.TH "BUY COMMAND"
The buy command is used to offer to buy shares of stock.
The general form of the command is:
.EX "buy [ chain_name [ number [ max-price ] ] ]"
Only stock in existing chains can be traded.
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Here are some examples of the buy command.
.NF
[15m] ::: buy
Chain name? u
Outstanding buy offers for Uncle Jerry's Place
  4 @ $54 (The Bank)
Outstanding sell offers for Uncle Jerry's Place
 96 @ $66 (The Bank)
You have $742
Number of shares? 9
Price you're bidding? 66
9 bought from The Bank
.FI
In this case we were willing to pay the Bank's price so we got them right away.
.s3
.NF
[23m] ::: buy o
Outstanding buy offers for Oh Fred's
  40 @ $190 (The Bank)
  10 @ $195 (Uncle Jerry)
Outstanding sell offers for Oh Fred's
 60 @ $220 (The Bank)
 1 @ $200 (Scrooge)
You have $547
Number of shares? 2
Price you're bidding? 200
1 bought from Scrooge
Offer to buy 1 posted.
.FI
In this case we weren't willing to pay the Bank's high price so we got
one share from Scrooge at $200 and an offer to buy one share at $200
was left posted.
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.NF
[3m] ::: buy k 20
Outstanding buy offers for Krunch Korral
  20 @ $195 (Big Bob)
  10 @ $198 (Gypsy Gyppo)
  2 @ $210 (Bonzo)
Do you want to retract that offer? yes
  10 @ $200 (JP)
No outstanding sell offers for Krunch Korral
You have $1108
Price you're bidding? 250
Maximum price you're willing to pay? 250
Offer to buy 4 posted.
.FI
Apparently Krunch Korral is in great demand so we've decided to pull out all
the stops and offer $250 for it, so we retract our offer to buy 2 at $210
and try for 20 at $250.  Unfortunately we have less than $1250 on hand so an
offer to buy 4 at $250 is posted (although we tried to ask for 20 the program
trimmed it back to the number we could afford).
.s3
Trading activity is reported in the "Fast Food Journal".
.s3
See also: finance, journal, param, price, sell, tycoon
