Stock trading, from the beginning

A few words to start with

Think of a stock as a share in a company. In Valemetry, names and businesses introduce the companies of the block world, tickers help you find them, and a share price tells you what one share currently costs.

Price and shares

The share price is the price of one share. At $100 per share, 3 shares have a trading value of $300, before fees.

Ticker

A code such as RSMX is a company’s ticker. Search by ticker or company name on the Market page.

Position, opening, adding, reducing and closing

A position is an investment you have not yet closed. You open it, add to it, reduce part of it, and close it when you exit completely.

Broker account

This is the account used for stock trading, separate from your personal wallet. Purchases use broker cash; sale proceeds first return to the broker account.

Throughout this guide, $ denotes in-game currency. K means thousand and M means million: $500K is $500,000.

Opening an account

Open Stock Trading from the trade console or portable terminal. On your first visit, open a personal broker account.

The requirement checks only your personal wallet’s available balance, not team funds, inventory items or bank term deposits. It does not take the whole 500K or grant you 500K to trade.

Moving your money

Deposit: personal wallet → broker

Use Deposit / Withdraw at the top of the stock screen to request a transfer from your personal wallet. The team wallet cannot fund the broker directly.

Withdrawal: broker → personal wallet

Transfer available broker cash back to your personal wallet. Shares still in a position cannot be withdrawn as money; close the relevant position first.

Deposits and withdrawals are free, but not instant. The source account is debited when you apply, and the destination receives the funds at 06:00 on the next in-game calendar day. Pending funds cannot be spent in either account. The screen lists requests and their expected arrival time.

Closing a trade makes its settlement cash available for further broker trades. The wait applies when withdrawing to your personal wallet. Broker debt or a destination balance limit can pause a transfer; the pending record is retained.

30 companies and their industries

The 30 companies below are grouped by their businesses. Expand any row to learn more, then combine that background with the charts to form your own investment view.

Hours and navigation

Trading runs from 06:00 until 18:00 every in-game day, using Overworld game time. It does not follow your computer’s clock or real-world weekdays. During closed hours you can inspect prices, positions and activity, open an account, and request transfers, but cannot execute stock trades.

Market

Find companies, read charts and place trades. Search by ticker or company name; filter All / Watchlist / Held and sort by ticker, price or daily change. Adding a stock to your watchlist does not buy it.

Holdings

See shares you hold or still need to buy back, average entry prices, current P&L and trade actions for each position.

Activity

Review executed trades, fees, transfers and liquidations to check what actually happened.

Quote updates do not shuffle the stock list. Select the current sort field again to reorder it using the latest values.

Prices, changes and candles

Check the company and ticker, then the price and time. Daily change compares the current price with the previous day’s close, not with what you paid. With no previous close on the first day, it may show “—”.

Line chart

Connected price points make the overall direction and swings easy to follow.

Candlestick chart

One candle summarizes an interval: open, close, high and low. The body runs between open and close; wicks show the high–low range. A candle without a wick can be perfectly normal.

Range and interval

Today / 7D / 30D / 90D / 180D / 1Y / All chooses how far back to look. The interval describes each candle; the grid label describes time-axis spacing. Today’s view is not one daily candle.

The intraday line follows recorded game quotes, while intraday candles cover 15 game minutes. Quotes update every 5 game minutes. Longer views aggregate history; hover for a specific time and values. History builds as the world runs, so a new world will not have years of charts.

The default is green up, red down. General Settings → Theme & Style → Stock Colors can reverse this. Check your chosen colors first. A candle’s direction compares its own open and close; daily change compares with the previous day’s close.

Going long: buy, then sell

Going long means buying shares because you hope to sell them at a higher price later. Rising prices help; falling prices hurt. A first practice trade can use 1× long: you pay with your own funds, making each cash movement easier to follow.

Selling at $80 instead gives a $20 price loss. These examples omit fees to make the direction clear; actual settlement includes both trade fees. Before you sell, the position’s P&L continues to change with the price.

With a long position, Buy adds shares; Sell reduces or closes it. Selling part is a reduction. Selling all closes the position.

From an entry to a trade

1. Select a company and check its ticker. Choose Buy or Short and an available leverage level.
2. Enter an amount or share quantity. Cash budgets for buy and short orders include the opening fee; the remainder is your position contribution or margin. The preview separates stock value, fees and funds required.
3. Review the direction, quantity, leverage and expected cost before confirming. Return to edit if needed.
4. Use the execution receipt as the final result, then check Holdings and Activity.

The mod supports market trades only. Confirmation executes at the server’s current quote; the preview does not lock a price. A quote update may change the final amount or quantity. There are no overnight queued orders, limit orders or automatic stop orders.

Fractional shares are supported to 6 decimal places; there is no 100-share lot requirement. Orders too small to form a valid monetary amount can still be rejected. You can buy and sell on the same in-game day.

When closing by amount, the amount means stock trading value, not the cash you will receive. For short or leveraged positions especially, read Expected Proceeds or Additional Payment Required rather than only the stock total.

What each trade costs

Every buy, sell, short sale, buyback and forced liquidation incurs a fee of 0.0225% of the actual stock trading value, rounded up to the next cent. Opening and closing are separate trades, so each incurs its own fee.

Leveraged trades are charged on the stock trading value, not just your own margin. Repeated entries and exits repeat the cost; buying and selling at an unchanged price still loses the fees. This version has no ongoing financing interest, stock-borrow fee or overnight holding fee. The account-opening fee is a separate one-time cost.

Going short: sell, then buy back

A short position lets you explore how a price decline can produce a gain. You borrow shares and sell them, then later buy back the same quantity to return. You want the buyback to be cheaper. If the price rises instead, buying back costs more and you lose money.

A buyback at $120 gives a $20 price loss instead; either result also incurs trading fees. A stock can rise far above the short-sale price, and losses can exceed the margin you initially committed.

With an existing short position, Short adds to it and Buy Back reduces or closes it. A buyback is not a new long position, and shorting is not the same as selling shares you already own.

Leverage and margin

Leverage makes the same amount of your own money support a larger stock position. For a long, borrowed funds help pay for the shares. For a short, margin supports a larger borrowed-share position. Margin is still your money; it is not a fee.

The mod offers 1×, 2× and 3×. With $1,000 of your own money, excluding fees for clarity, these are the effects of a 10% rise or fall on a long position.

At 3×, a 10% stock rise produces a 30% price gain relative to your own contribution; a 10% fall loses 30% of that contribution. Leverage magnifies losses as well as gains. For a short, the favorable direction is reversed: falls help and rises hurt.

• 1× long uses only your own funds. It does not borrow or use the margin-liquidation rule below, but can still lose value.
• 1× short still borrows shares, requires margin and can be liquidated. It is not a risk-free form of shorting.
• Direction and leverage are fixed while you hold a position in that stock. Additions use the same settings. Close it completely before choosing again.
• The multiplier describes the ratio when the position is built; share quantities are not automatically reset to that leverage each day.

Liquidation and a negative balance

Forced liquidation means the system closes a position whose loss has reached its risk threshold. It applies to 2× and 3× longs and all shorts, evaluated separately for each stock. When the remaining position loses 80% of its remaining own contribution, that stock’s whole position is closed at the current quote.

Risk is checked per stock. Other positions or idle cash do not automatically top up its margin. While the server keeps running, closing the screen or logging out does not pause position risk. Sleeping or advancing game time also processes missed quotes and liquidations. A shut-down server does not accrue quotes from elapsed real-world time.

A negative broker balance blocks new positions, additions and withdrawals. You may still view the account, request a deposit, sell longs or buy back shorts. Your personal wallet is not debited automatically; deposits repay debt when they actually arrive. This version has no penalty interest or repayment deadline.

Balances and position P&L

Open Holdings and start with its two summaries. One answers how much the broker account currently holds; the other answers whether its stock trades have made or lost money. They measure different things.

Available cash

Uncommitted cash in the broker account. It excludes personal and team wallets and pending transfers.

Position equity

The position’s remaining own contribution plus its current price P&L. Closing still incurs a fee. The whole stock trading value is not necessarily all yours.

Average entry and current price

The average is the share-weighted entry price of the remaining position, excluding fees. Current price is the latest quote. Adding to a position can change the average.

Position P&L and return

Position P&L is the remaining position’s price gain or loss, excluding fees. Its return divides that P&L by the remaining own contribution, so it differs from the stock’s price change when leveraged.

Realized P&L

Price P&L from closed portions, minus every trading fee already incurred. Even a newly opened position can produce a small negative figure because its entry fee is already counted.

Deposits and withdrawals move your own money without creating trading profit. The opening fee is also excluded from Total Trading P&L. That metric describes stock trades, not an all-in return covering every cost since opening the account.

Reviewing your activity

After a trade, check Activity: the company, action, executed shares and price, fee, and change in broker cash. Distinguish transfer requests from completed arrivals as well.

If the result differs from the preview, check the execution quote. If profit is smaller than the price gain, check fees. If a withdrawal has not reached your wallet, check its due time. Explaining each cash movement teaches more than merely remembering a daily profit figure.

For practice, write down why you entered and under what conditions you would exit. Compare that plan with what happened, separating your reasoning, luck and costs. One profitable trade does not prove a method will always work.

A first practice session

1. Keep enough game money for building, crafting and everyday trades; use only the portion set aside for practice.
2. Request a deposit and wait until its displayed arrival time. Confirm that available broker cash has increased.
3. During market hours, pick a company and read its business and short- and longer-range charts. Do not infer future returns from its name.
4. Choose 1× long with a small practice budget. Review the shares, stock value and fee before buying.
5. Watch the current price, average entry and P&L in Holdings. Sell part or all and observe how cash returns to the broker.
6. Finish by checking Activity and Total Trading P&L. Once you can explain the round trip, explore shorting; learn margin and liquidation before experimenting with higher leverage in the game.

For short-term practice, watch intraday changes. For longer-term holding, widen the chart and follow companies you find promising. Long holdings can still fall; a short rise does not prove steady future growth. Industry and company backgrounds help you explore, not guarantee returns.

Learning beyond the game

You can enjoy this feature as a stock-simulation game in its own right, or use it to learn shares, prices, P&L, fees and margin. It simplifies many real trading steps so a beginner can see the basic relationships, while its dramatic moves make decisions easy to observe.

The concepts, record-keeping habits and risk awareness you develop here can support further learning. When exploring real markets, study financial statements, liquidity, taxes, trading rules and broker requirements, and follow that market’s actual entry requirements, fees, hours and risk controls.

In real margin trading, losses can exceed your initial investment and a broker may force positions to close; short sellers also face losses as prices keep rising. For further reading, see the SEC’s margin-account bulletin and short-selling introduction; also explore Shanghai Stock Exchange investor education.