If you had money to invest in the stock market, how would you set up your portfolio? Would you take risks? Be aggressive? Try your hand at stock market investing with this simple stock market simulation.
You start with $50. (All values are displayed in cents, though, so you actually have 5000 cents.) The object of the game is to invest your money wisely. After 100 days of trading the game ends. If you end the game with less than $1000, keep your day job. A final value between $1000 and $2500 is good. Between $2500 and $10,000 is excellent. If you end up with more than that, I want your secret! Your score is then written to the high scores table.
Be sure to copy Stockmarket 64 to a work disk before using it. There's two versions on this disk; a Basic version and a compiled version for faster calculations. The first time you run either game, it creates a high score table on the work disk, so be sure that there are at least two blocks free on that disk.
When you play, information about each stock is displayed across the top of the playing screen. BUY is the price at which other investors are offering to sell their shares (that is, the price at which you can buy shares). +/P is the change in the buy price since the previous day. OWN is the number of shares you own. VALUE is the current selling price of your shares. AVER is the mean (average) price at which you bought the shares. The share values change daily.
Current data is displayed below the share data. DAY is the current day. TOTAL VALUE is the combined value of your cash and investments. CASH is how much money you have available to invest. What does it feel like to bet the farm on an up-and-coming stock? You have two ways to find out: Call up E.F. Hutton . . . or play Stockmarket 64.
