Your progress can be monitored with detailed reports on:

Current prices
Stage-of-day status
List of open trades
Your bank balance

Just like the real markets, spontaneous news reports can influence prices – your challenge is to factor these in (or not!) and second-guess the markets reaction.

The Money Machine is a great way to familiarize yourself with the behavior of markets using simulations – there is no risk! Learn to trade well, developing confidence and a distinctive style. Beginners can start with a step-by-step tutorial, and soon it will be just like being there – enjoying the cut and thrust of the worlds great trading markets.

But most of all, you’ll have a lot of fun.

Money Machine Screen Descriptions

Money Machine is visually exciting, using simple, yet attention grabbing screens. The game options are clear. If any help is required, there is QuickHelp available and there are tool tips for all buttons. Money Machine allows you to have many different games in progress at any time. This makes it easy to have more than one game in progress, allowing you to use different simulation Data Packs. With Money Machine, you can save your game at any time. This helps your simulation as it allows you to come back and continue at a later time. You can have several saved simulations, thus allowing you to go back and forth between them. The Money Machine initial game screen is the first screen you see when you start playing. This screen helps you by telling you what to do in the game. Help is just aclick away, by selecting any of the underlined headings. If you do require additional help, the help screen is displayed. From here you can simply view the relevant topic, or select one of the links to find out more information. There is also a pull down list of all available topics.

For even more help with using Money Machine, there is a Getting Started Tutorial. When you click on a topic heading, a screen shot is displayed, showing different parts of the screen and what they do, as well as a paragraph or two about that section. Once you have started the game, there are some screens you will find very useful. The first of these is the Bank Account screen. This shows detailed information on your bank balance, including profits made, brokerage charged and a list of Most Successful Traders. The next screen is the Charting screen, which shows you the overall market history. You can draw your own trend lines or see exactly what the prices for any day were. The Positions screen allows you to check all your current open trades in the market. You can close any of your trades from this screen. Check market details and your overall trading profit ability on all open positions. Finally, every so often, Money Machine interrupts your trading process with a News flash, about what is going on in the market, which you may or may not use. This makes the game feel more like real trading, especially when the message is completely useless!

System Requirements

Pentium PC, Windows 95/98, minimum 16Mb RAM, minimum 256-colour display (high colour recommended) at 800 X 600 resolution. CD-ROM drive, minimum 20 Mb Hard disk space and sound card recommended.

Average Download Times
(Your download time may vary)
* 56K Modem - 35 minutes, 29 seconds.
* ISDN - 14 minutes, 47 seconds.
* T1 - 1 minute, 13 seconds.