Scored on what you did, not how much you made.
Each session begins just before a scheduled data release. Market movements are unique to each game and based on real market reactions.
Catalyst marks how you behaved: how fast you reacted, how you sized, where your stop was placed and how you traded the position. Every session ends in one number, the Trader Performance Index (TPI).
Trader Performance Index
One number per sessionDiscipline beats luck.
Built so that a session that lost money with discipline outscores one that made money by luck.
A worked session Level 1, EIA weekly crude on CL. Reacted in under two seconds, bought two contracts with a stop in place, held for just under four minutes and sold as the market moved. P&L +$960. Scored by the same engine that will score you.
The one that made the most money scored lowest.
Three scored sessions on EIA weekly crude at Level 1. P&L gives context, but the behaviours drive the scoring and feedback.
Guessed and got paid
Bought three contracts before the release with no stop, then left the position alone. The market happened to go the right way.
P&L+$1,500TPI−72Right side by luck. The TPI charged the size and the missing stop.
Cut the loss
Reacted in two seconds, bought one contract and placed a stop just below it. The market went the other way and the stop closed the position.
P&L−$380TPI−16Wrong side of the move. The TPI charged the read, not the discipline.
Traded it properly
Reacted in under two seconds, bought two contracts with a stop in place, held for just under four minutes and sold as the market moved.
P&L+$960TPI+85Right read, right size, stop in place. The TPI paid for all three.
The TPI pays little for being right and charges a lot for being careless.