Investments

The stock market: the board

One global market, seven listings, ticking every 30 minutes. Volatility is the personality of each stock — it scales both the size of every move and how often events hit it. Liquidity decides how much your own order moves the price against you.

When a stock dies, a reserve company IPOs to replace it — RollDice Corp, House Edge Capital, and Wildcard Ventures are waiting in the wings.

How prices move (and why they sink)

Every tick, each stock takes a baseline drift drawn between −3% and +0.5%, scaled up by volatility — the average tick is negative. What makes money is the event engine: each tick also rolls roughly a 30–85% chance (rising with volatility) of an event, from minor dips and gains to multi-tick SLUMPS, RALLIES of 8–20%, CRASHES of 15–35%, and rare BOOMS of 20–45%.

The big events are telegraphed: !stock news shows 🔮 RUMOR forecasts one tick ahead — and forecasts come true 65% of the time. That 65/35 split is the entire game: buying a rumored BOOM is a positive-EV bet, and it still fakes out one time in three.

There are no flat trade fees — the cost is slippage. Your order impacts the fill price by up to 40% depending on size versus the stock's liquidity: trading 500 shares of thin BUST moves the market against you brutally; the same order in FRTN barely ripples. Trade deep stocks in size, thin stocks in slivers.

Delisting: the death spiral

A stock trading below 3% of its base price starts a delist watch. Four consecutive ticks down there flags it DELISTING — sell-only from that moment. Eight ticks and it's DELISTED: holders are auto-paid the final price (often pennies), and a reserve stock IPOs in its place.

The DELISTING badge is therefore a countdown measured in hours, not days: four more bad ticks is two hours. Decide immediately — average down never, sell or ride to the floor.

Trading commands

!stock is the market board; !stock buy <symbol> <qty> and !stock sell <symbol> <qty> execute at slippage-adjusted prices; !stock news is the rumor mill; !my-stocks and !stock portfolio show every position with live profit and loss. Your average buy price is cost-averaged across purchases, so P&L is honest about what you actually paid.

Real estate: the rent table

Five regular properties, each ownable once per player, paying rent on a 24-hour cycle collected via !collect-rent. Uncollected rent banks for up to 3 days: collect any time inside that window and you're paid every full day owed, with the unfinished day still ticking toward the next one. Past 3 days the extra is lost — you're paid for 3 and the clock restarts from the moment you collect. Sell-back is 75% of the current price.

Prices are dynamic: every copy bought anywhere in the world adds 5% of the base price to that property's sticker (every sell-back takes one sale off the count again) — but the price never goes above 1.5× base, so after ten net sales a deed stops getting dearer. Early buyers lock in the floor, and since sell-back is computed on the current price, a deed bought at base and sold at the cap returns 112.5% of what you paid.

Rent per coin falls as deeds get bigger: the Shack returns 5% of its base price a day, the Private Island 2.5%. At the 1.5× cap every payback stretches by half — 30 days for a Shack, 60 for an Island. Zoo properties (Mini 800,000 / City 5,000,000 / World 18,000,000 base) don't pay flat rent: their income is the fed animals you house, minus their feed — a fully stocked zoo nets 90,000 / 388,000 / 866,000 a day. Zoo income has no 3-day bank; it pays only what your fed animals earn on the day you collect. See Hunting & Animals.

The guaranteed shelf: FDs

When stocks feel like the casino with extra steps, the bank pays a locked 10% APR on fixed deposits of any size and duration — !bank fd <amount> <days>, prorated daily, no way to lose except waiting. The full mechanics (and why the 8% recurring deposit is a trap) live in the Bank & Credit docs.

Getting better at investing

Trade the news cycle, not the chart. The only durable edge is the 65% forecast: check !stock news every tick or two, buy rumored rallies/booms, exit after resolution. Holding through quiet periods just donates the negative drift.

Size by liquidity, not conviction. Slippage charges you both ways — a round trip in a thin stock can eat 20%+ before the price moves at all. FRTN and VEGA absorb real size; BUST and JACK are for small, violent bets on telegraphed events.

The volatile end is a lottery with better odds: BUST at volatility 30 catches the biggest booms AND sits closest to the delist floor. Never put rent money there — but a rumored BOOM on a 15-coin stock is the best risk/reward ticket on the board.

Order of operations for idle cash: property first (robbery-proof, 2.5–5% of its price back every day), FDs for money with a known date, stocks only with money you can watch. Climb the deeds cheapest-first — each one's rent funds the next — and collect at least every third day so no rent ever falls off the 3-day bank. Rent plus a full zoo is the closest thing Fortuna has to financial independence.

Commands in this module

Pro tips

• ♦Forecasts hit 65% of the time — a rumored CRASH is a sell signal even if you like the stock. Re-enter after the fakeout resolves.
• ♦Buy properties early: +5% per copy sold globally inflates deeds fast (up to the 1.5× cap), and your 75% sell-back is computed on the NEW price.
• ♦Buy the cheapest deed first. The Shack pays itself back in 20 days, the Island in 40 — smaller deeds earn more per coin, so climb the ladder in order rather than saving for the big one.
• ♦Rent banks for 3 days, not forever. A weekend away costs nothing; a week away throws four days of rent in the bin. Run !collect-rent at least every third day.
• ♦DELISTING = sell-only and roughly a 2–4 hour fuse. If you're not deliberately gambling on the bounce that can't come, take the pennies.
• ♦Check !my-stocks before claiming victory — slippage means your real cost basis is higher than the chart price you remember buying at.