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Helio Exchange — Interplanetary Commodity Trading


It's 2076. Humanity has pushed into the solar system and the markets followed.

Helio Exchange is a real-time commodity trading game set across the colonies of the inner and outer belt. You borrowed 25,000 credits to get your trading license. The clock is running.

Trade energy, agriculture, metals, and synthetics across 23 commodities and 4 category ETFs. Read the charts, time your entries, and manage your positions while news events, weekly market conditions, and chained economic consequences reshape the landscape around you.

Each trading day lasts 5 real minutes. Five days make a week. Your debt comes due every Friday.

Features

  • 23 commodities across 4 sectors with realistic price simulation — momentum, mean reversion, and support/resistance built in
  • Live candlestick and line charts with volume tracking and mouse-wheel zoom
  • Leveraged trading up to 5× long or short, with liquidation warnings and proximity alerts
  • Skill tree with 11 unlockable tools — trend indicators, news previews, leverage tiers, and more
  • Weekly market events that bias entire sectors, with chained consequences across commodities
  • Weekend intel briefings from fictional analysts — one is accurate, one is plausible but wrong, one is noise
  • Mystery box rewards including Monday profit multipliers
  • Reputation system with 10 ranks from Hobbyist to Master Trader
  • 15 achievements
  • Autosave and manual save support
  • Fully procedural music — 5 original synthesized tracks

This is a game about reading the market, managing risk, and paying your debt before it pays you back.

Play in browser. No install required.

THE MOBILE FRIENDLY VERSION IS UNDERWAY! I'm working diligently on many more features including a story mode!

This is an early prototype with a lot more planned — feedback welcome!

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