Save before the original mission
The Hotel Assassination is required during the story. Leave the other four assassination jobs until after the final heist if you want more capital available. Keep a manual save before buying and before entering each mission. Each protagonist has a separate portfolio.
The trade sequence
- Hotel: buy Betta Pharmaceuticals on BAWSAQ before the mission; Bilkinton on LCN is a later recovery trade.
- Multi Target: buy Debonaire on LCN before the mission, then watch for the Redwood recovery after the fall.
- Vice: buy Fruit on BAWSAQ before the mission; Facade is the subsequent recovery trade.
- Bus: buy Vapid on BAWSAQ after the mission-driven decline, not before the mission.
- Construction: buy GoldCoast on LCN before starting.
Sell what your save actually shows
Watch each portfolio and sell when the observed rise stops. Published peak percentages are not universal. Check BAWSAQ availability before a BAWSAQ-dependent job. Replaying a mission from the replay menu does not recreate the investment opportunity in the persistent save. This concerns fictional Story Mode shares, not GTA Online.