Stackivate

The risk-free way to learn investing.

Practice investing against real historical markets, work through a structured skill tree, and get help from an AI coach trained on investing concepts and chart-reading.

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Free to use. No account needed to start.

Three ways to learn the craft.

Time Machine

Trade the past, learn the patterns.

Drop into a random year of market history and try to beat the S&P 500 — without knowing which year you're in. Every run teaches you something a textbook can't: what panic feels like, what patience pays, what a real market cycle looks like from the inside.

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Investor's Edge

A skill tree from Trailhead to Master Architect.

A structured curriculum for reading charts, understanding indicators, and thinking like an investor. Climb at your own pace. No filler, no fluff — every node teaches one thing and tests that you've got it before you move on.

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Stack, your AI coach

A coach who knows your archetype and reads your journal.

Stack pairs your investor archetype with the journal of every move you make, then helps you see the patterns you can't see yourself — what you tend to overcomplicate, where you flinch, where your edge is hiding. Probabilistic language, no buy/sell calls, no price predictions — guardrails by design.

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See it in action.

The Time Machine view — an AAPL candlestick chart with the SMA 200 overlay, scrubbed across years of market history.

Simple pricing. Start free.

Free

The open lobby.

Time Machine. Investor's Edge skill tree. The chart-reading quiz. No account needed to start, no credit card ever.

  • The Time Machine
  • Investor's Edge skill tree
  • Chart-reading quiz
Free, forever.

No credit card ever.

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Pro Lab

For active practice.

Everything in Free, plus live-market practice and your AI coach.

  • Real-time paper portfolio on live markets
  • An automatic investor's log that journals every move for you
  • Stack — your AI coach, with the journal as context
$14.99/ month

Yearly available.

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Elite

Elite

For serious self-directed investors.

Everything in Pro Lab, plus Architect — a personalized investing bot built from your style, ready to test with paper money before you'd ever trust it with real.

  • Everything in Pro Lab
  • Architect — a bot built from your style
  • Test with paper money first
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Frequently asked questions

Yes. The Time Machine, the Investor’s Edge skill tree, and the chart-reading quiz are all free to use, with no time limit and no credit card required. No account is required to start. The Pro Lab is the paid tier — that’s where live-market paper trading, the automatic investor’s log, and Stack the AI coach live. Elite is a future tier focused on personalized investing bots.

No. You can use the Time Machine and the Investor’s Edge skill tree without signing up. An account becomes useful when you want to save your progress, sync it across devices, or upgrade to the Pro Lab — but nothing about the free experience requires one.

The dollars aren’t real, but everything else is. You’re trading against actual historical market data, with real price movements, real volume, and real volatility. The Time Machine drops you into a random year you don’t get to choose, and the goal is to beat the S&P 500’s performance for that year. The Pro Lab adds live-market paper trading, where you trade today’s market with simulated dollars and your decisions get logged automatically.

No. Stackivate is an educational platform with paper-trading practice. Nothing on the site executes real trades or moves real money. We exist to help you learn the craft of investing in a low-stakes environment, so that when you do put real money on the line, you’re doing it deliberately.

No, and that’s intentional. Stackivate is an educational platform — we don’t provide personalized financial or investment advice. For that, you’d want to talk to a licensed financial professional. What we offer is education, structured practice, and coaching designed to help you understand investing as a craft and build your own judgment over time.

Self-directed beginners. People who want their money to work for them and want to be the ones doing the work — not handing it off to a financial advisor or chasing whatever’s trending. If you’re skeptical of “investing apps” because most of them are gambling apps in disguise, you’re who Stackivate is built for.

Yes. Your decisions, your journal entries, your archetype results — none of it gets shared, sold, or used for anything outside making your experience of Stackivate work. We don’t build profiles of you for advertisers and we don’t sell user data. Full details are in the privacy policy.
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Drop into a random year. Make your moves. See how you'd have done. The Time Machine is open — no account, no credit card, no commitment.

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