Komodo Market

Komodo Market

"It is not just a game ... as life-like as it gets ... More edutainment than entertainment, Komodo Market is a real introduction into the art of stock market trading." - The Computer Paper

(Four out of Five Stars!) from Ziff-Davis Net Software

Komodo Market is a game of trading and speculation in the equities and options markets. The idea, of course, is to make money. You start every game with $10,000. A game ends if you go too far in the hole and under other circumstances.

Every attempt has been made to make Komodo Market as realistic as possible. The types of trades you can make in Komodo Market are the same as in the real world.

You get to buy and sell stock with cash or on margin. You can buy and sell both equity and index options. Purchased options can be exercised or closed out. Sold options can be closed out or may be exercised against you (called-from and put-to). You can borrow money from Komodo Bank. Just like in the real world, too, you have a monthly income and expenses, both of which you can adjust with some restrictions.

Just like in the real world, you’ll get margin calls and mailed confirmations from your broker. Komodo Broker will do other realistic things like exercise certain option positions to cover sold positions, and may sell out any long stock to cover cash shortfalls. Not all orders can be filled immediately, and you can place AON (all-or-none) and Any-Part orders. You can place price limits on both buying and selling stock. In "short", Komodo Broker behaves just the way a real broker would with few exceptions. Komodo Broker will let you go on trading even if you have a lousy record, but won’t fill any orders unless you have enough cash.

You don’t get any rest. Just like in the real world, trades keep on happening regardless of what you do. Watch the ticker bar at the bottom of the screen. From time-to-time news headlines will affect the direction of a stock. Watch the news bar at the bottom of the screen.

There are trends just like in the real world. Each company has detailed trading histories including high/low/close and volume graphs, and two years worth of financial statements. Each company has an insider whose trading habits you can research. There are economic and governmental indicators that affect the market. All of these factors affect stock prices just like in the real world. And there is much more.

You can change the length of time one day equals. If you set a day equal to 30 seconds, 1 year takes about 2 hours, 10 minutes. Each new game generates about 6 months worth of historical trading and economic data. Games can be saved and re-started at your pleasure.

It runs on Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista.