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Eric Solomon reviewed Stocks & Bonds for Issue 43 of Games & Puzzles magazine, and criticized the game for its unoriginality and low realism. [5] In The Playboy Winner's Guide to Board Games, Jon Freeman heavily compared the game to The Stock Market Game, preferring the fact that all transactions take place on paper but commenting that the rules can occasionally be ambiguous.
The Stock Market Game is an economic strategy game involving negotiation designed by Thomas N. Shaw and published in 1970 by Avalon Hill. [1] Players buy and sell five different stocks and bonds of fluctuating prices within timed rounds to ultimately become the richest player.
A stock market simulator is computer software that reproduces behavior and features of a stock market, so that a user may practice trading stocks without financial risk. Paper trading , sometimes also called "virtual stock trading", is a simulated trading process in which would-be investors can practice investing without committing money.
While this stock could move down by ten or twenty and be wiped out, the most one would lose is a thousand dollars. However, there is an equal chance that the stock will move up, and a single roll of Up 20 will triple the original investment. The possible return on investing in a five-cent stock, the cheapest possible, is even higher.
Games of this type emphasize the life of a trader or merchant involving the transportation of goods or commodities for profit, [1] often as a free-lance agent, smuggler or privateer. References [ edit ]
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