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Information leak #1: Scale Changes - noticed this but could not put my finger on defining it clearly.

#2: Date - along the bottom edge the date progresses. Knowing generally that the market did well during certain multi-year ranges was an absolute edge. Too bad the real world doesn't come with this kind of information.

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Hi I made the game. Really glad you brought up #1 — I think it's the main problem with the game. The y-domain follows a simplified and smoothed version of the price line, which, yes, leaks information about the future. Not sure what to do about it. Because viscerally I like the movement.

#2, yes, that too. We talked about that issue but maybe not enough. I wonder if you even need to know what the timescale is. Stock movements are pretty fractal and scale-invariant, after all, right? Kinda? Hm.

I like the date information as it gives a very much needed perspective! But, knowing the year itself may not be.

Could you drop the year indicator?

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