Trade everything.
Stocks, options, ETFs, commodities, crypto, bonds, and interest rate swaps — all priced by a live macro engine, not a random number generator.
Stock market tycoon · trading simulator · iOS 17+
The stock market tycoon that respects the tape.
Wall Street Raider is a free financial tycoon and stock trading simulator for iPhone. Trade 400 tickers across 12 asset classes — stocks, options, crypto, commodities, ETFs, bonds, and swaps. Stage hostile takeovers and LBOs. Charter a bank. Survive 7 historical crashes and a ranked weekly challenge every Monday. Built for people who read the FT for fun — not another slot machine in a suit.
Free · No ads
★Built on SwiftUI + SwiftData
Offline-first · Private saves
iPhone · iOS 17+400 tickers12 asset classesWeekly challenge7 historical crashesNo pay-to-win
EMPIRE // DASHBOARD
Total Net Worth · Q2 2027
$184,322,018
▲ $2.84M +1.56% today
ACME124,000 sh · long+$412,800
VRTX48,500 sh · short−$88,215
BTC240 spot · 12 futures+$1,204,600
400Tradeable Tickers
12Asset Classes
7Historical Crashes
52Weekly Challenges / yr
// 01 · what you do
Every market. Every weapon.
A deep stock market simulator and financial tycoon game — six pillars of mechanics you can actually touch, not cosmetic skins.
Take over anything.
Acquire controlling stakes, stage LBOs, run the boardroom. Greenmail vulnerable rivals. Dodge antitrust monitors while your empire eats sector after sector.
Outsmart everyone.
AI rivals move real capital, react to news, and hunt the same mispricings you do. Beat them to the trade or get left holding the bag.
Survive history.
Seven historical crises, from the '29 Crash to the COVID flash. Period-accurate shocks. One to three stars per run. See if your strategy holds.
Rank every week.
A free, one-sitting Weekly Challenge with an identical authored tape for everyone. One cold attempt. Friends rank and percentile — not a pay-to-win ladder.
Charter a bank.
Turn a finance company into a real lender. Originate against the yield curve, provision for losses, manage deposits — and fail two ways: capital insolvency or a liquidity run.
// 02 · in three moves
From your first trade to your first empire.
The simulation is deep, but the on-ramp is sharp. Here's the first hour.
Size a position.
Open the screener, read the analyst consensus and P/E, then place a long, short, or option. Black-Scholes prices every strike in real time.
Cross the threshold.
Build a stake in a target. At 51% the company is yours. Lever up with live debt quotes, swap in your own CEO, set capex, and squeeze the margin.
Outrun the cycle.
The yield curve moves. The Fed hikes. A rival launches a counter-bid. Rebalance, hedge with swaps, or load up on distressed debt and wait.
// 03 · the markets
Twelve asset classes, one living book.
400 tickers across 10 industries. Every instrument marks to market every tick. Every position is a thesis you can defend.
Tech
Finance
Energy
Retail
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Media
Pharma
Utilities
Real Estate
Equities
Stocks with a pulse.
Dozens of companies across real industries, each with dynamic earnings, P/E ratios, analyst ratings, and insider transactions. Fundamentals shift tick by tick — the screener is your scalpel, not a static leaderboard.
- Dozens of tickers across multiple sectors
- Live earnings, P/E, and analyst consensus rebases
- Full-featured stock screener with filters and sorts
- Insider activity and rating changes baked into the feed
Options
Priced by Black-Scholes.
Calls and puts quoted with a Black-Scholes-style engine that responds to volatility, time decay, and the underlying. Go directional, hedge a takeover, or build a strategy position — expiry is brutal and unforgiving.
- Calls and puts on any listed ticker
- Black-Scholes-style pricing with IV and decay
- Multi-leg strategy positions
- Automatic expiry and exercise lifecycle
Digital assets
Crypto that behaves like crypto.
BTC and ETH with spot and futures, market regimes, funding rates, and cascade liquidations. When sentiment turns, leverage gets flushed — and the chart remembers.
- Spot and perpetual futures on BTC and ETH
- Regime-driven volatility and funding
- Cascade liquidation mechanics
- Vesting, archetypes, and crypto-native flows
Commodities & rates
Oil, gold, and the yield curve.
Trade oil, gold, and the rest of the physical complex, then fine-tune your rate exposure with interest rate swaps priced against a live yield curve. This is the plumbing professional desks actually care about.
- Long and short futures on oil, gold, and more
- Interest rate swaps with term and direction
- Live yield curve and prime rate
- Mark-to-market P&L every tick
ETFs
Trade them, or build them.
Eleven predefined funds cover every major theme, or you can roll your own basket, set the weights, and watch the NAV move against the market you just helped shape.
- 11 curated predefined ETFs
- Custom ETF creation with your own constituents
- Live NAV recalculation every tick
- Buy, sell, and rebalance in one screen
// 04 · the scenarios
Survive history's worst weeks.
Seven period-accurate crises with distinct macro, news, and starting conditions. Earn one to three stars per run. Free players get the COVID crash; Pro unlocks the full archive.
Pandemic shock, circuit breakers, fastest bear market in history. Protect liquidity before the re-opening trade rotates.
S&P −34% · 23 daysPortfolio insurance cascades into a single-day collapse. Margin calls move faster than the tape.
Dow −22.6% · 1 dayTech multiples unwind. Sector correlations break. Quality refuge trades become the entire game.
Nasdaq −78% · 30 monthsCurrency pegs snap, contagion sweeps emerging markets, a global risk-off regime reprices the book.
MSCI EM −59% · 15 monthsDouble-digit inflation, oil shocks, and a sideways grind. Real returns are your only returns.
Real S&P −46% · decadeMargin unwound from 10:1. Banks fail. Deflation compounds. The original stress test.
Dow −89% · 34 monthsHousing levered into the balance sheet of every bank. Credit seizes. Counterparties vanish overnight.
S&P −57% · 17 monthsNo preset crisis. Just a generated macro future and the rest of your career to spend in it. Multiple save slots keep parallel empires isolated.
Starts · $1M stake
// 05 · weekly challenge
One sitting. One cold attempt.
01 · identical world
02 · one shot ranked
03 · no pay-to-win
04 · fair board
One sitting. One cold attempt.
Same tape for everyone.
Every Monday a new authored market drops — stocks and shorts only, fixed speed, identical fundamentals and price curves. Your main empire freezes while you play. Finish before the week closes and you land on a friends + percentile board, not a global top-100 that rewards cheating.
Authored, not random.
Every company ships with a fundamentals seed and a full price curve. Two players downloading the same week see the same investment universe — no device lottery.
First attempt only.
Your first cold run goes to Game Center. Pro can re-run the archive for practice — unranked — because on a fixed tape a replay is the answer key.
Speed is convenience.
The challenge pins a free-tier speed. Pro cannot buy more decisions per minute. Pause anytime; the clock is ticks, not a stopwatch.
Friends + percentile.
See where you sit among friends and what share of the field you beat. No public leaderboard to poison, no fabricated #1 throne.
Your main game is saved and frozen while you are inside a challenge — and restored the moment you leave. Miss a week? Pro unlocks the challenge archive for unranked replays.
// 06 · the research desk
A Bloomberg terminal the size of a pocket.
Unlock research tiers as you grow — from the analyst intern to the quant desk to the risk committee. Every instrument ships with the tooling a professional would demand.
Quantitative forecasts
Monte Carlo, fan charts, Greeks.
Project any ticker forward with nine percentile bands. Read delta, gamma, theta, and implied vol off every option chain. Run sector correlations before you size up.
- Monte Carlo forecasts with 9 percentile fan charts
- Technical overlays: MACD, RSI, SMA, EMA, Bollinger Bands
- Live analyst consensus and earnings deep-dives
- Sector correlation matrix for true hedging
// 07 · the empire
Beyond the ticker.
The tape is only the beginning. Past a certain scale you stop trading companies and start owning them.
Hostile takeovers & LBOs
Cross the control threshold.
Cross the control threshold and the company is yours. Run it, milk it, spin it, or lever up and buy something bigger. Play defense as a target with white-knight pacts. Just remember the antitrust monitor is watching every move you make.
- Acquire controlling stakes — or extract greenmail before you do
- Leveraged buyouts with live financing quotes
- White-knight defense on companies under your control
- Antitrust alerts as sector concentration rises
Corporate arsenal
Run the boardroom.
Owning a company means more than taking dividends. Toggle autopilot. Grant yourself vesting equity on controlled companies. Spin subsidiaries, set capex and R&D, and squeeze the margin before the next reporting cycle.
- CEO stock option grants with multi-tick vesting
- Controlled-company autopilot for hands-off scaling
- Spin-offs, subsidiary liquidations, capex & R&D levers
- Tax strategies and consolidated ledgers on Pro
Play as a bank
Charter. Lend. Survive both death paths.
A controlled finance company becomes a real bank — not a rate-setting toy. Price loans off the yield curve plus credit spread and your margin. Provision for expected losses. Watch CET1 and uninsured funding. Fail via capital insolvency or a deposit run that forces fire sales.
- Policy-driven underwriting with risk appetite and covenant knobs
- ACL / CECL-style provisions — charge-offs hit the allowance, not magic P&L
- Loan book, health taxonomy, workouts (demand, seize, write-off)
- ALM rate-shock MTM and liquidity-run path modeled after the real plumbing
AI rivals
Capital that fights back.
The AI isn't set dressing. Rival capital allocators scan the same tape, spot the same setups, and move prices when they trade. Sometimes they pay up for your shares. Sometimes they bid against you in a takeover fight.
- Independent AI portfolios with real P&L
- Market-impacting buys and sells
- Competitive hostile bids
- Adaptive behavior across market regimes
Macro economy
A world underneath the tape.
GDP, inflation, the prime rate, the yield curve, sector correlations, and a dynamic news feed. A shock in energy ripples into transports. A rate hike reprices the whole book. Every tick, everything is connected.
- Full macro state: GDP, CPI, prime rate, yield curve
- Cross-sector correlation engine
- News events that move prices and route deep links
- Bull, bear, and chop — persistent, not cosmetic
// 08 · the difference
Why Wall Street Raider — not another trading clicker.
Most stock trading games on the App Store feel like a slot machine in a suit. This financial tycoon simulator is the other thing.
Casual clickers
Wall Street Raider
Random price charts
Full macro economy driving every tick — GDP, CPI, prime rate, yield curve
Stocks only
12 asset classes: stocks, options, ETFs, crypto, commodities, swaps, bonds
Tap-to-earn upgrade trees
LBOs, hostile takeovers, greenmail, and white-knight defense
Static NPC traders
AI rivals with real portfolios that move the market against you
One endless run
Seven historical crashes + a ranked weekly challenge every Monday
"Bank" as a skin
Charter a real lender — provisions, CET1, deposit runs, two death paths
Fake charts
Monte Carlo forecasts, MACD, RSI, Bollinger Bands, Greeks
Pay-to-win boosters
One optional Pro unlock. Zero ads. Zero currency packs. Ranked runs pin free speed.
Headline popups for flavor
18 news event types that deep-link into the tape and reprice sectors
One shared save that overwrites itself
Multiple save slots with per-empire progress isolation
// 09 · the signal
Built for a specific kind of player.
An honest fit check, so you don't waste a download. This game is opinionated about who it's for.
You'll probably like it if…
You already know what a yield curve inversion implies, you've argued about whether a buyback beats a dividend, and you want the simulation to hold up when you poke at it. Options are priced with Black–Scholes and the Greeks move. The cash layer is conservation-audited — money does not appear from nowhere.
You'll probably bounce if…
You want a five-minute idle loop with a progress bar. There is no energy timer, no currency pack, and no boost that makes numbers go up faster. The first hour is a learning curve, not a tutorial reward chain. That's a deliberate trade, not an oversight.
What it will never do
Touch real money, real tickers, or a real brokerage. Show you an ad. Sell you in-game cash. Gate a ranked weekly result behind a purchase — ranked runs pin free-tier speed on purpose, so Pro never buys more decisions per minute.
I built Wall Street Raider because every "trading game" on the store felt like a slot machine in a suit. I wanted the thing I actually wished existed on a phone — a market with real plumbing underneath it, rivals who respect a good trade, and stakes that make you think twice before you lever up. No microtransactions dressed as strategy. No dopamine slot-pulls. Just a screen, a ticker, and a question: do you actually know what you're doing?
— Solo developer, Wall Street Raider
// 10 · questions
What you probably want to ask.
Is Wall Street Raider free? What does it cost?
Wall Street Raider is a free download with one optional Pro upgrade. Pro unlocks premium instruments (crypto, commodities, multi-leg options, ETFs, swaps, distressed debt), the full Market Legends archive, 5×/10× speeds, autopilot, tax strategies, and the weekly challenge archive for unranked practice. No ads, no energy timers, no currency packs. The live weekly challenge itself is free for everyone.
Do I need real money or a brokerage account?
No. Nothing in the game connects to real markets or real money. It is a pure simulation — the tickers, companies, and prices are fictional, and nothing you do affects real-world holdings.
What is the Weekly Challenge?
A free, rotating, one-sitting ranked run that opens every Monday. Everyone trades the same authored tape (fundamentals + price curves), at a fixed free-tier speed, with one cold attempt that can hit Game Center. Results show friends rank and percentile — never a public global top-100. Your main empire is saved and frozen while you play. Pro can re-run past weeks from the archive unranked.
Can I play Wall Street Raider offline?
Yes for the main sandbox, Market Legends scenarios, banking, and all trading — the simulation runs on device with no account required. The weekly challenge needs a short connection to fetch this week's tape and (optionally) submit a ranked score; once the run is cached it continues offline.
Is it pay-to-win?
No. Pro cannot buy you in-game money, better returns, or a higher weekly rank. Ranked challenges pin a free speed so a subscription never buys more decisions per minute. Skill and patience win.
Can I really play as a bank?
Yes. Control a finance-industry company, charter it, set lending policy (margin over the curve, risk appetite, covenants), originate into a loan book, provision under an ACL model, work out distressed credits, and manage capital and liquidity risk. Banks can die two ways: capital insolvency or a deposit run that forces fire sales.
How deep does the simulation actually go?
400 tradeable tickers across 10 industries, 12 asset classes, 25+ simulation engines, 18 news event types, a full macro stack (GDP, CPI, prime rate, yield curve), play-as-a-bank, hostile M&A, and a weekly authored challenge. Options are priced with Black-Scholes, not a lookup table. The money layer has been conservation-audited so cash does not appear from nowhere.
What are the historical scenarios?
Seven period-accurate market crashes (Market Legends): the 1929 Great Crash, 1970s Stagflation, 1987 Black Monday, the 1997 Asian Crisis, the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble, the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the 2020 COVID-19 crash. Each has distinct macro settings, news, and a one-to-three-star mastery score. COVID is free; the rest unlock with Pro through prerequisite chains.
What iOS version do I need?
iOS 17 or later on iPhone. The game is built with SwiftUI and SwiftData for modern Apple hardware. Sheets and major flows are adapted for iPad; a fully native iPad layout continues to expand.
Is my save data private? Can I run multiple empires?
Yes and yes. Saves live on your device via SwiftData across multiple independent slots — watchlists, screener filters, and run progress stay scoped per empire. Nothing is uploaded or shared. Weekly challenge scores that you choose to rank submit only through Game Center.
Does it run on iPad?
Yes — install and play on iPad. Sheets and trade flows use adaptive widths; the experience is still iPhone-first with ongoing native iPad layout work.
// open the terminal
The market opens when you do.
Download Wall Street Raider and find out if you can actually run the tape.