GTA 5 Stock Market Guide

Looking for the GTA 5 stocks to buy around Lester’s assassinations? Use our mission-by-mission investment guide. For other story events, use our story-affected stocks guide. Below, we cover the exchanges, stock lists and other trading methods.

Lester Assassination Missions

The "Lester Assassination Missions" method of investing in GTA 5's stock market is probably the most fool-proof method to make money in the game, and lots of it too.

Basically, it boils down buying and sell specific stocks before and after you complete the assassination missions for Lester (which are a big part of the single player story line).

Story Affected Stocks

LifeInvader and Richards Majestic

You should not invest in LifeInvader or Richards Majestic. LifeInvader will decrease in value after Friend Request, and Richards Majestic decreases at a later point in the game. The key issue with these two is that they never regain their original values.

Vangelico

Vangelico will decrease in value after The Jewel Store Job and increase after Minor Turbulence, for about a 40% return if you buy at its low and sell at its high.

FlyUS

FlyUS will decrease in value by about 50% after Legal Trouble and increase to its original value after Meltdown, for a 100% return if you buy at its low and sell at its high.

Cluckin' Bell

Cluckin' Bell will decrease in value after Paleto Score and Gruppe Sachs will decrease in value after The Big Score (subtle version). These two, along with Augury Insurance and Merryweather (which do not decrease in value during the game), will increase for high returns based on your ending decision.

Cluckin' Bell will increase to its original value if you go with The Third Way (Deathwish) ending choice, for about a 65% return if you buy at its low and sell at its high. Gruppe Sachs will also increase to its original value, for about a 30% — 35% return if you buy at its low and sell at its high. Augury Insurance will double in value, for a 100% return.

However, if you pick The Third Way, Merryweather will decrease in value by over 50% and never return to its original value. To make money by investing in Merryweather, you should choose The Time's Come. It will increase in value for about a 250% return.

High Frequency Stock Trading

This only works for LCN stocks and do make it worthwhile you need A LOT of money. For this reason it is good to do after you've finished all of Lester's assassination missions, for example. You should also know that the prices of the LCN stocks will refresh every 45 seconds while you're doing this.

1. Look for the stock that has the lowest price (meaning you can buy more of it).
2. Buy it (the maximum amount) and then immediately save your game. Don't muck around when doing this (you will have 45 seconds or less).
3. Once saved then check the stock by pretending to purchase more. Provided you stay on the "purchase more stock page" the price will constantly refresh for you.
4. If the stock price goes up, then save your game and repeat the steps above. If the stock price goes down then reload your initial save game and try again.

This can be a little annoying (having to wait through a lot of saving screens) but it can also be worthwhile provided you are investing a lot of money to begin with. The incremental changes won't be massive (maybe a few cents per price change) but they add up if you have loads of money riding on it...

Insurance Company Stock Tip

A community tip suggests destroying cars, buying Augury Insurance (AUG) after a price drop, and selling after a recovery. We have not verified that destroying cars reliably causes either movement. Treat this as an experiment, not a dependable investment method, and keep a separate save before risking your money.

LCN Stock Trading

When you're playing GTA V there will always be one particular stock on the LCN market that fluctuates within a set range (well pretty much a set range).

If you can find that stock and know it's range, then it's just a matter of continuously trading it to make money! When it goes down into the bottom of the trading range, buy it. Then when it goes up to the top, sell it!

Note that the stock in question for your game will not be one affected by the Assassination Missions (ie Debonaire Cigarettes, Redwood or GoldCoast).

Best Stocks to Buy & Sell

This table is useful because what is good for one company (i.e. its stock price will increase) will often be bad for its competitor (its stock price will decrease). So, if certain events happen in the game that might be good or bad for specific companies, you have a better idea of what stocks you should buy.

List of Stock Tickers for all BAWSAQ Stocks

• Alpha Mail
• Ammu-Nation (AMU)
• Bank of Liberty
• Badger Wireless (BADR)
• Bean Machine (BEAN)
• Biglogs (BIGL)
• Binco (BNCO)
• Bleeter (BLE)
• Burger Shot (BSHT)
• Candy Box (CABOX)
• Canyon Entertainment (CANE)
• Cluckin' Bell (CUBEL)
• CNT (CNTU)
• eCola (ECLA)
• Eris (ERIS)
• Eugenics Incorporated (UGEN)
• Eyefind.info (EYEF)
• Fleeca (FLEE)
• Fruit Computers (FRUC)
• Genic (GNIC)
• Globe Oil (GLBOIL)
• Gruppe Sechs
• Heat
• Liberty Tree (LIBT)
• Limit
• Logger Beer (LOGR)
• Liberty Sports Network (LSNW)
• MeTV (METV)
• Nx-Jn (NXJN)
• Pißwasser
• RON Oil (RONO)
• Shark Credit Card (SHRK)
• Schmidt & Priss
• Sprunk (SPUK)
• Tinkle Telecom (TNK)
• Weazel Networks (WZNT)
• Whiz Wireless (WHIZ)
• WIWANG (WIW)
• Xero (XGAS)

eCola Stock

Our eCola stock market guide has its own page here. By following the steps you can earn a ton of money early on in single player mode.

List of Stock Tickers for all LCN Stocks

• ARK — AnimalArk
• AUG — AuguryInsurance
• BAN — CoolBeans
• BEN — BeanMachine
• BGR — BurgerShot
• BIL — Bilkington
• BOL — BankOfLiberty
• BOM — BobMulét
• BUL — Bullhead
• CLK — CluckinBell
• DEB — Debonaire
• DOP — DollarPills
• ECL — eCola
• EMU — AirEmu
• FLC — Fleeca
• FUS — FlyUS
• GAS — GastroBand
• GCD — GoldCoast
• GOP — GoPostal
• GRU — GruppeSechs
• HAF — Hammerstein&Faust
• HKJ — Hijak
• KRP — Krapea
• LFI — Lifeinvader
• LOG — Logger
• MAX — MaxRenda
• MAZ — MazeBank
• MER — Merryweather
• MOR — MorsMutualInsurance
• POP — PostOP
• PRO — ProLaps
• RAI — Raine
• RIM — RichardsMajestic
• RLS — RadioLosSantos
• RWC — Redwood
• SSS — Slaughter,Slaughter&Slaughter
• TBO — TacoBomb
• UNI — VanillaUnicorn
• UPA — Up-n-Atom
• VAG — Vangelico
• WFM — WorldwideFM

Radio Stock Tips

Radio dialogue can mention companies and events, but a mention alone does not establish a profitable trade. We have not verified a repeatable radio-tip method. For trades tied to specific story events, use our story-affected stocks guide.

Stock Market — Buy Cheap and Sell High

A community tip proposes buying AirEMU shares and destroying FlyUS planes at Los Santos International Airport. AirEMU and FlyUS appear in our competitor chart above, but that rivalry does not establish that destroying planes moves their share prices.

We have not verified this as a repeatable way to earn money. If you want to test it, keep a separate save, record both share prices before destroying any planes, and check them again afterwards. A price change on one attempt does not prove the destruction caused it.

There is no verified return percentage for the plane-destruction method here. Reload your separate save if the experiment costs you money; do not keep destroying planes or advancing time on the assumption that a profit must follow.

Tinkle Stock Tip

Ideally this is best done later in the game when you have serious cash to invest...

1. First get all your characters to invest in Tinkle (TNK) on the BAWSAQ.
2. Then head to Hitch Lift 1 using Michael as your character and you'll see a guy to pick up.
3. You need to take him to the Airport and along the way he'll tell you about a particular stock that is going to increase in value.
4. $Profit$

Trading Days and Advancing Time

Each trading day on the stock market begins at 8am (except weekends), so if you are advancing time, then make sure you check it at 8am each day. Advancing time via sleeping will put your forward 8 hours.

And if you want to advance time more quickly/efficiently, you don't have to actually save. Instead just go head into the save screen when at a bed and then exit. This is enough to advance time.