HN Theater @HNTheaterMonth

Pretty easy: "The game is divided into voting rounds, each lasting 5 minutes. Every 5 minutes the top buy or sell command will be executed and one share will be bought or sold. You may only vote once per round."

https://www.twitch.tv/stockstream

Buying or selling a share is basically atomic, so there's no coordination needed apart from the overall portfolio. Looking at the portfolio, http://stockstream.live/portfolio.html , most positions are just a few shares.

Paywall.

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/stockstream

Article: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/05/twitch-is-playing-the-stoc...

⬐ soared

Unsurprising that most of the trading activity is around prominent b2c tech brands. Right now I'm seeing amd, tesla, netflix, google, nvidia, apple.

What is the ticker in the middle with quotes?

⬐ teeray

Can anyone find where the proceeds of this go?

⬐ mmmrtl

If there are any, it's still the investor's money

http://www.businessinsider.com/stockstream-twitch-amazon-sto...

⬐ cosinetau

Part of me believes that this can easily be used for money laundering or insider trading.

Anyone want to guess the legality of this? This is very far away from Twitch plays pokemon.

⬐ milesvp

It doesn't look like there's any payout, nor a requirement to buy in to play. I don't see a way for any laundering to happen.

As for insider trading, it's a collective voting game. I don't see a way to increase the value of one's vote, so I can't imagine it ever falling afoul of insider trading.

⬐ mmmrtl

The creator, an Amazon engineer, did disallow trading AMZN, for a start