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GTA Stock Market & Insider Trading Thread: Scratching that BAWSAQ itch

So is there a decent, reliable way to make serious money that doesn't involve the Lester missions? I steamrolled through the whole story shortly after release, before I found out the importance of those missions, and don't want to start a new game so soon.
 
Itchy//Tasty said:
So is there a decent, reliable way to make serious money that doesn't involve the Lester missions? I steamrolled through the whole story shortly after release, before I found out the importance of those missions, and don't want to start a new game so soon.
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BAWSAQ is really the only way. Just save the game and dump everything you have into either PIS or HAL. PIS looks like it has a lot more room to grow, which is what I'm counting on because I bought it at $40. If it all goes to shit, just reload the old save.
 
I posted this in the other thread but I guess I should have done it here:

Is there a stock market guide for LCN? I'm not talking about the random missions, Lester's missions, etc. I'm looking for a guide that shows how you can influence each stock through single player actions. I finished the main story and now I want to play the LCN market while I mess around in the world.
 
BAWSAQ has been down since I've been able to play GTAO on my 360...

I usually play between 8PM-12AM PST - Is there some trick to get access?
 
Double D said:
BAWSAQ is really the only way. Just save the game and dump everything you have into either PIS or HAL. PIS looks like it has a lot more room to grow, which is what I'm counting on because I bought it at $40. If it all goes to shit, just reload the old save.
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bawsaq stock prices will be the same, no matter how old your save is.
 
I think he means if you end up losing your money to the stock crashing, reload a save prior to buying the stock instead of sticking with the loss.
 
I lost a shit load of money yesterday because of the Fruit assassination mission. I switched to trever to buy the stocks, only he was being chased by cops, so I died, when I went to sell with Franklin the shares had already dropped, probably because of the time lapse when you die.

Sucks that you can only do these missions with Franklin and there's no way to buy the share on the other characters without knowing in advance.

Ryuuga said:
It's probably best to sell PIS now since it's back up to it's record high.
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It's record high was 150
 
I bought some RonOil stock and then proceeded to blow up the LTDOil gas station repeatedly. Nothing much happened to the stock. Same with Cluckin' Bell and Taco Bomb trucks. I thought in game actions were supposed to influence stock prices. Is this thing broken or am I just doing it wrong?
 
lefantome said:
I bet lots of people are selling PIS.
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Lately it's been slow, but the stock is steady and still secure.

Kenshin001 said:
I bought some RonOil stock and then proceeded to blow up the LTDOil gas station repeatedly. Nothing much happened to the stock. Same with Cluckin' Bell and Taco Bomb trucks. I thought in game actions were supposed to influence stock prices. Is this thing broken or am I just doing it wrong?
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LCN seems to just be based more on the ingame trends of the actual stock, rather than the ingame actions.
 
PIS hasn't budged for almost an entire day. Matter of fact or looks to me like nothing has changed for a while. Anyone seeing any movement?
 
I've cashed out of PIS. Got my three characters from the $35m mark to $110m. All my characters have the properties they want, except for Trevor who needs another $15m for the golf course. I'll look into another stock for that.
 
Dynopia said:
It's been $53.07 on Xbox for 2 days now, the site suggests it was less yesterday but I know for a fact it wasn't. Been checking periodically, so I think it may see a fall soonish :\
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I think the whole Bawsaq just froze for a while. gtavstocks.com said it was down for maintenance or whatever. Anyways it's back up and PIS it still rising, slowly. Hopefully they didn't screw with it. Seeing the PIS stock jump roughly .30 every two hours for the past week was pretty great.
 
Double D said:
I think the whole Bawsaq just froze for a while. gtavstocks.com said it was down for maintenance or whatever. Anyways it's back up and PIS it still rising, slowly. Hopefully they didn't screw with it. Seeing the PIS stock jump roughly .30 every two hours for the past week was pretty great.
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Yeah I woke up and it's gone to 53.77, up 70.
 
got rid of my PIS and pumped all my earnings (330.000.000 $ - yeah!) into HAL, lets see how that goes.

I believe PIS slowed down significantly and will plateau soon. No way It is going back to its all time high.
 
sponk said:
got rid of my PIS and pumped all my earnings (330.000.000 $ - yeah!) into HAL, lets see how that goes.

I believe PIS slowed down significantly and will plateau soon. No way It is going back to its all time high.
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Same here. I only got 800k in profits after 24 hours for each character last night, whereas back then I was making at least 7mil per day. Took all my 190mil to HAL now. I will probably do my last 2 lester too since I think I have more than enough money to buy all the properties now.
 
sponk said:
got rid of my PIS and pumped all my earnings (330.000.000 $ - yeah!) into HAL, lets see how that goes.

I believe PIS slowed down significantly and will plateau soon. No way It is going back to its all time high.
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I'm giving PIS one more day and then I'm dumping as well.
I should be able to live with 700,000 Million for each of my folks... ..shouldn't I?
 
DC1 said:
I'm giving PIS one more day and then I'm dumping as well.
I should be able to live with 700,000 Million for each of my folks... ..shouldn't I?
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I wouldn't be messing with stocks if I had that much. I just need enough to buy the properties and I'm out. So Basically I need to either ride PIS out and hope it hits close to it's all time high, or hope that HAL tanks. That way I can pull out of PIS and reinvest in HAL.
 
Finally started the markets (mad I did the assassination missions first chance) and seeing some modest gains in PIS. But HAL says it's down .12 to 28.3, gonna stay away from that.
 
What's HAL at now, just for my own edification? I Bought HAL at $0.53 right after the first post of "let's manipulate HAL!"

Cashed out at ~$15/share per character.
 
I started late to this madness, dumping Michael's 211k, Franklin's 232k, and Trevor's 6700 into HAL last night.

Did I make the wrong move?
My line of thought was since I had limited funds, I would go with the lower priced stock to buy more initial shares.

Do I sell at intervals and rebuy the stock to increase the number of shares I hold
 
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PIS stock is looking so good right now. Got scared when it stop moving for a while the other day. Good to see it's still moving.
 
calder said:
Finally started the markets (mad I did the assassination missions first chance) and seeing some modest gains in PIS. But HAL says it's down .12 to 28.3, gonna stay away from that.
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I'm so glad I read about the assassination missions before I did them.

Just before the last heist I had pretty much $0 for each of my characters, after the final mission I had $38 million per character and after the last four assassination missions I had around about $1.4 billion per character.
 
I'm long done with the story and still haven't done the last or last two Lester missions because of PIS. I might sell them soon and invest everything in the Lester missions stocks, but on the other hand i want to wait for PIS to rise even more. :lol
 
I thought I was going to do the Lester missions and then go back into PIS but I haven't been on single player at all since then. PIS was like $29 at the time. Dumping $30 million from each character into it at that point would have been a nice little return before finishing off the Lester stuff.

Why am I such an idiot.
 
reminder said:
I'm long done with the story and still haven't done the last or last two Lester missions because of PIS. I might sell them soon and invest everything in the Lester missions stocks, but on the other hand i want to wait for PIS to rise even more. :lol
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I am in the exact same position. I don't have enough money to buy the expensive properties anyways so I invested the majority of my money into PIS and I'm just hoping I can make some profits and then take that money back to the Lester missions.
 
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