nevadacow wrote: Well, in the end I want a Railroad Tycoon II style stock market, except with a somewhat more realistic day-tradeing scene. Say, two distinct markets of volitile stocks (prices updated every 10 minuates, with the turns), with a high, but limited number of shares (fill or kill anyone?), advanced finiancal operations (margin and shortselling), and defined opening and closeing times (No tradeing while the market is closed... but then the other market opens, so at all times you can pricipate). This would be in addation to our current, more dosile stock market, and perhaps a futures market based on the public market (if we can convince people to use the thing).
Ruddertail wrote: Neat. So our current market would sill provide more of a bank/slow gain thingy, while this would require active observation and activity? So much for not spending so much time on the comp... Still, sounds really neat.
Yes, but all expantion past the brokerage account is just my dreaming.
I am somewhat afaraid it might be too complicated, like the real market.
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We could set it up so that people could pay others to do their trading for them. Just like in real life. Gondor, being able to buy and sell stocks in a short period of time is the whole point of the stock market. That's what people do, buy stocks, wait for the price to go up, and then sell them again. Then repeat.
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