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Tide Run: a free trading game on real candles that cannot peek ahead
Most trading simulators let you replay a chart you can scroll. Tide Run stops the tape at the exact moment price touches a zone, makes you decide, and only then shows what the market did.
What you do
Tide Run replays real 15-minute candles of SOL or BTC. The tape sprints forward until price taps one of the graded zones from Wrackline, our Solana support and resistance map. Then it stops and you have a few seconds to call it:
- Bull: go long.
- Bear: go short.
- Pass: stay flat. Passing is a real answer, and often the right one.
A run is 15 of these reads. You also pick a size, with a limited number of 2× and 3× chips, and an exit plan: take profit at the first zone ahead, hold for the second, or trail the stop behind price.
How it is scored
Everything is measured in R, the amount you risk on one trade. The stop sits one 15-minute ATR from your entry, fees are charged, and your result is counted where you actually exit. Reach −3R and the account is blown: the run is over.
After each run you get an edge line: win rate, average R per trade, and capture, which is how much of the move that was available you actually booked. Getting the direction right and still leaving most of the move on the table is the most common way to lose a good read.
Why it cannot peek ahead
- The candle where the tap happens is cut off at the moment of the touch. You never see how it closes before you decide.
- The zones on screen were built only from candles that had already closed at that point in the tape.
- The meters (trend, volatility, who is pushing) use only closed candles.
- The full path of each move is revealed after the run, so one read cannot leak into the next.
The Ghost
Beside you trades the Ghost, which flips a coin at every zone. If you cannot beat a coin flip over a few hundred reads, you do not have a read yet. But the honest bar is higher than the Ghost: a player who always passes finishes at zero, and the Ghost usually finishes below that because it pays fees. So the number to watch in your stats is your R per read after fees, against zero.
Why we built it
We tested our own zones against random levels and they did no better. So the zone alone is not an edge. Whatever edge exists has to come from reading the market around the zone, and that is a skill you can only measure with a lot of honest repetitions. A game gives you hundreds of them in an evening, on real data, with the score kept for you.
What else is in it
- A daily tape that is the same real stretch for everyone, with a leaderboard.
- A share card and a challenge link that opens the exact tape you played.
- Ranks, daily missions and stats that show which situations you read well and badly.
- A training mode on a simulated tape, where the hidden odds are shown after each call.