How it works

After signing up you have 500 chips. Chips are play money. They cannot be bought, deposited or withdrawn. If you drop below 100 chips, you are topped back up to 100 once a day so no one is locked out for good.

A round’s stake depends only on its duration, not on the number of players. It is locked when you take your seat in a round and sits in a separate escrow account until settlement.

A round starts the moment the lobby is full. If it only reaches two thirds of the seats (4 of 5, 7 of 10), a 1-minute timer starts it with whoever is there, or a 5-minute timer for the long day- and week-long rounds, so no round is left hanging on one last missing player. (A 1v1 is full at 2, so it starts right away.)

The payout is based on how many players actually took part. If a ten-player round starts with seven, the pot of seven stakes is split among the top two. Nobody wins money that was never put in.

Alternatively you can create your own round. It gets an invite code and starts once it is full or when the creator starts it manually, which is possible from two participants.

Capital and prices

Within a round everyone starts with the same trading capital. Trading happens at the same 1-second price snapshot for everyone. Every trade, whether opening, adding or closing, fills at that snapshot price, with no spread and no fees. Only your performance counts.

Long and short

You can trade in both directions with leverage you pick per position, up to 100× in one-minute rounds and down to 3× in week-long crypto rounds. Margin is cross, so your whole account backs every position. If your account value falls below the maintenance margin of 0.1 percent of your position value, roughly a 9.9 percent loss at 10× leverage, you are liquidated, your positions close and you are out of the round. If only one trader is left standing, the round ends early. Limit, stop and take-profit orders rest on the server and fill at the same snapshot price, and their lines can be dragged in the chart.

The close

At the close, all open positions are closed automatically and valued at the price that applied at that moment. The result therefore does not depend on when someone opens the page. If no verifiable price exists for that moment, the round is voided and all stakes are returned.

Scoring

Placement comes from your portfolio value at the close. Your season return decides your league and division on the leaderboard. Every result also moves your Elo rating, the head-to-head score shown alongside it.