alaric.us: Funny thing happened. So about four months ago, at the very end of September, I became a little concerned about the market. With the supposed AI bubble and what not. (I don't think AI is evil or that it is going away, but I do think that some AI companies could be overvalued.) So I rearranged my investment portfolio a bit. Nothing too dramatic, just took some profits from AI-heavy stocks, paid off one of my properties, and bought a few pounds of gold.
Then I forgot about it.
Fast forward to today. I was moving some money around for tax purposes and decided to check up on that gold I bought. It's up 30% in just under four months. Not my most successful investment by a long shot, but the speed is impressive! Looks like I made a good call, because the stocks I sold to buy it definitely didn't grow anywhere as fast. One actually dropped 10% and the other only grew a fraction of a percent.
It's so fun, someone should make a videogame about it.
Heard of a game called Drug Wars? That game is based around that idea, only it involves illegal drugs rather than stocks (but there's no reason the game couldn't be reflavored).
I've actually seen stock market minigames in a couple incremental games.