Wall Street Raider game dashboard

Since 1986 • 40 years of continuous development

The Melztube [best]

The most comprehensive financial simulation ever made. Trade stocks, bonds, options, futures, and more across 1,600 simulated companies. Now remastered for Steam.

Wall Street Raider main terminal - live stock quotes, financial news, earnings charts, research reports, and analyst summaries

The Melztube [best] <FRESH ●>

Welcome to The Melztube. Part acoustic labyrinth, part analog art sanctuary, and wholly unlike anything you’ve experienced. Tucked between a defunct power substation and a vegan leather workshop in the city’s forgotten industrial quarter, The Melztube is less a venue and more a vessel . What Is It? The Melztube is a repurposed stormwater culvert (circa 1948), lined with cork, oxidized copper, and regret. Its signature feature? A 180-meter curved corridor where sound behaves as if the laws of physics were merely suggestions. Whispers become symphonies. Drum solos sound like rainfall. A single cello note can haunt you for three business days.

If the door opens onto a broom closet, try again. The Melztube moves when it’s bored. “I went in looking for a concert. I came out understanding why whales sing.” — Sticker found on the Tube’s fuse box the melztube

Would you like a map of its “resonance zones” or a playlist of tracks that supposedly sound better inside it? Welcome to The Melztube

See It In Action

Screenshots

Main dashboard with stock prices, financial news headlines, earnings charts, and research reports
Advanced Options Trading Station with puts, calls, and in-the-money probability chart
Sector heat map showing industry performance across the simulated economy
Corporate ownership graph showing shareholder relationships and control percentages
In-game manual with keyword highlighting covering insurance, tax strategies, and investment mechanics
Tutorial showing how to buy shares from institutional shareholders with guided walkthrough
Main menu with game logo, changelog, community links, and quote of the day
Interest rate swaps trading interface for creating derivative contracts
Stock screener database with filtering by financials, growth, dividends, and analyst ratings

What People Say

Changing Lives Since 1986

"An 'imaginative, stimulating' business simulation."
— Investors Business Daily (front page article)
"I've been playing your game since I was 13 years old. Couldn't even afford to buy the full version. So I played the two-year version for years and years. And it taught me so much that now I'm working for Morgan Stanley as a forex trader in Shanghai."
— Wall Street Raider player
"It's like the Dwarf Fortress or Aurora 4X of the stock market. There really is nothing like it on the market."
— Outsider Gaming
"I've seen the source code of the game and I still can't beat it."
— Ben Ward, Lead Developer (Steam remaster)

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The Origin

40 Years. One Creator. Zero Formal Training.

In 1967, a Harvard Law student began filling notebooks with ideas for a corporate board game. In 1984, he taught himself to program in one night. By 1986, he'd retired from law to build what would become the most comprehensive financial simulation ever made. JP Morgan developers failed to modernize it. Disney game studios tried and gave up. Then a 29-year-old full-stack developer found it on Reddit.

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