TradeOff teaches you how to trade stocks based on charts.

TradeOff gamifies fantasy stock market trading to teach financial skills

TradeOff Technologies has launched TradeOff, a fantasy stock market trading game aimed at teaching financial literacy to everyone in a fun and gamified way. It might be a good way to start off your New Year’s resolutions.

Denver-based TradeOff blends the action of Wall Street with the intensity of gaming, allowing players to win real money and prizes from stock trading competitions in a low-risk way, the company said.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.