CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite vs Trader Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite
Learn and practice Japanese candlestick charting for stock trading. This app provides a free guide to understanding chart patterns and their meanings, helping beginners and experienced traders make informed decisions in a risk-free environment.
- Learn Japanese candlestick charting
- Practice trading skills risk-free
- 43 typical pattern graphs
- Pattern definition and explanation
- Exercises and statistical functions
- Bookmark function
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Japanese candlestick charts offer a strategic view in trading. It is one of the most famous technical analysis tools in the world. In the intricate trading game, these candlesticks are the visual trackers of market trends which have been a cornerstone in technical analysis since the 18th century, providing a clear view of price movements in the finance world. Japanese candlestick charts are a must-have in any trader's toolkit. They offer classical signals and patterns of stock trading. Each candle on the chart has a particular meaning, with its body indicating the open and close prices, and the wick showing the high and low. This charting technique is not just a tool for buying and selling stocks; it's a language that speaks volumes about the market's sentiment, whether in a bull or bear market. This app serves as a free guide book, allowing the beginners and the followers to learn Japanese candlestick charting, and practice their trading skills in a risk-free environment before venturing into the real market. Japanese candlestick charting can also serve as a reference and simulators manual to help the stock masters to make informed Alpha strategy and decision in their online stock trading. No matter whether they are managing capital in the Nasdaq, Dow Jones or Chinese stock market, and whether they are short or long. Specific content includes: 1.43 typical pattern graphs are showed in this free version 2.Definition,recognition and explanation of every pattern 3.Exercises training and statistical functions 4.Bookmark function
Trader Game
Train your trading mindset and skills using real forex data without risking real money. Learn money management, discipline, and refine your trading strategies across various markets. Progress through 9 challenging levels to become a super trader.
- Real forex data simulation
- Learn money management
- Develop trading discipline
- Refine trading strategies
- Test strategies in Stocks, Index Future, Forex, Commodities
- Progress through 9 game levels
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Quick way to train up your trader’s mind set. *All data based on real forex data, in order to train up user's trading skill. In this game, you will learn the following things without risking a dime of your own money. The importance of money management. The importance of discipline and experience the consequence of not obeying the rules. Develop your trading skills in no time. Review your trading behaviour, and find our which part goes wrong easily by viewing trading records. Fine-tune your own TA strategy and train it to become instinctive reaction. Test your strategy in different fields of the market, they are Stocks, Index Future, Forex and Commodities. Features: All the charts are anonymous. But all are real data, meaning it inherit the property of each category. Choose between 4 categories including Stocks, Index Future, Forex and Commodities. Easy to implement money management skill. There are no stop loss orders in this game. We design it in this way intentionally, because you need to learn stopping loss manually which is so important in real market. Don’t put your real money into the market until you at least doubled your account twice in this game. Are you ready to accept the challenge of becoming super trader? There are 9 levels of the game. Each level is a big challenge. Level 1 (Beginner), Capital requirement 10,000 , Transaction Cost 0% Level 2 (Novice Trader), Capital requirement 20,000 , Transaction Cost 0% Simply double your account to reach level 2. Level 3 (Advanced Trader) , Capital requirement 60,000 , Transaction Cost 0% Double your account again and again, this is to make sure you are not double it by luck. Level 4 (Experienced Trader) , Capital requirement 200,000 , Transaction Cost 0.05% 0.5% charges will apply to each trade. That mean if you put $10,000 on a trade, $5 of transection cost. Some strategy only barely win will not work again in this level. Level 5 (Master Trader) , Capital requirement 400,000 , Transaction Cost 0.1% 0.1% transection cost, which is close to some of the market in real world. If you strategy will survive in this mode, you are making good progress. And most likely, you are able to win the market. Level 6 (Monster Trader) , Capital requirement 1,000,000, Transaction Cost 0.2% Start from 10,000, and now your account is 1M, this is 100 times of profit. That is not easy, you need event more stress training to achieve higher level. That is 0.2% transectoin cost. Level 7 (Super Trader) , Capital requirement 2,000,000 , Transaction Cost 0.5% If you can double your account when 0.2% transection cost, how about 0.5%? Level 8 (Insane Trader) , Capital requirement 5,000,000 , Transaction Cost 1% 1% transection cost is the maximum of this game. In real world, if you find your transection cost is more than 1%, your chance of winning is greatly reduced. First thing you can do to increase your profit is switching to a cheaper broker. Level 9 (Holy Grail) , Capital requirement 10,000,000 , Transaction Cost 1% In real world, holy grail is not existing. But if you can grow your account 1,000 times, your strategy and your skill is proven to be extraordinary. We believe you are ready to hit the market!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Trader Game at none against CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite's shown. Trader Game also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Trader Game sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Trader Game's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite ships an update every 5 months, Trader Game every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 17, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite | Trader Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 乃 樊 | EverQuiz |
Customer experience
CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite
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In-app purchases
CandleStick Chart&Pattern Lite
- Remove ads.$3.99
Trader Game
- Full Version$7.99
- Bronze Supporter$8.99
- Silver Badge$24.99
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- Gold Badge$49.99
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