Stock Market

The **Stock Market** can be opened at any time whether before, during, or after missions. The market is separated into three categories: Stocks, Parts, and Fish. Stocks are purely speculative, and represent companies within the game setting. Parts are organs, which can be looted from destroyed corpses. Fish are much more extensive, and must be acquired using the Fiberglass Fishing Rod. The Stock Market can be used to passively gain money, but it is as volatile as the real thing and should be used with caution.

## Available Stocks

*See Parts and Fish for those tabs of the stock market.*

* Cruelty Squad (CRUS): Steady bluechip company in the security business.
* Godhead Heavy Industries (GDHD): Once a great company, has recently lost influence.
* G-Tech (GTC): Hot new startup looking to revolutionize computing and food. Buy.
* Pizza House (PIHO): The greatest fast food chain ever to exist with history spanning centuries and tens of thousands of locations open worldwide. The peeperoni pizza is a delight for the senses.
* Advanced Orbital Instruments (AOI): 22nd century space-faring solutions.
* GamesGames (GAGA): Failing games store chain.
* Power Monger Shipping Company (PWR): Originally known for heavily arming its fleet to counter pirates, but acquired a monopoly status when it was discovered you can also sink your competition.
* Veggo's Meatoids (VEME): Mysterious newcomer in the vegan meat industry. Competitor of G-TECH's goofood business.
* Fatberg Casino (FBCA): Sir Fatberg's famous casino in the western swamplands.
* Security, Redefined (SCRD): Not much is known about this security company, the workers seem a bit off and don't seem to be able to talk. Rabid fanbase.
* Pure Optics (PURE): Military grade optics, among other things.
* Consumer Sotfproducts (CSFT): Developer of the smash hit video game Gorbino's Quest.

## Timeline

At the start of the game, Veggo's Meatoids, the competitors to G-Tech, will begin at a rock bottom price of below $1, quickly rising to $30-40.

After completing Paradise, G-Tech will begin to rapidly decline in value until the company goes bankrupt. Their competitor, Veggo's Meatoids, will rise to $120-160 rapidly.

After completing Mall Madness, the stock market will begin to grow uncontrollably. All assets will rise rapidly with no limit, but notably "GamesGames" will begin to skyrocket in value. It is possible to idle the game at this point and obtain any amount of money desired, given enough time.

After completing Apartment Atrocity, the stock market will cease to explode in value. Most assets seem to retain their current value and fluctuate normally from there on, with the notable exception of GamesGames, which will rapidly decline in value until the company goes bankrupt.

## Strategy

Upon starting a new game, it is possible to rush into Cruelty Squad Headquarters to collect the free $1500 and purchase the G-Tech food competitor (Veggo's meatoids) shares for less than a dollar. This can almost instantly net $6000.

Leaving this money invested until Paradise is complete and the food company stock has stabilized at $120-160 will net roughly $180k-$240k from the initial $1500 investment.

Before completing Mall Madness and kicking off the stock market frenzy, move all of your money into a volatile "penny stock" that does not have a fixed value. For example, the CIV fish, which normally hovers around $2-$3. While GamesGames does seem to grow in absolute value per share faster than other stocks during the stock market frenzy, it still grows slower relative to initial investment price than penny stocks. It is not unrealistic to expect a 30x return after only 20 minutes from cheap fish.

The Cruelty Squad stocks are great to invest in early game as throughout the game they will slowly increase in value and almost never spiking downward. This makes the Cruelty Squad stocks a reliable source of passive income as investing early game allows you to get large profits late game. The Cruelty Squad stocks will also spike after you complete a mission, so it's not a good idea to buy CS stocks as soon as a mission ends once you get paid, this can also be used to sell stocks at a large value and make massive amounts of cash and then reinvesting it in CS stocks to get more money after doing another mission.