Creating a Stock Market in Monopoly

My friend and I decided to play a board game over the weekend. We landed on monopoly, but due to how long an average game takes, we decided to play Monopoly Empire. A slight variant of the original game but follows the same premises. The game revolves around buying companies rather than properties. We decided to create a stock market along the side of the normal game. Before explaining further, I must tell you how the money worked. In the bank we had $50, $100 and $500 bills. At the start of the game each player had $1000. We decided that the money would value something else, as well as creating a new dollar bill. Following numerous rounds, some share values needed a $25 note, we made one by simply folding a corner on a $50, this then would be worth $25. On the stock market, once a company was valued at $50 ($25 and $25), if the company is rolled decrease then it goes bankrupt and is taken off of the stock exchange, available to be brought again if landed on.

$25 = $25m

$50 = $50m

$100 = $100m

$500 = $500m

First, we each put up $200 to buy a 50% share each in Coca Cola, we then put the 'stock' to one side in two piles (depicting the shares) with the Coca Cola tile on it. Then, going around the board, we said you can either outright buy a company, or propose a stock flotation. The stock flotation allows the player who landed on the property to set the share value and also how big of a stake can be sold. A lot of the businesses were $150, $250, $350... so we would just do a $100/$50 or 66.6%/33.3%. After a round of dice rolling, we then had two spinning wheels. One spinning wheel had the companies on and the other had increase or decrease. We would spin the company wheel and then the second wheel. If the wheel landed on decrease, the share value would half, if increase, then it doubles. We started of with 1 'price change' at the end of each round, but then made in 2 when he had over 5 stocks on the market. At its peak, our market had 14 companies listed, ranging from Xbox and Samsung to a Plumbers Company! Ultimately, the market did grow in value and the game finished when we bankrupted the bank. By the last rounds there was about 7 companies on the market, all valued at over $1000, Coca-Cola was valued at $8000. At the end of the round, Coca Cola was span followed by an increase. This action broke bank, leaving them in $2000 debt. And that is how we beat the bank on a stock exchange made by ourselves.

I would love to try this concept again, potentially incorporating new rules and even a Real Estate market. I would love to try this with multiple people too, allowing a much more open market and negotiations would be more extreme. 1, then 2 companies would change in value at the end of each rolling round, I believe if there were 4 players, with 15 companies on the market, they should spin 4 companies! This would create a much more volatile market allowing more exciting financial trades and scenarios.