Derivatives Trading

The derivatives market allows you to buy and sell crops, however it is not physical crops you are trading, but only products derived from the market. Thus these products are only based on the underlining crop prices. Because these products are not real crops, the following rules apply:

• These products do not rot like normal crops do.
• When you buy and sell (trade), it always uses the current market prices. High Demand prices are not used.
• Trades do not influence the market in any way.
• Trades do not contribute towards your company.
• You can only buy products using a positive cash balance.
• You must sell all open trades before the game ends, otherwise they will be lost.
• You can only have a maximum value of open trades at any given time. The purchase cost are used here. The maximum value starts at $300,000 and increase by $100,000 with each new plot.
• A 2.0% trading fee is included in the purchase price.
• Only available for level 2 and higher players.

Trading Insurance

• You have the option to take out an insurance policy to cover extensive losses however this will cost you eggs.
• The insurance policy guarantees you not to lose more than 1% of your trade when you sell, no matter how big the loss.

Trading Limits

• To ensure a balanced game there will be limitations placed on trading profits.
• Only the first $10,000,000 profit made from trading will contribute towards your equity.
• Once the limit has been reached, all future profits made will only contrbute towards your total trading score, however you will still get back the cost of the trade as cash.

Auto Trading

• You can buy a Trader on the Market page, which will automatically trade every time a high demand starts and finishes. There will always be a margin of $10,000.
• When a high demand start, the Trader will automatically buy derivatives for that crop. When a high demand ends, the Trader will again sell all derivatives for that crop (even ones he did not buy).
• When selling trades, the Trader could also buy a new plot, if there is enough cash and if you enabled the option under the Manager.
• Auto trading will only work while you have an active Trader. The Trader bought once-off per game and is available until game end.
• You can enable/disable the Trader as you wish on the Market page.
• The trader will not sell your crops at game-end.
• These trades does not include insurance.