Highlights
- Grand Theft Auto 5 offers players a unique stock market system to make money fast by investing in different companies.
- Players can access the stock market through BAWSAQ and the LSN Exchange, where they can see real-time company performance and make wise investment choices.
- By completing Lester's Assassination Missions and strategically investing in specific stocks, players can maximize their profits and potentially double or even triple their initial investment.
Grand Theft Auto 5 introduces a unique system for players to manipulate and abuse to get money. For those interested in the stock market, Grand Theft Auto 5 has its version, complete with many different companies for players to invest their hard-earned and stolen cash into. By playing the stock market properly, players will find an efficient way to get money fast in Grand Theft Auto 5.
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There are plenty of different stock options in Grand Theft Auto 5, and some players may be a tad confused on which stocks to invest in, and when. The stock market, much like real life, can be a tad unpredictable in Grand Theft Auto 5, but these options and choices are a surefire way to get money.
It’s worth noting that the most efficient way to play the stock market in Grand Theft Auto 5 to make money quickly is to rely on Lester’s Assassination Missions. This will be a detailed list of how to manipulate the stock market thanks to these Assassination Missions in Grand Theft Auto 5, and the most important stocks to invest in at the right time for the maximum profit.
Updated on November 26, 2023, by Jake Fillery: Playing the stock market is no easy task in real life, let alone for Grand Theft Auto 5. Luckily, in GTA 5, players can somewhat cheat and manipulate the stock market to find the best stocks to buy in order to obtain the greatest profit from the least amount of money spent. The stock market is certainly how players can get rich in GTA 5 fast, and this update will help teach players not only how to use the stock market through BAWSAQ and the LSN Exchange, but it will also go through Lester's Assassination missions, noting the maximum profit players can make and the stock they will need to purchase to do so.
How To Use The Stock Market
BAWSAQ & LSN Exchange
Players will need to access the internet on GTA 5. Whether that's through their in-game phone or a laptop, they need to open up the Internet icon and then click the Money and Services tab. From here, they have two options: BAWSAQ and the LSN Exchange. These are the two in-game stock markets that players will be accessing through the majority of Lester's Assassination Missions.
Home: This page will show what companies are doing the best, and which are doing the worst in real-time.
Markets: This page shows players what companies they can invest in on each of the websites. It is also important to note that players can see the Current Price, Price Movement, and % Change for each of these companies, allowing them to invest their money wisely.
My Portfolio: This is the page that players will use once they purchase stocks, as it will show the companies players have stock in, whilst also showing the Current Price, Return Price, and Profit of said stock.
Clicking on any stock, players will be able to buy stock and see the weekly statistics in a graph format for this stock. Players will be able to see the value of the stock and its highest and lowest information points which will help influence players' purchases.
Before every Lester's Assassination mission, players will need to switch to each of the three protagonists: Trevor, Michael, and Franklin, and invest in the stocks listed below. It's always best to manually save a game before the mission, just in case things go awry.
How Do The Stock Markets Work?
The Dual Markets of LCN & BAWSAQ
LCN - the stock market for LCN stocks will peak within 24 in-game hours, giving players one in-game day after Lester's assassination mission to see the height of potential returns before those returns begin to decline.
BAWSAQ - Immediately after Lester's Assassination mission, the stock invited into BAWSAQ's markets will decline after 24 in-game hours, meaning this is the market players should look to first once the mission is over.
The Hotel Assassination
Potential Return Of 200%
The first Assassination Mission that Franklin can complete in Grand Theft Auto 5 requires him to kill the CEO of Bilkinton Research, Brett Lowrey. Players will travel to the Von Crastenburg Hotel, where they will either kill the CEO with a sniper rifle or blow up his car once he is inside. Nobody in Los Santos is ever safe.
Betta Pharmaceuticals
Before players begin the mission, they are going to want to invest all of their money on their characters into Betta Pharmaceuticals over at BAWSAQ. Once the mission is complete, players will be able to sell all of their stocks around after two in-game hours, for a potential return of 50% more money than they invested initially.
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Bilkinton Research
Even better, when the mission is over, players should purchase the low stocks from Bilkinton Research at the LCN Exchange. Every penny the player has should go into the Bilkinton Research within 48 in-game hours since the completion of the Hotel Assassination Mission. After 72 in-game hours, players should sell all their Bilkinton Research stock for a potential return of 100% of their investment, almost doubling their entire amount of cash.
The Multi-Target Assassination
Potential Return Of 400%
The next Assassination Contract from Lester in Grand Theft Auto 5 is the Multi-Target Assassination. This will see Franklin search out four targets, each of which is a juror that has been paid off by Redwood Cigarettes to help with a potential lawsuit.
Debonaire
Before the mission begins, players should exchange all of their characters’ money for stocks in Debonaire on the LCN Exchange. After 2 in-game days, return to the LCN Exchange website to cash out their stocks, and see a potential return of 60%.
Redwood Cigarettes
The next best stock to invest in Grand Theft Auto 5 is Redwood Cigarettes on LCN Exchange, but only after the stock has plummeted as far as it can go, which can take up to 48 in-game hours. Redwood Cigarettes is by far the best investment, as after 72 in-game hours, players could see the potential for 300% more money than they invested.
The Vice Assassination
Potential Return Of 60%
More chicanery with the stock market sees Franklin receive his next target. Facade’s CEO, Jackson Skinner, is on the hit list, and it’s up to Franklin to take him out while he’s seeing a working girl at La Puerta. In doing so, Fruit Computer’s stock price would increase greatly.
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Fruit Computers
Before starting the Vice Assassination, players should take all their hard-earned and stolen blood money and invest it fully into Fruit Computers at BAWSAQ. After two in-game hours, players can expect a return of 50% of their cash, thus growing their money even further than before.
Facade
Next, comes Facade over at BAWSAQ. Players can invest their money into these stocks after they are at their lowest. After 48 in-game hours, Facade will allow players to grow their income by another 35%. Whilst less than previous stock entries, it’s still a great deal of money just waiting to be claimed.
The Bus Assassination
Potential Return Of 100%
This Assassination Mission is easier than the others, as it only requires players to invest in one stock in particular rather than juggling time and two stocks. Players need to take out Isaac Penny, the billionaire that is set to take control of Vapid.
Vapid
From the BAWSAQ stock exchange, players want to invest in Vapid stocks two in-game hours after completing the mission. After, players will need to wait without their money for 48 in-game hours, and then sell their stocks for another potential return of 100%, doubling their ever-increasing money once more.
The Construction Assassination
Potential Return Of 80%
The final Assassination Contract will see the last target, Enzo Bonelli, in the limelight for murder because he has been taking on work for the Gold Coast company, which is the sole target of Lester and Franklin’s latest and last business venture.
Gold Coast
Before the mission starts, players want to invest all of their money once again into the LCN Exchange website for the Gold Coast stocks. Then, after the mission has been completed, it will only take around two in-game hours for players to see a potential return of 75%, maximizing their return, and running away with this get-rich-quick scheme in Grand Theft Auto 5. It’s by far one of the best ways of how to make Grand Theft Auto 5 money fast by using the Stock Market tricks.
Grand Theft Auto 5
- Platform(s)
- PS5 , PS4 , PS3 , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S , Xbox One , Xbox 360 , PC
- Released
- September 17, 2013
- Developer(s)
- Rockstar North
- Publisher(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Genre(s)
- Open-World , Action
