Fantasy football, for the stock market

Draft real stocks.
Beat your friends.

It plays exactly like fantasy football — snake draft, weekly head-to-head matchups, waivers and trades — except your players are fourteen real companies and your season runs on the actual market.

Real market data · no real money, ever · two minutes to your first draft
5,000+live tickers
14picks per roster
$100kvirtual capital each
6 daysevery matchup runs
$0at risk, ever
How a season plays

It works like fantasy football.
Every stock is a player.

Same rhythm as your football league — draft, set your lineup, talk trash, settle on the weekend — but the scoreboard is the real market.

Chapter one — Draft day
No. 1

The draft: thirty seconds a pick, one owner per stock.

A live snake draft across a five-thousand-ticker board. Live prices, company logos, sector filters, and suggested picks for the sectors you haven't covered. When NVIDIA's gone, it's gone — your rival owns it all season.

Fourteen rounds later, everyone has a roster and twenty-four hours to get ready.

30s pick clock
14 rounds, snake order
5,000+ live tickers on the board
fantasytrader.app/draft
Snake draft board — Maya is on the clock
Pick 35 of 84
Maya is on the clock — 29s
Chapter two — The live week
No. 2

Six days of market, head-to-head.

Deploy your $100,000 across a starting lineup, then the lineups lock and real prices take over. Your tech-heavy roster against her dividend fortress — watch the lead change on a Fed afternoon and argue about position sizing in the group chat.

Best portfolio return when Friday closes takes the matchup.

24h prep window
11 starters, 3 on the bench
Live scoring on real prices
fantasytrader.app/your-league
Current week matchups, live
Week 3 · four matchups live
Sarah leading by $5,770
Chapter three — Settlement
No. 3

Winner takes a stock — and the capital.

Sunday opens the transfer window. Winners lift a stock straight off the loser's roster plus a share of their capital — the league sets the stakes anywhere from 2% to 20%. Losers choose which positions to sell to cover it.

Benches swap, trades fly, and the round-robin hands everyone a fresh opponent. Then the bell rings again.

2–20% capital at stake
1 stock stolen per win
New opponent every week
fantasytrader.app/leaderboard
The leaderboard after settlement — podium and standings
The academy

Learn it properly while you play.

Three pathways and fifty-four modules — written like a course, not a glossary. Start at "what is a stock" and finish at cap rates, DCF models, and equity waterfalls.

fantasytrader.app/academy
The academy — education pathways
Beginner

The foundations

How markets actually work, reading a chart without flinching, and why diversification is the only free lunch.

Intermediate

The craft

Valuation, financial statements, factor investing, and the discipline of sizing a position like you mean it.

Advanced

The deep end

Derivatives, commercial real estate, lending, distribution waterfalls — the material most people pay for.

Everything else

Built like a game.
Honest like a terminal.

i.The full market

5,000+ live tickers — real stocks and ETFs with live prices, logos, beta, and a one-line brief on what each business actually does.

ii.Trade with rivals

Offer any of your stocks for any of theirs. On accept, both positions cash out at market and the stocks swap teams.

iii.The practice floor

A full paper-trading portfolio on real market data with honest, flat-when-nothing-happened charts. Blow up the account that doesn't matter first.

iv.Story campaigns

Run a $20M school endowment through a crash. Survive thirteen weeks at a hedge-fund desk. Branching choices, a grade at the end.

v.Stakes you set

2% transfers for a friendly league, 20% for a blood sport. The host decides at creation; the game enforces it every Sunday.

vi.Nothing to lose

Every dollar is virtual. Every price is real. That's the whole point — real judgment, zero downside, all bragging rights.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is any real money involved?

No. Every league runs on virtual capital — $100,000 by default, set by the host. Real market prices, real competition, zero financial risk.

How many people do I need for a league?

Two players make a league; up to twelve fit in one. You can even solo-draft to learn the ropes. Share the six-character join code and you're in.

Are the stock prices real?

Yes — live market data across 5,000+ listed stocks and ETFs. Scoring runs on real prices during market hours; between sessions, everything holds honestly flat.

What happens when I win a week?

You take one stock off your opponent's roster plus a percentage of their capital — the league sets it, anywhere from 2% to 20%. Then the round-robin hands you a fresh opponent.

Do I need to know anything about investing?

That's the point of the game. The academy takes you from "what's a stock?" to DCF models across 54 modules, and the practice floor lets you paper-trade before your first draft.

Fantasy Trader

Your league is one Sunday away.

Create a league, share the code, draft at market close — live by Monday's open.

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