Twitch plays the stock market using $50,000 of actual money

Twitch played Pokémon. Twitch played Dark Souls. And now, Twitch is playing... the stock market.

StockStream gives Twitch users a chance to move actual money around every day on the New York Stock Exchange. It's funded — to start with, at least — by $50,000 provided by the stream's owner.

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"This is all just my money," StockStream's owner, a software developer named Mike, told PC Gamer. "I saved it up, and as for as who benefits it’ll just be me. I mean, I’m taking all the risks."

Fair, Mike. Tooooootally fair.

StockStream runs every day while the NYSE market is open, with activity divided up around 5-minute voting rounds. At the end of each voting period, the top "buy" or "sell" command is pushed through and a single share of stock is bought or sold. Read more...

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