The market

There is one market for the whole country, shared by every company. You sell your goods on it and buy what your factories and shops need. Nobody sets a price: everything trades at the day's market price.

Open Sell on market (the My warehouse page), click a good and move it from Storage to The market.

• Your goods appear on the market after 60 to 120 minutes. Buyers take the goods that have been for sale longest first.
• You are paid when someone buys them, at the market price of the moment the buyer placed the order.
• 10% of each sale goes into your company's stockpile, which pays your shareholders' dividends. The rest goes to your savings. On goods you had bought on the market yourself, that share is lost as a market fee.
• Goods not yet sold can be taken back (My goods on Buy goods), losing their place in the queue.

Goods you made yourself can also earn a sales bonus in Company Value when they sell on the market. See Taxes and bonuses.

On Buy goods, pick a good and place an order.

• An order is paid when you place it and filled at the next update, from the goods for sale longest. Anything not filled is refunded. A waiting order can be cancelled for a full refund, here or on the Orders page.
• You can place one order per good every 60 seconds.
• Each good has a daily limit: 2,500 units, plus 2,000 for each of your factories on the map that uses it and 1,000 for each of your shops that sells it. The Purchase limit column shows what is left today.
• From goods that have been for sale for less than 30 minutes, one order can take at most 25% of all of that good for sale (at least 250 units). Goods for sale longer can be bought out.
• You cannot buy your own goods.

Bought goods go straight into your warehouse. Each trade also leaves cargo on its route that vehicles can carry for pay (Vehicles and cargo).

Buying and selling do not move prices. They change once a day, at midnight:

• Each good's production that day is multiplied by the good's own multiplier and compared with the average over all goods.
• Goods made less than the average get dearer and goods made more get cheaper, unless they are very close to it. The further from the average, the bigger the change, up to three steps either way.
• One step is £1 for a level 1 good, twice that for level 2 and three times for level 3.
• Prices stay between £5 and £150, and do not move in the first 4 days of a round. While few companies are playing, they move more slowly.

• Prices shows each good's market price on the last three days, the change at each midnight, and a chart of the round. Its Customer prices tab shows what Shops charge.
• Trends shows the goods produced and sold on the market, to the bank and in shops. Calculation of market prices forecasts tonight's changes; it keeps changing until midnight.

Everything you make or buy is kept in your warehouse. It starts with room for 500 units, and each upgrade adds 500. Every unit over capacity costs £1 an hour and raises staff dissatisfaction, and a full warehouse stops your factories. Locked goods are left alone by your factories and shops but still take up space.