Currently, due to cost basis loans, trader bonuses, and liquidity subsidies, Manifold "stocks" - permanent markets - are net sources of free mana.
This could be changed to make them mana sinks. Eg, maybe users could burn mana to move the price up or down further than they could by buying and selling.
Resolves YES if they are clearly overall mana sinks at market close, NO if they are still mana sources, and PROB if it is unclear to me.
This is somewhat subjective and I won't trade in this market as a result.
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@duck_master trading fees will be here soon, and unique trader bonuses abolished. Some of the trading fees will go to the creator, but some go to Manifold, so that's a sink.
@duck_master And loans are being done away with too so people can't leverage up and print mana for others by going negative when they sell. Liquidity subsidies are less clear, my reading of the community guidelines is that stonks should be unsubsidised, but it looks like enforcement is lax.
Edit: looks like new stonks are automatically unsubsidised. The old ones, presumably mods just haven't bothered to unsub them (yet).
That should be everything. Trader bonuses, liquidity subsidies gone, fees in, will definitely be a sink if those changes are in place by market close.
@chrisjbillington ah, unique trader bonuses are not going away! Yet - manifold says it's still the plan, but not being turned of at the same time fees roll out. Noneless, being unranked and unsubsidised (I forget which is the relevant toggle) means stonks aren't eligible for unique trader bonuses anyway.