What is Chartdle?
Chartdle presents a real candlestick chart stripped of its ticker symbol and asks you to identify the instrument. You see price action, volume bars, an intraday time axis, and a price scale. Six guesses to name what you are looking at.
How to play
- Check the chart first. Price level, intraday range, and volume profile can rule out many instruments at once.
- Type a ticker or name into the guess box. The suggestions accept plain-English names, so typing “ES” brings up ES1! (S&P 500), YM1! (Dow Jones), and FESX1! (Euro Stoxx 50) without requiring the exact code.
- After each guess, check the attribute grid. A green tick marks a match. Grey indicates a mismatch, with arrows showing whether a numeric value is higher or lower. Yellow means the category is correct but the instrument is not.
- Use the results to choose the next guess. Market cap, volume, region, and instrument type narrow the options with each attempt.
- Solve the board within six guesses, then review the answer or move to the archive or another board.
Reading the feedback grid
The attribute grid drives the deduction process. A guess of gold on the futures board returned Precious Metals in grey, Future in green with a tick, $80B+ market cap in grey with a down arrow, roughly $30B daily volume in grey with a down arrow, and Global in green. A follow-up guess of the S&P future returned Equity Indices in grey, Future in green, $50T+ with a down arrow, and USA in grey. Two guesses established that the target trades globally, is a future, and is smaller in both cap and volume than either reference point. The yellow cell state appears when your guess shares a category with the answer but is not the exact instrument.
Modes
Chartdle offers three separate boards, each with its own daily puzzle and archive.
Futures is the default board, covering index futures, metals, and energy. Market cap and volume figures scale to match the asset class.
Stocks features individual equities. Access it through the Try other modes switch in the header.
Forex covers currency pairs on its own daily rotation.
Archive opens via the calendar icon and displays a grid of dated puzzles for each mode. Dates follow trading days, so weekends do not appear.
Opening strategy
Spend your first guess on something large and global. Market cap and volume arrows are absolute, not relative, so a heavyweight like an index future produces downward arrows that bracket everything smaller in one move.
Region is the cheapest column to solve. It holds a small number of values, and settling Global versus USA early eliminates entire categories of instruments.
Volume bars carry information the price does not. A closing spike or a dead middle session tells you which exchange hours you are observing, and that pairs with the time axis to place the instrument geographically.
Why it works
People often claim chart-reading skill without testing it. Chartdle turns that skill into six falsifiable guesses a day, while its attribute grid makes wrong answers useful. A market-cap arrow and a region tick tell you more than a lucky ticker. The three boards let you choose the market you follow, and the open archive means one bad day does not end the session. The footer identifies it as a game and says it is not investment advice.