Stock Market WITHOUT Lester

hi in this video we’re doing the 2023 update to our GTA 5 story mode Investors Guide where
you’ll learn how to make so much money the game literally won’t be able to cope
hi and welcome back my name’s Dan and I’m an old grumpy gamer well we’re fast heading to
the 10-year anniversary of GTA 5 and we’re still discovering new things we can do to exploit story
modes mechanics and generally run amok one of the more fun things to do is literally make more money
than the game can handle using the stock market and using this guide you’ll end up with so much
money you could never spend it in game before we dive in though if you find this helpful we
do lots of Grand Theft Auto online and GTA 5 guides tips and tricks so if you’re new to the
channel don’t forget to subscribe and ring the bell for more content like this oh and for this
guide I’m going to assume you’ll be following the natural progression of the game for the
most part that means following the storyline for whichever character the game drops you on
at the end of each Mission and I should also note this supersedes our previous guides too this is a
pretty big guide with a lot to cover but if you’re just after the stock trades scrub forward to the
time stamp on screen if you want to go through the whole thing we’ve broken the guide down into
sections who this guide is for changes from our previous guides using the in-game stock exchange
time skipping maximizing returns or saves coming what to do if you have too much money raising seed
Capital avoiding accidentally triggering the tinkle investment opportunity The Disappearing
stock bug a recap and final pre-investment prep and the actual Investments themselves also this
is not really for your first playthrough so if you’ve just jumped into GTA 5 story mode
for the first time don’t try this I’d suggest working through the storyline in its entirety
and genuinely enjoying it then coming back to this guide for your second playthrough so first
things first this guide applies if you’re on a PS4 PS5 Xbox One Xbox S or X or a legit copy of
GTA 5 for PC and you have a Rockstar Social Club linked to your game which gives you access to the
secondary ball sack exchange if you’re using an older generation console that’s a PS3 or
an Xbox 360 are running a PC version that can’t be registered or are otherwise running the game
offline then you need our offline Investors Guide which you can find Linked In the description below
if you’ve already used Franklin to complete all of leicester’s assassination missions
you’ve missed the boat on game breaking money but there’s still a good chance you can make enough
to buy just about everything if you have not done the Leicester assassination missions using
Franklin the generous one carried out by Michael doesn’t actually count then you need this guide
and there’s a link in the description below and that will take you through how to make much much
more money so for this guide I’m going to assume you’ve never used the in-game stock market before
and this is your second or third playthrough also don’t buy any of the businesses just yet
either steer away from vehicle mods clothes and tats too this is our third iteration of this
guide and it’s a little different from the 2022 version this time around we’ve removed estimated
percentage gains unfortunately the gains have started to diverge vastly between the
PC version previous console generations and the current next-gen consoles Rockstar also
appear to have nerfed trades which makes it really hard to get a good gauge of what’s what removed
the briefcase fund rating section again instead of fixing the underwater briefcase exploit on PC
and previous generation consoles Rockstar opted to Simply remove the mechanic altogether this
means slightly less money than we’d otherwise have but not so much that you will notice later
in the game clarified the order of proceedings some of the language used in previous iterations
of this guide left viewers a bit confused so we’ve reworked a few bits and pieces to make it clearer
we’ll find some trades we’ve been able to improve the Returns on a few trades by tweaking the timing
a little largely as a result of feedback research and comments from our amazing Community added an
extra trade we’d missed a trade on the previous iterations specifically the fly us trade so we’ve
added that one in and added a too much money workaround when you top the game’s cash cap
which is a Touch Above 2.1 billion dollars per character it becomes a little more challenging
to pull your money out of the stock exchange we’ve added some instructions on how to deal with that
when you hit it variety oh the stock market in GTA 5 operates like the stock market in real life
socks go up and down based on in-world events announcements and general happenings this can
include Market reactions to heists the untimely deaths of CEOs and news from rival companies
there are also some random fluctuations but we’re not going to worry about those instead we’ll be
concentrating on Major Market Movers now before we get into the actual stock tips there’s a few
things we need to cover first starting with the basic mechanics around buying and selling stocks
the stock market is unlocked not long after Michael sorts out Jay Norris in friend request
where we meet Ricky to purchase stock open your phone that’s up on your d-pad for a controller
or the up Arrow only keyboard next head to the internet icon click the money and services Tab
and let’s start with the Liberty City exchange or LCN as you can see here there are a number
of stocks available the company name and current price columns are pretty self-explanatory it’s the
price movement and average change that we’ll be keeping an eye on movement here determines whether
we make money or lose it On Any Given trade next up is the barsac exchange click the gray tab at
the top to access this now if you see a list like this you’re good to go if the exchange is
not available or is offline this becomes a little more work what we’ll need to do to get the second
exchange working is link your Rockstar Social Club account with your game so if you have a PSN or
Xbox Live account you should be able to do this by logging into rockstargames.com and selecting Link
account from the menu at the top right steam epic and legit PC versions should be more or less the
same but there are links to the official Rockstar Support documentation below once you’ve done that
restart the game and you should be able to see the ball sack exchange assuming you’re good there
to purchase any stock you click on it click the green buy button click and hold the green
plus button until you have all the stock you want and normally we’ll be purchasing as many
as we can then click the green buy button again once that’s done you’ll see a readout
of the purchase with the current price and your potential profit or loss and after that you can
exit the Internet by clicking the X in the URL bar selling is reasonably straightforward too bring up
your phone head to the internet icon click money and services click on either the LCN or balsac
doesn’t matter but this time we’re clicking my portfolio and if you’re happy with the pricing
click sell all so with that out of the way there are two other Concepts we need to cover before we
get started firstly jumping forward in this case jumping forward is the practice of advancing game
time without actually having to spend hours on the game itself this is normally done by saving
the game simply go to bed with any character either save or back out without saving and the
game advances a few hours now each character is a little different Michael sleeps for six hours
when he goes to bed Franklin sleeps for eight and Trevor for 12 12. so if we want to advance
say one full day in game that’s 24 hours we’d need to send Trevor to bed twice Franklin to bed three
times and Michael would need to go to bed four times it’s a bit of a pain in the backside but
it’s a whole lot better than afking for the 48 minutes it would take to hit the same timeline
the next trick is called save scumming and we use it to maximize returns GTA story mode has
some volatility and a whole lot of timing built into the market and that sometimes means we can
miss our optimal sale price to avoid this check the price of stock before you send your character
to bed so in this case and I’m just using a random stock here for the sake of this example we can see
I’m looking at an all-time high of 13.6 profit so let’s save that then Advance time one day by
going to save and then backing out three times because we’re using a Franklin now we check the
stock again this time it’s going down a little so we’ll keep at it we’ll Advance another day
and this time we have a new all-time high which is a yield around 14.9 percent so let’s do a proper
a safe jumping forward another day we can see a slight dip here I think 14.9 was a better return
and it’s likely going to be the best we can get so let’s go back to that last save and sell at
that 14.9 Mark open your pause menu go to game load game and select the slot you just used once
the game loads you can open the stock market and sell out most of the time it will be pretty close
to the all-time high that you sold on it’s not quite the way the game is meant to work but hey
we’re actively manipulating the stock market here and it’s all about return on investment
right here one more thing to cover before delving into the seed funding part of this video maximum
cash capacity each character can only and I say only carry a maximum of two billion 147 million
483 647 in-game dollars this is likely a system limitation put in place for the Xbox and PS3
versions as it’s the largest 32-bit integer that can exist if the value of your shares exceeds this
when you come to the last or two you’ll only be able to cash in some of your stock if this is the
case you can spend up and then withdraw more later so not to worry to do this when you go
to sell some stock open the stock exchange on your phone go to my portfolio click on the stock itself
not the sell all button but the share then crank up the number of shares until you get bored and
click the sell button after that you can spend up buy businesses properties Vehicles weapons
whatever you like once you’re done you can top up your funds by going back to your stock portfolio
and selling some more shares okay the next thing we need to do is build seed Capital after all it
takes money to make money most of our early game opportunities for raising Capital are available
after Hood Safari has been completed that’s the one where Trevor meets Auntie Denise and gives her
seven dollars it’s also where we visit CJ’s old place for the San Andreas fans out there you also
need to have completed the Meriwether heist where Trevor accidentally steals an experimental weapon
now these missions can be a little bit tedious and time consuming so do set aside a good day to knock
them out so let’s start with Michael open your phone and search for Epsilon click the Epsilon
program website and start the survey this will start the Epsilon Institute questline which will
lead Michael on quite the journey conveniently we’ve made a set of guides on how to get through
these missions links are in the description below once you’ve made your way through the questline
to the final mission unknowing the truth still the money from ours gives you netting us 2.1
million in seed money and properly starting our journey moving over to Franklin next first up we
want to head to this part of the map to trigger the bike theft random event now don’t worry too
much about the footage we definitely want to do this with Franklin after you’ve returned the bike
with Franklin continue the game as normal do a few missions and sleep a bit whatever sometime in the
next in-game week or so Franklin will receive an email from the bike’s owner have a quick read then
head to the stock market my portfolio and sell the stock and with any luck that should net Franklin
an additional 100 thousand dollars or just shy thereof next head to the sonar collection stock
on the western side of the map with the money from the jewelry store job and the shares from
the mountain bike Franklin should have just enough money to purchase the stock once that’s done jump
in the sub and collect the 30 lots of nuclear waste put an additional 690 Grand plus a refund on
the purchase price in the Franklin’s bank account if Franklin does not have enough cash for this
check Trevor’s account to see if he can afford it and if not Michael will do but if you can do this
with Franklin that’s your preferred option right over to Trevor next now Trevor already has some
money available so we’re just going to top him up a bit by doing some freaks and strangers side
quests starting with this marker which triggers the Vinewood souvenir side quest with Nigel and
Mrs Thornhill these are a bit of fun too nowhere near as tedious as the submarine collections when
you get to the last mission of the questline the last act where you go to um dispose of Al
DiNapoli on the way to the drop-off I will offer you a bribe wait until the the second off of ten
thousand dollars then drop him off sticking with Trevor you should have received a message from
Maude by the time we get to this point head to her Freaks and stranger marker here and Maude
will give you four bounties to collect bring each of them in alive for an additional forty thousand
dollars heading to the base of the path to the altruist Camp next we’ll find this odd scene
an approximation of a scene from No Country for Old Men where we’ll be able to finish off
the remaining participants and collect an easy 25 grand the final round of uh series a funding can
be collected by completing the altruist challenge this is where you drop off four poor souls to the
outros camp where we strongly suspect these cannibals will make soup of them I typically
pick up the most morally dubious characters to drop off as always there’s a complete guide
available in the description below and that’s it for Trevor for now it’s worth noting that you
shouldn’t worry about any of the other businesses most of them lose money and the McKenzie Airfield
hanger will take around four hours of grinding to break even let alone turn a profit and that’s it
for early prep with this done Michael should be sitting on a little under three mil with Franklin
around a million and Trevor hopefully around the 330 Grand Mark okay time to get down to Brass tax
Investments now the first and one of the most important things if you are driving around this
part of the map and see this guy asking for a ride do not pick him up don’t instead head to the other
side of the road and deliberately avoid triggering the start of that random encounter he’ll give us
a stock tip that yields 25 to 30 and we want to save that for later in the playthrough okay now
it’s nearly time for our first investment now the great thing is this is all percentage based rather
than pricing that means that we can do these in any order and the returns will be more or less
the same also prices change from playthrough to play through the percentages remain on par
between games though start by doing a hard save of your game that’s where you send a character to
bed and create a new save file as opposed to a regular auto save or just going to bed and
then backing out next we’re going to confirm your game isn’t bugged which happens maddeningly often
heads of the stock exchange on your phone and find augury Insurance that’s Aug on the LCN exchange
and purchase one share one share exit out go to bed and immediately back out then check your phone
again if the shares there your game is fine if not your game is bugged and you may need to refer
to this guide or to check out the video in the description below assuming your game stock market
is fine you’re good to go right so to recap we’ve covered using the in-game stock exchange fixing
the bar sack exchange time skipping maximizing returns or saves coming what to do if you have
too much money raising seed Capital avoiding accidentally triggering the tinkle investment
and the disappearing stock bug so Franklin Michael and Trevor should all have a decent amount of cash
in the bank with Mr desanta really getting a solid Head Start so after Franklin and Trevor complete
Eye in the Sky that’s the one where we still the car using the police Chopper take each character
to ammunition and load up on ammo if you’re Keen grab some weapons too Now’s the Time we won’t have
money for a bit so we need to make sure we have everything we need for the next few missions once
each character has tons of ammunition and explosives on hand open the stock market on
each character’s phone and buy vangelico that’s vag continue playing the main quest line until
you’ve completed the Polito score Heist which is the rural bank robbery then sell your stock
okay a few missions later we will have a quick opportunity to give Trevor a bit of a top up
too once you complete the mission Predator where you hunt down some of the O’Neill boys using a
sniper rifle from a chopper and use strangers and freaks Mission will unlock for Franklin where you
can do a triathlon against Marianne Quinn after you’ve completed the triath immediately swap from
Franklin to Trevor then head to this location near where the end of the race was once you’re
there you will see a new random encounter rescue the young lady and drop her off and a little while
later you’ll receive a phone call and Trevor will receive a sixty thousand dollar reward our next
investment opportunity isn’t quite as lucrative but it’s still worth the effort same as vangelico
though it takes a bit of forward planning once you’ve completed surveying the school
which is where we scope out the union depository a bit later in the game tool up again take each
character to ammunition and load up on ammo if you can grab some weapons too Now’s the Time we
won’t have any money for a bit so we need to make sure we have everything we need for three pretty
straightforward missions now the security company group six that’s Gru has been a bit depressed
since our last Heist and this is due to make a recovery soon so once each character has tons of
ammunition and explosives on hand jump into the stock market then purchase group six that’s Gru
continue the storyline until you’ve completed fresh meat where Franklin rescues Michael from
Chang then wait an additional 12 to 36 in-game hours and sell for a modest profit sticking with
the forward planning theme immediately after you’ve completed legal trouble which is where
Devin Weston’s lawyer Molly puts herself through a jet turbine Charming stuff anyway immediately
after that mission head to ammunition and load up all three characters again then sometime over the
next 24 in-game hours the airline responsible for the plane fly us will tank somewhere in the
region of 50 now if you’re time skipping here use Michael because he only jumps six hours at
a time once you spot the dip go all in on fly us that’s Fus with all three characters then continue
the storyline until the end of meltdown that’s the movie premiere where Michael has to save
his family from Mary weather goons by the time Michaels rescued his family the airline stock
will have recovered so you can sell out and get ready for the next one the next opportunity is a
bit more complex as it comes in two parts so once you’ve completed the Big Score that’s the union
depository job sleep for a few days oh and be sure not to go anyway near Franklin’s front door super
important we’re doing two things here we want to wait to make sure augury insurance is well and
truly depressed it might not dip but we want to make sure it’s staying put for the moment at the
same time we’re forcing the game not to trigger the finale where Devon Weston visits Franklin
right so after you’re confident the price of auguri is more or less stable sync everything into
it then start the finale by going to Franklin’s front door it doesn’t matter which option you
pick either although option C is the Canon ending once you’ve completed one of the endings Lester
will give you a call and deposit the funds from the Big Score into each character’s account sync
that money into a augury insurance too which should already be making a modest recovery
wait two to three in-game days then divest for a pretty solid profit next up is tinkle remember
that filler I said to avoid like the plague at the start of the video it’s time to work easily invest
everything you have for all three characters into tinkle that’s tnk on the ball sack Exchange
then grab a fast car and head to The Pedestrian overpass near the beach to trigger the random
encounter once you’ve dropped our new friend back at the airport head back to your house and Advance
Time by around 24 Hours by sleeping a few times after that you should be able to sell for a solid
30 gain now if you’ve done this right there’s a better than average chance you won’t actually be
able to sell all your stock if that’s the case open the stock exchange go to my portfolio click
on the share itself not the seller button but the share then crank up the number of shares until
you get bored and click the sell button after that you can spend up buy businesses properties
Vehicles weapons whatever you like once you’re done you can top up your funds by going back
to your stock portfolio and selling more shares and that’s it thanks for watching check out the
video of the top for a guide on making money or the one down the bottom for some more old
grumpy gamer goodness stay safe wash your hands and we’ll see you in the next video foreign