@seebee, the Glossary's definition of Short Sell is pretty good if you don't know what it is. The rest of the help section assumes you know what it is already and just applies it to the simExchange game.
@csinning, I think that is the trend we are going in eventually. For those of you who haven't been involved in an IPO of a real stock or bond, you can submit your bid before hand for like a couple days. On the IPO day, they calculate from the bids what the final price is and those people who bid high enough get shares or bonds. However, everyone who has a winning bid gets it at the same price. In recent years, the day after the offering when everyone can trade it, the stock still spikes a bit.
@orkeater, there's no reason to artificially limit a stock due to a number (like 200 DKP). If Google did a 5:1 split and the stock went down to $100, woult it be any more attractive? That price would still predict the same EPS and therefore wouldn't be any more "cheap."
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http://www.thesimexchange.com/help-glossary.php#shortsell
@csinning, I think that is the trend we are going in eventually. For those of you who haven't been involved in an IPO of a real stock or bond, you can submit your bid before hand for like a couple days. On the IPO day, they calculate from the bids what the final price is and those people who bid high enough get shares or bonds. However, everyone who has a winning bid gets it at the same price. In recent years, the day after the offering when everyone can trade it, the stock still spikes a bit.
@orkeater, there's no reason to artificially limit a stock due to a number (like 200 DKP). If Google did a 5:1 split and the stock went down to $100, woult it be any more attractive? That price would still predict the same EPS and therefore wouldn't be any more "cheap."