Financial literacy, finally

The skill that builds wealth, finally made simple.

Trading Floor teaches you how markets actually work, through a game you'd want to play even if it wasn't educational. Real news, real decisions, real understanding. No textbook. No jargon walls. Just the financial confidence that compounds for life.

Market Overview Live
S&P500 US Equities 5,428 +1.2%
NASDAQ Tech Index 17,190 +2.4%
BTC/USD Bitcoin $67,420 +3.6%
GOLD Precious Metal $2,340 +0.5%
10Y UST Bond Yield 4.42% −0.04
S&P 500 · 30D +8.4%
$ STOCKS ₿ CRYPTO 🏅 GOLD % BONDS 🛢 OIL ¥ FX
NVDA +4.2% TLT +5.1% BTC +6.8% USO −0.3% QQQ +3.5% DXY −1.8% GLD +1.6% VAS +1.9% TQQQ +9.4% EUR/USD +0.7% NVDA +4.2% TLT +5.1% BTC +6.8% USO −0.3% QQQ +3.5% DXY −1.8% GLD +1.6% VAS +1.9% TQQQ +9.4% EUR/USD +0.7%
SPY +2.1% ETH +5.1% SOL +3.7% CPER −0.9% SLV +0.8% AAPL +2.4% IEF +2.4% SQQQ −9.4% HYG +1.1% AUD/USD +1.2% SPY +2.1% ETH +5.1% SOL +3.7% CPER −0.9% SLV +0.8% AAPL +2.4% IEF +2.4% SQQQ −9.4% HYG +1.1% AUD/USD +1.2%
Today's Market Move
"Federal Reserve cuts rates by 0.5%. Tech stocks rally, bond yields tumble."
Three tools. One mission.

Pick your weapon.

Whether you're a student learning the basics, a class learning to invest together, or someone ready for live paper trading — WealthCaptain has a product built for you.

Trading Floor
Build financial literacy through interactive gameplay, one decision at a time.
  • 30+ semi-cartoon investor characters to choose from
  • Solo & multiplayer — compete with friends in real-time
  • Real market news events teach risk management every round
  • 16 assets: stocks, crypto, gold, FX, options
  • Four tiers: Beginner to Elite Trader
Classroom
Bring the trading floor to your class. Students join with a code, build a character, and learn to invest — with a live returns leaderboard and assignments tuned to each student.
  • Teachers create a class and share a join code
  • Students play the trading floor as their own character
  • Live leaderboard ranked by average returns
  • Daily, weekly & event assignments (e.g. Friday trade-offs)
  • Teacher dashboard flags who's thriving vs falling behind
$1,240,000
Live Portfolio
Apply what you've learned, paper trade real markets with $250,000 virtual capital.
  • Real securities: stocks, ETFs, crypto, commodities
  • Live news feed with financial analysis
  • Colour-coded portfolio tracker (P&L)
  • Unlocks after 3 solo games
  • Practice real-world money skills with no real money at stake
The Problem

Most adults can't answer this question.

"If you invest $1,000 today at 8% per year, what is it worth in 30 years?" The answer is over $10,000, more than a tenfold return, but most Australians have no idea. That's the magic of compounding, and it's the kind of question WealthCaptain was built to make obvious.

45%
of Australian adults are considered financially illiterate, around 8.5 million people
HILDA Survey, 2020
26%
of Australians struggle to answer basic questions about interest rates, inflation, and investment risk
Hendry et al., 2021
0
subjects in the Australian National Curriculum dedicated to personal finance as a standalone topic
ACARA, 2022
70+
countries are now developing national financial literacy strategies, including most G20 nations
International Federation of Accountants
How it works

Three steps. No textbook required.

Trading Floor puts you in the seat of an investor. Read the news, make a decision, see the consequence, exactly how real markets teach.

01
Read the news
Each round drops a real-world headline. A Fed rate decision, an earnings surprise, a geopolitical event. We translate the jargon into plain English so you understand what's actually happening.
02
Make your call
Allocate your wage across stocks, bonds, gold, crypto, whatever fits your thesis. Ten percent here, twenty there. The choice teaches you to think in terms of position sizing, not just predictions.
03
Watch the markets react
Lock in. Markets move. You see what worked and what didn't, and crucially, why. Each round ends with a "lesson of the round" tying outcomes to a real investing concept.
Who Trading Floor is for

Whether you're 16 or 60, the rules are the same.

Building wealth takes the same fundamentals regardless of age. Start early if you can, start smart if you didn't. Trading Floor is designed for both.

For students & young earners

Start with time on your side.

You don't need a big salary to build wealth. You need a head start, and the discipline most people learn 20 years too late.

  • $50 a fortnight from age 18 becomes $250,000 by age 50 at average market returns. Starting at 30 gets you a third of that. Time matters more than the amount.
  • Turn your first job into a financial foundation. Whether you're stacking shelves, doing hospitality, or hitting your first salary, WealthCaptain teaches you what to do with that money.
  • Beat the wealth gap before it forms. Most adults learn about money after a setback. You can learn before one.
  • Play instead of read. Twenty minutes of Trading Floor beats twenty hours of YouTube tutorials. You learn by doing.
For working professionals

Your salary is not enough.

Inflation eats 3 to 5% of your savings every year. A pay rise barely keeps up. Investing is how you actually stay ahead, but most working adults were never taught how.

  • Inflation is a silent pay cut. $100,000 sitting in your savings account today buys roughly $74,000 worth of goods in 10 years. WealthCaptain teaches you what to do about it.
  • Super isn't enough on its own. Even on track, most Australians retire with less than they need. Investing alongside super is how you build a real margin of safety.
  • Risk-proof your wealth. Learn how to position a portfolio so a market crash doesn't undo a decade of saving. Hedging, diversification, asset allocation, all in plain English.
  • It's never too late to start. The best time was 20 years ago. The second-best time is this weekend. Trading Floor is built so a 50-year-old picks it up as easily as a 16-year-old.
Try it now

A taste of the game.

Here's a real news event. Pick where you'd put your money. We'll show you what actually happened.

Central Bank · Live News
"Federal Reserve cuts rates by 0.5% in surprise move"
The Fed surprised markets with a larger-than-expected cut, citing weakening employment data. Now: where do you put your $1,000?
If the Fed is cutting rates, what likely benefits most?
Two ways to play

Built for solo learners. Ready for classrooms.

Same trading engine, two distinct experiences. Whether you're a student wanting to learn or a teacher running a class, there's a WealthCaptain for you.

Trading Floor
For self-learners and friends
  • Solo mode. Quick rounds, anytime
  • Multiplayer. Invite friends with a room code
  • Tutorial built-in. No prior knowledge needed
  • Four difficulty tiers from beginner to elite trader
  • 16 asset classes including options, FX, crypto
  • News-driven rounds with explanations
Classroom
For schools
  • Teachers create a class and share a join code
  • Students join with a code and build a character
  • They learn to invest on the live trading floor
  • Class leaderboard ranked by average returns
  • Daily, weekly & event assignments (e.g. Friday trade-offs)
  • Dashboard flags who's thriving vs falling behind
Your learning journey

Three steps from zero to real market confidence

WealthCaptain is designed as a progression. Each step builds the skills you need for the next — so by the time you're making decisions with real market data, you actually know what you're doing.

1

Complete the Tutorial

60 seconds. No experience needed.

The built-in tutorial walks you through exactly what stocks, bonds, ETFs, and crypto actually are — in plain English, with no jargon. You'll learn why markets move, how to read news, and what diversification really means. It's nine quick steps, each building on the last. By the end you'll understand more than most adults.

  • What is investing and why it matters
  • The six asset types and their risk levels
  • How news events move markets
  • What a portfolio is and how to read one
  • Risk vs reward — in real terms
About 60 seconds
Then you're ready for
2

Play Solo Games

Apply your knowledge. Build real instincts.

Each solo game puts you in charge of a real-world scenario. You're given a job with a wage, real news events happen every round, and your job is to react — buy, sell, hold — and grow your portfolio faster than the market. The game tracks your decisions and shows you exactly why each one worked or didn't. You'll learn more in 10 minutes of play than a semester of theory.

  • React to real-world news events each round
  • Build and manage a multi-asset portfolio
  • See your performance score and P&L after every round
  • Progress through four difficulty tiers as you improve
  • Compare your score on the global leaderboard
Live Portfolio unlock progress
Play 3 solo games to unlock
~10 min per game
After 3 games, you unlock
3

Live Portfolio Unlocks after 3 games

Real securities. Real prices. Paper money.

This is where the game becomes real practice. You're given $10,000 in paper money and access to 87 real securities — US stocks, ASX stocks, ETFs, crypto, and commodities. Prices update from live markets. News is rewritten by AI in plain English every four hours. You invest, track your returns, and see how your decisions would have played out in the actual market — without risking a single real dollar.

30 US Stocks
20 ASX Stocks
15 ETFs
₿ 12 Crypto
10 Commodities
  • Every asset explained in plain English
  • AI-powered news feed updated every 4 hours
  • Real-time P&L on every position
  • Risk warnings on volatile assets
  • Full transaction history and allocation breakdown
Requires 3 solo games
16
Asset classes to trade
31
Real news events covered
5
Languages supported
About

Built by someone who saw the gap.

Santiago Mugg Diaz

Founder, WealthCaptain. Santiago grew up watching peers graduate without knowing the difference between a stock and a bond, yet they'd spent years on quadratic equations they'd never use again.

He built WealthCaptain to fix that. The visionary behind a movement to put real financial literacy back in classrooms, before students enter a world that demands it.

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The world won't pause to teach you investing.

Start where you are. The first round takes 60 seconds.

For schools

The financial literacy lesson students ask to keep playing.

WealthCaptain is a free, interactive financial literacy platform where students learn by making real decisions with virtual money as real-world events unfold. It shapes itself to the curriculum you already teach — your year level, your syllabus, your time frame.

Free for pilot schools Nothing to install No student personal details Year 5 to tertiary
Engagement

Why students stay in the room

Financial literacy has a reputation problem — students assume it will be dry before the lesson starts. WealthCaptain works because it never feels like a worksheet.

They play, not listen

Every concept is learned by using it. Students read a headline, back a decision with their own virtual money, and watch what happens. Consequences teach faster than definitions.

Real events, no real money

Rounds are driven by the kind of news that actually moves markets, so decisions feel genuine — while nothing real is ever at stake.

The whole class competes

A live class leaderboard turns a quiet lesson into an event, and gives students a reason to care how their reasoning stacks up against the room.

Nobody gets left behind

When a new term appears, a card slides in and explains it on the spot, pitched at that student's level. Students are never expected to already know the vocabulary.

Confidence builds fast

The opening walkthrough is written to reassure. Students are told repeatedly that not understanding yet is part of learning — so the ones who'd normally disengage stay with you.

Curriculum fit

It bends to your curriculum, not the other way round

You shouldn't have to rearrange a unit to fit a tool. The same platform maps onto several learning areas — we dial the depth, language, and round length to your students. Pick a band to see where it lands.

Where it lands

HASS — needs versus wants, making choices, consumer decisions

Mathematics — money, percentages, simple budgeting

How we tailor it

Gentler language, shorter rounds, and a focus on everyday money decisions students already recognise. No jargon, no market mechanics.

Capabilities it supports

Numeracy Critical & Creative Thinking Ethical Understanding Digital Literacy
Teaching to a different framework, or an international syllabus? Tell us your year level and what you want students to walk away with — we'll tailor the session and send a short alignment note written for your syllabus, with the exact content descriptors confirmed before it reaches you.
Three ways to use it

One platform, however far you want to go

WealthCaptain isn't one fixed lesson. Mix and match the three tools — from a first “what is a share?” through to a whole-class portfolio. You choose how far it goes.

Trading Floor

The core game. Students learn by playing through real-world events. Ideal for a single lesson or a quick warm-up.

Classroom

The schools edition. Run the whole class together, set the pace, and see participation and performance at a glance.

Portfolio

Hands-on practice with real market prices and virtual money, for classes ready to go a step further.

Practicalities

It works with what your school already has

Runs in any browser

Nothing to install. Works on school laptops, Chromebooks, and tablets.

Fits a single period

A solo round takes minutes; a full lesson runs as a class trading floor.

Scales with your students

Adaptive difficulty from upper primary to tertiary; language meets students where they are.

Plain-English learning

Diversification, risk, and compounding taught in context as students play, not as a lecture.

Paper trading only

Students trade virtual money. No real funds, and no financial product is ever bought.

Privacy & safety

The part your IT team will ask about

Students join with a class code, not an email. They pick a character name and they're in — we never ask for a student's real name, email address, or personal details. Only the teacher creates an account.
Anonymous analytics, off by default. Any product analytics are opt-in, anonymised, EU-hosted, and never used to identify a student. We never sell data.
Clearly educational. WealthCaptain is a simulation and is not licensed to provide personal financial advice.
Ready for your approval process. Our and are available in full.

Bring it to your class

We're running a small pilot and looking for founding teachers — the first 10 Australian schools join free for the full year. The ask is light: a 15-minute call, or one session with a class and honest feedback. You'll help shape what the platform becomes.

The Founder

Santiago Mugg Diaz

A visionary on a mission to make financial literacy as accessible as any subject, and far more enjoyable to learn.

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Santiago grew up surrounded by people who worked hard their entire lives, and still didn't know how money worked. Not because they weren't smart. Because nobody had ever shown them.

His parents worked long hours, saved diligently, and trusted that their savings account was "doing its job." It wasn't. Inflation was quietly eroding their purchasing power year after year. A concept they'd never been introduced to. It wasn't anyone's fault. Financial literacy is simply a subject most people pick up by accident, after a setback, or never at all.

Santiago saw the same pattern with his classmates. Brilliant kids, top of their class in mathematics, history, sciences, who graduated brilliant in everything except the one subject they'd be using every single day of adult life. They were ready for the workplace, but not for the wage. Ready for university essays, but not for credit card agreements. The skill set was there. The financial vocabulary wasn't, and through no fault of their own, since real markets aren't part of most curricula yet.

"Knowing how to read a stock chart is one of the most useful skills you can carry through adulthood. It deserves a place alongside the great subjects, and it deserves to be taught in a way kids actually enjoy."

That contradiction haunted him. So in 2024, between studying for his own exams, Santiago started building the tool he wished he'd had: a game that taught real investing through real-world events, in plain language, with stakes that felt real even when the money was virtual.

The first version was rough. Just stocks, bonds, and a few news headlines played out on a clunky prototype. But the moment he showed it to his peers, something happened. They didn't put it down. They asked when round two was coming. They started talking about actual market news at lunch.

That was the proof he needed. Financial literacy wasn't impossible to teach to teenagers. It had just never been taught the right way. Lectures and textbooks were the wrong format. Gameplay was the right format.

WealthCaptain grew from there. Today it's a four-tier game with sixteen asset classes, real news events from across the financial world, and a full classroom edition (WealthCaptain Classroom) where whole classes learn to invest together. Five languages supported. Built single-handedly, from scratch, by a founder who believed financial literacy deserves to be as well-taught as any other subject, and that the right tool could finally make it so.

The vision is simple: every kid graduates knowing how money actually works. Every adult who missed it the first time gets a second chance. No jargon walls. No barriers to entry. Just honest, gamified financial literacy. Taught the way the next generation actually learns.

Founder's portfolio

Santiago invests his own money the way WealthCaptain teaches.

Full transparency. Here's the current allocation, with the reasoning behind each position. Click any holding to read why it's there.

Hover or tap
5
POSITIONS
SEMI
Global X Semiconductor ETF
44%
BTC
Bitcoin, held directly
21%
VGS
Vanguard MSCI International Shares
16%
VAS
Vanguard Australian Shares ETF
12%
CRYP
BetaShares Crypto Innovators ETF
7%
Tap a position above to see why it's there.
Not financial advice. This is a transparency disclosure showing how the founder of WealthCaptain invests his own money. Your situation, risk tolerance, time horizon, and goals are different. Use this as context for what a founder's conviction looks like, not as a template for your own portfolio. Speak to a licensed financial adviser before mirroring anyone's allocation.

What WealthCaptain stands for

Real, not theoretical
Every news event in WealthCaptain mirrors something that actually happened. We don't simplify markets. We explain them.
Free, by default
Financial literacy shouldn't be a paywall. The core game is free, forever, for any student or teacher who wants it.
Gameplay first, lessons second
If kids don't want to play, they don't learn. We obsess over making WealthCaptain fun. The financial literacy is what happens along the way.
Open to every classroom
From a one-room school to a 30-student lab, Classroom scales to your class size, your curriculum, and your country.