- Over 120 companies trade, each with a sector, a rated risk and a price of its own.
- Prices move every tick on their own, and nobody sets them by hand.
- Buy and sell straight into the pool, so there is never a wait for someone to take the other side.
- Standing orders sit on the market and fill while you are gone.
- The market map shows the whole board at once, and the index tracks it as one number.
- The wire breaks stories on companies before they land, and not all of them are true.
- DEVELOPING shows what is coming, the tape shows what actually happened.
- The book takes bets on whether a story lands, and the winning side splits the losing pot.
- The rake comes off the losers only, so a winning call never comes back smaller than it went on.
- Float your own company, name it, pick the ticker and keep a founder's stake.
- Half of every fee paid on a company stops in its treasury and is swept out to its holders.
- The vault locks cash for a fixed term at a rate agreed the day you agree it.
- Longer vault terms pay more per day, and locked money still counts toward your net worth.
- The desk lends against the shares you hold, with interest running daily.
- Fall far enough behind at the desk and it sells you out, taking your cash first.
- Ten tables in the back room: coinflip, dice, slots, roulette, plinko, mines, higher or lower, crash, blackjack and the counter-offer.
- Every table publishes its own edge and its own numbers, and the only secret is the roll.
- Walk away from a table mid hand and it pays out what it owed you a week later.
- A daily draw pays more every day you come back, climbing for thirty days.
- Three daily contracts and two weekly ones pay for playing the exchange rather than grinding it.
- New rats pay no fees for their first week and arrive with a position already open.
- Twenty two awards, from your first trade to ten million in net worth, and how rare each one is is published.
- Wear any award you have earned as a title beside your name.
- Leaderboards rank by net worth and by what you gained this week.
- Seasons freeze the final placing, and a trophy stays on your profile for good.
- Say something on any company, with what you hold shown next to your name.
- Twenty seven phosphor tubes to run the screen in, from cold green through to full amber.
- Text size, readability and interface scale, all separate and all remembered.
- Eight music beds played by the same chip, each reacting to how busy the board is.
- Custom cursors, a CRT overlay and a boot sequence worth watching once.