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Yolo Mode

Buy calls. Sell puts. Lose it all on a Friday. YOLO Mode is a high-stakes options trading simulator where financial ruin is one bad earnings play away.

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Billmeade Gaming
Publisher
Billmeade Gaming
Release
April 17, 2026
107 days ago
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About the Game

You've seen the memes. Now live them.

YOLO Mode is an options trading simulator built for the degenerate investor in all of us. Start with a modest bankroll, pick your strikes, manage your Greeks, and watch your portfolio either moon or crater in real time — usually the latter.

Whether you're a first-timer who just learned what a call option is, or a seasoned trader who blew up their account and wants to do it again in a consequence-free environment, YOLO Mode meets you where you are.

Five Ways to Lose Your Shirt:

  • YOLO Challenge — Pure chaos. Pick a ticker, bet a direction, survive to Friday. Win streaks feed the Hall of Fame. Lose streaks feed your therapist.

  • Career Mode — 12-month campaign. $10K starting stack, monthly profit targets, covered calls, spreads, iron condors. For when you want to feel sophisticated before losing money in a more complex way.

  • Deep Value — Relive the most infamous short squeeze in market history. Build your thesis, rally the apes, testify before Congress. "I like the stock."

  • Survival — Endless mode with escalating weekly expenses. How long can you last before the bills eat you alive?

  • Daily Challenge — Same seed for every player. Same stocks, same news, same market. Prove you're better than the rest of us on the global leaderboard.

Under the Hood:

  • Real options math — Black-Scholes pricing, theta decay, IV crush after earnings. It's all modeled.

  • Mid-day breaking news events that pause the sim and force a 10-second decision: HOLD, SELL NOW, or DOUBLE DOWN.

  • Limit orders, partial sells, 1x/2x/4x/instant speed control. You're in the chair.

  • Sector rotation, market mood, insider tips (with SEC investigation risk — don't get caught).

  • 8 trader ranks from Paper Trader to Master of the Universe. Unlock volatile stocks, higher leverage tiers, and multi-leg strategies as you climb.

  • 8 achievements, per-mode high scores, Steam Cloud saves.

Hall of Fame — Your best (and worst) weeks are immortalized. Flex your 4,000% return. Confess your 98% loss.

It's educational. No really. You will genuinely learn how options pricing works. The hard way.

Past performance is not indicative of future results. This is not financial advice. Please do not take financial advice from a video game.

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