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. Start in a minute, with or without an account
You can start playing straight away with no signup: you get $10,000.00 of simulated cash and live prices immediately. Adding an email later keeps that same portfolio and unlocks groups and your weekly review. Either way you 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 — and those answers set the tone of your AI guide.
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.
Create a free account, read the FAQ, or look up anything unfamiliar in the glossary.