Shakeout

YOU ARE THE WHALE.

Shakeout puts you in the market maker's chair. With $5,000,000 and a fictional coin called ORCA, you run the classic playbook: accumulate quietly, hunt the stops under support, squeeze the shorts, mark it up, hand the bag to the crowd and mark it down again. The whole Wyckoff cycle, from the other side.

The crowd is simulated trader by trader: longs and shorts with stops, leverage and liquidation prices, breakout traders, FOMO buyers and panic sellers. Push them the right way and they do the work for you. Push too hard and the exchange flags your account.

ORCA is fictional and all money is simulated. Spoofing, wash trading and coordinated stop hunts are illegal in real markets. Shakeout shows how they look from the inside so you can recognise them on your own charts.

🐋 SEVEN MISSIONS

• The Quiet Range: accumulate 15,000 ORCA without anyone noticing
• Spring Trap: push price under the range, trigger the stops and buy what they dump
• Mark-Up: break out, squeeze the shorts and let the FOMO carry it
• Distribution: sell everything at the top without crashing the price on yourself
• Leverage Hunt: run price into the liquidation piles, both ways
• The Composite Man: the full cycle in one session
• Open Ocean: sandbox, every tool, no rules except the heat

🧰 THE WHALE'S TOOLS

• Absorb bids / Distribute: hidden iceberg orders that quietly soak up the crowd
• Hold range: pin price in a box until holders give up (time capitulation)
• Sweep lows / Sweep highs: stop hunts aimed at the biggest pile on the liquidity map
• Flush / Squeeze: violent moves through the liquidations, with cascades
• Mark-up / Mark-down: stair-step programs that pull in trend traders
• Fake bid / ask walls: spoofed support and resistance
• Hype / FUD: rumours that swing the crowd's greed and fear

👀 WHAT YOU SEE

• A liquidity map of every stop and liquidation price in the crowd
• Wyckoff labels printed as you create them: TR, SC, BC, SPRING, UPTHRUST, SOS, SOW
• The crowd's open longs, shorts, leverage and greed
• A HEAT meter: the more obvious you are, the closer the exchange gets. At 100% you're exposed and frozen

📖 THE MANIPULATOR'S HANDBOOK

Every tactic in the game, what it does from the whale's chair, and how to spot it from the other side. After each mission, a lesson: what this looks like on your own charts.

⭐ PROGRESSION

Up to three stars per mission and seven ranks, from Plankton to The Composite Man.

🎮 CONTROLS

Click the tool buttons or use the keys shown on them (B buy, S sell, A absorb, Q sweep lows…). Space pauses, 1–3 change the speed, [ and ] change your order size. Best on a desktop with a keyboard.

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