How does the post office stock work?

[qny4]

I could only afford one stock at the start, and now the price has more than doubled. Can I withhold selling envelopes with the stock reduction bonus to force a price crash, or should I just buy them at the high price? or just not buy any?

[Sup]

There is an upgrade you can buy for mail enthusiast that when a mail is out of stock the price drops x4 as fast. You do this back and forth to manipulate the stock market to buy all stocks low and sell high

[Rogue]

So I just experimented with this and I recommend not manipulating the post office stocks at all. Just do whatever you can to buy 100% of the stocks as soon as possible to get those dividends. Once the dividends start rolling in, double down on them if you want, and cash out. I tried messing with the post stock prices and compared to the dividends, it's not worth it. I tanked the stock prices, bought it all back and it took a long time to recover.

[Sup]

Originally posted by Rogue:

So I just experimented with this and I recommend not manipulating the post office stocks at all. Just do whatever you can to buy 100% of the stocks as soon as possible to get those dividends. Once the dividends start rolling in, double down on them if you want, and cash out. I tried messing with the post stock prices and compared to the dividends, it's not worth it. I tanked the stock prices, bought it all back and it took a long time to recover.

I progressed more in the game and messed around more, and i agree, it's too much work to manipulate the stock market to wait for it to go up and down significantly. You can make a decent amount of money early game, but it's far more profitable to let the stock price only go up, and benefit from the upgrades once you unlock mailnan. just switch between the two upgrades, gain 1 post stock and increase post stock by 10 for each purchase, which is much faster and can give a lot of gold (mine is about 2M gold for selling 100 stocks atm). It works pretty good for late 2nd city and early capital. Once in the capital its far more profitable to just sell the rare materials like metal and oil and use the time pineapple to increase the restock rate (w/ pineapple upgrade via greedy apple)