Trade shares
You can buy and sell shares of listed companies on the exchange. You place an order at a price per share you choose (a limit order).
How to
- Open “Business” → “Exchange”, and choose “Stock”.
- Choose a company, set a price per share (in X, whole numbers), and place your order.
- If a matching order exists, the trade happens right away (filled).
- If not, your order stays on the order book. You can also cancel it later.
Good to know
- The trade price is the price of the order that was placed first.
- For a buy order, you deposit the price and the fee in X. For a sell order, you deposit the shares. If you cancel, they come back.
- The fee is a % set by the exchange. Both buyers and sellers pay it in X.
- If you have unpaid tax, you can't buy. You can have up to 30 orders.
- Your own orders are never matched with each other. You can't place an order at a price that would match your own opposite order.
- While the company or the exchange is suspended, trading stops (you can still cancel).
- Shares in a sell order still receive dividends and the payout when a company closes down.
- Only people can trade on the exchange. Companies can't.
- You can switch the graph between “Recent · 1 day · 1 week · 1 month · All time”. “Recent” means the last 100 trades.
- You can also see share prices, volume, and market cap in “Info” → “Markets”.