Well, there would be limited choice of investments or stocks so CPP stock ex would be very different from real life, but if you kept the idea basic then you could go far. And you wouldn't need to be officially the stock ex for the forum as you could run it 100% yourself and then anyone who wants to be listed would come to you.

It would need to be forum-based for coins though.
Thanks for the CnC, mucho appreciado!

I like the idea, it does sound a bit like Neopets stock exchange. Shouldn't the price change depending on the clan's activity/popularity rather than sheer randomness? I still don't completely understand how the prices go up and down, so bear with me. :P

Price goes up/down by what people want to pay or be payed. I.E. If Penguin A wants to buy a stock for 4 coins instead of 3 per share, and Penguin B decides to sell his stock for 4 coins, then the Price goes up. If Penguin A wishes to buy a stock for 2 Coins instead of 3 because he's cheap, and Penguin B is really strapped for cash so he takes it, the price goes down.

UMmmm i dont really get this idea the examples are just confusing meii really... Do we all have to like have this idea and going into stock markets and stuf and risk or coins and that?

@Neo: Oh, I see. So the price is set by the buyers/sellers themselves.

jjkanes wrote:

UMmmm i dont really get this idea the examples are just confusing meii really... Do we all have to like have this idea and going into stock markets and stuf and risk or coins and that?

No, you're not obliged to contribute in this, but it should be fun. Here, I'll try to simplify it:

Day 1:
Person A logs on CPP and checks the share prices for clans, just because he's that bored. Now, let's pretend this is what the pricing board reads:
Clan 1 are selling their shares for 2 coins per share.
Clan 2 are selling their shares for 4 coins per share.
Person A wonders if he should buy 30 shares from Clan 1,since 2 coins per share is probably the cheapest price they're ever going to reach, he calls his broker (the person who handles his stock trade) and tells him to go ahead and buy the shares for him. Person A pays 60 coins to Clan 1 for 30 of their shares - although, the broker is probably going to charge for selling/buying those shares for Person A, but let's presume he's giving away his service for free for the sake of simplicity.

Day 2:
Person B logs on, he wants to get his username changed, but he can't do that, can he? No, because he doesn't have enough coins. Person B checks the pricing board:
Clan 1 are selling their shares for 3 coin per share.
Clan 2 are selling their shares for 5 coins per share.
That means the prices have gone up while it's only been a day; This basically shouts "Profit" to whoever bought shares from either clans when they were cheaper.
Person B decides to buy 30 shares from Clan 1, he calls his broker and asks him to buy 30 shares from Clan 1 for him. The broker looks around and sees that Person A - the person who bought 30 shares from Clan 1 for 2 coins per share yesterday - is itching to sell his 30 shares since the prices are higher, which means Person A is making a profit by 1 coin per share. Person B gets his 30 shares by paying 90 coins to Person A, therefore, Person A gains a 30 coins profit (Person A bought his shares for 60 coins and sold them to Person B for 90, get it?).

I have a question, though. Are people buying shares from the company itself or from each other? And if they're buying the shares from each other, how does the company make any profit?