[SPOILERS] Stock Tips thread

[juhiz]

I just hope that this assasination missions/stock investing trick will work this well after gta online have launched and has started to affect bawsaq.

[Ste_1]

Heres a TIP: DO NOT SAVE LESTER MISSIONS FOR AFTER THE GAME: : It spoils the game because you have around 1 billion dollars and can buy everything! No need to make any more money or do anything to increase cash flow.The game becomes boring for me .

 

 

If you do you should have around 1.7 billion dollars , which is good for abit but soon the fun goes because you cba to rob that armoured trucks/stores or anything else cash related.

[TrevorsMom]

i made 5b from thid

[Fuzzknuckles]

I went big on Hawk and LIttle as the stocks were $1 each. Bottomed out today, totally blown my long game. Worst investment ever. Everyone sell now!

[SantosAssassin]

I have done Lester's ifruit mission but havent touched any other assassination missions since that. Im at the point where Michael just reunited with his family. I already got the stock tip and invested around 3 million with Michael into Twinkle. Is it still possible I can make almost a billion with Michael.

[SeannyFitz]

I went big on Hawk and LIttle as the stocks were $1 each. Bottomed out today, totally blown my long game. Worst investment ever. Everyone sell now!

 

I'm still holding on to my load of shares in the hopes(probably false hopes lol) that Hawk and Little are one of the companies that are GTAO orientated and once GTAO goes online they'll skyrocket same as Ammu-Nation did once the game was released, we'll see.

[Cheapshot]

A word of warning to people playing the stocks. Just don't, It's inconsistent and often buggy.

 

Invested in TacoBomb and went and ran over CluckinBell employees, destroyed ClunkinBell truck rigs and caused general destruction on their factory property. CluckinBell stock prices improved and TacoBomb stocks went down. Lost $$$.

 

All the missions where you do harm to one company, I've invested in their competitor. The only one that has paid off has been investing in Deb after Redwood drops. Everything else has seen no improvement and I've lost money.

 

Most recently I'm down nearly 200k because of some weird BAWSAQ crap. Invested heavily in Fruit like Lester suggested on all three characters before doing the hit mission. Saw Fruit stocks spike nicely and the other drop equally. Then I checked back and it had all reset or something. Facade is still at the mission altered low, but Fruit snapped back to some prior amount and the graph is all messed up. My portfolio has it at a minus -17% drop most recently. It took a -33% drop earlier too. I am out so much money, and the graph on its page isn't even reporting any drops.

 

The whole market seems so buggy. Be very careful. I'd stay away from BAWSAQ completely, and only invest in stocks on the LCN at points where it specifically tells you to, and even then, don't let them sit for more than an hour. Just from my awful experience. I am out so much money and it doesn't make any sense.

[Matta G]

I am trying a little experiment...Maybe someone has already posted this, but I'm not sure and I don't want to read through 14 pages of posts...But anyway, before I turned off my game last night, I invested 100K each in Ammunation, Eyefind, Fruit, and that ultra cheap Hawk and Little junk stock. Want to find out if the Bawsaq is really affected by online stats and the corporations that players "use" the most. I'm just going to let this money sit for awhile in real time and see if maybe R* wants us to "go long" on these stocks rather than trying to make a quick buck. Who knows, maybe this was their intention all along, rather than us trying to engage in market manipulation and the like by going around blowing up trucks to no avail.

 

Will post back and let you know.

[fryloq]

This thread should be rebooted with a main first post including a guide. So we don't continually have all to the newcomers asking the same stupid questions because they can't read.

 

Please, someone put together a guide. If you are, I tracked all of my stock purchase history and can give that data to you. I am at 2.2billion right now. I keep coming to this thread looking for NEW tips, not the same old discussion. Thanks-

[fryloq]

PLEASE REBOOT THE THREAD. =]

 

Thanks

[TimboSlice]

This thread should be rebooted with a main first post including a guide. So we don't continually have all to the newcomers asking the same stupid questions because they can't read.

 

Please, someone put together a guide. If you are, I tracked all of my stock purchase history and can give that data to you. I am at 2.2billion right now. I keep coming to this thread looking for NEW tips, not the same old discussion. Thanks-

I second this.

[itsjdmyotony]

I think the stock market post story missions is completely random. Nothing you do in the game world effects the stock market from what I can tell. Just buy when you see stock at its lowest price and sell when it spikes. BAWSAQ has no real percentage change and any stocks I found. Some stocks were only effected during the mission tips I believe then went back to normal. Maybe when online goes live they may actually fluctuate with online game play and trends. Like I would probably heavily invest in Los Santos Customs if the online play effects the stocks cause everyone will be modding cars

[DoseOfDopeness]

Ok, so here is my mini-guide:

 

- LCN stocks go pretty much randomly unless are specifically mentioned in a mission/encounter/on the news (which generate small rises)

- depending on scores' approaches values of LCN stocks vary at the end

- save Tinkle encounter and Lester missions for completing after the main story

- retrive the stolen bike and gain AnimalArk stocks

- For scores: find Talina Martinez, find Packie McReary (yes!), employ the LifeInvander guy as a hacker early so he can gain exp - all of these are cheap and cheerful (meanig they are great)]; Do the "obvious" approach on the last score - less members in the crew obviously gives more money (the diffrence to subtle approach is 10mil each)

- while investing on Bawsaq: do not quit the game and go back to it later. It will relatively reduce the rise of the stock's value

- Lester missions:

hotel assasination - invest in BettaPharm (bawsaq), for me it peaked at 372/7

multi assasination - invest in Debonaire (LCN) tops out at 443.95; buy some Redwood stocks as they are bottomed out and do make a come back later (need confirming)

Fruit tops at 981,52

 

I'll update the rest, have to examine peaks for latter missions.

- GoldCoast investemnt before the final score gives does not give you that much of a profit

- investing hugely in one stock initially reduces its value (it goes oppostie for selling)

- if you're desperate you can try save-reload method: invest everything in one stock (for me LifeInvander works after it bottoms out) and monitor its quotes. If it falls reload and see how it goes this time. Profits of around 500k (with 10mil invested)

- Bilkington is quite safe investment after the first score: with around 100k invested it gives over 100% return

- if your network connection is ok and you're signed in the socialclub but you get "system is down for maintanace" check number of stocks in your portfolio - you can have uo to 10 different stocks

Edited September 25, 2013 by DoseOfDopeness

[SileightyCyrus]

Who wants to help my group experiment with manipulating the BAWSAQ? I have a couple very strong theories, and a step by step plan in place in my thread. If it goes the way I think it will, we will be able to essentially choose to increase the value of any given stock...thereby making us rich - which on GTA:O will be VERY important for those of you looking to buy jets and Merryweather air strikes.

 

Come take a look!

 

http://gtaforums.com/topic/597264-lets-control-bawsaq-this-forum-lets-do-it/

[Jozzborne]

 

This thread should be rebooted with a main first post including a guide. So we don't continually have all to the newcomers asking the same stupid questions because they can't read.

 

Please, someone put together a guide. If you are, I tracked all of my stock purchase history and can give that data to you. I am at 2.2billion right now. I keep coming to this thread looking for NEW tips, not the same old discussion. Thanks-

I second this.

 

 

 

PLEASE REBOOT THE THREAD. =]

 

Thanks

 

http://gtaforums.com/topic/603606-make-over-2-billion-per-character-easy-mild-spoilers/

[boss302]

I am new to the forum boards but do have a tip for making good money in the stock market. Following the advice to buy stocks before completing an assassination mission does work and can be VERY PROFITABLE!!

 

Here is the trick I found useful. Follow the directions of investing into the right stock before doing an assassination mission with Franklin and do so with all three characters. Then after the mission is over, toggle between each character many times over and watch the stock rise.

 

I saw after I completed the Construction assassination, Gold Coast stock rose to 25 points and I toggled between characters until it got as high as 88-89 points giving me almost a double in my investment. Wish I had done this with the others but didn't.

 

I had all 3 characters start with around $450,000-$500,000 and cashed out near or over a Million!!! This does work.

[Deathwish91]

Can someone please help me out here? This is the second time I invested in Redwood after the debonaire mission and it's just fluctuating between .13 % and .09 %. The first time I was losing money. Am I doing something wrong? How do I get it to reach 300%? I saved about 5 times each time too.

 

 

Edit: I mean't to say I went to sleep 5 times not saved.

Edited September 26, 2013 by Deathwish91

[Deathwish91]

Bump. Anyone?

[JoblessGarrett]

Made a video about this to help others basically put everything I learned from these forms, reddit threads and real life knowledge to make this Episode 2 stock market.

[Anonymouse89]

@Ste_1 Betta Pharmaceuticals is on BAWSAQ as (BET). Hope this post is not too late to help. Seems you've figured it out so disregard. Didn't realize how many pages this thread had.

Edited September 26, 2013 by Anonymouse89

[Anonymouse89]

I invested in Hawk and Little (HAL) on the BAWSAQ market, at a low of 98 cents with Trevor. I bought 5,021 shares and with its current increase have a profit, if sold, of $6,552.42. Still going to hold out and see if it increases more. But it seems to be on the up and up lately.

Edited September 26, 2013 by Anonymouse89

[LittleMike]

Before you accept a mission from lester quicksave in a new slot.

Then go through all your characters and invest in the stock for that mission.

 

Do the mission and then drive franklin back to his safe house and start to save under a different slot. Don't save over the slot you just made before accepting the mission. Then save, check market, save, check market as much as you need to.

 

For me after the debonaire mission I was at a 50% return rate after two saves then saved again and it dropped to 30%. I reloaded to my save before I accepted the mission and repeated all of my steps and stopped at the 50% return!

 

If your saves are in the right place you can "predict the future."

 

This thread is giving me a headache. Haha. I've been reading and re-reading it over and over and I'm still lost. OP, do you think we can consolidate all the info into the first post?

 

Toddfa - How do you quicksave before accepting a mission from Lester? Doesn't he just call you? What do you do, hit B to not accept the call? I'm so confused as to which missions are part of the storyline and which are the Assassination ones and which are the Heist ones. I've done the Vangelico one. I didn't have a choice. Same with the one I'm on right now - the one with the secret government object where you can choose Freighter or Offshore. The dialogue for that one started automatically for me, so how do you do a Quicksave *before* the mission if it's already started?

 

EDIT: Also, how do you have multiple Quicksaves? Every time I do a quicksave, then go on a mission, autosave overwrites the quicksave. Do I have to disable autosave in order for this to work? Because I tried doing the stock tips mentioned either in this thread or another where you quicksave, invest, full save (to make 6 hours in game pass by), then check portfolio, and then I've gone on a mission and I got the warning message that it will overwrite (whatever the mission name was) and the time (time I made the quicksave) I hit no and it asked me if I'm sure and I said yes, I'm sure, and it said autosave is now disabled and gave instructions on how to re-enable it.

 

I just feel like there's a step here that I'm missing.

 

EDIT AGAIN: Also, how do you even know what stocks to invest in before a mission if you haven't been on the mission? You would need to save, call Lester, go on the mission, then revert back, at which point your autosave probably overwrote your save so you can't go back to before the mission unless you saved twice.

 

Honestly, the fact that you can't name saves really throws me off. I don't remember if it was 2:30am or the 2:35am save that was last, and if so, autosave always overwrites the last one.

Edited September 26, 2013 by LittleMike

[Anonymouse89]

Can't you just go into the iFruit phone and hit the quick save icon next to contacts?

[LittleMike]

Can't you just go into the iFruit phone and hit the quick save icon next to contacts?

 

If you're referring to my question (before all my crazy edits), then no, you can't. If you are receiving a phone call or a text and you hit up on the D-pad to open your phone, it will automatically bring up the caller or the text message. As far as calls go, I *think* you can hit B to ignore the call, but I've never done that because I was afraid of what would happen if I did, like missing out on a mission or something.

[Anonymouse89]

Oh I get you now. I have no clue. I have had to revert back to saves that we're like 5% earlier in the progress to get the right investments. Hope someone else can help because I am also stumped.

[Deathwish91]

 

Before you accept a mission from lester quicksave in a new slot.

Then go through all your characters and invest in the stock for that mission.

 

Do the mission and then drive franklin back to his safe house and start to save under a different slot. Don't save over the slot you just made before accepting the mission. Then save, check market, save, check market as much as you need to.

 

For me after the debonaire mission I was at a 50% return rate after two saves then saved again and it dropped to 30%. I reloaded to my save before I accepted the mission and repeated all of my steps and stopped at the 50% return!

 

If your saves are in the right place you can "predict the future."

 

This thread is giving me a headache. Haha. I've been reading and re-reading it over and over and I'm still lost. OP, do you think we can consolidate all the info into the first post?

 

Toddfa - How do you quicksave before accepting a mission from Lester? Doesn't he just call you? What do you do, hit B to not accept the call? I'm so confused as to which missions are part of the storyline and which are the Assassination ones and which are the Heist ones. I've done the Vangelico one. I didn't have a choice. Same with the one I'm on right now - the one with the secret government object where you can choose Freighter or Offshore. The dialogue for that one started automatically for me, so how do you do a Quicksave *before* the mission if it's already started?

 

EDIT: Also, how do you have multiple Quicksaves? Every time I do a quicksave, then go on a mission, autosave overwrites the quicksave. Do I have to disable autosave in order for this to work? Because I tried doing the stock tips mentioned either in this thread or another where you quicksave, invest, full save (to make 6 hours in game pass by), then check portfolio, and then I've gone on a mission and I got the warning message that it will overwrite (whatever the mission name was) and the time (time I made the quicksave) I hit no and it asked me if I'm sure and I said yes, I'm sure, and it said autosave is now disabled and gave instructions on how to re-enable it.

 

I just feel like there's a step here that I'm missing.

 

EDIT AGAIN: Also, how do you even know what stocks to invest in before a mission if you haven't been on the mission? You would need to save, call Lester, go on the mission, then revert back, at which point your autosave probably overwrote your save so you can't go back to before the mission unless you saved twice.

 

Honestly, the fact that you can't name saves really throws me off. I don't remember if it was 2:30am or the 2:35am save that was last, and if so, autosave always overwrites the last one.

 

 

Well you can turn off Autosave. I recommend it too. It just takes up your quick save spots, which you have 15 of. I've just been following the tips of some of the posters on here and just been quick saving accordingly.

[Anonymouse89]

Well advised Deathwish91. I will have to give that a try tomorrow.

[LittleMike]

 

 

Before you accept a mission from lester quicksave in a new slot.

Then go through all your characters and invest in the stock for that mission.

 

Do the mission and then drive franklin back to his safe house and start to save under a different slot. Don't save over the slot you just made before accepting the mission. Then save, check market, save, check market as much as you need to.

 

For me after the debonaire mission I was at a 50% return rate after two saves then saved again and it dropped to 30%. I reloaded to my save before I accepted the mission and repeated all of my steps and stopped at the 50% return!

 

If your saves are in the right place you can "predict the future."

 

This thread is giving me a headache. Haha. I've been reading and re-reading it over and over and I'm still lost. OP, do you think we can consolidate all the info into the first post?

 

Toddfa - How do you quicksave before accepting a mission from Lester? Doesn't he just call you? What do you do, hit B to not accept the call? I'm so confused as to which missions are part of the storyline and which are the Assassination ones and which are the Heist ones. I've done the Vangelico one. I didn't have a choice. Same with the one I'm on right now - the one with the secret government object where you can choose Freighter or Offshore. The dialogue for that one started automatically for me, so how do you do a Quicksave *before* the mission if it's already started?

 

EDIT: Also, how do you have multiple Quicksaves? Every time I do a quicksave, then go on a mission, autosave overwrites the quicksave. Do I have to disable autosave in order for this to work? Because I tried doing the stock tips mentioned either in this thread or another where you quicksave, invest, full save (to make 6 hours in game pass by), then check portfolio, and then I've gone on a mission and I got the warning message that it will overwrite (whatever the mission name was) and the time (time I made the quicksave) I hit no and it asked me if I'm sure and I said yes, I'm sure, and it said autosave is now disabled and gave instructions on how to re-enable it.

 

I just feel like there's a step here that I'm missing.

 

EDIT AGAIN: Also, how do you even know what stocks to invest in before a mission if you haven't been on the mission? You would need to save, call Lester, go on the mission, then revert back, at which point your autosave probably overwrote your save so you can't go back to before the mission unless you saved twice.

 

Honestly, the fact that you can't name saves really throws me off. I don't remember if it was 2:30am or the 2:35am save that was last, and if so, autosave always overwrites the last one.

 

 

Well you can turn off Autosave. I recommend it too. It just takes up your quick save spots, which you have 15 of. I've just been following the tips of some of the posters on here and just been quick saving accordingly.

 

 

I asked if Autosave should be turned off in my post, though it may have been in one of my edits. LOL Okay, so turning off autosave seems to be critical to getting these methods to work. Damn R* for not putting in the ability to name saves. It would make life so much easier.

[Deathwish91]

Ah ok, and as for Lester calling you for those assassination missions, he only calls you on a public phone which you have to enter the yellow marker to answer so don't worry about that. But yeah autosave is just a hassle man. I wouldn't rely on that especially after modding a car because it will disappear on you.

 

Edit: Lol it's late for me over here so I'm bound to make some reading errors

Edited September 26, 2013 by Deathwish91

[Deathwish91]

Well advised Deathwish91. I will have to give that a try tomorrow.

 

I need to try investing in AirEmu too. Let's see what happens when I dump 1.7 bill in it tommorow lol