Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Proposal-Stocks

["Jeremy \"Athena\" Cook" <mcfoufou@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Baron von Skippy wrote:

> -A good start, but it lacks complexity. A player buying stock would raise a
> real stock's price, and selling lowers. This should be represented somehow,
> and there should be boom-and-bust cycles, like in the real stock market.-
>
>                                                    -BvS-

The problem with that is then you could just make arbitrary large amounts
of money by buying a lot of one stock in spurts, then selling it all at
once.
I think a random walk will generate boom and bust cycles, but if you have
another modelling suggestion, I'll consider it.

Athena

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