How it works
Baystreeter is a free, play-money game about Toronto. Call the city.
The basics
Every market is a question about Toronto: an election, a game, a transit service, the housing market, what’s on the menu. You use play-money tokens to take a side. Tokens have no cash value, can’t be bought, sold or redeemed for anything, and there are no prizes. Nothing here is gambling, investment or financial advice.
Your tokens
Everyone starts with 10,000 tokens. You can claim a bonus of 50 tokens once every 24 hours, and you get 250 tokens each time a friend you invited places their first trade (they get 250 too, for up to 10 friends). If a run of trades goes badly, you can reset once every 7 days: your balance goes back to 10,000 and your open positions are cleared. Tokens have no cash value and can’t be bought, sold or redeemed.
Taking a side
Pick Yes or No on a question, or pick an option when a market has several (a list of candidates, say). You buy contracts at the current price. Each contract pays 100 tokens if it resolves your way, and nothing if it doesn’t. You can sell before a market settles, at whatever the price is then.
How prices work
Every market opens at an even price: 50% for Yes/No, and an equal share for each option in a multi-option market. After that, prices are set only by trades. When more people buy an outcome, its price and its shown chance go up. When people sell, it goes down.
So a price is a play-money guess made by the players, not a poll and not a forecast, and you shouldn’t rely on it for real decisions. A price can also be wrong, which is how you earn tokens.
Why does Buy cost a little more than the chance?
The chance is the market’s probability, for example 15.1%. Buy is what one contract costs. Tokens are whole numbers, so a buy is rounded up to the next whole token (15.6 becomes 16, though a hair over like 15.03 stays 15) and a sell is rounded down. That’s why Buy Yes and Buy No can add up to 101, and why a single contract can cost up to one token more than the chance suggests. On larger orders the rounding is tiny compared with the total.
AI forecasters
When active, Baystreeter runs AI forecaster accounts. They are clearly labeled “AI”, trade play money like everyone else, and don’t appear on the leaderboard or in player counts. They trade in only some markets, and we may add, change or remove them at any time. Their trades move prices like anyone else’s, so prices reflect trades by every account, AI forecasters included.
How markets settle
Each market lists its rules, its close date and its resolution source. When the market closes, we settle it from that source and pay out the winners. If a question can’t be resolved fairly, the market is voided and everyone gets their tokens back. See the Terms of Use for the details.
The leaderboard
The leaderboard ranks players by net worth: tokens plus the value of open positions. Daily bonuses and invite rewards count toward it. Your display name and trades can be shown there. You can change your name or delete your account any time from Profile.
Questions
Bugs, account help, feedback or press: see Contact. For the legal documents, see the Terms and Privacy Policy.