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Hello, And Welcome To The Gaia Stock Market. Now, Its Not Really A Stock Market,[ Just Like the Name ^_^ ] But It's More Of A Guide To Being Able To Play The Market Place To Your Advantage. In Doing This The Possibilities Are Endless. If You Are Interested In Taking The Time And Money [ Gold ] To Get All Of Those Items You've Wanted On Gaia, Items Of Any Kind, Please Take The Time To Read This, If You Are Searching For A Cheat, A Shortcut, A Whole In The Gaia Programming [ A.k.a Botting, Which Is Against The ToS ], Then Dont Pollute My Thread, Please Leave. The Best Way To Fully Understand Everything, Is To READ! Not Actually Skim, Read. You could make 5k or over just by reading the hints..
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Table O' Contents
#1: Introduction
#2: Rules And Guidelines
#3: How Do I Play The Market?
#4: How To Get The Most Of An InvestMent
#5: How Else Can I Make Quick, Legal Gold?
#6: Stock Market Vocabulary.
#7: Helpful Hints And Tips


I Will Teach You how to play the stockmarket in every I know is possible. These Are Working Methods And I Use Them All Daily. Your Results May Vary Depending On When You Attempt To Play The Market, And If You Fully Understand How To Do it, but just like your moms and dads taught you, practice makes perfect.



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Rules & Guidelines



Now these Are Typical Rules And Guidelines For Any Other Topic Hangout Or Guild. So These Shouldnt Be Hard To Do. Failure To Follow These Rules Will Result In You Being Put On The "Idiots Who Couldnt Follow The Simplist Rules/ Black list" And you Will Be Banned From My Thread. That would be sad if you break rules a chupacabura could follow.

#1:No Spamming.
#2:No Cybering
#3:Be Semi-Literate.
#4:No Severe or Excessive Cursing.
#5:Give Us a Green Thumbs Up Everyday? Want this thread to be popular.
#6:Only Pm Me for O.K reasons, I dont mind random Pms.
#7:Join In A Be An Offical Stock Market Broker! [ See First Post ]


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How Do I
Play The
Stock Market?



Even Though many of you are familiar with these methods, and how to do them, you may be a little confuzed on how to do them correctly, and percisely. When You Are Playing The Market, You Are Either A Bear, Or A Bull.The Way To Play The Market as a bear, Is To Sell Items At A High Price In Hopes Of Buying It Back Cheaper. For example, say the close is 19k on the gwee dragon, so you sell it in hopes of a price drop [ remember, you always make a gamble when playing the market, you just have to know how to do it to make money, which is what this thread is for ], it drops to 17k, you buy it back, you make 2k. Its That Simple. The Only Problem is knowing when to become the Broker. The Way To Play The Market As A Bull is to buy an item for cheap, in hopes it will rise. For Example, say you bought horns of a demon [ like i did ] for 100k, now they are worth over 685k, So I Made About 585k, off of the demon horns, and they keep going up! Its That Simple. The Only Problem is knowing when to become the Broker. Some Of The Biggest Problems With Playing The Market, is that people dont want a particular item, so they leave it, and 2 days l8ter, it costs however much it would be for their quest to be finished. Even though you may not like an item, [ like i bought 2 gwees and 2 shadow spirits, I dont wear , or like either item, but I know they will go up, so i bought them to make a profit ] doesnt mean it wouldnt be the smarter choice at some point in time, infact, the items you like least, could be the next 1 mil item, and then you want it. The Best Way To Play The Market, Is To Take Risks With Your Money, And Look What Could be in the future.

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How Do I get The Most Out Of an Investment?



If You Invest On an Item, In Hopes It Will Go Up. HOLD ONTO IT. I know you might have the earge to sell it once it get to the price of your quest to be finished, but if you hold onto it, it WILL go up more, then you will have way extra money. If I would of sold my horns when they got to 500k in the market, I would of Missed out on an extra 200k, that is alot, and is you miss it thats it, its like your flushing 200k down the toilet. What a waste.
This should be in the "How else to make legal gold" post, but this post wasnt very big, so its here.


"Without much effort at all, you can't earn at least 1k a day in less than an hour.
Daily chance - 2 minutes, tops. Will be worth at least 100g.
Do a puzzle. A "normal" puzzle should take no more than 10 minutes and will be worth about 100 gold.
Fish once per day. That should take 10 minutes, tops and should be worth at LEAST 100g per bucket.
A few random posts, comments, votes and surfing (maybe 5 to 10 minutes' worth) should be worth another 200g.
Putting your stuff in the marketplace, including price research - just pick a good price and list it for 14 days. Don't babysit it! (5 minutes.)
So, 500 gold for doing very little, 40 minutes or less. Use a mule (a secondary character) to do the same and you've got at least 1K for farting around for an hour or so.
There is a point of diminishing returns with puzzles and fishing, but there's one place where the possibilities are endless: the marketplace.
This is my cash cow. Make it yours.
In the time it took someone to incessantly beg me for donations, I had gone to the marketplace and found a 3.5k item for 1 gold. I turned around and sold it within 1-2 minutes for a 3.5k profit.
I told a random beggar about this and they asked me for the link.
No. That's not how it works. You must search. Find things to buy low and sell for a profit. It's not hard, and depending on your luck, you can make thousands in minutes.
Things to do and not do in the marketplace:
1. Do keep your password on your clipboard ready to copy and paste.
2. Do focus on a select few items - however many you're comfortable with keeping straight in your head - and make quick links in your browser to the lowest buy prices of the items in the MP. For example, search for "Enchanted Wooden Trunk" (with quotes!), sorted by lowest buy price and then save to favorites (I recommend the links bar.)
3. When searching for low-priced items amongst your favorites, do remember to sort by "time remaining." You might find better opportunities which don't show on the first page when you sort by "lowest buy price."
4. Do NOT saturate the market. As tempting as it may be to sell all four of the same item at the same price, all you're going to do is force other sellers to go lower. Spread out your prices or put them in one at a time, selling other things in the meantime.
5. DO research the current going price for an item right before you list it. Every time. Even if you did it 30 minutes ago. The market changes. You don't want to price too high or too low. Use those quick links every time. It's a quick jump to your store from there, anyway!
6. Do not cancel a sale right before it expires because you don't like the price. While it's not against the rules, it's rude, and you'll just discourage certain buyers from bothering with your auctions. Either start with a minimum bid you can live with, or price it buy only."
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How Else Can I Make Legal Gold?




This Is Another Way. I Use This Method quite Often. In This Method, You Need Money, To Make Money. And I Dont Mean Too Much, Only Like 10k. This Way Might Take A Little While, But You Can Make like 2k Every 30 min, so its well worth it. With your 10k, You first familiarize yourself with most of the items, donations, event, store, whatever. And once you basically know the price of the items for that day [ its best to use this method around night, people are more reckless then ], Go to the first page of the market, and refresh the page alot, and with every refresh, look at the items on the front page, and if you truly are farmiliarized with the item prices, you will be able to spot a miss placed item, easily. Well when that time comes, you buy it as quickly as possible. So say you bought a miss placed momo for 8k, and the lowest buy price is 10k, you could sell at 9.8k, and make 1800g. Its Very Simple And Easy To Do, And if you ask me, playing the market is like poker, you could win, you could loose, and its very suspenseful, I like that, Do You? Another Way, Is Donation Items.


"Each month, Gaia offers an opportunity to buy brand new Collectible Items. These items can be purchased for one month only; after that, they will never be offered for sale again!"

"Each collectible item costs $2.50 USD."

"The Collectible Items you receive will correspond to the month in which your payment was made. For example, if your mail-in payment is postmarked in August, you will receive the August Collectible (even if your payment does not arrive until September)."
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"Monthly Collectible items are rare, just like diamonds (after all, no matter how popular an item is, it is no longer available when the month ends)", So In our case, donation items are constantly the Blue Chip of the market. Here are usually the best investment you could make with your money [ real] on gaia. Not only do they help you, but they help gaia. They money you pay for these items goes into helping to pay for gaia, and to making it better for some 5,680,330 registered users on it. Everyones a winner.

So Get Em Now!

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Vocabulary


These Are The Actual Words, Used In The Actual Stock Market. In Many Of The Definitions, I Changed The Word " Stock" With the Word " Item" To Make It More Relateable To Gaia. I Encourage You To Use These Words. They Make You Sound Smart, And Make The Person Your Talking To Feel Confuzed, And/Or Warm And Fuzzy Like A Puppy. So Once Again, I Encourage You To Use This Dictionary. If I Took The Time To Put It Up Here, It Would Probably Benefit You Somehow. So Please Use Them ^_^

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bear - an investor who sells his items, and gambles on buying it back at a lower price.

bear market - a market where item prices are falling, favoring a bear.

broker - the person who can order items to be bought or sold [ One Of Us When we sell an item].

blue chip - the highest and best items to buy. Comes from poker, where a blue chip is the most valuable.

bull - an investor who buys stocks, and gambles on selling it at a higher price.

bull market - a market where item prices are rising, favoring a bull.

close - the final price of the stock at the end of the trading day, on gaia, 12 o' clock midnight.

commission - the profit that a broker gets every time you buy or sell a item through him or her.

cyclical item - a item that tends to rise and fall with the economy.

dip - a drop in the price of a item that is temporary, making it the ideal time to buy the stock.

high - the highest price of the item during the trading day.

home run - a referral to an investors large gain in a short period.

hot stock - a item whose price rises quickly the day it goes public.

Initial Public Offering (IPO) - The formal name for going public.

limit order - an order that limits the price the broker can buy or sell at.

low - the lowest price of the item during the trading day.

portfolio - a collection of items that is owned by an investor.

stag - an investor who buys and sells stocks rapidly, usually to make profits quickly.

technical analysis - an analysis of a items future based strictly on numbers, such as earnings, sales, and assets.

yo-yo stock - a stock with a price that often rises and often drops rapidly



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Helpful Hints & Tips


Just As A Closer Of This Topic, I Have Made A Helpful Hints And Tips Post. If Anyone Has Any Ideas Please Pm Me And I Will Add Them To This As I See Fit. Thankyou For Reading This Far Into The Stock Market. And Have A WonderFul Time On Gaia! And Dont Forget To Donate By Buying Gaia Merchandise And Monthly Collectibles To Not Only Benefit Your Gaia Account, But to Benefit The Woderful People That Made This RolePlay And Hangout Site Possible.

#1: Read Everything I Took The Time To Write.
#2: Take Time, And you Will Get what you want.
#3: Always Invest In Donation Items, The Smartest Thing To buy.
#4: Familiarize Yourself With Recently Added Monthly Collectible Prices
#5: You Want Inflation.
#6: Go To This Site Often and READ INSTRUCTIONS FIRST!!!
#7: Pm me with more stuff to put on the list!
*Cuts Red Ribbon* Hooray, Its Open! cheese_whine
Yessss your finally done with it!! biggrin *goes back to reading it*

Added: I'm a bull, I've been doing that from 2005 on my main account. XD

Slightly less risky then being a bear if you ask me. Specifically with those lovely DI...urr MC's cool Also A good bet is Easter event baskets/items, sometimes Gaia Anniversary items (iffy last years weren't loved all that much) Halloween event items are a great .. (if they are good ones) and the gift bags always seem to do well. Christmas items/gift boxes seem to be right up there with the Easter items. If not more so.

I earn as may as I can during the events, and then though out the year continue to keep buying them until they start to be priced at over 1k. (each item, if the others are less I keep buying) But this is only is they are say 100g or less. If they started out at 1k or more I stop buying at 5k.

Now the hard part, shove them all in your inventory storage and ignore them for a full year! No selling them for quests, or because you want gold, for nothing! Do not touch! It's time consuming but if you send them to a mule it'll be easier to just forget them.

The Easter baskets of last year after the event about 300 to 800 gold each. Now this year worth 2k or more, and when Easter gets here again the price will spike up at least 1k. (for the baskets the items in the baskets, maybe more maybe less)If you like this feel free to add it to your guide. ^^
I really like this thread - the subject, especially - and think something like this ought to be a sticky - especially in the DONATE TO ME OMG I NEED A KIKI forum.

I have some suggestions in my profile about the MP. I PM'D you.

I do think you ought to put this more in terms of actual Gaia language. Your comparisons to the stock market are brilliant, but since they're not Gaia terms, you're going to lose a few people. IMHO.

But I really think something can and should be made out of this thread. And stuck to the top of every forum where it applies!
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I really like this thread - the subject, especially - and think something like this ought to be a sticky - especially in the DONATE TO ME OMG I NEED A KIKI forum.

I have some suggestions in my profile about the MP. I PM'D you.

I do think you ought to put this more in terms of actual Gaia language. Your comparisons to the stock market are brilliant, but since they're not Gaia terms, you're going to lose a few people. IMHO.

But I really think something can and should be made out of this thread. And stuck to the top of every forum where it applies!
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