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In the current example, the line for Chocolate is identical in form to the line for Cereals. But the line for Butter is quite different; it reads "MODE CHANGE Butter old mode was 5 [fluctuating] and new mode is 1 [slowly rising] at $23.48". Mode changes are still extremely important to the trading strategy, and the all caps notification is used to make these changes easier to see.
Following the mode change is the line "=====$$$=== Buying Butter at $23.48". All purchases and sales by CookiStocker are preceded by the string "=====$$$===", once again for visibility purposes. Purchases and sales do not always follow mode changes, nor are mode changes always followed by a purchase or sale, as can be seen in this example. But this is the one place where you can track profits or losses from individual stock sales.
Note that for stock sales, figures are given for both profit and total revenue. "Profit" is the difference between the total amount received from the sale of the stock minus the amount paid for it, while "total revenue" is simply the total amount received from the sale of the stock. However, it is the total revenue that is added to the "Profits:" figure in the upper left of the stock market display, as this number has already been decreased by the amount used for the purchase of the stock. As this "Profits" figure grows larger, it will gradually converge with the total of the profits from stock sales shown in these reports.
The periodic report starts at the line directly after the last stock, which is You (in this case, labeled "z"). The first line of the report is the one that says:
The next six lines contain various statistics that some people may find useful. The item "Unrealized profits" is the total amount of profits that would be obtained if all stocks that are currently held were sold. This can give you a good idea of how much profit potential there is in your current holdings.
After this comes the detailed part of the profit report, laid out in what appears to be an array. The indices of the array are simply the modes in which the stocks were bought and sold, respectively. So the first line, which starts "Profits [0][0]" refers to stocks that were both bought and sold while in mode 0; the second line that starts "Profits [0][1]" refers to stocks that were bought while in mode 0 but sold while in mode 1, etc. As for the columns after the equals sign, the first column represents the total profits for this mode combination since the start of this run; the second column shows what percentage this is of all profits made since the beginning of this run; the third column shows any profits or losses made since the last periodic report; and the fourth column shows the number of completed trades (i.e., sales) for this mode combination since the beginning of the run.
After the 36 "Profits" lines come six "Subtotals" lines with just a single index. For these lines, the index signifies the mode in which the stocks were bought, so that each group of six lines from the previous section is summarized in a single line in this section. Finally, there is a single line summarizing the total profits for this run.
Following all of this, there is a line that conveniently summarizes the profits per hour and profits per day for this run. In case the tick length has been changed from its default of one minute, these figures are adjusted to be what they would be if the tick length had been one minute, Thus, we see that the profit per day is $13.598 million - the same figure we calculated above.
The next line converts these dollar figures into numbers of cookies; the conversion rate depends on your highest number of raw cookies per second produced during this ascension.
The next three lines are optional, and appear only if your tick length is not the standard one minute length. If this is the case, these lines show the actual ("true") numbers of dollars and cookies produced per hour and per day.
Now this may all be very interesting, but where it turns out to be especially useful is where you run the console output through a filter that retains only those lines containing a specific stock name. For example, here's the first part of the results of doing that when one selects the Nuts stock: