All About the Stock Market :)

You can find the stock market on the page with the luck/chance games or by clicking here.
The idea behing the stock market is very simple: buy cheap stocks and sell them when their value increases; yup, that's all there is to it :)

How to begin
First you decide what sum of neopoints you want to spend. The maximum sum you can trade on a day is 15000 nps. So you see you don't need a very large sum to get started, however it'd better not be too small also given that Nigel the Chia charges you 20 np for each transaction so your profits had better be higher than that :)

Once you have decided on the sum you want to spend you have to decide on the stocks you want to buy. Diversification is clearly the key but you should own at least 500 stocks for each company else you won't make that much profit. You would want to buy stocks as cheap as possible, to have room for growth :P The minimum price for a stock is 6 NP, it cannot fall below that. However the lowest buyable price is 15 NP. I advise you to buy stocks priced around 15-17 NP for best results. For choosing the stocks it might be a good idea to go to the bargain stocks list, to see the cheapest around. The prices that interest you are the ones listed in the Curr tab (Curr from current). If everything is too expensive don't bother, the prices change few times an hour so you might want to check out a bit later. As a last advice, you might want to avoid AAVL, DROO and VPTS as they tend to go down more often than up.

To buy some stocks you just click on the company name. You'll be taken to the company profile page where you also have to click the same company name. There you are, on the next page you just enter the number of shares you want to acquire and press buy shares. There is no charge for buying shares so you're now the happy owner of some stocks.

Now comes the wait :)
You have to wait for the stocks to go up, high enough to get a nice profit. The stock values vary, sometimes they go up, sometimes they go down, but with enough patience they'll reach that value you've been dreaming of ever since you first bought them (if it's a realistic value, of course; the maximum price for one share in 150). In some rare cases some companies go bankrupt and their shares go worthless. It's a risk you've gotta take but luckily it happens quite seldom so I wouldn't worry about that.

So, let's say you bought 1000 shares for 15000 NP, each having a value of 15 NP. After a while you return to find your stocks at say 20 NP each. You happily sell them (click on the arrow on the left of the stock name, fill in the number of shares you want to sell, then press sell shares) and you get the 15000 you originally invested plus a profit of 5000 (minus the 20 NP Nigel charges transactions). That's 5000 you didn't spend too much effort on :)
The ideal thong though would be to reinvest the profits in, you've guessed it, more stocks. Which in time will bring you more profits and so on. You reinvest the maximum number allowed, the 15000, and wait happily for its rise, and so on.

As I said earlier in this game diversification is the key. Meaning you should get as many stocks from as many companies as possible. The more stocks you have, more chances for one of them to go up high enough to be sold for a profit. And until that happens, don't get discouraged :) They *will* go up eventually :)