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How Story Missions Affect Stocks
Throughout the game's story, Lester will offer Franklin missions in which he'll have to assassinate a target. These targets have a huge role to play in the company's whose stocks are available to purchase, and their deaths will affect the value of their corresponding stock. Although Lester will often tell Franklin himself, this table clarifies which stock the player should invest in before or after killing their target.
These stocks will rise by a preset maximum percentage over the following 5-10 minutes, before swiftly dropping to less than half of that profit then slowly returning to normal. Keep a close eye & close/reopen the trading pages to stay on top of the price, as if you miss it then try to reload the maximum percentage will be greatly reduced - you'll be able to tell this has happened because it will remain at this capped value for far longer than expected, and it will be an even percentage (for example 25% after The Vice Assassination versus up to 50% pre-reload).
| Story Mission Stock Investments | |
|---|---|
| Mission | Stock Suggestion |
| The Hotel Assassination | Betta Pharmaceuticals |
| The Redwood Cigarette Assassination | Debonaire Cigarettes |
| The Vice Assassination | Fruit |
| The Bus Assassination | Vapid (buy afterwards) |
| The Construction Assassination | Gold Coast |
Note : The percentage return for your stock is detailed in the web page used for your stock portfolio only. To get the best return you may need to advance time which can be done by 6 hours at a time when you enter the save menu next to Franklins bed and then exiting the menu without saving, checking stock value each time. remember to do a full save after each succesful return cycle and keep 1 save before step 2 untouched in case a peak return is missed. remember the stock exchange is closed on weekends.
1 - Start
Begin the story. Keep going through all of the story missions and don't worry when you do the LifeInvader assassination as you can't affect stocks at this point.
At some point Lester will start providing Franklin with side missions marked with an L on the map now before you can move past the story at this point, you'll have to do The Hotel Assassination. In this case you are damaging the shares of Bilkington in order to raise the shares of Betta Pharmaceuticals.
Invest BEFORE mission: [BET] BettaPharmaceuticals (BAWSAQ)
Sell AFTER mission: [BET] BettaPharmaceuticals (BAWSAQ) at 80% return
Buy AFTER mission: [BIL] Bilkington (LCN)
Sell AFTER rebound: [BIL] Bilkington (LCN) at an unknown% return
3 - Complete the story
Finish off the main storyline. If you did the last heist right, you should have around $30-$40M to spend on each character. Now it is time to make some real money.
4 - The Redwood Cigarette Assassination
In this assassination you are damaging the shares of Redwood in order to raise the shares of Debonaire.
Invest BEFORE mission: [DEB] Debonaire (LCN)
Sell AFTER mission: [DEB] Debonaire (LCN) at around 80% return
Buy AFTER mission: [RWC] Redwood (LCN)
Sell AFTER rebound: [RWC] Redwood (LCN) at around 300% return
You may have to wait a few days for Redwood to rebound, so just keep sleeping until it peaks (usually 48 hours).
In this assassination you are damaging the shares of Facade in order to raise the shares of Fruit. The guides that I have seen have often missed a crucial step in this assassination: invest in Facade as it rebounds.
Invest BEFORE mission: [FRT] Fruit (BAWSAQ)
Sell AFTER mission: [FRT] Fruit (BAWSAQ) at 50% return
Buy AFTER : [FAC] Facade (BAWSAQ)
Sell AFTER rebound: [FAC] Facade (BAWSAQ) at 30% return
This step is the difference between making around $1.5B and $2.1B, so make sure you don't forget it. Once again Facade may take some time to rebound so just keep sleeping until it hits the peak.
This assassination is slightly different as it focuses entirely on the Vapid stock rebounding after you damage it.
Buy AFTER mission: [VAP] Vapid (BAWSAQ)
Sell AFTER rebound: [VAP] Vapid (BAWSAQ) at 100% return
You'll have to wait a few days for the stock to rebound, so keep advancing time and checking the stocks at any time after 8am.
7 - The Construction Assassination
This assassination has no rebound and focuses on getting GoldCoasts business back from another construction firm (not on any of the stock exchanges).
Invest BEFORE mission: [GCD] GoldCoast (LCN)
Sell AFTER mission: [GCD] GoldCoast (LCN) at around 80% return
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