Call The Close

Terms of use

Last updated 23 August 2026

Call The Close is operated by . By claiming a price you agree to these terms. If you do not, do not claim a price.

What this is

A daily game. Each trading day you may claim exact closing prices for the S&P 500 index. At the close, the holder whose price is nearest the official value wins that day.

There is no cash prize. Winning gets you the day’s entry in the public archive, a place on the leaderboard and a share card. Nothing is paid to play and nothing is paid out. There is no wager, no pot and no prize of any kind.

Claiming

  • Everyone gets three calls a day, free. They reset at the bell and do not roll over. Playing every session and finishing well earn a few more; there is no way to buy any.
  • An unclaimed price costs one call.
  • A price someone already holds costs one call more than they spent on it. Taking it makes you the holder and ends theirs.
  • Only one person holds a given price in a given day’s contest.
  • You cannot take a price you already hold, and you cannot raise your own rung to make your price costlier for others.
  • Claiming opens one minute after the previous session’s close and ends at 9:29 AM ET. Whoever holds a price at 9:29 AM ET is the entrant for it.

Calls

Calls are not money. They cannot be bought, sold, transferred or cashed out, they have no value away from the board, and we can change how many a session grants.

Spent calls are spent. If your price is taken from you, the calls you spent are not returned. Your options are to take it back at the next rung or to claim another price. See the refunds page.

Results

Entries are ranked by absolute distance from the official closing value, nearest first. Equal distances are broken in favour of whoever took their price earlier. Results are published after the close, and the record of every price — including every holder it passed through — is permanent and public.

If the official closing value cannot be established, or the day is voided for another reason, nothing scores for that day.

Your account

You sign in with X. You are responsible for what happens under your account. We may suspend an account that abuses the service, interferes with claiming, or registers additional accounts to gather more calls than one person is granted — doing that does not remove the hand from the public record.

You must be 18 or older, and using the site must be lawful where you are.

No guarantees

The site is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be available at any particular moment, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing here is financial advice.

Not affiliated

Call The Close is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by S&P Dow Jones Indices, Cboe Global Markets, X Corp., or any exchange. Index values come from third-party market data providers and are used to settle the game only.

Changes and contact

We may change these terms; the date above says when they last moved. A change never applies retroactively to a day already resolved. Questions go to . These terms are governed by the laws of .