[Wallcrawler]

Stocks are soo freaking easy to get money on, but you really need to do it at the end of the story when you have a big amount of cash to spend, because obviously the more money you spend for shares, the bigger your profits.

Take a look at companies with ridiculously low stocks. If their graph shows steady up and down movement, dump a shit ton of cash into their shares and just wait for the inevitable rise back to the top.

The graphs show activity based on a week of game world time, or roughly the past 3.5 real world hours. So when you buy stocks, you will need to periodically check to see what the status is. If the graph showed 3 spikes to the top for last week, then you know that sometime within the next couple of hours (depending on what point of the week youre currently in on the game) theres going to be a couple of points where you can sell your shares for a big profit.

To make sure you get as much as you can, you can do what I do. I wait until it hits the really high point, and then just as it starts to drop just a little I go ahead and sell. You lose a tiny bit, but its better than missing out and selling before it ever reached the peak.

Don't buy stocks where the graph shows just a constant downward spiral, as they may not come back up for quite some time.

I would advise new game players to not play any of Lesters missions as Franklin until you've completed the main story, so that you will have a massive amount of cash to dump into these "sure thing" stock trades while on these missions.

Another thing to note is this.

LCN is the singleplayer stock market. This will only advance while you are playing the game, and you will constantly have access to your money at any time.

BAWSAQ however, is the online stock market linked to the R* Social Club, and is constantly moving. Your console needs to be connected online to make use of this particular page. Make sure you resolve your trades before you shut down, as you could potentially not have access to your money should something happen with the Social Club, or you cannot connect to the Social Club for whatever reason. I dropped 10 million in shares, and the Social Club went down due to load or maintentance or something, so I couldn't access my trades at all. By the time it came back up, I missed my window for profit and got screwed.