STOCKYARD

The player's manual — real stocks, pixel pets, play money
01

What is Stockyard

Stockyard is a pet yard where every pet is a position on a real stock. Adopt a pet, and under the fur it is an entry price on a real ticker — NVDA, GME, AAPL, whatever its species trades. The pet's mood is your position's daily performance.

Prices are real. The yard takes snapshots of real market prices roughly once a minute. When the stock moves, your pet feels it.

Money is not. You play with coins — game currency with zero real-world value. No brokerage, no deposits, no cash out. The market is real; the stakes are pretend.

02

Getting started

Your BNB Chain wallet is your account. Connect a wallet and sign one message — that's the whole login. No transactions, no gas, nothing leaves your wallet. The signature only proves the wallet is yours.

You start with 5,000 coins. Every new account gets the same starting stack.

Adopting a pet costs 1,000 coins. That stake becomes your position: the pet's entry price is the stock's price at the moment of adoption. From then on, the pet lives and dies by that entry.

03

Species

Six species roam the yard. The species decides which tickers a pet can be bound to — pick the herd that matches your conviction.

SpriteSpeciesTickersTemperament
Bull NVDATSLAAMDPLTR Momentum chasers. Big swings both ways.
Ape GMEAMCMETAHOOD Meme-fed. Together strong, occasionally airborne.
Whale COINMSTRMARARIOT Crypto-adjacent. Deep dives, high breaches.
Turtle AAPLMSFTSPYQQQAVGO Slow and steady blue chips. Hard to kill.
Bear BBKOSS Contrarian relics. For those who like pain.
Sheep SOFILCIDRIVNAMZNGOOGL Follow the flock. Popular names, mixed fates.
04

Pet states

A pet's mood is set by its stock's daily percent change. Six states, from euphoric to the edge of liquidation — here is the bull in all of them:

Euphoric
> +15%
Fed
+5% .. +15%
Neutral
−5% .. +5%
Hungry
−5% .. −15%
Sick
−15% .. −30%
Margin call
< −30%
05

Feeding = averaging down

Feeding a pet adds coins to the position at the current price. That is averaging: your entry price moves toward wherever the stock is right now, weighted by how much you add.

Worked example
You adopt at$100.00
Stock drops to$80.00 (−20%)
You feed the same stake at $80new entry $88.90
Position vs market now−10% instead of −20%

Why $88.90 and not $90: equal coin amounts buy more shares at the lower price, so the average leans toward $80. The math is a weighted average of your buys.

Honesty clause: averaging works in both directions. Feeding a drowning pet lowers your entry and revives it faster — but if the stock keeps falling, you now have more coins riding on a loser. And feeding a pet that ran up drags your entry higher, shrinking your gain. Feeding is a bet that the current price is a good price. It is not free healing.

06

Margin call

When a position falls below −30%, the pet enters margin call and a 24-hour countdown starts.

Two ways out: feed it enough to climb back above the line, or watch the clock run down. If the countdown reaches zero, the position is liquidated — the pet is gone and the coins staked on it are lost.

Rule of the yard
Liquidation is final. There is no revive button and no appeals desk. If your pet is on the clock, decide: feed the position or let it go.
07

Market hours

Pets trade when the market trades: NYSE, 09:30 – 16:00 ET, Monday through Friday.

Outside those hours — nights, weekends, market holidays — prices are frozen at the last close. Moods hold still, countdowns still tick on wall-clock time, and the yard is safe to ignore until the opening bell.

08

FAQ

Is this financial advice?
No. Stockyard is a game. Nothing here is advice on buying or selling real securities.
Are the prices real?
Yes. Prices come from real market data, snapshotted roughly once a minute during trading hours.
Can I lose real money?
No. Coins are game currency — they cannot be bought, sold, or cashed out. Your wallet signs one login message and nothing else; no transactions, no gas.
Why did my pet die?
Margin call. Its position fell below −30% and nobody fed it within 24 hours, so it was liquidated. Pour one out, adopt another.