Stock Market
This program “plays” the stock market. You will be given $10,000 and may buy or sell stocks. Stock prices and trends are generated randomly; therefore, this model does not represent exactly what happens on the exchange. (Depending upon your point of view, you may feel this is quite a good representation!)
Every trading day, a table of stocks, their prices, and number of shares in your portfolio is printed. Following this, the initials of each stock are printed followed by a question mark. You indicate your transaction in number of shares — a positive number to buy, negative to sell, or 0 to do no trading. A brokerage fee of 1% is charges on all transactions (a bargain!). Note: Even if the value of a stock drops to zero, it may rebound again — then again, it may not.
This program was created by D. Pessel, L. Braun, and C. Losik of the Huntington Computer Project at SUNY, Stony Brook, N.Y.
As published in Basic Computer Games (1978):
Downloaded from Vintage Basic at http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html