APEX: Black Monday

January 1985. The firm hands you a desk, a number to hit every Friday, and orders it does not explain. Earn out, and the book is yours: the backers, the boardrooms, the corners, the paper that keeps score. But the Street has an apex predator, and the collapses on the tape all trace back to the same desk. You have until the decade closes to bring it down, or sell to it, like everyone else.

YOUR RIVAL PLAYS BY THE RULES. ALL OF THEM.

APEX Holdings is not a scripted event. It trades the same market you do: it posts margin, answers to lenders, corners commodities that can be broken, sits on boards that can be voted away, and leans on backers whose patience runs out. Everything it can do to you, you can do to it. When it falls, it falls because the same rules that govern your book finally caught up with its.

CLEAN HANDS OR DIRTY: TWO DIFFERENT WARS

Keep your hands clean and the Street demands proof before APEX can fall: a distressed business of your own, a joint venture run to its term, a corner you helped break, a board APEX was voted off, and a regulator who believes you.
Or fill the firm's orders, trade the leaked column, plant stories, pay the right man at the SEC. The dirty road wins more often. It also pays worse, ends uglier, and your file is read back to you at the end.

ONE LEDGER. IT NEVER RESETS.

Every finished decade posts your closing book to the same global board that launch-day players started: one table, never wiped. The back office remembers how each number was made: desk rules, clean or dirty, and whether you ever rewound. A rewound run keeps its number locally and stays off the global ledger. Achievements are earned only on an Ironman book.

A LIVING STREET

Every rival desk trades the same market, with its own style, stress, memory and grudges. Sectors, commodities and supply chains move whether you watch them or not, and October 1987 comes, ready or not, on the real calendar.

TYPE YOUR WAY TO THE TOP

BUY. SHORT. ACQUIRE. SIGN. VOTE. FILE. FIX. Every verb is a decision with a settlement date. The Market Clarion prints your month against the Street's, and the one that got away.

BUILT TO REPLAY

• The Daily Tape: one market for everyone, every day, with a share line to post when you beat it
  
• Scenarios: Two Weeks to Black Monday, The Raid, Earn Out
  
• Head-to-head: live Steam duels and tables, or a challenge file sent to a rival
  
• Seeded decades: same seed, same market, for everyone

FEATURES

• A 260-week Wall Street decade, 1985 to 1989, on the real calendar, Black Monday included
  
• An antagonist bound by the same simulation: margin, lenders, corners, boards, backers
  
• Two roads to victory: prove it clean, or buy your way there and live with the file
  
• A permanent global leaderboard: one ledger since launch, never reset
  
• Ironman-only achievements; rewound runs are marked on the record
  
• A typed-command terminal, three desks that change with your career, and a full Player's Guide
  
• Colour-blind assist mode

Free demo: Act I's first twenty weeks, two scenarios (Two Weeks to Black Monday and Earn Out), the tutorial and the Daily Tape.