Algoyin Candle Snake Game
- Utilities
- Version: 1.0
Algoyin Candle Snake Game
Learn candlestick patterns by playing - directly on your MetaTrader 5 chart.
Candle Snake Game turns pattern recognition into a game. A transparent Snake board is drawn over your live price chart. Every column is one bar and every cell is square, so you steer the snake through real candles. The game shows you a target pattern (for example "FIND: Hammer"). Find that pattern in the window and eat it. Other candle patterns are marked with identical food as decoys. Eat the wrong one and you lose a life.
It is built for new traders who want to practice spotting candlestick patterns quickly, and for educators and content creators who want a fun way to teach price action.
Note: This is an educational game. It does not open, close or modify any trades, it does not give trading signals and it does not promise any profit.
IMPORTANT - NOT FOR THE STRATEGY TESTER
The game is played on a live chart with your keyboard, so it does not work in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester. Please do not test it there. To see how it works, watch the demo video. To play it, attach it to a normal chart in your terminal.
HOW TO PLAY
- Attach the game to any chart and click once on the chart so it has keyboard focus.
- Read the target on the screen, for example "FIND: Bullish engulfing".
- Press an arrow key or WASD to start. Steer the snake onto the food that sits on the target candle.
- Eating the correct pattern scores points, grows the snake and starts a new target. Eating a decoy costs a life and points.
- The snake wraps around the edges of the board. You lose by running into your own body, running out of lives, or running out of time.
Controls
- Arrow keys or W, A, S, D: steer
- P: pause or resume
- R: restart
- L: show or hide the leaderboard (while paused, ready or at game over)
- Space: start, pause or restart, depending on the state
Notes
- Only closed candles are used. The forming candle is never food.
- The chart scrolls as new bars arrive. The food moves with its candle, and if that candle leaves the window a new target is chosen.
- While the game runs, the chart is zoomed to fit the play window and mouse scrolling is turned off. Your original chart settings are restored when you remove the game.
- The game runs on a timer, so it works on any symbol, even when the market is closed and AutoTrading is off.
SCORING, COMBOS AND LEVELS
- Points per target = Base points x pattern value x combo multiplier + speed bonus.
- Pattern value: engulfing = 3, hammer / shooting star / pin bar = 2, doji = 1.
- Combo: every few correct targets in a row raise the multiplier. A wrong pick, a timeout, or waiting too long between targets resets it.
- Levels: every few correct targets you level up. The snake gets faster, the countdown gets shorter and more decoys appear.
- Leaderboard: your top 10 scores are saved per symbol, timeframe and mode.
- Daily challenge: in Daily mode everyone on the same symbol and timeframe gets the same random sequence that day, with its own leaderboard.
- Countdown: you must find the target before the time runs out. The time depends on the size of the play window (more bars = more time).
