01 THE PRICE · of 9
That moving line is a stock price.
You start with $1,000. Grow it past the TARGET before the closing bell.
Buy the Dip · The Rulebook
How to play Buy the Dip
One button, one thumb, one rule: buy low, sell high, if you can. A price tape streams across your screen; tap to buy, tap to sell. That is the whole game, and this page is everything the tape won't stop to explain: the nine beats the first day teaches, in the game's own words.
02 THE DIP · of 9
It just dipped. That is your moment.
Tap BUY. You go all-in at the current price.
Fine ruleBuy the dips, sell the rips. Nail a buy within 1% of the local low and a PERFECT DIP boosts your combo: the game is teaching your thumb what a bottom feels like.
03 THE RIDE · of 9
You are in. Green means profit, red means under water. The entry costs a hair, so give it a beat.
Tap SELL to bank it. Aim to sell for MORE than you paid.
04 THE NEWS · of 9
A headline is coming. It will GAP the price, up or down.
You are holding. If it is good, the gap is yours. Hold on.
Fine ruleHeadlines tease before they hit: earnings, drug rulings, short squeezes, regulator probes. Then the price gaps.
05 THE WINDOW · of 9
It landed: +3.0%. PROFITS ×2 for a few seconds.
Tap SELL inside the window.
Fine ruleProfit banked in the ×2 to ×3 window after news pays big: hold through the reveal for multiplied profit, or sell early and stay safe.
06 THE CANDLES · of 9
See the bars? Each one is half a second of trading.
The body runs open to close. The wick is the high and the low. Green closed up, red closed down. In the Daily the chart runs on market time, and the row right above BUY picks how many minutes a candle holds.
07 THE CHAIN · of 9
Two wins in a row start a CHAIN, and it multiplies your next win. One loss breaks it.
- ×1
- ×2
- ×3
- SURGE
Three wins in a row, each bigger than the last, is a SURGE: time slows down for you.
08 THE RACE · of 9
The bar is the race: the fill is your climb, the tick is the clock. Fill ahead of the tick and you are winning.
The bell in 12.0 s
START $1,000MARGIN CALL · 40%
The floor(1 − 0.40) ÷ L · a 60% fall at 1×, a 12% fall at 5×
Fall to 40% of your start and the day ends: a MARGIN CALL. The dials under the bar track your chain and your floor.
09 THE BELL · of 9
The day closed. Beat the TARGET and the next day opens. Three days clear a district, five districts a month.
The day closed above the TARGET. In the real market that opens the next day: three days clear a district, five districts a month.
The rest of the game
The route
Each trading day is a 45-second level: one fictional ticker with a personality ($APRCT is sleepy, $YOLO is a menace) and a profit TARGET to beat before the closing bell. Clear 3 days to escape a district; five districts make a month, and twelve months make the year. Fall to 40% of your start and it's a MARGIN CALL. The tape doesn't care.
The Daily Dip
DAILY DIP is 24 hours of crypto in about 4 minutes: five sessions from the Asia open to the 3am degen hour, drawn as real candlesticks on market time (a session is 4.8 market hours; a 1M, 5M, 15M or 1H candle, and the coin arrives with its day behind it), and the same tape for everyone on the planet that day. Pick your leverage (1×, 2×, 5×): bigger swings, closer liquidation line. Your first finished run is your ranked run: one shot a day, extra laps are practice. Survive to the 3am close and the day pays +5 REP; streaks pay more, and the desk covers one missed day per week. Share your close and the link carries your run, and whoever opens it plays the exact same market against your number.
The aura
Clear a day and the deal puts two FAVORS on the table: take one, or take none. A Favor is a permanent edge for the rest of the run: cheaper losses, longer hot windows, an extra life. They stack into your aura; tap it any time to read what each one is doing for you. SKIP a day and its Favor is gone.
Live Duel
One tape, two traders, best of five. Make a room and hand a friend the four-letter code, or take quick match and get paired. Same candles on both screens; whoever reads them better takes the round.
Fold Duel
Two players, one phone. The screen splits into two halves that face each other (either side of the fold on an open foldable), one tape in the middle, and each half has its own BUY, SELL and bank. Five rounds, first to three. In the app.
The Pit
Three fictional names at once, ninety seconds a day, fifteen days, one book. Pick a SIZE (a quarter, half, three quarters or all of your free cash), BUY a name on a dip, SELL it higher; a name down 7% halts for five seconds. The bell books the day and what you hold rides the night, gap and all, so a run is one portfolio you keep calibrating, not fifteen sprints. Beat the day's TARGET by the bell for +1 REP; a missed day never ends the run. A name that goes cold can be rotated for one from the bench. In the app.
Learn the real version
- How to read a candlestick chartThe Daily Dip draws real candles. Each one packs four numbers into one shape: the body, the wicks, and what a long wick is actually telling you.
- Margin and the margin callThe game ends your run at 40% for a reason. What borrowing to trade really does, and why the call always comes at the worst moment.
- Why most new traders lose moneyMost active traders do worse than buying an index and doing nothing. Costs, leverage, and the exit nobody plans.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the Daily Dip?
One 24-hour crypto tape compressed into about four minutes, generated from the same seed for everyone on the planet each day. Your first finished run is your ranked run: one shot a day. Survive to the 3am close to keep your streak alive, and share your close to challenge a friend on the exact same market.
How does leverage work in the Daily Dip?
You pick 1×, 2× or 5× before the run. Bigger leverage multiplies every swing and pulls the liquidation line closer. Cross it and the run ends instantly. The tape is identical either way; the leverage only changes what it does to you.
The market is open.
Play the Daily in your browser, or take the whole game with you on iPhone.