How Stoxhatch works
Stoxhatch is a practice account, not a brokerage. Nothing you do here touches real money, and you cannot deposit or withdraw. Here is the whole loop.
1. Set up in a minute
Create an account with an email address and answer four questions — how much you already know, what you want out of investing, what interests you, and how much risk you are comfortable with. Those answers set the tone of your AI guide. You start with $10,000.00 of simulated cash.
2. Read the briefing
Each market day opens with a short briefing on what moved and why, with a weekly recap and a monthly outlook on the first real trading session of the period — market holidays included. It is written to explain, not to give you a tip.
3. Find a company and write your reason
Search any tradable US stock or ETF by ticker or company name. Before a buy goes through you write a one-line thesis and pick a confidence level. That is the point of the whole app: a trade you cannot explain is a trade you will not learn from.
4. Sell, then face the journal
When you close a position the journal pairs the sale with the thesis and confidence from the buy that opened it, alongside the realised profit or loss — so you can see whether you were right for the reason you thought, or just lucky.
5. Keep the habit
A daily challenge, XP, levels and a streak reward showing up and trading deliberately. Challenges are dealt from a shuffled deck per learner, so you are not repeating the same task every fourth day.
6. Bring people in
Create a private group for your family, friends or class. Groups are invite-only: each invite is a single-use link that expires, and the group leaderboard ranks people on XP and streaks — never on money, and nobody can see anyone else's portfolio.
About the prices
Prices come from the IEX feed, one of the US exchanges, so a quote can differ slightly from what you see on a full consolidated feed like Google or Yahoo Finance. Fine for learning; not a reason to trust it for a real order.
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