Rules

As few as possible. These exist so the leaderboard means something.

  1. Logged trades are absolutely uneditable and undeletable. You preview every trade before it posts. Once you stamp it, the trade outlives you. Closes are instant and final. That is the entire point of this site.
  2. Comments are yours to edit or delete. Edits show an (edited) marker. Deleted comments leave a public [deleted by user] tombstone in the thread, Reddit style. The conversation record stays honest either way.
  3. Keep it civil. Attack the thesis, not the person. No harassment, no slurs, no doxxing, no brigading. Cross the line and the comment goes; keep crossing it and the account goes. The record it created stays.
  4. All DD is allowed, AI-generated included. That is the whole point: anyone can post, and everyone is judged on performance, nothing else. Calling a post AI slop is not an argument. The return is the argument.
  5. Prices are stamped by the server at submit time, from delayed market data. You commit to a moment in time, never to a number. Market data may be delayed by up to 15 minutes.
  6. Global markets, local prices. US tickers are plain (AAPL); other markets carry the Yahoo exchange suffix: RELIANCE.NS (NSE), TCS.BO (BSE), 005930.KS (KOSPI), 247540.KQ (KOSDAQ), 7203.T (Tokyo). Prices are stamped and shown in the local currency, and every trade is scored in % return against its own market's benchmark: S&P 500 for the US, Nifty 50 for India, KOSPI for Korea, Nikkei 225 for Japan.
  7. Stop loss and take profit are optional, and honest. Set them when you log the trade or any time while it's open; every change is public history on the trade page. They're checked once a night against the day's completed bar and fill at your level, or at the day's open if it gapped past.
    Example: your stop is $95 and the stock opens at $80 on bad news. You're filled at $80, not $95. Stops can't outrun a gap here either.
  8. One open trade per ticker. Close it before you re-up.
  9. Max 10 new trades per 24 hours. This is a track record, not a shotgun.
  10. Handles are permanent. Your name is your record.
  11. One vote per trade, no voting your own bags.
  12. No quantities, no notionals. Every trade is one equal-weighted unit scored in % return. Returns are the gain of your position, so shorts gain when the price falls. Nobody cares about your imaginary trillion dollars.
  13. The price stamps when you confirm, not while you preview. Sitting on the preview buys you nothing. No free options.

Fund rules

Funds are shared paper portfolios. Same spirit, more machinery.

  1. Every fund starts with a hypothetical $1,000,000. No deposits, no withdrawals, ever. The return is the whole story.
  2. One shared book. Up to 10 members trade the same cash and positions. Every order records who placed it, forever, even after they leave. Funds can never be deleted.
  3. Whole shares, no leverage. Buys are limited by the fund's cash. Shorts are allowed; total exposure (longs plus shorts) is capped at 100% of NAV.
    Example: with $1,000,000 NAV your fund can hold $700k of longs and $300k of shorts. That's the ceiling. Over it, new positions are rejected until something closes. There are no margin calls; being over the cap just locks the door.
  4. The fund's money is US dollars. Buying an Indian stock converts cash at the exchange rate stamped on the fill; the position shows local prices (₹) while its value, the NAV, and all performance numbers stay in USD. The fund's benchmark is always the S&P 500.
  5. One direction per ticker per fund. Long or short, never both. Adding and trimming is fine.
    Example: your fund is long NVDA. A member who wants to short NVDA must first sell the whole long. No hedging against your own book.
  6. Live tape fills instantly; quiet tape queues. If the ticker traded in the last 30 minutes, your order fills the moment you stamp it. Otherwise it queues and fills at the next market open, and is rejected in full if the fund can't cover it at that price. Pending orders can be canceled any time before they fill.
    Example: Sunday night you queue a big buy. Monday the stock gaps up and now costs more than the fund's cash. The order is rejected, in full, publicly. No partial fills, no negative cash.
  7. Returns include dividends. Longs get paid, shorts pay, on the ex-date. Splits adjust automatically; fractional leftovers pay out as cash in lieu. Every event lands in the fund's public ledger.
    Example: your fund is short 1,000 shares through the ex-date of a $0.50 dividend. The fund pays $500. Shorting through a dividend is not free money here either.
  8. Stops and take profits are resting orders. Any member can place a sell or cover with a trigger price and a share count, like a real broker stop or limit. It rests until the daily bar crosses the price, fills at the trigger (or the open on a gap), never expires, and is visible to everyone the moment it's placed. To move one, cancel it and place a new one.
  9. Max 10 orders per member per fund per 24 hours. You can be in at most 3 funds at a time.
  10. Fund orders are on the tape like everything else. Every fill shows in the feeds tagged F, with its own page, votes, and comments. One vote per order; no voting your own orders or your own fund's book.
  11. Leaving is allowed. Erasing is not. Leave any time; every order you placed stays attributed to you forever. Nobody can be kicked. Your open positions stay in the book for the remaining members to manage.
  12. The admin role passes down, never dies. The creator holds the invite link. If they leave, the longest-serving member becomes admin automatically.
  13. If everyone leaves, the fund is abandoned, not deleted. The book freezes where they walked away: no new orders, no more tracking. The record stays public forever. Anyone with the invite link can join and revive it, inheriting the book as-is.
  14. Fund trading never touches your personal record. The leaderboard is yours; the fund's NAV belongs to the fund. Votes and comments never move a fund's money.