Corps

ok so about 4 days ago i changed my state corp trade strategy to time based. when ordering products it was buying things at the market price minus 96 percent. and then it increased 6 percent each month not bought. several people recommended this. well it crashed my economy. i had no supplies so i had no production and no employment. i ended up going threw each one of my corps and changing the buy orders to immediate orders which cut into my corp cash. and i had to change it back to best price. even with the 12 month 24 month mark for buying my country was trying to buy say 400000 tons of steel for example for 12 or 128 sc. basically low. all my corps lost half their value. so i slashed my tax rate down to 15 percent kept profit sharing at 51 and now i have much more profit then before. all my corps are producing at like 129 right now. my question is why is that and how do i know when everything levels off. because i cant exactly tell the true value of empl

Starting at -96% +6%/month, it could take up to 16-19 months to sell. That would get you some great buys on occasion. But you would need a low water mark somewhere around 16+ months to guarantee no shortages.
As for hitting 129% production, I have no idea.