FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Because The Game - gameplay, data sources, supported countries, and how it differs from paper-trading apps.
Because The Game is a free gamified educational platform where users link macroeconomic and microeconomic indicators to the prices of stocks and cryptocurrencies. Players stake virtual points on causal chain hypotheses and compete on accuracy-based leaderboards. No real money is involved.
Players build causal chains (for example: interest rates → consumer spending → tech stock prices), stake virtual points on the hypothesis, and the app validates the prediction against real economic and market data.
Yes. Because The Game is completely free to play. There are no in-app purchases required to participate, and all points used in the game are virtual with no monetary value.
No. Because The Game is an educational simulation. No real money or securities are traded. All predictions are made with virtual points that have no monetary value, and no real-world financial transactions occur in the app.
Because validates predictions against official data from public market data sources such as NASDAQ and Yahoo Finance.
Yes. Because The Game is built to teach causal reasoning, market psychology, and hypothesis-driven investing through play. It covers stocks and crypto.
Yes. Because The Game is available on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad and on the Google Play Store for Android devices. Both versions are free to download.
Paper-trading apps simulate buying and selling. Because The Game simulates reasoning. Players don't place trades - they hypothesize causal chains between economic indicators and asset prices, and the app scores how accurate that reasoning was against real market data.
Because The Game is built for beginner investors, experienced traders, crypto enthusiasts, students of behavioural finance, and anyone who wants to understand why markets move rather than just what to buy.
Leaderboards rank players by prediction accuracy.