it seems like a nice game but i dont think this belongs in gambling
Thanks. Just to clarify: the game is played as follows. A newly registered user gets allocated shares of fictional stocks (which exist only on the Nvesto website) and some cash (in units of virtual currency of Citrine, which is Nvesto's official token cash). You can view the Citrine cash as casino chips: you get some to play (in the current version of the game you get it for free when you register), and when you check out you exchange it for money, as you would do on your way out of the casino. Hence the gambling theme.
In the future we are planning to upgrade the game by making it for-money. Correspondingly, it will be possible to make a real profit. So, in the future, Citrine will be bought for USD, and sold for USD (on the website this distinction between the current free Citrine and the future paid Citrine is accented by denominating the former as CTRn and the latter as CTRN). The analogy between Citrine and the casino chips, mentioned in the previous paragraph, will then be complete! This will also be ensured by maintaining a fixed exchange rate between USD and CTRN, which will also be identical for buying and selling CTRN.
This is a multi-player game, so your performance depends on your ability to predict how other people are going to play/trade. Notice that the "sentiment news" pop up every once in a while. Sentiments are visible to all users on the Order page, when the stock to be traded is selected. Sentiments can be positive or negative. But you need to decide for yourself whether positive sentiment should affect your trading strategy in a bullish way, or whether the negative sentiment should be perceived as bearish. Here agin your goal, for a successful performance in the game, is to determine how the majority of players are going to see those sentiments. The only factor which determines prices of Nvesto stocks are supply and demand of the users of Nvesto, so this is the key ingredient to appreciate.
