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The Stock Market is a minigame originally added in Beta version 2.026 on June 18, 2020. The minigame is unlocked by upgrading Banks to Level 1. In the Stock Market, players can purchase cookies, recipes and ingredients, and sell them at higher prices for $ (meaning seconds of production).

In addition to buying and selling resources, the minigame includes an Office, which can be upgraded to increase warehouse capacity and unlock Loans; as well as Stockbrokers, which reduce the overhead cost of buying resources. Loans cost cookies and increase the current CpS for a certain amount of time, but after the time is over, CpS is decreased for a significant amount of time.

Each aspect of the Stock Market is associated with a building. The Office is associated with Cursors, the Stockbrokers are associated with Grandmas, and the resources are each associated with one of the remaining buildings.

Stock Market Offices

Upgrading your Office increases the warehouse capacity of each resource, and several upgrades also unlock loan slots. Upgrading costs a certain amount of Cursors and require the Cursors to be at a certain level.

Name	Description	Office Level	Cost to Upgrade
Credit garage	This is your starting office. Upgrading will grant you: +25 warehouse space for all goods	1	100 Cursors (level 2+)
Tiny bank	This is your office. Upgrading will grant you: +1 loan slot +50 warehouse space for all goods	2	200 Cursors (level 4+)
Loaning company	This is your office. Upgrading will grant you: +75 warehouse space for all goods	3	350 Cursors (level 8+)
Finance headquarters	This is your office. Upgrading will grant you: +1 loan slot +100 warehouse space for all goods	4	500 Cursors (level 10+)
International exchange	This is your office. Upgrading will grant you: +1 loan slot +50% base warehouse space for all goods	5	700 Cursors (level 12+)
Palace of Greed	This is your office. It is fully upgraded. Its lavish interiors, spanning across innumerable floors, are host to many a decadent party, owing to your nigh-unfathomable wealth.	6	N/A

Stockbrokers

Icon	Description
	A nice broker to trade more cookies. Buying goods normally incurs overhead costs of 20% extra. Each broker you hire reduces that cost by 5%.^{[note 1]} Buying a broker costs 20 minutes of CpS (that's $1200). Maximum number of brokers you can own: the highest number of grandmas you're owned this run, divided by 10, plus your grandma level. "Brokers are Wall Street-class grandmas versed in the ways of finance. Stockbroker grandmas work hard and play hard, and will fight telephone in hand to get your clients the best possible deals - with a sizeable profit margin for you, of course."

↑ The 5% reduction is applied multiplicatively, meaning each new broker provides a lesser reduction than the previous ones.

Loans

Loans are unlocked by leveling up your offices. The buttons to trigger them are located just under or to the right of the stockbroker information, depending on zoom level and window size. At max level, there are 3 loan slots, each providing a different CpS boost. On every loan, you must pay a downpayment of a certain percentage of your bank.

Slot	Type	Description
1st	Modest loan	By taking this loan, you will get +50% CpS for the next 2 hours. However, you will get -75% CpS for the next 4 hours after that. You must also pay an immediate downpayment of 20% of your current bank. "Buy that vintage car you've always wanted. Just pay us back."
2nd	Pawnshop loan	By taking this loan, you will get +100% CpS for the next 40 seconds. However, you will get -90% CpS for the next 40 minutes after that. You must also pay an immediate downpayment of 40% of your current bank. "Bad credit? No problem. It's your money, and you need it now."
3rd	Retirement loan	By taking this loan, you will get +20% CpS for the next 2 days. However, you will get -20% CpS for the next 5 days after that. You must also pay an immediate downpayment of 50% of your current bank. "Finance your next house, boat, spouse, etc. You've earned it."

Generally, loans are not worth it in the end, as the costs far outweigh the benefits. The best time to use them is during an Elder Frenzy, Frenzy, Click Frenzy, Dragon Harvest, Building Special or Dragonflight to provide the biggest boost.

A strategy would be to take out a retirement loan, but have your ascension last less than 2 days. This would completely avoid the 5 day penalty. Another strategy would be to, during the Christmas Season, activate the Grandmapocalypse. This would give a chance of the legendary Elder Frenzy and Reindeer combo (an achivement in itself). By purchasing the Christmas-themed upgrade Ho-ho-ho flavored frosting, this would give 12 hours and 6 minutes worth of CpS. By triggering a pawnshop loan slightly before the boost, this would give over a day of regular production. Add a Frenzy, which is fairly easy to get, you'll have over a week's worth of cookies. Loans might have some unfair effects, but the boosts they provide, if used correctly, can seriously offset the negatives.

Stock Market Resources

The base warehouse capacity of each resource is the highest amount of that building you've owned in the current ascension, plus five times the building's Level. The +50% base capacity from Palace of Greed is calculated from this value before considering the additive capacity upgrades from lower level Offices.

Name	Description	Associated Building	ID
Cereals	Old Mills is a trusted staple of the grain industry. Finding their roots in humble pioneer farms centuries ago and honing their know-how ever since, the Old Mills organic crops have reached a standard of quality that even yours struggle to equal.	Farm	CRL
Chocolate	Cocoa Excavations is an international chocolate mining venture whose extraction sites always seem, somehow, to pop up in war-torn countries. Their high-grade chocolate is renowned the world over and has even been marketed, to some success, as suitable gems for engagement rings.	Mine	CHC
Butter	Bovine Industries is a formerly-agricultural conglomerate that now deals in mechanized dairy mass production. Whistleblowers have drawn attention to the way the milk cows employed by this company are treated, describing it as "not quite cruel or anything, but definitely unusual".	Factory	BTR
Sugar	The Candy Trust is a corporate banking group backed by, and specialized in, the trade of high-grade sugar. The origin of said sugar is legally protected by an armada of lawyers, though some suspect they secretly scrape it off of the bank bills coming in before processing it.	Bank	SUG
Nuts	Hidden between hills and fog somewhere, the secretive Hazel Monastery has, for centuries, maintained nut crops of the highest quality. The monastery nuts are carefully tended to, harvested and shelled by its monks, who are all required to take a vow of nut allergy as a lifelong test of piety.	Temple	NUT
Salt	Salt is a versatile substance, with properties both mundane and mystical. This is why the bearded crackpots at Wacky Reagants have perfected the art of turning magic powder into salt, which is then sold to anyone promising to put it to good use - whether it be warding off banshees and ghouls or seasoning a Sunday roast.	Wizard Tower	SLT
Vanilla	After the news broke of vanilla not being native to Earth, Cosmic Exports was the first company to discover its true origin planet - and has struck an exclusive deal with its tentacled inhabitants to ship its valuable, unadulterated beans all over the local quadrant.	Shipment	VNL
Eggs	At Organic Gnostics, an egg is seen as a promise. A promise of life and nourishment, of infinite potential, of calcium and protein. An egg can become many things... especially when you're properly funded and don't believe there's room in science for rules or ethics.	Alchemy Lab	EGG
Cinnamon	The Dimensional Exchange employs a vast team of ragtag daredevils to dive into dangerous underworlds in search of strange native spices. Chief among those is cinnamon, a powder so delicious its true nature can only be unspeakably abominable.	Portal	CNM
Cream	Once specialized in cosmetics for the elderly, the eggheads at Precision Aging have repurposed their timeshift technology and developed a process allowing them to accelerate, slow down, and even reverse the various phase changes of milk. Their flagship offering, whole cream, is said to be within 0.002% of theoretical ripening optimums.	Time Machine	CRM
Jam	Pectin Research is a military-backed laboratory initially created with the aim of enhancing and miniaturizing army rations, but now open for public bulk trading. It has recently made forays in the field of highly-concentrated fruit jams, available in a variety of flavors.	Antimatter Condenser	JAM
White chocolate	What was once two college kids messing around with mirrors in their dad's garage is now a world-famous megacorporation. Dazzle Corp's groundbreaking experiments in photonic annealing have led to the creation years ago of a new kind of matter, once derided as impossible by physicists and cooks alike: white chocolate.	Prism	WCH
Honey	The folks at Prosperity Hive deal in honey, and it's always worked for them. With a work culture so relaxed you're almost tempted to ditch the cookie business and join them, these people have little in common with the proverbial busy bee - though their rates do sting quite a bit.	Chancemaker	HNY
Cookies	Interesting. It appears there's still a company out there trying to sell cookies even with your stranglehold on the market. No matter - you figure Selfmade Bakeries' largely inferior product will make decent fodder for the mouse traps in your factories.	Fractal Engine	CKI
Recipes	In a post-material world, the market of ideas is where value is created. Figments Associated understands that, and is the prime designer (and patenter) of baking recipes, ingredient nomenclature, custom cooking procedures, and other kitchen processes.	Javascript Console	RCP

Market Behavior

The value of stocks on the market is random, but conforms to a number of rules. Each stock has a hidden delta value that decreases by 5% every minute, this delta value is added to the value of the stock every minute and acts as a sort of velocity for the stock. Every minute the value of the stock increases by:

$(10+2\times id-value)\times 0.03$

Where id is its index, CRL being 0, CHC being 1, etc.

The value also fluctuates by a random amount between -0.1 and 0.1. The value of the stock has a hard limit of never falling under $1, when the value is less than $5 the value of the stock is increased by (5 - value)/2, half the distance to $5. If the delta is negative while the stock value is less than $5 the delta is decreased by an additional 5%. If the the stock surpasses $100 the delta is decreased by an additional 10% if it is positive.

On top of that, each stock is in one of 5 modes with custom additional rules.

When a stock changes mode it gets a random duration value between 1 and 1000, every minute there is a 1/duration probability of the stock changing mode. If the stock is in a fast rise or fall while changing mode, there is a 70% chance that it turns chaotic instead of choosing a mode normally.

Stable (30% chance)

The stock's delta is decreased by 20% every minute, then fluctuates by a random value between -0.025 and 0.025.

Slow Rise (20% chance)

The stock's delta is decreased by 5% every minute, then fluctuates by a random value between -0.005 and 0.045.

Slow Fall (20% chance)

The stock's delta is decreased by 5% every minute, then fluctuates by a random value between -0.045 and 0.005.

Fast Rise (10% chance)

The stock's delta fluctuates by a random value between -0.015 and 1.135. There is a 30% chance of the value fluctuating by an additional random value between -7 and 3, and the delta fluctuating by a random value between -0.05 and 0.05. There is also a 3% chance of the stock changing mode to a fast fall.

Fast Fall (10% chance)

The stock's delta fluctuates by a random value between -1.135 and 0.015. There is a 30% chance of the value fluctuating by an additional random value between -3 and 7, and the delta fluctuating by a random value between -0.05 and 0.05.

Chaotic (10% chance)

The stock's delta fluctuates by a random value between -0.15 and 0.15. There is also a 50% chance that the stock fluctuates by an additional random value between -5 and 5, and a 20% chance that the delta is overridden by a random value between -0.25 and 0.25.

Achievements

Name	Description	ID
Initial public offering	Make your first stock market profit.	457
Rookie numbers	Own at least 100 of every stock market stock. "Gotta pump those numbers up!"	458
No nobility in poverty	Own at least 500 of every market stock. "What kind of individual is out there cramming camels through needle holes anyway?"	459
Full warehouses	Own at least 1,000 of a stock market stock.	460
Make my day	Make a day of CpS ($86,400) in 1 stock market sale.	461
Buy buy buy	Spend a day of CpS ($86,400) in 1 stock market purchase.	462
Pyramid scheme	Unlock the highest-tier stock market headquarters.	464
Liquid assets ^{[note 1]}	Have your stock market profits surpass $10 million.	537
Debt evasion	Take out a loan and ascend before incurring the CpS penalty. "Really got 'em buttered!"	637