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The Stonk Exchange

Own a piece of the city

Everything you can do in Stonk City is somebody's business. The casino, the car dealer, the airline, the street races: each one is a company on the Stonk Exchange. Buy its shares with chips, and when the business has a good day, its shareholders are paid.

  • Every business is a company
  • Paid daily, in chips
  • Prices move with players
The Stonk Exchange, its columns and its fountain, at night

Prices, charts, dividends and the city wire are open to everyone.

Follow the chips

Every activity feeds a company

On the left, something you do in the city. On the right, the company whose takings it becomes. Its shareholders are paid out of those takings.

  1. Play at the casinoWhat players lose on chip bets, less what they winCASStonk Casino…
  2. Tip a dancer, order a drinkEvery tip and every drink at the clubVVPThe Velvet Pole…
  3. Enter a Speedway tournamentA cut of every tournament that pays its podiumSPDStonk Speedway…
  4. Buy a carEvery car sold at the dealershipMOTStonk Motors…
  5. Race the streets for a pot, or play Cops & Robbers for chipsThe city's cut of every paid street race and every chip matchISRIllegal Street Racing…
  6. Buy or rent a plane or a helicopterEvery aircraft sold or rented at the airportAIRStonk Air…
  7. Buy clothes or tower decorationsEvery outfit and decoration soldBULLBull Outfitters…
  8. Buy jerseys, skates or a ballEverything sold off the sports shelfSPRTStonk Sports…
  9. Deliver a contractContractX's commission on every contract it paysCTXContractX…
  10. Rent a billboard, or put a sign on your towerBillboard time and tower signsMDIAStonk Media…
  11. Move a company into a floor, level it, switch itEvery floor built in the city: it funds contracts, and pays no dividendsBLDStonk Build Co.Not on the Exchange

Prices in chips a share, with the change over 24 hours, live from the Exchange. A company that isn't listed yet still keeps its books, and pays no dividends until it has shareholders: it joins the board when the city lists it.

A dividend's path

From a lost hand to a shareholder's pocket

Here is the whole trip, with the casino as the example. Every company works the same way.

A player losesa hand of blackjackStonk Casinotoday's takingsMidnight UTCthe day is splitShareholders · 24%who held all dayContracts · 20%jobs on ContractXTreasury · 56%keeps the restA player losesa hand of blackjackStonk Casinotoday's takingsMidnight UTCthe day is splitShareholders · 24%who held all dayContracts · 20%jobs on ContractXTreasury · 56%keeps the rest
Spent by playersPaid to playersKept by the treasury
Every company works the same way, with its own takings. Shareholders and contract runners are players too, so those chips go round the city again.

Try it

One night at the casino

Pick how tonight goes for the players, and watch what it means for the people who own the casino.

  1. 01The casino's dayThe tables took far more than they paid out: a great day for the casino.
  2. 02Just after midnight UTCA big day to split: its contracts, its shareholders and the treasury each take their share.
  3. 03The share priceCAS ▲Days like this make CAS shares wanted. When buyers come, buying pushes the price up.

Where to trade

Three ways in

The same Exchange, the same prices and the same rules everywhere.

  • The terminal

    Every company with its own page: what it is, its takings day by day, every dividend it paid, its chart and its order ticket. Works on a phone too.

    Buying and selling
  • Computer

    The trading floor

    Walk up the Exchange's steps on the plaza and press E at its doors: a brass-and-walnut hall with a post for each company. E at a post's counter opens its ticket.

  • Your phone

    The Exchange app: prices, a chart for each company, your shares and the dividends they paid. It opens the terminal or the floor when you want to trade.

Before you buy

What a share is, and isn't

A is a piece of a business inside the game: never a piece of a real company, and no say in how the building is run.

Nothing is promised. A business can have a quiet day or a losing one, and a price can fall below what you paid.

Shares are bought with chips that can be cashed out, so they are real value: the ticket asks you to confirm your age before your first trade. The game is for players aged 18 or older.

Stonk Exchange · share certificateCASStonk CasinoOne shareA piece of a business in the game. Paid from its takings, when there are takings. Not a piece of a real company, and no promise of a return.