The sequential appears to be working, and if you look at the old-new the qvalues appear to converge. The qvalues are double the corresponding profits. profits: ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0125 0.05 0.0875 0.0875 0.0875 0.0875 0.025 0.025 0.1 0.175 0.175 0.175 0.0375 0.0375 0.0375 0.15 0.2625 0.2625 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.2 0.35 0.0625 0.0625 0.0625 0.0625 0.0625 0.25 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 0.0125 0.025 0.0375 0.05 0.0625 0 0.05 0.025 0.0375 0.05 0.0625 0 0.0875 0.1 0.0375 0.05 0.0625 0 0.0875 0.175 0.15 0.05 0.0625 0 0.0875 0.175 0.2625 0.2 0.0625 0 0.0875 0.175 0.2625 0.35 0.25 ------------------------------------------------------------ qvalues (I got the same qvalues regardless of which seller had the fixed price): For 0.7, wA=0.25, wB=0.75, gamma=0.001, epsilon=100% ------------------------------------------------------------ 500211 2 5 0 ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0002002 0.1752 0.2002 0.0752002 0.1002 0.1252 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.003 0 0 For 0.8, wA=0.25, wB=0.75, gamma=0.001, epsilon=100% ------------------------------------------------------------ 500622 3 1 0 ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00035035 0.17535 0.35035 0.30035 0.10035 0.12535 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.004125 0 0