Stock Market
How to use the MiroMarket to buy low, sell high, earn daily dividends, and manage risk with the 2% broker fee.
Learn how to buy low, sell high, collect daily dividends, and use the MiroMarket as a coin-earning strategy.
Where to find it
- Menu path: Play → Stock Market, or search for Stock Market.
- Direct link: /stocks/
Two ways to earn
- Trading: buy shares, wait for the price to rise, and sell for more than you paid. Selling costs a small broker fee (see below).
- Dividends: stocks with a green DIV badge pay you coins every day just for holding shares - no selling required.
The market is not an instant claim: your coins are tied up until you sell, and new shares must be held for 24 hours before they can be sold.
A simple beginner plan:
- Open the Stock Market and look at Top Movers and each stock's sparkline.
- Buy a small amount of a stock that is down over the past 24 hours but not crashing forever.
- Pick up some DIV stocks too - they pay daily while you wait.
- Spread your buys across a few stocks instead of using all your coins on one ticker.
- Come back after the 24-hour hold expires.
- Sell shares that are above your average buy price, or keep holding if they are still down.
How prices move
Prices update automatically every 15 minutes - the market page shows a countdown to the next update. Every stock has a volatility level:
- Low volatility stocks stay in a narrow band. They move slowly, and they are the ones that pay daily dividends.
- Medium volatility stocks move more noticeably and are a good middle ground.
- High volatility stocks can double or halve over a stretch - big wins and big losses both happen.
Price moves are random with no built-in upward or downward bias, but each stock is pulled back toward its typical trading range when it strays far from it. A stock that has run far above its usual range tends to drift back down, and one that has crashed tends to recover. Use the 7D and 30D chart views on a stock's page to see its typical range before you buy.
All the change figures on the market page - the hero stats, stock cards, sparklines, and Top Movers - cover the past 24 hours.
Dividends
- Stocks with the green DIV badge pay a daily dividend (currently 0.5% of the share price, per share, per day). These are the low-volatility stocks: BANK, HEAL, SQUEK, TROVE, WARM, YUMMY.
- Dividends are paid automatically once per day and arrive as coins with a message from MiroMarket.
- Your portfolio shows total dividends earned, and each dividend stock's page estimates how many coins per day your shares earn.
- Because dividend stocks barely swing in price, they behave like a steady income investment rather than a trading play.
Broker fee
Selling shares costs a 2% broker fee, shown in the sell form before you confirm. Buying is free. This means rapid buy-sell flipping loses coins - plan to hold until a real gain covers the fee. All trades settle in whole coins: purchase costs round up, sale payouts round down.
How to buy shares
- Go to /stocks/ and choose a stock card. Cards show a 24-hour sparkline, the DIV badge, and an "Own" chip for stocks you already hold. You can sort by biggest gainers/losers, price, or owned-first, and filter to dividend payers only.
- On the stock's page, check the price chart (24H / 7D / 30D), today's range bar, day high/low, all-time high/low, and volatility.
- In the Buy tab, enter how many shares you want and confirm the total cost.
Buying uses your current coin balance immediately. Your portfolio then tracks:
- shares owned
- average buy price
- current value
- gain/loss
- 24-hour change
- dividends earned
How to earn coins by selling
You earn coins when you sell shares for more than you paid on average, after the broker fee.
Example:
- You buy 50 shares at 100 MPC each. Total cost: 5,000 MPC.
- Later the price rises to 118 MPC.
- Selling 50 shares is worth 5,900 MPC, minus the 2% broker fee (118 MPC), so you receive 5,782 MPC.
- Your profit is 782 MPC - plus any dividends the stock paid while you held it.
The portfolio page shows your invested amount, current value, gain/loss, dividends, and which shares are sellable.
Reading the page
Use these parts of the Stock Market page:
- MiroMarket Index: shows the overall market's 24-hour direction. It reads 100 when every stock sits at its typical price, so a reading of 95 means the market as a whole is about 5% below normal, and a new listing does not move it.
- Top Movers: the biggest gainers and losers of the past 24 hours. Losers can be discounts; gainers may already be near the top of their range.
- Sector filters and sorting: food, toys, tech, fashion, adventure, services, entertainment, plus sort options and a DIV-only filter.
- Sparklines: each card's mini chart shows the last 24 hours at a glance.
- Stock chart: switch between 24H, 7D, and 30D views to see the stock's typical range.
- Typical price: each stock's page shows its typical price and how far today's price sits above or below it. Below typical is the cheap side; prices drift back toward typical over a few days.
- Today's Range bar: shows where the current price sits between today's low and high.
- Day High / Day Low: today's extremes so far.
- Volatility: tells you how wild the price swings can be.
- DIV badge: the stock pays a daily dividend.
Limits and rules
- You can buy up to 250 shares per day total across all stocks (IPO allocations are separate, see below).
- You can own up to 10,000 shares of one stock.
- Shares bought in the last 24 hours are locked and cannot be sold yet.
- Older shares are sold first.
- Selling costs a 2% broker fee.
- There is no guaranteed profit. Prices can move down after you buy.
IPOs and new listings
Every so often a new company lists on the MiroMarket. A listing runs in three stages:
- Listing soon: the stock appears in an amber "Listing Soon" card on the market page with its IPO price, sector and a countdown. You can open its page, but you cannot trade it yet.
- IPO window (24 hours): the price is fixed at the IPO price, which is set about 10% below the stock's typical price. Every player can buy up to 100 shares of each IPO stock during the window. IPO shares are separate from your daily 250-share limit, so taking an allocation never costs you your regular trading for the day. Cards show a pink IPO badge.
- Open trading: when the window closes the price starts moving like any other stock and drifts toward its typical range. Newly listed stocks carry a New badge for their first week.
IPO shares follow the normal rules once you own them: they unlock to sell 24 hours after each purchase and the 2% broker fee applies when you sell. An IPO discount is a head start, not a guarantee. A high-volatility listing can still dip below its IPO price in the first days.
Good habits
- Do not spend every coin you have. Keep coins available for pets, shops, auctions, and other daily needs.
- Buy in smaller batches so you can average down if a stock drops more later.
- Diversify across multiple stocks or sectors - the portfolio card shows your allocation.
- Hold some DIV stocks for steady daily income, and use higher-volatility stocks for bigger swings only if you are comfortable waiting through losses.
- Check the 7D/30D chart before buying: if the price is near the top of its usual range, be patient.
- Consider selling part of a winning position instead of all of it, especially if the stock still looks strong.
Common mistakes
- Buying only because a stock is listed under Top Movers gainers. It may already be near the top of its range.
- Selling immediately after buying. New shares have a 24-hour hold, so this will not work.
- Flipping shares for tiny gains. The 2% sell fee eats small profits.
- Putting all your MPC into one high-volatility stock.
- Ignoring average buy price. Your profit depends on your own average, not just whether the stock is green today.
- Overlooking dividends. A DIV stock that "never moves" is still paying you every day.
Charms
The market has its own charm ladder based on your total earnings — sell profits, dividends, and gains on shares you still hold all count toward it: Pocket Profit (10,000 MPC), Savvy Investor (100,000 MPC), Market Mover (1,000,000 MPC), and the legendary Wolf of MiroMarket (5,000,000 MPC). Your first share purchase also unlocks the Stock Watcher charm.