Stock Market Tycoon: Challenge is a multiplayer competitive share trading game, with seasons lasting for one month. Players are ranked based on their earnings during the competition.

Your goal is to try to make more profitable trades than other players including making more profit from dividends.

The markets are open for trading 24 hours a day during the season, and dividends are paid daily in 4 instalments every 6 hours. This makes each season duration effectively 28-31 years of growth.

To buy and sell shares, click on the "TRADE" button in the left navigation menu, or select any stock by clicking on it.

Then, when you are in the detail panel for the share, you can click BUY or SELL, and then select the desired quantity of shares you want to trade, or click BUY MAX or SELL MAX to trade the maximum number of shares that you can (at the available market price).

There is a lot of information available in Stock Market Tycoon: Challenge and some of it can be quite contradictive.

Some traders will want to trade based on current movements in stock prices, while some traders will want to get the best long-term value from their portfolio, thus seeking higher dividends.

As a rule for the new trader, seeking higher dividends is probably the easiest strategy for long-term gains.

Dividends are quoted as dividends PER DAY. They are paid the form of 4 interim dividends every 6 hours. Thus, if a dividend is paying a dividend of $10.00, you can expect to receive an interim dividend of about $2.50 every 6 hours.

Please note that dividends can change based on company performance, so keep an eye on the Market News. 

The "Season Reset" is the countdown until the end of the trading season. Stock Market Tycoon: Challenge is run in a series of season competitions, each lasting one month. At the end of the season, the market closes and all players' portfolios and balances are compared and players are given a rating based on how they performed compared to all other active traders for the season.

Once the ratings have been calculated and any awards have been given, all players' current cash balances and stock portfolios are reset, and everybody starts again.

This way, if you have a bad season all is not lost; you can start on an even playing field against everyone next season.

Premium News reporters keep a much closer eye on the markets and have a higher chance of reporting any changes in a company's economic performance and situation.

Premium News subscribers have the ability to get the jump on other investors by acting on breaking news relating to a company's stock movement and making that trade before others have a chance to react. 

"There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first; be smarter; or cheat. Now, I don't cheat. And although I like to think we have some pretty smart people in this building, it sure is a hell of a lot easier to just be first." - Margin Call.

(Also. Don't cheat. The Game Staff will punish your account.)

Let's explain all of the items in the Profile screen:

Investment Performance:

• Cash Balance: This is your current cash balance (including any cash reserved for outstanding buy orders).

• Portfolio Value: This is your current stock portfolio value at the current market price (including any shares currently listed for sale in outstanding sell orders).

• Total Net Worth: This is the total value of your cash and portfolio. Every decision you make will be wanting to increase your net worth.

• Dividends Received: This is the amount of dividends that you have received from your portfolio.

• Net Gain from Trading: This is the amount of profit that you have made from selling shares (sell price minus buy price).

• Unrealised Trade Gains: This is the amount of profit that has been made from your shares that you currently own, based on the price you bought them at (current market price minus buy price).

• This Season Net Gain/Loss: This is the total profit that you have made this current season.

Account Information:

• Display Name: This is the name that other traders can see. It shows in all leaderboards and in firms. You can change your display name here by clicking the edit button. Remember to click the Green Tick confirmation button after you have changed your name to save the change to the server.

• Firm Membership: This will display your current position and firm if you are a member of a firm.

• Total All Time Net Gain/Loss: This is the total profit that you have ever made in the game including all past seasons and the profit from the current season.

• Investor Rating: This is the rating that you have based on your performance in past seasons. The maximum rating is 9.999 and minimum rating is 0.001.