STOCK MARKET CRASH GUIDE: ARBITRAGE
If you are constantly bottlenecked by a lack of Valley Stock Bills or Wuling Stock Bills, you are likely playing Arknights: Endfield purely as an action RPG and ignoring its most powerful underlying mechanic: macroeconomics.
Endfield features a fully simulated, player-driven stock market known as Stock Redistribution. While casual players earn a trickle of income from basic Outpost trading and enemy drops, the endgame economy revolves entirely around Elastic Goods Arbitrage. By treating your factory as a hedge fund and exploiting price discrepancies across your friends’ servers, you can routinely achieve 900% to 1000% profit margins and farm millions of Stock Bills with zero combat required.
Here is the exact daily trading loop to manipulate the market and maximize your profit margins.
1. Unlocking the Stock Redistribution Market
Before you can start day-trading, you need to gain access to the market terminals.
- Hit Authority Level 15: The market is strictly gated behind this player level.
- Complete the Quest: Finish the main mission Paving the Way in Valley IV, which triggers the side quest Restart Area Stock Redistribution I.
- Authorize the Terminal: Speak to the NPC Lucky Carrot near the Worker Dorms in the Hub. This unlocks your local Dijiang (Redistribution Terminal).
Crucial First Step: Your Level 1 terminal only sells “Staple Goods” (permanent upgrade materials and Headhunting Permits). You must spend roughly 4,500 Valley Stock Bills to upgrade the terminal to Level 2. This unlocks the “Elastic Goods” tab—the highly volatile commodities where real wealth is generated.
2. The Mechanics of Elastic Goods
Unlike Stable Goods, Elastic Goods fluctuate wildly in price every single day at server reset. The base price for a standard Elastic Good is typically around 2,000 Stock Bills.
The algorithmic market can crash this price down by 75% to 90% (dropping the asset to 300–500 Stock Bills) or artificially inflate the demand up by 250%+ (raising the price to 5,000+ Stock Bills).
The Golden Rule: Never buy and sell in the same local market on the same day.
3. The Arbitrage Strategy: Exploiting Your Friends List
The secret to crashing the Endfield economy lies in cross-regional arbitrage. Every player’s local market seeds different price fluctuations. Your local economy might be in a recession (extremely low prices), while a friend’s economy is experiencing a massive demand bubble.
Here is the exact daily execution strategy:
- Check Local Discounts: At daily reset, check your Elastic Goods. Look for assets heavily in the red (e.g., -60% to -80% below market value).
- Max Out the Purchase Limit: Buy the absolute maximum daily limit of these crashed assets. Do not sell them to your own terminal.
- Scout the Network: Open your inventory, select the Elastic Good you just hoarded, and click the Friend’s Price button. This opens a ledger showing the current buy price at every Dijiang terminal on your friends list.
- Execute the Dump: Find a friend whose market is buying the asset at a massive premium (e.g., +150% to +200%). Click their profile picture to visit their base, walk up to their Redistribution Terminal, and dump your entire inventory into their economy.
The Profit Mathematics
If you buy an Elastic Good locally at a -75% discount (500 Stock Bills) and travel to a friend’s base where the demand is surging at +150% (5,000 Stock Bills), your profit calculation is simple:
(5000 - 500) / 500 = 900% Profit Margin
By upgrading your Stock Redistributor to Level 3 and Level 4 to increase your daily purchase caps, a single 5-minute daily arbitrage run can easily net you upwards of 1.5 million Stock Bills.
4. The Real Meta: Expanding Your Network
Because this system relies entirely on statistical variance, a small friends list severely limits your profit potential. The “meta” for Endfield’s endgame economy is aggressively adding active players to your friends list. The larger your network, the higher the probability that at least one person is experiencing a massive price surge on the exact day you are holding cheap assets.
Always keep 20% of your Stock Bills in liquid reserve. You never know when the market will crash, and you need capital ready to buy the dip.