Nine tiers, monthly seasons, and a league group of up to 100 players you actually move up and down against.
A fantasy stock market league gives a trading game the thing most of them are missing: consequences that carry from one month to the next. Fantasy Finance's league system does that with nine tiers, promotion and relegation, and a league group sized so your placement is actually earned rather than lost in a leaderboard of thousands.
Every player starts in Bronze III. From there the tiers run Bronze III → Bronze II → Bronze I → Silver III → Silver II → Silver I → Gold III → Gold II → Gold I — nine steps, each one a real jump in the players you're measured against, not just a cosmetic badge.
| Tier | Movement |
|---|---|
| Bronze III | No relegation — this is the floor |
| Bronze II, Bronze I, Silver III–I, Gold III, Gold II | Promotion and relegation both apply |
| Gold I | No promotion — this is the top |
You move at most one tier per season, win or lose badly — climbing from Bronze III to Gold I is a sequence of good seasons, not one lucky month.
You don't have to wait for a season to start. Join partway through and you're placed into a league group and ranked normally, but late joiners aren't promoted or relegated that particular season — you get a full season's worth of league movement starting the following month. It's a deliberate trade-off: joining late shouldn't cost you a tier, but it also shouldn't let a strong final week jump you past players who traded the whole month.
Fantasy Finance also has a global leaderboard, filterable by region and country, and it exists purely for comparison — it has no effect on promotion or relegation. Only your placement within your own league group decides whether you move up or down. That separation matters: a league group of 100 is small enough that your trades visibly move your standing, where a global leaderboard of everyone would mostly just tell you how far away the top is.
Ranking within a group is by portfolio value, and since everyone in a group starts a season with the same $100,000, that ranking is the same order you'd get by percentage return — nobody is ranked on absolute dollars because nobody starts with more of them.
You're grouped with up to 100 other players at your current tier for the season. Everyone in a group starts with the same capital, so the ranking that decides promotion and relegation is a fair comparison of return, not starting balance.
You stay in the league group and are ranked on whatever your $100,000 is worth at season end — untouched capital neither gains nor loses, so you'd typically rank near the middle or bottom of an active group and risk relegation once you're above Bronze III.
No. Bronze III is the floor of the league system — there is no tier below it to be relegated to.
No. Pro adds conveniences like full season history and more price alerts, but it has no effect on returns or rankings — climbing the league tiers is purely a function of trading performance.
Educational content, not financial advice. Fantasy Finance is a game played with virtual capital — nothing here is a recommendation to trade with real money.