Stock Exhange Flawed?

[Spooner_B]

So basically ive noticed that bank of liberty stocks seem to fluctuate alot, regularly going all the way to $4 a share up too $32 a share. so i buy some shares at $4 on a sunday, i regularly check every 5 mins or so, occasionlly using the bed at home to pass the time. All the time the stocks stay in the region of $3-$4. i kept up my watch on the shares all the way till the following sunday with no luck. However im looking back at the graph for the week and not only does it show that the stocks did fluctuate as i had hoped, but that they never actually went below roughly $8 per share :S. Literally was on wednesday, line of the graph was flat on $4 all day, sudennly its thursday and the graph shows that there was a big increase to $31 on wednesday...any ideas?

[eagle016]

I'm pretty sure the graph is messed up/not working. It's never been correct for me.

[Sylis.coyl]

Don't trust the graphs, trust the numbers

 

If you bought close to the LOW cap then just give it a while, honestly I'd spend time just going about doing collectibles rather than sleeping to see if it changes. Theres always something to be done.

Also, I'd probably invest more into the BAWSAQ than the LCN. The LCN seems a bit too static and unpredictable (atleast mostly, you can still make money but you won't know exactly what you did to affect the fluctuation or to update the market) whereas BAWSAQ stock is much pricier, you'll end up recognizing that it's much more organic and you can make some really good money on there, (so far I've made some $40M profit between all three characters) although the BAWSAQ market operates in real-time meaning it will update every hour on the hour (in real-life time) so you'll need some patience to make big cheddar

[Lochar]

Nice thread, I noticed same thing. Graph showing that it spikes but in game, it does no such thing.

 

Also seems the market news can be out of date where 1 stock says that the prices are falling but they are at a high and show growth.

[Poker2012chu]

Some stocks (like LifeInvader) should never be touched after certain missions, ever, because they never recover at all. On my game, I've seen that the last stock price can be a bit off as well. The best way to invest is to look at the current price vs it's lowest price. If it's near its lowest price, it's probably safe to invest.