The iPlexTrader Lite is a social game based on auction-styled stock trading where you trade virtual stocks and options with your friends and family. Each game lasts for a day, where you join a game as a stock broker with objective of buying stocks at low-price and selling at high-price, thus making most money from the trades. Unlike a real-world stock market, each game is limited to a single exchange, which can be public or private. In addition to trading, the iPlexTrader Lite brings a lot social aspects to the game such as building private exchanges, which can be only joined by your friends and expressing like-ability for a company, which determines a Buzz for the company. Also, the members can view activities for other players in a game, view their gain/loss from the trading, view ranking of the players in terms of gain/loss and comment on their trades. At the end of a game, the top players for each game are awarded badges, which are permanently visible from their profile.
Major features include:
* Build private exchanges and share them with your friends. Each exchange starts a new game every day, which can be joined by you and your friends.
* Store your favorite companies and you automatically receive stocks and options from a few of those companies.
* Buy and sell stocks, call options and put options
* Express likability for the companies, which determines buzz quote value for the company
* Lookup Quotes, which displays latest market price for the stocks/options in your exchange.
* Browse or search companies (over 20,000 companies)
* Browse or search industries and drill into companies that belong to the industry
* Comment on the trades in the game.
* Win badges for being top player in the game and view badges earned by other players
* View latest market news/events from the Quote Lookup screen
* View your portfolio or portfolio of other players, which shows virtual cash balance, capital gains and stocks/options you hold
* View activities of other players
* View order history for all the bids you placed
* View activities of other players
* Browse archived games for any exchange
* Vote on companies, which determines buzz quote
* View ranking of players in any game
* Daily Hot list of companies
* View Exchange Trends
* Helpful tips
Difference between Lite and Pro version:
-----------------------------------------Lite------------------Pro
Free--------------------------------------Yes (with-ads)---------No (without-ads)
Starting virtual cash-------------------------$10,000-------------$25,000
Max # of private exchanges--------------------1-------------------10
Max # of games can be joined------------------2-------------------10
Companies Around Me------------------------No------------------Yes
Options Trading-----------------------------No------------------Yes
Latest Companies News-----------------------No------------------Yes
Edit Open Orders----------------------------No------------------Yes
Game Center Match Invite & Messaging----------No------------------Yes
Watch following screen-casts to learn how to play this game on iPhone/iTouch and iPad devices:
* http://plexobject.com/software/trading_floor/tf.mp4
* http://www.plexobject.com/software/trading_floor/tf_ipad.mp4