Wall Street Raider game dashboard

Since 1986 • 40 years of continuous development

The Dwarf Fortress
of Wall Street

The most comprehensive financial simulation ever made. Trade stocks, bonds, options, futures, and more across 1,600 simulated companies. Now remastered for Steam.

Wall Street Raider main terminal - live stock quotes, financial news, earnings charts, research reports, and analyst summaries

What Makes It Different

A Living Financial World

Not just a trading game. A full economic simulation with real corporate finance mechanics built by a Harvard-trained tax attorney and CPA.

1,600

Simulated Companies

A massive interconnected economy with companies across every sector. Every stock price, every earnings report, every market move is simulated in real-time.

115K

Lines of BASIC Code

40 years of continuous development by a single creator. More financial instruments and mechanics than any other simulation. Stocks, bonds, options, futures, crypto, ETFs, swaps, and derivatives.

124

Countries Playing

A global following from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Players have gone on to careers at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and hedge funds managing billions.

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Play Your Way

Be a ruthless robber baron or an ethical investor. The karma system tracks your unethical actions. Anti-trust regulators are watching. Crime doesn't pay — eventually.

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Real Finance Mechanics

PE ratio arbitrage from 1960s conglomerate strategies. Consolidated tax accounting based on actual IRS regulations. Built by someone who structured billion-dollar mergers in real life.

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Fully Moddable

Open-source UI built on web technologies. Full REST API. Write trading bots in Python. The community can mod every aspect of the interface.

See It In Action

Screenshots

Main dashboard with stock prices, financial news headlines, earnings charts, and research reports
Advanced Options Trading Station with puts, calls, and in-the-money probability chart
Sector heat map showing industry performance across the simulated economy
Corporate ownership graph showing shareholder relationships and control percentages
In-game manual with keyword highlighting covering insurance, tax strategies, and investment mechanics
Tutorial showing how to buy shares from institutional shareholders with guided walkthrough
Main menu with game logo, changelog, community links, and quote of the day
Interest rate swaps trading interface for creating derivative contracts
Stock screener database with filtering by financials, growth, dividends, and analyst ratings

What People Say

Changing Lives Since 1986

"An 'imaginative, stimulating' business simulation."
— Investors Business Daily (front page article)
"I've been playing your game since I was 13 years old. Couldn't even afford to buy the full version. So I played the two-year version for years and years. And it taught me so much that now I'm working for Morgan Stanley as a forex trader in Shanghai."
— Wall Street Raider player
"It's like the Dwarf Fortress or Aurora 4X of the stock market. There really is nothing like it on the market."
— Outsider Gaming
"I've seen the source code of the game and I still can't beat it."
— Ben Ward, Lead Developer (Steam remaster)

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See Wall Street Raider In Action

The Origin

40 Years. One Creator. Zero Formal Training.

In 1967, a Harvard Law student began filling notebooks with ideas for a corporate board game. In 1984, he taught himself to program in one night. By 1986, he'd retired from law to build what would become the most comprehensive financial simulation ever made. JP Morgan developers failed to modernize it. Disney game studios tried and gave up. Then a 29-year-old full-stack developer found it on Reddit.

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