| Soldier (Fearless Blue) | Monday, October 10, 2011 - 07:47 pm 
What options are available for me to increase the size of my citizens' investment fund? |
| Kitsuné (Kebir Blue) | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 12:12 am
Best options:
Buy low and sell high.
Buy cheap shares & collect dividends. |
| Kagekatsu Uesugi (Little Upsilon) | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 05:22 am
how do you search stocks? And how do you stop the computer auto selling all your stocks? I have bought up a lot of stocks for my fund, to find out the next day that they are gone, and that corp I bought up sells for much more than I had bought for, and probably more than what the AI sold it for. |
| Tabula Rasa (White Giant) | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 06:08 am
There is an Automation setting for each country, "Buy and Sell shares for your investment fund automatically". Have you unchecked that? |
| Kagekatsu Uesugi (Little Upsilon) | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 06:13 pm
ok, it seems I had it checked. I didnt know that was an option. The damn computer has been buying stock such as Assasin Military Services for 24,156.16 SC$ and is trying to sell it now for 1.92 SC$. The automated system suck for this. |
| Matt Patton (Golden Rainbow) | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 08:00 pm
What does a good investment fund do for you any way? |
| Stuart T (Golden Rainbow) | Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 04:18 am
Your sims become happier Matt. Happier sims means increased productivity which in turn means more cash for you in the long run plus everything else that comes from a rich country such as a higher birth rate and increased welfare..... |
| Dracus (Little Upsilon) | Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 06:42 pm
ok, what should a good investment fund look like. I had built up a 175M per month profit from dividend, but the computer sold it all off before I can stop auto sells. Im back up to 19M per month. Just wondering what a good investment fund should look at, and what is a good strategy to buying stocks?
Plus, can I buy up control of a company so I get the profits, but it does not effect my employment? |
| Kagekatsu Uesugi (Little Upsilon) | Friday, October 14, 2011 - 08:42 am
how can yo tell how much you earn as dividend from the shares you buy? |
| Noproblem (Fearless Blue) | Friday, October 14, 2011 - 11:27 am
Watch the net cash of your fund. It is almost all dividends unless you actually sell stock at a profit. And no, you cannot gain control of a corporation that way, unless you do so with your ceo. The game will not let you buy a controlling interest with your fund. |
| Kagekatsu Uesugi (Little Upsilon) | Friday, October 14, 2011 - 09:05 pm
I found a glitch in the system I think. In my portfolio, it says I bought 12 stocks of HoN Sugar for -98,282,953.95 SC$. How can you buy stock at a negative number, and does that mean they paid me -1179395447.40 SC$ for those 12 stocks? Or is it an error? |
| Soldier (Fearless Blue) | Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 10:16 am
My suspicion with the negative stock value is that it is determined by the price paid P for each stock S at the original time purchase (as a lump amount: P * S = X) so that X / S = the value of each stock. When you buy new stock, the P * S for the new stock is added to the original X, meaning (Po * So) + (Pn + Pn) = Xo + Xn = Xtotal and Xtotal / S = stock value... it averages the value of the new and old stock. However, when selling, the same formula can create negative numbers because if (Po * So) - (Pn * Sn) = Xo - Xn which means if Xn > Xo, then Xtotal / S will be a negative number. This would be the simplest method of storing that number.
Such that if it says I bought 10 stocks at $1 each originally and sold 5 for $3 each, we get:
(10 * 1) - (5 * 3) = 10 - 15 = -5 / 5 = -$1 in the price paid field.
Thanks for the suggestions. |
