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How Chart Draft works

1. Study the chart. Both players see all 160 candles of a price chart that finished before the match began, with 30 seconds to study it before the first claim.
2. Take turns claiming trades. Each player makes 4 claims, long or short, each covering between 8 and 40 candles. A candle can belong to only one trade, so the best stretches of the chart go to whoever reads them first.
3. Swap seats and play it again. The same chart is played a second time with the other player claiming first, so moving first is never the advantage that decides a match.
4. The higher total wins. Each claim is scored on a simulated $10,000 per leg, at the exact closing prices of the candles it enters and leaves. Both legs added together decide the winner.

Why it is a game of skill

There is no future price to guess. The chart is fixed and published before play begins, every claim is visible to both players the moment it is made, and there is no dice, no shuffle and no hidden hand. What separates two players is how well they read a chart and how well they anticipate what the other will take. Charts are generated in advance and each day's list is published as a hash before the day starts — how boards are chosen, with the evidence to check your own match.

Time controls

• Blitz · 1:30 + 10s per turn
• Rapid · 4:00 + 20s per turn

Run out of time and your remaining claims are passed; the trades you already made still count.

Free to play

Every match is free for now: same rules, same clock, no entry and no prize. Play another person for nothing, and it counts toward your rating. You can also practise against a bot. Free matches and bot practice are open wherever Yodoya is.

Common questions

Is any real trading involved?

No. Every account is simulated. No order reaches an exchange and nobody's capital is deployed, and matches are free, so no money changes hands.

Do I need to send documents?

No documents are needed to play or to be paid. Payouts go to your own wallet, and every payout address is screened against sanctions lists.

How is this different from a duel?

A duel is a race on live prices against the clock. Chart Draft is turn-based on a chart that has already finished, so it is pure strategy.

Is this the same as a funded trading challenge?

No, it is separate. Yodoya's trading challenge is played alone against three rules; head-to-head matches are played against another person. See pricing for the challenge.

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