The Best Part of Grand Theft Auto V is the Stock-Trading Platform
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#2What this article fails to mention is the most interesting aspect of the GTAV stock market.
You can buy stock in a company and then accept missions to assassinate a competitors keep employees!
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#3What this article fails to mention is the most interesting aspect of the GTAV stock market. You can buy stock in a company and then accept missions to assassinate a competitors keep employees!
Actually it does mention that.
FTA Throughout the game, you're given opportunities to manipulate the markets. Some missions, for example, require that you kill the CEO of a company. You could, theoretically, buy the stock of that company's competitors and profit when they rise after the killing. And since there's no SEC policing stock trading in Los Santos, you're not going to be busted for insider trading.
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#4What this article fails to mention is the most interesting aspect of the GTAV stock market. You can buy stock in a company and then accept missions to assassinate a competitors keep employees!
Actually it does mention that. FTA Throughout the game, you're given opportunities to manipulate the markets. Some missions, for example, require that you kill the CEO of a company. You could, theoretically, buy the stock of that company's competitors and profit when they rise after the killing. And since there's no SEC policing stock trading in Los Santos, you're not going to be busted for insider trading.
"theoretically"
The guy giving you the assassination missions more or less tips you off each time what stock to buy.
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#5Bill Cosby calls Grand Theft Auto Entrance Exam for Prison
http://nativenotes.net/bill-cosby-calls-grand-theft-auto-ent...
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#6Interesting. I could see this as the intellectual genesis of an entirely different game. Imagine tying the virtual market to Bitcoins!
One comment on being able to short... Based on how the game is described (I may be the only one the planet not to be an active player) it should be possible to short a stock. Every time you get new money, split the purchases evenly between all stock. (Can do a weighted average if you want) Then when you have information (like you're going to kill the CEO) then you have shares to sell on the bad information. It's not a concentrated bet, but you still can effectively short it.
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#7I had a similar fascination with the stock trading component of the Railroad Tycoon games. I am almost ashamed of the number of times I tried to make myself a virtual fortune by destroying my own virtual railroad company.
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#8What this article fails to mention is the most interesting aspect of the GTAV stock market. You can buy stock in a company and then accept missions to assassinate a competitors keep employees!
One thing you can do that I enjoy is invest in the AuguryInsurance (AUG) then start destroying a ton of cars. It actually causes their stock price to rise.
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#9What this article fails to mention is the most interesting aspect of the GTAV stock market. You can buy stock in a company and then accept missions to assassinate a competitors keep employees!
One thing you can do that I enjoy is invest in the AuguryInsurance (AUG) then start destroying a ton of cars. It actually causes their stock price to rise.
A few issues with this:
1. My understanding is that this has been widely theorized and fairly well researched, and most people have concluded that there's no relationship.
2. I don't understand why a rampage would cause the stock price of an insurance company to go up. You could argue that in the long-run, living in a town with regular rampages might encourage people to buy more insurance, but one would think that in the short term all of those payouts would be really bad for the insurance company.
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#10What this article fails to mention is the most interesting aspect of the GTAV stock market. You can buy stock in a company and then accept missions to assassinate a competitors keep employees!
One thing you can do that I enjoy is invest in the AuguryInsurance (AUG) then start destroying a ton of cars. It actually causes their stock price to rise.
That's awesome.
I spent quite a while trying to figure out how to short the stock of the drug company whose jurors I was sent to kill, but gave up and simply bought the rival's stock. (I think I made more money off that one transaction than any actual mission aside from the final one.)