[Trade On] The Gaming Stock Exchange

MechMantis

People... buy some of my 6000 Call of Duty stocks...




Please?

Treeloot

Man I'm buyin all kinds of shares in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.

Golden Leg

All of the sudden 5 out of my 9 investments have decided to drop in value.

Mr_Snuffle

I've lost so much in FF6 stocks I thought it would go up!

Luftwaffles

Anyone wanna form a mini league or something?
My user ID is Kaiserblack. Add me in the Community tab.

MechMantis wrote:

Luftwaffles wrote:

Nice one.
The site suspends members for illegal/extreme stock manipulation though. So don't over do it.

...Why not just suspend people for buying and selling stocks?


Because that's EXACTLY what I did. I bought low, and sold high, which made it fluctuate.

If I'm going to get suspended for being smart, there are going to be stabbings.

Naw, what I meant was things like signing up for multiple accounts to manipulate prices. Or using trading bots. Or making a monopoly by colluding with a bunch of other people.

Stuff thats written in the rules. Someone got suspended for artificially inflating low activity shares and short selling before dumping them.

Mr_Snuffle wrote:

I've lost so much in FF6 stocks I thought it would go up!

I've got 3 top gaining stocks and 2 top declining stocks. :S
I'm gonna hold on to FF6 though. It's gonna pawn faces when it's released soon.

LightReaper

Spore is rising, I liiiike.

Box

Guys...

..."The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)"

...280DKP

... Trust me.

xta

seriously, what about just putting money in surefire things like smash brawl (when it gets on the market) or the next mario or the mgs4

Luftwaffles

xta wrote:

seriously, what about just putting money in surefire things like smash brawl (when it gets on the market) or the next mario or the mgs4

Because when you buy the stocks, you're not simply betting on whether the game will be a success, but whether the game will beat its expectations and sales forecast.

Investing on sure fire hits is counter balanced by the fact that demand for the stocks is also sky high but supply is limited, resulting in a high stock price. They also have to meet the expectations of the sales forecast.

For example, the price of the next Super Mario is at ~$550 per share. On the other hand, the price of Wario Ware for the Wii is ~$110.

But I think the site's procedure for managing IPOs is fundamentally flawed though.

Wezoin

Oh, damn, I thought it was just like, a million sales equates to a rise of X DKP, rather than, a rise of a million sales OVER what was forecast equates to a rise of X DKP.

Luftwaffles

The stock price is a prediction on how many copies the game will sell worldwide over its lifetime, at a rate of $1 per 10000 copies. So at $550, Mario Galaxy is predicted to sell 5.5 million copies over its lifetime.

Hypothetically, if sales figures exceed expectations, and Mario Galaxy is on track to sell 10 million copies, the share price will rise to $1000.

Thats the gist of it, and other factors play a part.

wombat

why yes I will scoop up 5000 shares of god of war ii at 135 that just got released this morning


bwahaha

Golden Leg

My rank is a pitiful 1508.

Treeloot

Man, my only stocks that didn't drop today were Mortal Kombat Armageddon (I only bought them because they were 20 DKP a share) and Halo 2. Spore, Phantom Hourglass, The DS, and Super Smash Brothers: Brawl all dropped.