Maximizing Your Earnings: The $6.4 Billion Stock Market Guide for GTA 5 Story Mode (2023 Update)

hi in this video we're doing the 2023 update  to our GTA 5 story mode Investors Guide where you'll learn how to make so much money  the game literally won't be able to cope hi and welcome back my name's Dan and I'm an  old grumpy gamer well we're fast heading to the 10-year anniversary of GTA 5 and we're still  discovering new things we can do to exploit story modes mechanics and generally run amok one of the  more fun things to do is literally make more money than the game can handle using the

stock market  and using this guide you'll end up with so much money you could never spend it in game before  we dive in though if you find this helpful we do lots of Grand Theft Auto online and GTA 5  guides tips and tricks so if you're new to the channel don't forget to subscribe and ring the  bell for more content like this oh and for this guide I'm going to assume you'll be following  the natural progression of the game for the most part that means following the storyline  for whichever chara

cter the game drops you on at the end of each Mission and I should also note  this supersedes our previous guides too this is a pretty big guide with a lot to cover but if you're  just after the stock trades scrub forward to the time stamp on screen if you want to go through  the whole thing we've broken the guide down into two sections who this guide is for changes  from our previous guides using the in-game stock exchange time skipping maximizing returns  or saves coming what to do if you have

too much money raising seed Capital avoiding accidentally  triggering the tinkle investment opportunity The Disappearing stock bug a recap and final  pre-investment prep and the actual Investments themselves also this is not really for your first  playthrough so if you've just jumped into GTA 5 story mode for the first time don't try this  I'd suggest working through the storyline in its entirety and genuinely enjoying it then coming  back to this guide for your second playthrough so first thin

gs first this guide applies if you're on  a PS4 PS5 Xbox One Xbox S or X or a legit copy of GTA 5 for PC and you have a Rockstar Social Club  linked to your game which gives you access to the secondary ball sack exchange if you're using  an older generation console that's a PS3 or an Xbox 360. are running a PC version that can't  be registered or are otherwise running the game offline then you need our offline Investors Guide  which you can find Linked In the description below this is a good one

if you're working your way  through GTA 5 story Mode's Main questline and have not done the Leicester assassinations using  Franklin the Jay Norris one carried out by Michael doesn't count if you've already used Franklin to  complete all of leicester's assassination missions you've missed the boat on game breaking money but  there's still a good chance you can make enough money to buy just about everything with this guide  and there's a link in the description below so for this guide I'm going

to assume you've never used  the in-game stock market before and this is your second or third playthrough and I don't want  to harp on it but for clarity do not do the Leicester assassination missions without your seed  funding and investments in place that means you do not visit the L on the map with Franklin when  it becomes available can't stress it enough also don't buy any of the businesses just yet either  steer away from vehicle mods clothes and tatts too this is our third iteration of th

is guide and it's  a little different from the 2022 version this time around we've removed estimated percentage gains  unfortunately the gains have started to diverge vastly between the PC version previous console  generations and the current next-gen consoles Rockstar also appeared to have nerfed trades  which makes it really hard to get a good gauge of what's what removed the briefcase fund rating  section again instead of fixing the underwater briefcase exploit on PC and previous generation 

consoles Rockstar opted to Simply remove the mechanic altogether this means slightly less  money than we'd otherwise have but not so much that you will notice later in the game clarified  the order of proceedings some of the language used in previous iterations of this guide left viewers  a bit confused so we've reworked a few bits and pieces to make it clearer we'll find some trades  we've been able to improve the Returns on a few trades by tweaking the timing a little largely as  a result of f

eedback research and comments from our amazing Community added an extra trade we've  missed a try trade on the previous iterations specifically the fly us trade so we've added that  one in and added a too much money workaround when you top the game's cash cap which is a Touch  Above 2.1 billion dollars per character it becomes a little more challenging to pull your  money out of the stock exchange we've added some instructions on how to deal with that when you hit  it variety oh the stock market

in GTA 5 operates like the stock market in real life stocks go up  and down based on in-world events announcements and general happenings this can include Market  reactions to heists the untimely deaths of CEOs and news from rival companies there are also some  random fluctuations but we're not going to worry about those instead we'll be concentrating on  Major Market Movers now before we get into the actual stock tips there's a few things we  need to cover first starting with the basic mechani

cs around buying and selling stocks the  stock market is unlocked not long after Michael sorts out Jay Norris in friend request where we  meet Ricky to purchase stock open your phone that up on your d-pad for a controller or the up arrow  on your keyboard next head to the internet icon click the money and services Tab and let's start  with the Liberty City exchange or LCN as you can see here there are a number of stocks available  the company name and current price columns are pretty self-explan

atory it's the price movement  and average change that we'll be keeping an eye on movement here determines whether we make  money or lose it On Any Given trade next up is the barsac exchange click the gray tab at the  top to access this now if you see a list like this you're good to go if the exchange is not  available or is offline this becomes a little more work what we'll need to do to get the second  exchange working is link your Rockstar Social Club account with your game so if you have a P

SN or  Xbox Live account you should be able to do this by logging into rockstargames.com and selecting  Link account from the menu at the top right steam epic and legit PC versions should be more or less  the same but there there are links to the official Rockstar Support documentation below once you've  done that restart the game and you should be able to see the ball sack exchange assuming you're  good there to purchase any stock you click on it click the green buy button click and hold  the g

reen plus button until you have all the stock you want and normally we'll be purchasing  as many as we can then click the green buy button again once that's done you'll see a readout of the  purchase with the current price and your potential profit or loss and after that you can exit the  Internet by clicking the X in the URL bar selling is reasonably straightforward too bring up your  phone head to the internet icon click money and services click on either the LCN or ballsack  doesn't matter bu

t this time we're clicking my portfolio and if you're happy with the pricing  click sell all so with that out of the way there are two other Concepts we need to cover before  we get started firstly jumping forward in this case jumping forward is the practice of advancing  game time without actually having to spend hours is on the game itself this is normally done  by saving the game simply go to bed with any character either save or back out without saving  and the game advances a few hours now

each character is a little different Michael sleep for  six hours when he goes to bed Franklin sleeps for eight and Trevor for 12. so if we want to advance  say one full day in game that's 24 hours we'd need to send Trevor to bed twice Franklin to bed  three times and Michael would need to go to bed four times it's a bit of a pain in the backside  but it's a whole lot better than AFK for the 48 minutes it would take to hit the same timeline  the next trick is called save scumming and we use it t

o maximize returns GTA story mode has  some volatility and a whole lot of timing built into the market and that sometimes means we can  miss our optimal sale price to avoid this check the price of stock before you send your character  to bed so in this case and I'm just using a random stock here for the sake of this example we can see  I'm looking at an all-time high of 13.6 profit so let's save that then Advance time one day today  by going to save and then backing out three times because we're

using Franklin now we check the  stock again this time it's gone down a little so we'll keep at it we'll Advance another day and  this time we have a new all-time high which is a yield around 14.9 percent so let's do a proper  safe jumping forward another day we can see a slight dip here I think 14.9 was a better return  and it's likely going to be the best we can get so let's go back to that last save and sell at that  14.9 Mark open your pause menu go to game load game and select the slot you

just used once the  game loads you can open the stock market and sell out most of the time it will be pretty close to  the all-time high that you sold on it's not quite the way the game is meant to work but hey we're  actively manipulating the stock market here and it's all about return on investment right here one  more thing to cover before delving into the seed funding part of this video Maximum cash capacity  each character can only and I say only carry a maximum of 2 billion 147 million 48

3 647 in-game  dollars this is likely a system limitation put in place for the Xbox and PS3 versions as it's  the largest 32-bit integer that can exist if the value of your shares exceeds this when you  come to the last mission or two you will only be able to cash in some of your stock if this is  the case you can spend up and then withdraw more later so not to worry to do this when you go to  sell some stock open the stock exchange on your phone go to my portfolio click on the stock  itself not

the sell all button but the share then crank up the number of shares until you get  bored and click the sell button after that you can spend up by businesses properties Vehicles weapons  whatever you like once you're done you can top up your funds by going back to your stock portfolio  and selling some more shares okay the next thing we need to do is build seed Capital after all it  takes money to make money most of our early game opportunities for raising Capital are available  after Hood Safa

ri has been completed that's the one where Trevor meets Auntie Denise and gives her  seven dollars it's also where we visit CJ's old place for the San Andreas fans out there you also  need to have completed the Meriwether heist where Trevor accidentally steals an experimental weapon  now these missions can be a little bit tedious and time consuming so do set aside a good day to knock  them out so let's start with Michael open your phone and search for Epsilon click the Epsilon  program website a

nd start the survey this will start the Epsilon Institute questline which will  lead Michael on quite the journey conveniently we've made a set of guides on how to get through  these missions links are in the description below once you've made your way through the questline  to the final mission unknowing the truth steal the money from arge gives you netting us 2.1  million in seed money and properly starting our journey moving over to Franklin next first up we  want to head to this part of the

map to trigger the bike theft random event now don't worry too  much about the footage we definitely want to do this with Franklin after you've returned the bike  with Franklin continue the game as normal do a few missions and sleep a bit whatever sometime in the  next in-game week or so Franklin will receive an email from the bike's owner have a quick read then  head to the stock market my portfolio and sell the stock and with any luck that should net Franklin  an additional one hundred thousan

d dollars or just shy thereof next head to the sonar collection  stock on the western side of the map with the money from the jewelry store job and the shares  from the mountain bike Franklin should have just enough money to purchase the dock once that's done  jump in the sub and collect the 30 lots of nuclear waste put an additional 690 Grand plus a refund on  the purchase price in the Franklin's bank account if Franklin does not have enough cash for this  check Trevor's account to see if he ca

n afford it and if not Michael will do but if you can do this  with Franklin that's your preferred option right over to Trevor next now Trevor already has some  money available so we're just going to top him up a bit by doing some freaks and strangers side  quests starting with this marker which triggers the Vinewood souvenir quest with Nigel and Mrs  Thornhill these are a bit of fun too nowhere near as tedious as the submarine collections when  you get to the last mission of the questline the l

ast act where you go to dispose of Al DiNapoli  on the way to the drop-off Al will offer you a bribe wait until the second offer of ten thousand  dollars then drop him off sticking with Trevor you should have received a message from Maude by the  time we get to this point head to her Freaks and stranger marker here and Maude will give you four  bounties to collect bring each of them in alive for an additional forty thousand dollars heading  to the base of the path to the altruist Camp next we'll

find this odd scene an approximation of a  scene from No Country for Old Men where we'll be able to finish off the remaining participants  and collect an easy 25 grand the final round of uh series a funding can be collected by  completing the altruist challenge this is where you drop off four poor souls to the outros  camp where we strongly suspect these cannibals will make soup of them I typically pick up the  most morally dubious characters to drop off as always there's a complete guide avail

able in the  description below and that's it for Trevor for now it's worth noting that you shouldn't worry  about any of the other businesses most of them lose money and the McKenzie Airfield Hangar will  take around four hours of grinding to break even let alone turn a profit and that's it for early  prep with this done Michael should be sitting on a little under three mil with Franklin around  a million and Trevor hopefully around the 330 Grand Mark okay time to get down to Brass tax  Investme

nts now the first and one of the most important things if you are driving around this  part of the map and see this guy asking for a ride do not pick him up don't instead head to the other  side of the road and deliberately avoid triggering the start of that random encounter he'll give us  a stock tip that yields 25 to 30 and we want to save that for later in the playthrough okay now  it's nearly time for our first investment now the great thing is this is all percentage based rather  than prici

ng that means that we can do these in any order and the returns will be more or less the  same also prices change from playthrough to play through the percentages remain on par between  games though start by doing a hard save of your game that's where you send a character to bed and  create a new save file as opposed to a regular auto save or just go into bed and then backing  out next we're going to confirm your game isn't bugged which happens maddeningly often heads  of the stock exchange on y

our phone and find augury Insurance that's Aug on the LCN exchange  and purchase one share one share exit out go to bed and immediately back out then check your phone  again if the shares there your game is fine if not your game is bugged and you may need to refer  to this guide or to check out the video in the description below assuming your game stock market  is fine you're good to go right so to recap we've covered using the in-game stock exchange fixing  the barstack exchange time skipping m

aximizing returns or saves coming what to do if you have too  much money raising seed Capital avoiding accident triggering the tinkle investment and the  disappearing stock bug so Franklin Michael and Trevor should all have a decent amount of cash  in the bank with Mr DeSanto really getting a solid Head Start the next thing we need to do and this  is part maximizing sundry cash and part minimizing distractions is clear all the side quests except  the Leicester one so that means I'd like you to c

omplete every story Mission that's available on  the map and visit every question mark again except the Leicester Franklin Mission which is denoted by  a green L on the map once the only thing left on the map is Franklin's Leicester Mission we're more  or less good to go so start by swapping to Michael then sync everything into better Pharmaceuticals  on the ball sack exchange once you've done that swap to Trevor and do the same thing finally  swap to Franklin and pour all his money into better

too then head to the L on the map which  will trigger the first Leicester assassination complete the mission then head back to a safe  house and either Franklin or Michael will do here using this sleep trick advance time a couple of  times we want to jump ahead around 12 to 18 hours once that's done you should see the price jump  sell your better stock on all three characters jump forward another one and a half days and  Trevor's your best bet for this in that time the price of bilkington that's

bil will tank buy  the stock then forward yourself another six days or so this is a bit tedious I know but once we're  there you should be able to sell your stock for some solid gains the next investment opportunity  needs a bit of forward planning so after Franklin and Trevor complete Eye in the Sky that's the one  where we steal the car using the police Chopper take each character to ammunition and load up on  ammo if you're Keen grab some weapons too Now's the Time we won't have money for a

bit so we need  to make sure we have everything we need for the next few missions once each character has tons of  ammunition and explosives on hand open the stock market on each character's phone and buy vangelico  that's vag continue playing the main quest line until you've completed the Polito co-host which  is the rural bank robbery then so your stock okay a few missions later we will have a quick  opportunity to give Trevor a bit of a top up too once you complete the mission Predator where 

you hunt down some of the O'Neill boys using a sniper rifle from a chopper and use strangers and  freaks Mission will unlock for Franklin where you can do a triathlon against Marianne Quinn after  you've completed the triath immediately swap from Franklin to Trevor then head to this location  near where the end of the race was once you're there you will see a new random encounter rescue  the young lady and drop her off and a little while later you'll receive a phone call and Trevor will  receiv

e a sixty thousand dollar reward our next investment opportunity isn't quite as lucrative  but it's still worth the effort same as evangelico though it takes a bit of forward planning once  you've completed surveying the score which is where we scope out the union depository a bit  later in the game it's all up again take each character to ammunition and load up on ammo if  you can grab some weapons too now hours of time we won't have any money for a bit so we need to make  sure we have everythi

ng we need for three pretty straightforward missions now the security company  group sex that's gr you has been a bit depressed since our last Heist and this is due to make a  recovery soon so once each character has tons of ammunition and explosives on hand jump into the  stock market then purchase group sex that's Gru continue the storyline until you've completed  fresh meat where Franklin rescues Michael from Chang then wait an additional 12 to 36 in-game  hours and sell for a modest profit s

ticking with the forward planning theme immediately after  you've completed legal trouble which is where Devin Weston's lawyer Molly puts herself through  a jet turbine Charming stuff anyway immediately after that mission head to ammunition and load up  all three characters again then sometime over the next 24 in-game hours the airline responsible  for the plane fly us will tank somewhere in the region of 50 now if your time should living here  use Michael because he only jumps six hours at a ti

me once you spot the dip go all in on fly us  that's Fus with all three characters then continue the storyline until the end of meltdown that's  the movie premiere where Michael has to save his family from Mary weather goons by the time  Michaels rescued his family the airline stock will have recovered so you can sell out and get  ready for the next one the next opportunity is a bit more complex as it comes in two parts so  once you've completed the Big Score that's the union depository job slee

p for a few days oh and  be sure not to go anywhere near Franklin's front door super important we're doing two things here  we want to wait to make sure augury insurance is well and truly depressed it might not dip but  we want to make sure it's staying put for the moment at the same time we're forcing the game  not to trigger the finale where Devon Weston visits Franklin right so after you're confident  the price of auguri is more or less stable sync everything into it then start the finale by 

going to Franklin's front door doesn't matter which option you pick either although option C  is the Canon ending once you've completed one of the endings Lester will give you a call and  deposit the funds from the Big Score into each character's account sync that money into augury  Insurance 2 which should already be making a modest recovery wait two to three in-game days  then divest for a pretty solid profit next up is tinkle remember that filler I said to avoid  like the plague at the start

of the video it's time to work easily invest everything you have  for all three characters into tinkle that's tnk on the ball sack exchange then grab a fast car and  head to The Pedestrian overpass near the beach to trigger the random encounter once you've dropped  our new friend back at the airport head back to your house and Advance Time by around 24 Hours  by sleeping a few times after that you should be able to sell for a solid 30 gain now the real  gains can start but before they do make s

ure Franklin's geared up with its sniper rifle ammo  and a suppressor heavy automatic ammo and RPG and that you've completed more or less everything  else on the map the only thing that should be left apart from unmarked Easter eggs is a green L  prior to starting the second Leicester Mission the multi-target assassination remembering the  hotel assassination was the first sync all three characters funds into Debonair that's Deb once  the mission's been completed wait 18 to 24 in-game hours then

sell once that's complete wait for  Redwood to dip and this normally takes somewhere between 24 and 36 in-game hours then wait another  three to four in-game days and exit and this one's actually a monster on every platform so  hopefully you've doubled or even tripled your money the third Lister assassination mission the  vice assassination won't quite net the same gains as the last one but it all helps so we'll start  by purchasing fruit that's frt once the mission is complete sell for a modes

t profit somewhere  around the 20 Mark with any luck then immediately purchase facade or fac wait three to four more  in-game days and then sell next up is leicester's fourth Mission the bus assassination this time  around we can jump straight in no pre-mission Investments needed once the target is down vapid  that's VIP will dip in Fairly short order purchase rapid with every character then wait around  three to four in-game days for a recovery and then sell and for our final major trade we're

on  to leicester's last mission at the construction assassination prior to starting purchase Gold  Coast development or gcd once a construction mob boss has been squared away wait one to two in-game  days and exit your position if you can with a tidy profit and with that you should have more money  than the game could even handle time to go out and buy well everything now if you've done this  right there's a better than average chance you won't actually be able to sell all your stock if  that's

the case open the stock exchange go to my portfolio click on the share itself not the sell  all button but the share then crank up the number of shares until you get bored and click the sell  button after that you can spend up buy businesses properties Vehicles weapons whatever you like once  you're done you can top up your funds by going back to your stock portfolio and selling more  shares and that's it thanks for watching check out the video of the top for a guide on making money  without Lei

cester well the one down the bottom for some more old grumpy gamer goodness stay safe wash  your hands and we'll see you in the next video