Trading Delays for CorpShare Sales
Baking stats and skills into CorpShare stock sales

Those who are better suited to this can make sales instantly or near instantly (talking about C level and up in INT and Trading). If your INT or Trading skill is lower than C level, your sales are entered into the term but don't actually happen until after a period of time passes. The further you are from C level the worse the delay is.

This means that while everyone can see all the details on ticker and/or can get inside scoops and advance warnings via other means, the higher your INT and Trading the faster you can react to the data. While this would disadvantage those with lower INT or Trading, it is not enough to mean that higher stat/skill always winds.

I would also suggest that the lower of your INT or Trading is considered for determining how much delay your sales will suffer and that the actual delay is a random value within a range that is more and more favorable the higher your INT and Trading is.

With something like this in place, Bob and Sue might both see that NK stock (which they both heavily invested in) is tanking at the same time but Bob (who has higher INT and Trading) will manage to sell off his stocks than Sue can and thus secure greater profit or avoid greater loss.

Also, I only suggested delayed sales because applying it to both would double the impact a change like this would have (possible to an undesirable degree). Also, I suspect that buying shares would be easier than selling (but I am not stock market expert IRL).

So you've validated it, Slither, thanks!

Trade approved in 0 - 50 hours. Less time based on Trading+INT score. Funds placed on hold. This could be the manner of which the character is buying/selling. Totally unresearched name ideas below.

"You set up the trade to run via..."

"...null model dynamics." (24 - 50 hours.)

"...adjusted model dynamics." (12 - 23 hours.)

"...smart model dynamics." (4 - 11 hours)

"...racing model dynamics." (1 - 3 hours)

"...instant model dynamics." (Instant trade.)

Optional: If the funds aren't available at time of purchase, do the following:

1) "Null model." Cancel purchase.

2) "Adjusted model." Reduce the amount of shares purchased by 10.

3) "Smart model." Reduce the amount purchase by just enough to let the purchase go through.

4) "Racing model." Allow the purchase as desired, allowing accounts to dip into negatives as long as they had the amount required before the trade went through.

5) "Instant model." How it is now.

Not a problem if the price is denominated in credits, not shares.

Market Slippage: When placing market orders, you don't actually get the price that the ticker states (It has to do with the bid and ask prices in the market order books, aka level 2 trading). To simulate this in SinDome, simply increase the price to enter based on a failed skill roll, which will increase the price that the position is actually entered, which is higher than the market value of the stock. This is inverted when selling to close a position.

Commission: Although the current trend is for brokers like Robinhood to provide zero commision for trades, this isn't always the case and we are in Withmore City. Have a set Chyen cost per market order with successful skill checks being more broker savy and getting a % discount to the commission rate.

Market Indicators: More experienced traders don't trade on intuition, they analyze market data to a science. Have different market indicators become available at different levels of trading skill to give them more information about market direction that other characters do not, without committing insider trading. This can also provide players, who have more capital, to hire market analyst characters. This one may be the most complex to code.

Daily and Weekly trade limits: In the USA, there is actually a limit on how much you can trade per week unless your wealthy enough to hold a minimum of $25,000 in a broker account. That limit is 1 per day, and 5 per rolling week. To fit with the regulatory nature of Withmore, characters can be subjected to licenses that are obtained through trade skill checks to be authorized for trading more frequently.

I haven't indulged in Sindome's market system yet. But I'll have more ideas once I do.

As for orders failing, due to the price slipping too high before the order is filled, it is very bad practice for a trader to invest 100% of their trade account's equity into a trade. Typically professional traders only invest 2%-10% of their net equity per trade to properly manage risk.