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The only way to stop day-trading is by making player value more transparent for everyone, what a player is worth. Obviously the trade market in bb is not efficient enough, because a lot of people can not say how much one player is worth. if managers would only put players on the market near the fair market price, day-traders would not have a chance. I still believe day traders are necessary to make the market more liquid.

Because the game is so young and the skills and what they translate to on the game engine is open to so much interpretation it is not uncommon for lots of managers to value players differently.

Comparing on as an example to HT you have a mature market with specialist trainers for each position and if you really want to check the valuations of players there are enough experienced users/forums to discuss before making a purchase.

Here we have 10,000 new users in the space of last 2 months and the rest I assume have played the game for coming up to 1.5-2 seasons on average... we have yet to see the impact of player skills enough to properly value their contribution so as this is the case there will be larger discrepancies between perceived values of players.

I know some managers go on visible skills some prefer stats, some a combination.... until certain theories are proved (if they ever can be) then this will continue and you will always have managers speculating on skills that they think will become more valuable.

Love it, hate it, tax it, limit it, it will still happen in some shape or form...

Just to be sure - what do you exactly mean by Day-trading? I read this thread (not whole though) and I saw posts which refered to skill-trading, not day-trading. So what exactly does this mean? And how can a manager earn money by it? (I think you can earn money by skill-trading and you can help your team in one match by day-trading...so that's why I ask...)

Wow! A jump in the past

You making DT when you buy a player today at 100k and you put him in the market always today at 500k and at the end you sell it at 500k. No one training in the meantime so this is a pure "speculation". The day trading has been limited a lot with the introduction of the taxes even if the idea that hattrick introduced some days ago is quite interested imho. It means to force the team to play at least 1 match before to resell a player that you've just bought and to play another match if the player that you put for sale will be not sold. BBs could think about it

Different times of week, different prices, wow.

If it's like you say it must be only a speculation and IMHO there's nothing wrong in that, because the risk is very high. I think DT is based on the fact that the player helps you to win a game you wouldn't have won w/out him...

Last edited by PunkFloid at 12/20/2008 6:07:51 PM

Daytrading all have to do with making profits from buying cheap and selling expensive. Usually managers transfer lists players to huge overprices.

I dont really agree but nevermind.

As far as I remember from HT, the problem there was, that you bought for instance "Divine" player before a match and then after it you sold it before you had to pay the salary to him.

This as you describe it is very risky - even if you buy a player so cheap and under value, the risk of selling him overvalued right after that can cost you very very much - and it's not the DT as I know it...

As far as I remember from HT, the problem there was, that you bought for instance "Divine" player before a match and then after it you sold it before you had to pay the salary to him.

This is called "divine trick", but I have never seen it abbreviated DT as that is "reserved" for "day trading" (trying to make quick transfers for profit).

As far as I remember from HT, the problem there was, that you bought for instance "Divine" player before a match and then after it you sold it before you had to pay the salary to him.

But now it's not possible...

That's why I talk in past tense