I somehow cant buy more the 5% of the shares of a company,

i have the finiance, the company has the availavble shares for sale

i dont know why this is happening can someone explain this ?

nope, its not wat i ment.

the stock market does not allow me to buy more then a fixed amount of a certain company.

lets say that i would only recive 50000 shares and cannot buy anymroe cause they arnt registered onto the system why ?

Let’s say a company has issued 1 million shares.
500’000 are available (=not owned by other players).

You can’t have a transaction of more than 5% of the total number of issued shares every day.
It means that you can buy a maximum of 50’000 shares per transaction (and per day).

ok but even putting that into account, its been 3 days since i bought shares of another company and the system still does not allow me to purchase anymore. the company currently has around 700000 available shares for the public to buy.

this is why iam finding it weird. and when you mean per day are you saying game day or real day ?

Please post your company and the company you are trying to buy so I can check this (you can PM if you want to keep the matter “private”).

I mean per game day.

My company “Top Co LTD”

Company trying to buy with my current company “Ingstores”

Note: it looks like i bought an extra 10,000 shares but i aordered 50000. so the problem is still occuring

I just looked at it. It’s normal behaviour.

You registered your orders as limit orders.

There are 2 types of transaction order : limit and market (take a look at the combobox at the top of the buy action window)

When you buy at market your order will be executed at any price on the market. For instance if you try to buy 50’000 shares of ACME at market, the system will execute your order at the best price (note that you can’t set a transaction price). For instance it could sell 10’000 shares at $52.98 and 40’000 shares at $49.87. You are guaranteed to have your order executed (if there are enough shares on the market).

If you buy at limit the system won’t exceed the price limit you set. Only the matching sell transactions with prices under your limit price will be executed. This may results in a partial execution of your buy order.

I chose a “Limit” order stock purchase, and I’m still waiting for it to go through.  Can I cancel that so I can change it to a “market” purchase?

Actions are not executed immediately. They are queued in your actions list.
Go to Desktop >  Informations >  Actions to see your actions and progress status (you can cancel an action by clicking on it).

So, you have to wait for the first to be complete before the second, third, and so on can start?

Anthony Vicenza - 11 July 2009 06:48 PM

Actions are not executed immediately. They are queued in your actions list.
Go to Desktop >  Informations >  Actions to see your actions and progress status (you can cancel an action by clicking on it).

When I click in Informations > Actions,  a blank window appears and says “loading”.  I’ve waiting for several minutes, and it won’t load.  I’ve tried it a couple of times with no success.

That is a problem with internet explorer I believe, did you try another browser?

I use Firefox.

try refreshing the page and trying again.

Morlind - 11 July 2009 08:52 PM

So, you have to wait for the first to be complete before the second, third, and so on can start?

No, not at all.  You should be able to build more than one at the same time.  I for example built 5 factories simultaneously.  When you build the unit from the company screen you should be able to see the units queued in the Actions screen

Morlind: logout, clear your browser cache and then login again.

BTW, Firefox is the reference browser for the game.