This update rebuilds how prices move, so the market trends, runs, and breathes like a real one and fills the chart with genuine activity. It also closes several ways the market could be gamed, sharpens the trading screen, fixes text and layout across every language and interface scale, and rolls up a batch of save and stability fixes. Full notes below.
Price Action and Market Dynamics
Prices now trend and run. The market has real momentum with memory, so a move can carry for hours and a story can run for days, carrying a name above or below its fundamentals before it reverts. Prices no longer snap straight back to a fair value the moment they leave it, which was the single most common piece of feedback.
Volatility feels real. Most days are quiet with the occasional big one, and each name moves through its own calm and stormy stretches instead of the same flat jitter forever.
A fuller, livelier tape. Far more of the trading now prints as real, directional candles, so the chart fills in with genuine activity instead of long flat gaps. The hourly chart is now essentially always filled and the shorter timeframes fill in close behind.
Tighter, more realistic spreads. Quotes now sit much closer together, which both feeds that livelier tape and gives you tighter fills.
Every price move now tells you why. The move readout names what drove the last print, whether it was broad market flow, a momentum desk, a value desk, the market maker, or your own order, and it reads in your language.
Volume and price now move together. Heavy trading pushes the price and quiet stretches let it drift, so the volume histogram and the candles finally tell the same story.
Options pricing now looks forward. Implied volatility anticipates the volatility a name is actually heading into rather than only echoing its recent past. This also closed a trick that farmed option premium by crushing volatility around a save and reload.
New listings debut with life. Fresh IPOs and spin offs now trade actively over their first days while still opening at fair value, so a debut feels alive without handing out a cheap entry.
It all survives save and load. The new dynamics persist exactly, and older saves still load. On an older save the fresh liveliness applies to trading from the moment you load and carry on.
Fair Play and Economy
Insider tips now point the right way. A bug had them inverted, so quietly the winning move was to fade every tip. Tips now track the real earnings result at about ninety percent, as intended.
Acting on inside information now carries real risk. Front running an earnings release on a tip can now escalate from a notice, to a warning, to a temporary trading ban. Ordinary trading is never flagged, and a single lucky trade will never ban you. The penalty is a trading ban only and never touches your cash.
Spin offs no longer list cheap. Newly spun off companies used to debut undervalued and drift up, which was a reliable free edge worth around twelve percent. They now open at fair value.
Closed a production subsidiary exploit. Rotating capital in and out of a production subsidiary could ratchet up its output and mint cash. Output and borrowing capacity are now tied to the capital actually held.
Closed the matching borrowing exploit. The same capital rotation also inflated a subsidiary's borrowing headroom. Legitimate leverage is unchanged.
Money integrity verified. Both standing money audits stayed green through the whole patch, so the economy still balances to the cent.
Trading and Charts
Placing a large order is now a single press. The extra confirmation step is gone.
The live price tag always draws on top of the chart now, never hidden behind candles or indicators.
The position bubble is now fully opaque and has a clearly visible close button, so you can flatten a position in one click.
Orders placed while paused now confirm immediately. Buying or shorting with the clock stopped gives you a clear on screen confirmation.
Paused navigation loads instantly. Switching company, chart, or screen while paused now fills the chart and readouts right away instead of waiting for time to advance.
Fresh games and loaded saves show live prices immediately. The watchlist strip and the order ticket no longer sit at 0.00 until the clock first advances.
Big trades no longer land as one giant bar. Large institutional orders now feed into the market as a stream over time, so a block spreads across the tape and the volume histogram instead of printing as a single enormous spike.
Depth chart polish. The price and size numbers now sit on a dark backing so they read clearly over the coloured bars, and the depth bars are finer for a smoother liquidity profile.
The chart indicator legend and the price readout are easier to read over candles, and the oscillator lane labels got the same treatment.
The weekly report is now a proper aligned grid, so the numbers line up correctly in every language.
Fixed the direction arrows overlapping nearby text in the header.
Display and Scaling
The header and order ticket hold together at every interface scale instead of clipping or overlapping at larger sizes. The Place deal button stays pinned and visible no matter how the ticket is sized.
The Supply Chain page no longer runs off the bottom at large interface scales. Long product details now scroll neatly inside their panel.
Verified across 16:9, 21:9, and 4K at every interface scale.
Languages and Fonts
Bundled a full Korean, Japanese, and Chinese font. Those languages now render correctly on every platform, including Steam Deck. No more missing character boxes.
Localized the asset class rail, the credit rating bands, and the new price move labels, which previously stayed in English in other languages.
Saved Games and Stability
Your trader rank, country economic trend history, trade history, getting started goals, and Positions tab sort order now all survive saving and loading.
Loading a game refreshes the screen immediately without advancing time.
The Welcome Back and session recap popup is now laid out as a clean, easy to read summary with clear labels instead of one cramped block of text.
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