Players in Aktienrausch buy and sell shares in six different companies in order to make money. Cash is represented by cards which do double duty: in a dividend round, the money paid to the different companies for their stock is played out in an unusual way to determine the dividend payments. Another key aspect of the game is deciding when to take profits as cash and when to put it in one's Swiss bank account: cash is necessary to buy stock but the Swiss bank account balance is what wins the game.