Stock Market
(Redirected from Stock Exchange)
The stock market is where you can buy and sell shares in a variety of stocks, for investing in benefit blocks or speculative trading.
Stock Trading
Getting Started
In order to use the stock market you must first own a Stock Ticker. This can be purchased for 50 Points from the Points Building.
The stock market can be accessed via the URL: https://www.torn.com/page.php?sid=stocks
If you own any shares in any stock, you will also have the stock market icon displayed in your Information panel, with a direct link to the stock market.
Buying and Selling
- To buy or sell shares in a particular stock, click on the cell in the "Owned" column. This will open up a panel where you can buy and sell shares, as well as a table of data regarding your current purchases.
- There are no limits to how many shares you can purchase, sell or own at any one time. Buying and selling shares is an instantaneous process, although if you attempt to do so while prices are updating it may take a few (~10) seconds before asking you to confirm the order again with the new share price.
- Buying doesn't come with any tax.
- Selling shares comes with a fee of 0.1% of the total value you sell. For example, if you sell $1,000,000 in total value, a fee of $1,000 is taken. This fee was waived between 06/04/21 and 20/04/21.
- You can sell individual purchases via the link in the purchase history table, alternatively you can also input the number of shares to sell in the input field above this table.
- Purchases can be merged into a single "position"; doing this will average all of the data, including "Bought price", "Bought date", "Profit" and "Change".
- Stocks cannot be bought or sold while in hospital, jail or traveling.
- Stocks cannot be traded directly between players. Since shares are bought and sold instantaneously, there is no longer a requirement for P2P trading. All stocks will be bought and sold via the stock market.
- The profits, losses, and fees paid are included in the personal stats under 'investments' heading. 'Profits/losses received' are not inclusive of 'fees paid'. This information is not visible to others.
Stock Prices
Regarding the prices of the stocks, Chedburn made the following comments.[1]
- Price movements are now every minute (instead of every 15 minutes) and are based on real-world stocks in the same industries as Torn's; we won't be able to provide any more information than this.
- Stock prices are expected to increase by an average of 10% per year; however, there are no guarantees. Some stocks can be incredibly volatile, doubling within a month or crashing significantly.
Stock Benefits
Stock Benefits come in two types: "Passive" or "Active".
- Passive benefits require owning the correct number of shares for 7 days before the benefit activates. Active benefits pay out dividends every 7 or 31 days.
- It is possible to own multiple "increments" of each Active benefit stock. Every successive increment costs double that of the previous increment.
- For example, a benefit block of FHG costs 2,000,000 shares - paying out 1 FHC every 7 days. This means the second increment costs 4,000,000 shares (for a total of 6,000,000) - paying out a second FHC every 7 days, and the third increment costs 8,000,000 shares (for a total of 14,000,000) - paying out a third FHC every 7 days.
- If you currently have time progression toward an Active benefit dividend, purchasing additional increments will not reset this progression. Instead, progression will continue for the previous amount owned until the dividend is ready, and after this time progression will begin toward multiple increments.
- For example: You have 1 increment of FHG and have owned it for 3 days. You then purchase 2 more increments. After 4 days, you will receive 1 FHC. At this point progression begins again and after 7 days you will receive 3 FHCs.
- Active benefits cannot be stored and must be claimed before any time progression can be made toward another. This means that if you are currently receiving 1 FHC per week, you cannot go inactive for 2 weeks and collect 2 FHC. Progression toward a benefit works on a daily cron at midnight, meaning there is a 24 hours window in which to collect dividends before any time progression toward the next dividend is lost.
- Since Energy is capped at 1,000 and Happiness is capped at 99,999, collecting a dividend that would result in going beyond these limits will waste this dividend. Thus purchasing more than 10 MCS increments will waste energy every 7 days.
- Once a dividend is available to collect you will receive the following event: “A stock dividend from X is now available for withdrawal from the Stock Exchange.”
Summary Table
| Stock Benefits | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Acronym | Shares | Type | Frequency | Benefit |
| Alcoholics Synonymous | ASS | 1,000,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Six Pack of Alcohol |
| Big Al's Gun Shop | BAG | 3,000,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Ammunition Pack |
| Crude & Co | CNC | 7,500,000 | Active | 31 days | $80,000,000 |
| Eaglewood Mercenary | EWM | 1,000,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Box of Grenades |
| Empty Lunchbox Traders | ELT | 5,000,000 | Passive | -- | 10% Home Upgrade Discount |
| Evil Ducks Candy Corp | EVL | 100,000 | Active | 7 days | 1000 Happy |
| Feathery Hotels Group | FHG | 2,000,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Feathery Hotel Coupon |
| Grain | GRN | 500,000 | Active | 31 days | $4,000,000 |
| Herbal Releaf Co. | CBD | 350,000 | Active | 7 Days | 50 Nerve |
| Home Retail Group | HRG | 10,000,000 | Active | 31 days | 1x Random Property |
| I Industries Ltd. | IIL | 1,000,000 | Passive | -- | 50% (Virus) Coding Time Reduction |
| Insured On Us | IOU | 3,000,000 | Active | 31 days | $12,000,000 |
| International School TC | IST | 100,000 | Passive | -- | Free Education Courses |
| Legal Authorities Group | LAG | 750,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Lawyer Business Card |
| Lo Squalo Waste Management | LOS | 7,500,000 | Passive | -- | 25% Boost to mission credits and money earned |
| Lucky Shots Casino | LSC | 500,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Lottery Voucher |
| Mc Smoogle Corp | MCS | 350,000 | Active | 7 days | 100 Energy |
| Messaging Inc. | MSG | 300,000 | Passive | -- | Free Classified Advertising |
| Munster Beverage Corp. | MUN | 5,000,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Six Pack of Energy Drink |
| Performance Ribaldry Network | PRN | 1,000,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Erotic DVD |
| PointLess | PTS | 10,000,000 | Active | 7 days | 100 Points |
| Symbiotic Ltd. | SYM | 500,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Drug Pack |
| Syscore MFG | SYS | 3,000,000 | Passive | -- | Advanced Firewall |
| TC Media Productions | TCP | 1,000,000 | Passive | -- | Company Sales Boost |
| TC Music Industries | TMI | 6,000,000 | Active | 31 days | $25,000,000 |
| Tell Group Plc. | TGP | 2,500,000 | Passive | -- | Company Advertising Boost |
| The Torn City Times | TCT | 100,000 | Active | 31 days | $1,000,000 |
| Torn & Shanghai Banking | TSB | 3,000,000 | Active | 31 Days | $50,000,000 |
| Torn City Clothing | TCC | 7,500,000 | Active | 31 days | 1x Clothing Cache |
| Torn City Health Service | THS | 150,000 | Active | 7 days | 1x Box of Medical Supplies |
| Torn City Investments | TCI | 1,500,000 | Passive | -- | 10% Bank Interest Bonus |
| Torn City Motors | TCM | 1,000,000 | Passive | -- | 10% Racing Skill Boost |
| West Side University | WSU | 1,000,000 | Passive | -- | 10% Education Course Time Reduction |
| Wind Lines Travel | WLT | 9,000,000 | Passive | -- | Private Jet Access |
| Yazoo | YAZ | 1,000,000 | Passive | -- | Free Banner Advertising |
Additional Benefits Description
- Syscore MFG (SYS) - Advance Firewall - provides protection to player and player's company against:
- Intricate Hack - Software Corporation
- Hack a company's bank account for up to 3% total cash
- Proxy Hacking - Software Corporation/Cyber Cafe
- Cancelling a targets virus programming
- IP Tracing - Cyber Cafe
- View lister of anonymous bounties
- Intricate Hack - Software Corporation
- Home Retail Group (HRG) - Random property - Each property between Trailer and Private Island has an equal chance (1/13) of being given.
- Insured on Us (IOU) - Possible chance to be involved in a class action lawsuit (Receive cash) when somebody in the Law city job uses the Paralegal special.
Patch History
Released in Patch list #187
- Changed Mc Smoogle dividend increments to cap out at 10 (1,000 energy)
- Released new stock Munster Beverage Corp. which provides Six Packs of Energy Drink.
- Fixed Monopoly requirements to be based on the current number of live stocks instead of simply 30.
- Released new stock Alcoholics Synonymous which provides Six Packs of Alcohol
- Changed Stock Market sells to remove shares from the newest transaction rather than the oldest
- Added red warnings to the Stock Market when selling shares that will interrupt a benefit or dividend cycle.
- Added ability to share Stock Market graphs by copying page URLs.
- Added persistent column sorting on the Stock Market by tapping / clicking the headers
- Added gold variant of the Stock Market user icon to indicate collectable dividends
- Added 0.1% fee to Stock Market sales after the two week free period
- Added personal stat to record 'Stock fees paid'
- Added stock market price change headlines to the News Ticker
- [API] Released 'user' -> 'stocks' and 'torn' -> 'stocks' selections for the new stock market
- Released Stocks 3.0
References
- ↑ Chedburn, Stocks 3.0 (06/04/21).
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