market collapse as a dip and holds on until a margin call removes him. The Quant Algo uses probability matrices and microsecond calculations, but a Werecard can upset its risk engine.