Frequently Asked Questions
How Investment Bets paper trading, scoring, and pricing work.
- Is Investment Bets real-money trading?
- No. Investment Bets is a paper-trading app. It tracks long and short market calls for comparison and does not place real brokerage orders.
- How are entry prices calculated?
- Investment Bets fetches entry and exit prices server-side from market data when a user opens or closes a paper-trading bet. Users cannot submit their own prices.
- How are leaderboard scores compared?
- Leaderboards compare the sum of closed-trade percentage gains, so performance is ranked by return rather than account size.
- How many bets can be open at once?
- Every bet takes up one slot of exposure capacity. Free accounts have ten slots, and optional paid upgrades through Stripe add more, so the maximum number of simultaneously active bets depends on your plan.
- What happens when a bet reaches its expiry date?
- Every bet has an expiry date. If it is still open on that date, the system closes it automatically at the server-fetched market price.
- Does Investment Bets cost anything?
- Accounts are free. Optional paid upgrades through Stripe increase how many traders you can follow and how many bets you can keep open at once; they do not affect bet pricing or scoring.