[SPOILERS] Stock Tips thread

[toddfa]

 

 

Do I understand it right, I can pick up this guy for his trip to the airport several times and get every time the money if I buy it before, and sell it later (after a few time save the game at a home)?

 

 

To my knowledge he is only there once so you need to save him until the end. Anytime after you receive the 35 mil from the last heist would be good.

 

 

awesome tips. I rely appreciate the work you put in explaining all of this. can you just clarify on what approximate values we should be selling the stock at after the assassination mission. for example, at what value should debonaire be sold at post mission and what value should redwood be sold at after buying it post tank? with that info, you would have created the perfect guide for us

 

 

I can't give approximate values because everyone's stock prices vary. BUT I did give the return on investment so you can easily check your portfolio to see if it matches up.

 

What I mean on varying stock prices:

My low will be 50 and high 100

Your low will be 100 and high 200

 

Would be the same percentage increase but different "totals."

[ibsmokin]

 

 

In the beginning when you have no money dump all the cash you can in Krapea stock!! I played through the game and did the assassination missions as they came up all the while investing like Lester hinted at. I made alot of money but my mistake was I never thought to wait till the very end payout which was obviously coming and I never reinvested in the stock that was initially hurt by the assassination. The main two being bilkinton and redwood. They seemed to be the ones that bounced back the most. I pay pretty close attention to the market and my roomate just started his own save file and I noticed there are a few stocks that later in the game are quite high and in the beginning are quite low. For instance Krapea (my roomate is about 7 or 8 missions in maybe and he's done a side mission or two) stock is at just under $5. On my save where the story is complete Krapea's stock is at $150. Now I don't think you need to be a mathematician to figure out that's insane growth!! If a person were to just keep pumping funds into that throughout their play I think they would amass a serious investment! Especially if you put to use an infinite money trick early in the game. I'm not sure how fast this stock climbs I just know it climbs so I think its best to just keep funneling money into it. Another one of These stocks is Goldcoast in the early stages of the game, what I'm seeing is it's at about $60 and after the last assassination mission it gets over $400 so while that isn't quite as great as the Krapea stock it is still a wise choice. Haven't really tried manipulating it with blowing stuff up just watch the up and downs and make a few hundred k at a time. Cluckin Bella's stock went up about 50% somewhere along the way as well.

The one problem that we have to watch out for is that each players stocks tend to differ in one way or another. On one persons stock I've seen Redwood max out at 125 whereas another would max at out 400. From what I can tell they all grow at a set percentage BUT their numbers are different.

 

When posting these guides I wouldn't go buy their actual ingame number, just what kind of % growth they had. This way people don't get confused

 

Yea you are right, from what i'm reading it does seem to vary from game to game. I just started a new save game so i'm going to see what happens

 

I just started a new game and looked, Krapea is at $150 i will keep a close eye on it. I did notice Air emu is down over 400% so I'm dumping money in seeing as its under $4 a share. hard to lose i think.

[Raavi]

Thanks for all the helpful tips and tricks. I unfortunately already did the multi-target assassination so no Billions for me. I ended up getting 240 million per character. Not bad, if I say so myself.

Edited September 23, 2013 by Raavi

[JacoBee]

TBH im not gonna go that deep in to planning...i will save cash and during story invest in rendom things and make some X00 000 dollars...then i will do assasinations after story...thats enough for me.

 

If online money=sp money is true i will make ton of them in MP and i dont need to be stressed in sp )

[SharoFFenstein]

 

 

Do I understand it right, I can pick up this guy for his trip to the airport several times and get every time the money if I buy it before, and sell it later (after a few time save the game at a home)?

 

To my knowledge he is only there once so you need to save him until the end. Anytime after you receive the 35 mil from the last heist would be good.

 

awesome tips. I rely appreciate the work you put in explaining all of this. can you just clarify on what approximate values we should be selling the stock at after the assassination mission. for example, at what value should debonaire be sold at post mission and what value should redwood be sold at after buying it post tank? with that info, you would have created the perfect guide for us

 

I can't give approximate values because everyone's stock prices vary. BUT I did give the return on investment so you can easily check your portfolio to see if it matches up.

 

What I mean on varying stock prices:

My low will be 50 and high 100

Your low will be 100 and high 200

 

Would be the same percentage increase but different "totals."

 

Hey toddfa, I am about making the first lester mission, should I invest in anything? or should I just let it leave and wait for the last 4?!

 

How many missions are there? and do you know if there is an overview of their names?

[toddfa]

 

Hey toddfa, I am about making the first lester mission, should I invest in anything? or should I just let it leave and wait for the last 4?!

 

How many missions are there? and do you know if there is an overview of their names?

 

 

 

The Multi Target Assassination

The Vice Assassination

The Bus Assassination

Construction Assassination

 

Those are the 4 missions you have to follow my steps on. I believe the multi-target assassination meeting point for Lester is at a gas station. The one before that is down by the beach which is required to continue on with the story.

 

Bottom line: When you go to the gas station for a Lester mission start saving and prepare to invest!

 

 

There are a total of 6 assassination missions. The first two are worthless considering you don't have the 35 million from the last heist.

[SharoFFenstein]

thanks man!

[deathdealer]

so, I did all but the last assassin mission but I haven't reached the last heist yet. the last mission I beat was

pack man

. so, what should I do?

[RacenChase95]

Do you need to put any money in stock for the

poleto bay heist

 

[chillsteppa]

Anyone got any tips for getting the Redwood share price to go up after the multi target assassination? I'm on my second play through and it's not going back up like it did on my first play through. Anyone aware of any trigger that causes it to increase?

 

Also, when I invest around $100,000 in shares they seem to fluctuate up and down, however if I invest more than that (currently $45M) it only drops. Have they rigged it so you can't make much outside of the assassination missions if you've invested a lot of money?

Edited September 23, 2013 by chillsteppa

[ajma420]

IMO, there is no such thing as a "reliable stock." also, don't go by the graphs. They are randomly generated.

[ajma420]

Yeah I read somewhere else to invest in maze bank before the big one... However it makes sense to invest in hold coast since your stealing gold

Gold coast development is a housing/real estate company. It has nothing to do with gold or the last mission.

[Poker2012chu]

Anyone got any tips for getting the Redwood share price to go up after the multi target assassination? I'm on my second play through and it's not going back up like it did on my first play through. Anyone aware of any trigger that causes it to increase?

 

Also, when I invest around $100,000 in shares they seem to fluctuate up and down, however if I invest more than that (currently $45M) it only drops. Have they rigged it so you can't make much outside of the assassination missions if you've invested a lot of money?

 

You have to go out and do something else. I took a stroll around Los Santos on a Shamal as Franklin. When i landed in Sandy Shores, I checked Redwood and I got a 302% return. As long as you do some roaming without checking the stocks, you should be able to get the same return when you check again later.

 

As for investing 8 - 9 digit figures at a time, it's all random. There are several companies you should not be investing in at all after you finish the story mode. Look at it this way, when you're swimming in cash, there's no need to have every penny in the game. If you want to hit a billion, it's gonna take planning. Even if you only get a 0.2% return on stocks, that's still a 200k rise in profit for every 100 million you invest. Not too shabby for a small increase in stock.

Edited September 23, 2013 by Poker2012chu

[soundism]

I did it all right.. finished with 1.2 billion per character. Last night I was playing the market- dumping my entire 1.2 billion into random companies on LCN and netting large profits (1 mil+) after only a few seconds. When I tried just now I was unable to buy 1.2 billion dollars worth of shares. The purchase just wouldn't go through... Hit confirm and nothing... Takes me to an empty portfolio page. I can buy smaller amounts with no issue... So what's the deal? Anyone else get this?

[Mac316]

I Wonder if anyone can help me with this.

 

I Just completed the

Pack Man mission and Molly said in the cutscene that Devlin was going to put all the money he makes into some shares for some company.

 

 

I didn't hear what he said properly and was wonder if it was important.

 

Edit : Ok so it seems he said some alpha fund, so I guess I was wrong when I thought he was talking about shares.

Edited September 23, 2013 by Mac316

[Poker2012chu]

I did it all right.. finished with 1.2 billion per character. Last night I was playing the market- dumping my entire 1.2 billion into random companies on LCN and netting large profits (1 mil+) after only a few seconds. When I tried just now I was unable to buy 1.2 billion dollars worth of shares. The purchase just wouldn't go through... Hit confirm and nothing... Takes me to an empty portfolio page. I can buy smaller amounts with no issue... So what's the deal? Anyone else get this?

 

Yes, I got this when tried investing 250 million. You have to take away a couple of shares. For example, buy 1,000,000 shares, then take away a few so you'll end up buying like 999,996 instead. Works every time. Btw, the 1 million number I just used is just an example; you can buy far more shares than that

Edited September 23, 2013 by Poker2012chu

[Goose0716]

Anyone know where the logger brewery is? If there is one?

[Ulfhethnar]

I did it all right.. finished with 1.2 billion per character. Last night I was playing the market- dumping my entire 1.2 billion into random companies on LCN and netting large profits (1 mil+) after only a few seconds. When I tried just now I was unable to buy 1.2 billion dollars worth of shares. The purchase just wouldn't go through... Hit confirm and nothing... Takes me to an empty portfolio page. I can buy smaller amounts with no issue... So what's the deal? Anyone else get this?

 

You can only hold 10 companies stocks at a time. That might be your problem.

[Cyraxx]

I have a question I dunno if it's been answered:

Couldn't you theoretically make a new save and put all your money into a company, then keep saving to advance time to see if it tanks or rises, and if it tanks just load back to your other separate save? Would that work?

[NADOLNY]

I did it all right.. finished with 1.2 billion per character. Last night I was playing the market- dumping my entire 1.2 billion into random companies on LCN and netting large profits (1 mil+) after only a few seconds. When I tried just now I was unable to buy 1.2 billion dollars worth of shares. The purchase just wouldn't go through... Hit confirm and nothing... Takes me to an empty portfolio page. I can buy smaller amounts with no issue... So what's the deal? Anyone else get this?

 

How the hell you finished with 1,2 billion per character? What was your strategy?

[Poker2012chu]

I have a question I dunno if it's been answered:

 

Couldn't you theoretically make a new save and put all your money into a company, then keep saving to advance time to see if it tanks or rises, and if it tanks just load back to your other separate save? Would that work?

 

Yup, just did it today. Just be careful in what you invest in. Stock fluctuations won't be great if you're not doing missions; however, even a half of a percentage increase on a 500 million investment, for example, could mean a profit of 2.5 million.

Edited September 24, 2013 by Poker2012chu

[soundism]

@Poker2012chu - thanks for the verification. I haven't nailed down a number but 100 million worked.

 

@Ulfhethnar - good to know. I was just trying to invest all my money (1.2 billion) into one company. I did think about doing some kind of spread across multiple companies but the prices vary without rhyme or reason as far as I can tell.

 

@nadolny - I got that much by following this thread. Read from page one it won't hurt you.

[seanforever]

Big shout out to "toddfa" for putting up his stock market advice, I'm sitting at about 1.9bill per character right now.

 

Unfortunately I did have to start all over again on a new file. But it was worth the effort. Playing the game through a 2nd time is actually pretty rewarding, getting to see the alternate Heist moves and cut scenes.

 

Also since you already know what to do, you can blitz through it pretty quickly. I was up to 20% again in about 4 hours.

 

If anyone needs help/further elaboration on "toddfa"s posts, I'll be glad to assist.

[soundism]

 

I did it all right.. finished with 1.2 billion per character. Last night I was playing the market- dumping my entire 1.2 billion into random companies on LCN and netting large profits (1 mil+) after only a few seconds. When I tried just now I was unable to buy 1.2 billion dollars worth of shares. The purchase just wouldn't go through... Hit confirm and nothing... Takes me to an empty portfolio page. I can buy smaller amounts with no issue... So what's the deal? Anyone else get this?

 

Yes, I got this when tried investing 250 million. You have to take away a couple of shares. For example, buy 1,000,000 shares, then take away a few so you'll end up buying like 999,996 instead. Works every time. Btw, the 1 million number I just used is just an example; you can buy far more shares than that

I think you are right. It seems you can only buy ONE SHARE LESS than the total shares you can afford. Whatever the value.

[Ulfhethnar]

AuguryInsurance (AUG) rises 100% after either The Big Thing or whatever the final bank robbery is called or the mission just before it.

[TrustNo1]

After the Paleto Bay heist the Bank of Liberty stocks for me went down to 4-5 and never changed. I dumped all my money on all three into it and it still went down even after a few weeks game time. I reloaded and finished the game and the stocks were the same price. I then invested only Trevor's money into Bank of Liberty, Frank's into Fleeca and Michael's into Maze. Bank of Liberty rose from 4 - 7 before falling again. Fleeca went up a few as well while Maze fell a tiny bit.

 

Also a news headline said strippers are crying because stocks are falling. I invested all three into VanillaUnicorn, then on each character I bought a drink and a lapdance. The stock went up slightly for a decent profit.

 

Coincidence, luck, manipulation. I dunno.

[lasagna]

Do you need to put any money in stock for the

poleto bay heist

 

I tried Bank of Liberty and it only went up 1% after two days, so that one didn't work.

[cksiz]

AuguryInsurance (AUG) rises 100% after either The Big Thing or whatever the final bank robbery is called or the mission just before it.

 

Awesome I will be testing this when I reach that point.

I've had $4.3mil with Michael since 40% (first heist, first assasination, tinkle, and small gains in between) and have made a million on top of that with longer term gains. Obviously now I will be saving for the rest of the assassination missions. Most people in this thread expect 80% on every stock every time. That is not realistic. I trade currency and go out for champagne when I finish the quarter with a 3% gain. Stocks are a little different but still realistic gain is less than 10% over long term unless something abnormal happens (to the CEO for example). There are exceptions of course. Google stock doubled in about 5 months over the fall/winter of '04/'05. Fictional law firms, insurance companies, etc in San Andreas are not Google. Please be realistic. The most I have made with a $4mil investment with an unaltered stock is $300k. I almost popped a bottle of champagne irl. Read the news. Listen to the radio. Play those changes (they will be bigger once the news rotates) as well as the 0.05% stuff. That's how the stock market really works and Rockstar did better than most people give them credit for, imo.

 

I have not been able to prove that killing workers or blowing up trucks affects stock prices for the company or their competitors. Which makes me wonder if none of us have tried this long term (kill the Cluckin Bell workers every time you're in the area over a couple weeks irl) or if the headquarters and labelled trucks were just a touch of detail.

[NormandySeven]

The is a stock tip in a freak encounter. TINCKLE is the stock BAWSAQ. Drive the guy to the airport and he tells you to buy the stock right after you drop him off. He is located on the highway to the army base . Just enter the highway from where it leads out of the city. drive the highway north and you encounter him on the left. mayby before the base or after. drive until you meet him. At the time I invested 7 million and made almost 3 million sold at 517.61. good luck

[Balth]

Don't know if this has been covered, but if you go to www.bedevinweston.com in-game, you'll see the list of the companies he's invested in.

 

The list is:
Richards Majestic Productions

The Country of Greece (haha!)
Los Santos Corkers

Merryweather Security

Die Already move franchise

Banner Hotels

Dynasty 8 Real Estate

Vanilla Unicorn Gentleman's Club

Gastro Band

Universal Uniform

Toe Shoes

Al Dente's

Bourgeoix Cognac

Nogo Vodka

Patriot Beer

Debonaire Cigarettes

Organ-o-tang

Mollis

Good Aids

San Andreas Lotto

Pharte Gas

Lando-Corp

Los Santos Department of Nuclear Power

Pump & Run Gymnasium

Lobon Sportswear

Save-A-Cent

Skiver Construction Corp

Squeeze One Out Juice Bar

 

Some of those are definitely listed on the exchanges. Anyone fancy experimenting a bit?