Ticker Panic

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• Announcements·26 Jul 2026Official

  2,000 Wishlists — Thank You! Here’s What’s New

  Ticker Panic has passed 2,000 wishlists on Steam.Thank you to everyone who wishlisted the game. Reaching this milestone shows that there is real demand for this kind of fast, chaotic market game—and raises the standard for what Ticker Panic needs to become.The last major development update centered on v0.5.6 and the foundation beneath market clearing. Since then, nearly every part of the game has moved forward: how you place orders, how you read the market, how assets influence one another, how quickly the interface responds, and how a new player learns to survive the first day.Here is what has changed over the last 5 weeks.More Ways to Trade — and More Ways to Regret ItThe order system has grown far beyond immediate Buy and Sell buttons.You can now create multiple Stop and Target orders for the same position, set each one by percentage or exact share count, pause and re-arm individual orders, and manage them from a compact Pending Orders view. Orders persist with your run, and triggered Stops and Targets appear clearly in the Ledger.The trade ticket has also been rebuilt around one consistent flow for size, price, attached exits, and final Buy or Sell actions.Most importantly, Limit and Stop Limit orders execute through the real market simulation. They use the same available depth, partial fills, and slippage rules as ordinary trades. A limit price can protect you from a terrible fill, but it cannot force the market to take the other side.The market remains under no obligation to cooperate.A Much Better Trading DashboardThe dashboard has received its largest presentation pass so far.The stock list now has dedicated All, Holdings, and Watchlist views, persistent watch stars, tighter category groups, and clearer selection states. The bottom Market Events area is now a readable horizontal card strip with ticker highlighting, grouped duplicate stories, direct stock navigation, and a separate detail action.There is also a complete Market Events & Catalysts archive for d...
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• Announcements·16 Jun 2026Official

  The Market Has Numbers Now

  The last update was all about making Ticker Panic look and feel more like a real trading terminal: the ticker strip, better chart presentation, a cleaner selected-stock panel, stronger red/green market movement, and a dashboard that felt less like a prototype and more like a place where bad decisions can become very expensive.Since then, the work has moved into something much bigger:The market is no longer just a set of price lines.Stocks now have more structure behind them. They have personality. They have liquidity. They have float. They have trade impact. They can become crowded, thin, stressed, overhyped, fragile, or suspiciously dangerous.In other words: the chart was fine until you touched it.Stocks now have personalitiesOne of the biggest changes is that stocks are starting to behave less like identical tickers with different names.Each stock can now carry its own behavior profile: volatility, liquidity, drift, mean reversion, sector/category bias, hype sensitivity, panic sensitivity, and event sensitivity. That means a stable fund, a speculative growth name, a meme stock, and a tiny penny stock should no longer feel like the same chart wearing different sunglasses.Some stocks are calmer. Some overreact to hype. Some are fragile during panic. Some attract weirder headlines. Some are liquid enough that your trades barely matter. Others are thin enough that your account starts becoming part of the problem.The goal is simple: players should eventually recognize stocks by behavior, not just by ticker.There are real numbers behind each stock nowTicker Panic is also moving toward a more grounded company and market-data layer.The design goal is not to become an accounting simulator. Nobody is asking you to read a fake 10-K before panic-buying a snack company. But the stocks should feel like they have actual financial identities behind them.That means the game is building toward useful, readable stock data like:market caprevenuenet incomeEPSP/E ratiogrowth ratingqual...
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• Announcements·10 Jun 2026Official

  Ticker Panic v0.4.13

  Ticker Panic has received a major presentation and progression update with v0.4.13 — Market Terminal Redesign.This update focuses on making the game clearer, sharper, and more satisfying to play, with a redesigned dashboard, a new boot menu, improved save/load flow, expanded progression systems, shop unlocks, and more polished controls.Market Terminal RedesignThe biggest change is the overall presentation.The dashboard has been redesigned around a darker graphite / market-terminal style, with cleaner panels, sharper red and green market feedback, stronger highlights, and a more readable layout.The result is a cleaner trading dashboard that better matches the fast, chaotic energy of Ticker Panic.New Boot MenuTicker Panic now opens into a new boot menu before entering the main dashboard.The boot menu includes:ContinueNew RunLoad GameSettingsQuitMarket overview displayNews/ticker-style presentation elementsThis gives the game a stronger first impression and makes it easier to start, continue, or manage a run.Improved Save / Load FlowSave handling has been improved with better access to:Latest valid saveQuick saveManual savesNew run confirmationThis makes it easier to continue a run, start fresh, or manage save options from the new boot menu.Progression HubThe achievement popup has been expanded into a fuller Progression Hub.Achievements and shop progression now live in one cleaner interface, making it easier to see what you have earned, what you are working toward, and what upgrades are available.Shop UnlocksThe shop system is now in place.Earned points can be spent on unlocks, and owned purchases save between sessions. Some unlocks now affect gameplay directly, including speed and pause-related controls.This is an important step toward giving each run more long-term structure and progression.Gameplay Unlock EffectsSeveral unlocks now have direct gameplay behavior attached.Current examples include:Speed x2 and x4 progressionSpeed x4 requiring Speed x2 firstPause Contro...
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