The SCL Stock Market — Guide
Every team and every player in the league is a stock. Buy the ones you believe in, sell when you think they've peaked. The House is always on the other side of your trade, so you can buy or sell any time trading is open — no waiting for another player.
1. How prices move
Prices change after every finalized match (when the scorecard is imported, or a walkover is recorded). Every stock moves after every match — even teams and players who didn't play.
Growth
On top of performance, every listed stock grows 5% per finalized match. Holding the market on average gains a little less than the vault's 7% per match — but unlike the vault, you can sell any time, and a good pick can beat the vault by a lot (a bad one can lose money).
Team stocks: chance of topping the table
- Each team's price follows its chance of finishing first, plus its expected share of the
season's points. These come from a simulation of every remaining fixture, using each team's current points and strength rating. - That's why a match between A and B moves C: if C's closest rival loses, C's chances go up and so does C's price. If the leader wins again, everyone chasing them drops. - Within a season, a team's performance value runs from about 0.5× (no chance) to 2× (champions) of an average team, before growth.
Player stocks: form, plus a slice of their team
- A player's price follows their recent form. Each match earns points: runs, +1 per four,
+2 per six, +10 per wicket, and a bonus or penalty for economy against the league average. Recent matches count the most. - Every player also carries a little of their team's price, so players drift up when their team's title chances improve. - A player who sits out a match their team plays loses a little form. - Starting prices: Platinum $10k, Gold $7k, Silver $4k, Managers $7k.
Trading pressure
Buying pushes a price up slightly and selling pushes it down (up to ±20% above or below its performance value). This pressure fades over time and after every match.
A share never costs $50k or more: when a price reaches $40k the stock splits 2-for-1 — you get twice the shares at half the price, so your holding's value doesn't change. Open orders and price charts are adjusted the same way. You can also buy fractions of a share.
2. Trading
| Fee | 0.5% on every buy and every sell, paid to the House |
| Minimum order | $1k |
| Order size | By amount ("buy $250k of MHK") or by shares ("buy 2.5 shares") |
| Cash | Buys use liquid cash only, never your vault |
| Short selling | Not allowed — you can only profit when a team or player does well |
| Holding cap | Up to 25% of a stock's available shares per account |
| Available shares | Each stock has a limited number of shares; when they're all held, it shows as sold out |
Bigger orders move the price more while they fill (slippage), so splitting a very large order into smaller ones doesn't help much — the price still moves.
3. Order types
| Order | Fills when |
|---|---|
| Market | Immediately at the current price |
| Limit buy | The price falls to or below your trigger |
| Limit sell / Take profit | The price rises to or above your trigger |
| Stop loss | The price falls to or below your trigger |
Orders stay open until they fill or you cancel them. Shares in an open sell order are reserved, so you can't sell them twice.
Gaps: prices move in jumps after matches. If a match drops a stock from $14k to $11k, a stop loss set at $13k fills at about $11k, not $13k.
4. Freezes
The admin can freeze the whole market or a single stock — usually while matches are being played, because results are known at the ground before the scorecard is uploaded. While frozen:
- no trades happen;
- you can still place limit, stop-loss and take-profit orders;
- open orders are checked the moment trading resumes.
5. Seasons
- Holdings and prices carry over between seasons — there's no reset. A new season starts
every stock at the price it ended on, then moves it with the new season's results. - Underlying ratings ease back toward average at the new season, so last season's form counts a little less from then on. - Teams and players who aren't in the current season are not listed: you can still sell them, but not buy more. They're listed again when they're drafted.
6. Your net worth
Your stocks count toward your net worth at their current price, on your account page and in the public portfolio rankings.
7. Price history
Charts go back to Season 1: the full pricing system was replayed over every finalized match from Seasons 1–3 when the market launched, so every stock starts with its real history.
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