BEAT THE COUCH
Time the market against a couch. The couch usually wins.
What this is
Beat the Couch is a trading simulation game where you try to outperform a passive buy-and-hold strategy using two years of real historical market data and a one-button interface.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- One-button trading simulation using two years of real historical market data, scored against a passive buy-and-hold benchmark.
- Best for
- Testing market-timing skill against a passive strategy.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 12 days
- Last checked
- 6d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Finance. Launched 12d ago on PeerPush, where it placed #479. Today, it's live, but nothing on the site has changed since we started watching.
Quiet for 1 day — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It placed #479 on PeerPush with 21 votes. It also showed up on 1 other board — but didn't place well enough on any of them, so none of them add to the price. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
1 quiet day in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
BEAT THE COUCH is a financial simulation that challenges you to outperform a passive investment strategy. Built on two secret years of real market history, the game tasks you with making trading decisions using a simple one-button interface. While the objective is to generate higher returns than a 'couch' (passive holding), the difficulty reflects real-world market dynamics where most traders fall short of simple benchmarks. The game is simple yet hard because the couch usually wins.
Where it launched
2 platformsThe board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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