Being Sneaky

One of the advantages to having total control over a market is you can be sneaky about things and as long as you don't do anything totally egregious, no one is the wiser.  For the sake of gameplay and market flow we are experimenting with all kinds of stuff that you can't do on a real market, for obvious reasons:

1. Selling something at one price, but actually charging (or crediting) the user a different value... That sounds confusing but what I am trying to say is that if the market can't match up a buy and sell order at an equal price, we bend the rules a little bit, and send the stock over to the buyer at the price they put in their buy order but still credit the seller with the full price they asked for... sneaky, but in stocks that aren't moving much, this logic may force the action a little bit.
2. Putting stocks with the most open sell orders in front of the user first... Someone has to start buying it!
3. Using helper AI ("the broker") to identify and push along slow moving stocks by recommending users buy (or sell) them.
4. Automatically crediting shares of slow moving stocks to users as daily log-on gifts.  Even if they immediately turn around and sell the stock, there will start to be some movement. 

Sneaky.