[DoI] Stock Market: Week #1 - Friday
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Notice: Looks like this article will be from me again. From now on it should be published from the DOI barring any other strange circumstances.
Updates: You can now see your stock information! Go to tinyurl.com/doi-stock-logs and open up the Portfolios sheet. Look for the investor ID you received in private message to take a look at your stocks.
!!!! - The $100,000 mark has been hit! Thank you to every who has invested so far - !!!!
Stock information for Week #1 - Friday
To invest in a stock, go to tinyurl.com/DoI-Stock-Trader and fill out the form
Look at stock purchases and sales, as well as the stocks you own at tinyurl.com/doi-stock-logs
Q7 Corporation
Stock value: $22
Value change: $0
Percent of market: 18%
Percent of market change: -2%
Virtual Reality Incorporated
Stock value: $19
Value change: $3
Percent of market: 20%
Percent of market change: 16%
Cybernetic Technologies
Stock value: $22
Value change: $1
Percent of market: 8%
Percent of market change: 4%
Elite Defense Distributed
Stock value: $12
Value change: $0
Percent of market: 20%
Percent of market change: -4%
Cyber Security Inc. (Previously known as Agilent Technologies)
Stock value: $14
Value change: $0
Percent of market: 3%
Percent of market change: -1%
Noob Investments
Stock value: $6
Value change: -$1
Percent of market: 32%
Percent of market change: -11%
Frequently Asked Questions
Why did Agilent Tech. get renamed?
Agilent Technologies is the name of a real company. To prevent any confusion, it was renamed. Nothing else has changed about this stock besides the name.
Why did my stocks change?
Stocks change based on demand. Either people started selling the stock you invested in, or people started buying more of other stocks. To see what people are buying and selling, check out tinyurl.com/doi-stock-logs
What does all this information mean?
Stock value - Value of stock
Value change - Value that the stock has changed by since the last article
Percent of market - Used for deciding player demand. Shows the amount of stock people own for this company relative to the total amount of stock owned.
Percent of market change - Percent of market that the stock has changed by since the last article
How do the markets work?
Please note: Calculations are made every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. An article is released detailing these calculations each time.
The markets are based entirely off of player demand. The algorithm is:
(share worth) x (1+(change in percent market))
This is not information you need to know in order to invest. It does, however, show you that the stocks are not based off of random chance. Also, please note that change in percent market is a percentage as well.
How is my money safe?
All transactions are logged through Google Docs. Each time you fill out the form, it is documented in a secure sheet (i.e. it can't be modified). All monetary transactions and holdings are double checked against this sheet, ensuring that nobody can falsely report anything. The sheet is managed by an entire team, and all information is checked by multiple people. In short, unless someone can hack Google, your cc is safe.
History
Get information on how stocks have shifted over time.
Week #1 - Monday: erepublik.com/en/article/2393378/1/20
Week #2 - Wednesday: erepublik.com/en/article/2393972/1/20
Disclaimer: This is a Department of Interior program, and is solely designed to make the game more enjoyable. It is not an attempt to replace the current economic system. Based on how you invest, you can lose money. The value of the stocks will fluctuate, making it very possible that you could lose money in the process of investing.
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Invested and voted.
Good read. I may need to dump some money in, once I get some spare scratch.
hmmmm... the google doc makes no sense.
investor portfolios show over 10,000 shares outstanding but the purchase logs show only 3600 having been purchased. There are more shares sold than purchased in one company. The calculation of % change seems wildly off base etc etc. You say 100,000 dollars has been invested but the purchase logs account for about 57,000 whereas the investor portfolios show about 156,000.
It may be that a whole bunch of transactions are not reflected, but that isn't a great thing. It is particularly not a great thing if the absent transactions are the initial ones, not the most recent.
The transaction log is started on 4/23 but they have had the market open since 4/21
yes I assumed that in the initial post... and pointed out that the docs are nonsense without those beginning transactions being posted. It would therefore be advisable to post them. Else, the accounting is nonsense. I understand growing/startup pain.
How would it be nonsense? Since the percentages are shown each time, and all that matters is how the demand changes, you don't need the initial transactions whatsoever.
honestly I dont see it that big of a deal
After a few weeks the initial numbers will be useless if your trying to predict which will go up or down
Gentlemen: when investing I don't like to take anyone's word for it. I like to look at the raw data and calculate the percentage changes, the required price changes, volumes etc for myself. That way I know that what I am being told is accurate. Certainly, this article tells us what the percentage change is supposed to be. Problem is that the google docs tell a completely different story.
When I am told the "percentages" for various companies are "x" and the google docs shows something different, I am puzzled. This may have something to do with timing issues, or incomplete data. The result is the same: wariness. If the project is to succeed, best to be completely transparent.
Now, as to predictions of future movement. I predict that savy speculators will buy low and sell high. They will cash out, return, rinse. Nevertheless, an interesting experiment.
kind regards
I commend you comrade. Discussion is what new programs need. I understand your distrust for others especially when you maybe not have experienced having a lot of I game money. It will be interesting to see were this goes.
We will be able to see about the trust thing pretty quickly. The market share for Cyber Security, as of the date of this article, was 3 percent. As of Saturday night, speculators having taken their profit elsewhere and moved money to Cyber Security, it now stands at a little more than 25 percent of the market. The difference is "22" which is plugged into the publicly advertised formula to determine the new price viz starting value * 1.22 = new value. The new value ( a 22 percent return in a few days) should be 14*1.22 = 17.08. That is an increase of 3 dollars on an investment of 14. Put in 14000 dollars you make 3000 in a day. If I can trust. Might be even better since, if I buy more shares the market percentage increases even more, assuming that other speculators in the market are not simple minded or are not minded to game the system in order to ensure no one makes money.
After the new value is announced on Monday, I cash out of course. Then I look for the next security which can be pumped up. Savy speculators are already aware of this and undoubtedly are deciding amongst themselves where to plunk and where to divest.
In short I am not so much wary of the honesty of those who started the system. I am wary of the system's obvious weaknesses and the human tendency to change the rules in mid-stream once those vulnerabilities are exploited.
Sell high, buy low.
so: it is now an hour before midnight on Sunday the 27th and, as predicted, speculators are plunking for cybersecurity which is 34 percent of market. That is an increase of "31" and should increase the value by 31 percent or 4.31/share. There are 3660 shares outstanding so that represents about 15,000 dollars.
Let us be clear. If speculators in cyber security simply took their "profits" the pool of money would have been reduced by 15,000. That is more than 10 percent of the money "on deposit".
It gets worse. After taking their profits, speculators will re-invest the initial capital sum and pump up another stock. My guess is Cybernetic : presently sitting at 8 percent of market and a high value. That means that, next week, when the stock gets acquired in great numbers, the high increase factor is multiplied against a nice high "value" number to yield a tidy profit. The cash flow is very very negative.
I do hope that I am quite wrong but it seems likely the money being "invested" is actually just being redistributed and there will come a time soon when someone has to pony up the shortfall. Is the government, and the DOI in particular, really ready to stand behind this? We shall see.
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