The deal, in plain terms.

Paperboi is a free paper-trading learning game. You practice reading charts and calling moves on real historical market patterns, with pretend money. Every dollar in the game is fake, and nothing in the game, the Academy, or this site is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Playing means you accept these terms.

The Academy

The Academy is an optional course inside the game, sold as a one-time purchase. In the app, payment is handled by Apple; in a browser, by our payment provider RevenueCat. Paperboi never sees or stores your card details. Refunds for app purchases go through Apple, under Apple's policies. The course teaches chart reading with paper money — no course can guarantee results in real markets.

No accounts, your device

There are no accounts and no sign-up. Your progress, settings, streaks, and course progress are saved in your browser's storage, on your device only. If you clear your browser data, or your browser clears it for you, that progress is gone — and we can't bring it back, because we never had it. How the game handles information is spelled out on the privacy page.

Play fair

Play the game as it's offered. Don't try to disrupt the site, probe or overload its services, or interfere with anyone else's use of it. The anonymous counters the game keeps exist to tell us whether people are playing — they're not a scoreboard to game.

What's ours

The game, the Paperboi name, and the Academy course materials belong to the operator, alphapulsx (Tyler Armstrong). Playing gives you the game to play — not the course content to copy, resell, or redistribute.

Provided as is

Paperboi is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind. The game may change, pause, or be discontinued, and scores, streaks, and records aren't guaranteed to persist. Real historical patterns are shown for practice; past pattern behaviour doesn't predict real markets.

If something goes wrong

It's a free game with pretend money, and the deal matches that: to the extent the law allows, the operator isn't liable for losses connected to using the game — including any real-money trading decisions you make after playing. What you do with real money is your call and your responsibility.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada.

Changes & questions

If these terms ever change, this page changes first, and playing after a change means accepting the new version. Questions: alphapulsx@gmail.com.