iOS Game · In Development
CandleRush
A price-action training game built on real CME futures data. Charts freeze at a decision point, you call it in twelve seconds, and the next twelve bars tell you whether you were right — then explain why.
Why It Exists
"Reps are the only thing that builds a read."
A trading day gives you a handful of real decisions. CandleRush gives you a hundred in an afternoon — same charts, same bracket math, same discomfort of sitting on your hands when there is no setup.
Every round runs on real ES or NQ front-month history — not synthetic candles, not a random walk.
The pattern detector is the same discipline applied backwards: it reads only what was visible at the decision bar, so the lesson it gives you is a lesson you could have acted on.
Streak multipliers, a daily challenge on a shared global seed, and grades give it the pull of an arcade game. The math underneath stays honest.
The Round
10 to 20 seconds, start to finish
Replay
60 bars of real 5m/15m/30m ES or NQ history render and freeze at a decision bar. The 20-EMA is drawn. You see exactly what a live trader would have seen — nothing more.
Decide — 12 seconds
LONG, SHORT, or PASS. The implicit trade is a bracket: entry at the decision close, take-profit at +1R, stop at −1R, where R ≈ 1.1 × ATR(14).
Reveal
The next 12 bars stream in with haptic ticks. First touch of TP or SL resolves the round. A same-bar touch resolves pessimistically as a loss — honest, like real fills.
Insight card
The pattern detector explains the context (trend or range), the setup it found or the absence of one, and what the outcome actually teaches.
Grade
After ten rounds: a session grade from S to D, XP, and per-pattern stats. Confetti on S and A.
What Makes It Teach
No lookahead
Setups are recognized only from bars up to the decision point — pin bars at swings and the EMA, engulfing flips, inside-bar squeezes, double tops and bottoms, EMA pullbacks in trend, range breakouts, failed-break traps.
PASS is scored
Roughly 22% of rounds are deliberately edge-less chop. Passing those pays points and preserves the streak; trading them is a coin flip. This trains the hardest skill in trading: not trading.
Honest math
ATR-scaled brackets, pessimistic same-bar resolution, real scratches. No "guess the next candle color" gimmick.
The Playbook
Each setup unlocks a pattern card the first time you meet it in the wild — schematic, why it works, and your own live win rate on it. A trading journal that builds itself.
Data
Real CME front-month 5-minute bars for ES and NQ, validated for OHLC integrity with the forming bar dropped. 15m and 30m timeframes are resampled in-app.
Playable end to end — game engine, pattern detector, playbook, and paywall are all built. Still ahead: Game Center leaderboards for the daily challenge, pattern-specific drill modes, sound design, and a licensed data feed for App Store release.