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Futures Frontier: A Futures Trading Simulator for Teens

An advanced simulator with fictional commodity prices: hedge a crop as a farmer or speculate as a trader, with margin and leverage.

  • 🆓 Level 1 free
  • 🏆 5 levels · 15 stars
  • 🎯 Hedging, leverage and margin (teens)
  • 🪙 Pretend money only

▶ Play nowUnlock all levels · $99

Futures Frontier Simulator game art

How to play

  1. 1Complete the risk lesson first — the simulator unlocks afterward.
  2. 2Round 1: as a farmer, choose to lock in today’s price (hedge) or wait until harvest.
  3. 3Watch the price move for 12 weeks and compare the results.
  4. 4Round 2: as a trader, pick 1, 2 or 4 contracts and go long or short.
  5. 5Watch the margin meter. If losses grow too large, a margin call closes the trade.

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Simulation only: all money, companies and prices are fictional. No real money, accounts or trading are involved, and nothing here is financial advice.

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A futures trading simulator for teens

Futures Frontier is a futures trading simulator for teens ages 13 and up. It uses fictional commodities, such as Space Wheat, with made-up prices. Players choose to be a farmer who hedges a crop or a speculator who takes risk. Each trading day, gains and losses settle in the account, just as they do in real futures markets.

Futures Frontier illustration for the futures trading simulator for teens

Risk lesson required

Leverage makes futures risky, so the simulator stays locked until the player completes Futures, Margin and Leverage. In addition, rewards in the game come from finishing missions thoughtfully, not from taking bigger risks.

What teens learn

  • How long and short positions gain and lose
  • How hedging can lock in a price for a producer
  • Why margin is a deposit, not a down payment
  • How leverage magnifies results in both directions
  • What triggers a margin call

This is a simulation for learning only. There are no real accounts, brokers or money.