# EVE should have a Stock Market

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**Category:** Market Discussions\
**Created:** [July 10, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-should-have-a-stock-market/254166 "2020-07-10T23:24:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Troy\_Cintryx](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/troy_cintryx/32/410838_2.png) [@Troy\_Cintryx](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Troy_Cintryx)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-should-have-a-stock-market/254166/1 "2020-07-10T23:24:00Z")

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I know this was discussed amongst the playerbase years and years ago, but nothing ever happened.

Given that EVE is based mainly on corporations, you would think there would be a stock market for buying and selling of shares of ownership of these corporations. Unfortunately for reasons that I will get into, this has never materialized.

You can, of course, privately buy and sell shares of corporations on EVE, but there isn’t a central market (much like the EVE market) for this to happen.

The main reason is that there would simply be too much corruption. For example, I could create a corporation, and place $1 trillion ISK in the wallet, thereby driving up the share price. I could then sell 49% of shares in that corporation for however many billions, withdraw the $1 trillion, and close the corp, keeping the profits from the sale of stock.

Also, there is no protection from a CEO/Owner from voting to increase the # of shares in a corporation at any given time, thereby diluting the value of all outstanding shares.

As I said, this idea is not without problems. However, given the incredible brain trust that EVE has, I would hope there is a workable solution to this.

So, if you have any ideas, then please feel free to share them!

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**Author:** ![Xeux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xeux/32/428022_2.png) [@Xeux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xeux)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-should-have-a-stock-market/254166/2 "2020-07-11T01:07:07Z")

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Stock markets work because the investors believe that the corporations will make a profit of some sort. Corporations in Eve are mostly just social clubs.

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**Author:** ![CistaCista](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cistacista/32/482254_2.png) [@CistaCista](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/CistaCista)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-should-have-a-stock-market/254166/3 "2020-07-11T09:24:20Z")

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> [@Troy\_Cintryx](#):
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> The main reason is that there would simply be too much corruption.

You could have a functioning stock market that would be the facilitator of this corruption - just like the Markeplace is facilitating market manipulations. Noone expects all EVE entrepeneurs to be honest people.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-should-have-a-stock-market/254166/4 "2020-10-09T09:24:27Z")

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