Box-Office Gurus: How about a DVDTalk HSX League?
04-06-04, 10:03 AM
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Box-Office Gurus: How about a DVDTalk HSX League?
There’s been a lot of talk lately on the board about box office and what-not, and I thought it would be fun to have get a little competition going. And what better way to do that than through the Hollywood Stock Exchange?
What is the Hollywood Stock Exchange? From the website: “Buy shares of your favorite actors and their new movies. Watch their values rise or fall based on their success. Prices soar with a blockbuster opening at the box office and plummet with a bomb no one went to see.” For those who have never played, the game is as a complicated or as easy as you want to make it (much like the real stock market).
Now, I know several of you already have HSX accounts. To keep things fair, in order to participate in the league you’ll need to start up a new account. Here’s what you need to do to join the league:
1. Go to www.hsx.com and start up a new account.
2. You can use any username you want, although if everybody used the format “DVDTalk_[DVDTalk Username]” it would make things easier to track. For example, my account for the league will be DVDTalk_Groucho.
3. When signing up, put down DVDTalk_kninestile in the "Did a friend refer you?" column. Feel free to take advantage of any of the special offers and freebies offered at this time as well.
4. After you sign up, go to “Account Information” and set your “Screen Name” to be exactly the same as your screen name here at DVDTalk. This will help avoid confusion.
5. Come back here and post your HSX user name. You need to have about H$2,000,000 in your account or I won’t add you to the league.
6. You may start trading immediately. New players are always welcome.
7. After trading begins, entry into the league will still be open, using the same rules for newcomers.
Sound like fun? I hope so! Let’s do it.
Rememeber, new players: add today's "Bottom Feeder" (DVDTalk_kninestile) as your referral when signing up!
Current Participants (it's never to late to join!):
What is the Hollywood Stock Exchange? From the website: “Buy shares of your favorite actors and their new movies. Watch their values rise or fall based on their success. Prices soar with a blockbuster opening at the box office and plummet with a bomb no one went to see.” For those who have never played, the game is as a complicated or as easy as you want to make it (much like the real stock market).
Now, I know several of you already have HSX accounts. To keep things fair, in order to participate in the league you’ll need to start up a new account. Here’s what you need to do to join the league:
1. Go to www.hsx.com and start up a new account.
2. You can use any username you want, although if everybody used the format “DVDTalk_[DVDTalk Username]” it would make things easier to track. For example, my account for the league will be DVDTalk_Groucho.
3. When signing up, put down DVDTalk_kninestile in the "Did a friend refer you?" column. Feel free to take advantage of any of the special offers and freebies offered at this time as well.
4. After you sign up, go to “Account Information” and set your “Screen Name” to be exactly the same as your screen name here at DVDTalk. This will help avoid confusion.
5. Come back here and post your HSX user name. You need to have about H$2,000,000 in your account or I won’t add you to the league.
6. You may start trading immediately. New players are always welcome.
7. After trading begins, entry into the league will still be open, using the same rules for newcomers.
Sound like fun? I hope so! Let’s do it.
Rememeber, new players: add today's "Bottom Feeder" (DVDTalk_kninestile) as your referral when signing up!
Current Participants (it's never to late to join!):
| DVDTalk Username | HSX Username |
| Anjanettea | DVDTalk_Anjanettea |
| Antennaball | DVDTalk_antennaball |
| B.A. | DVDTalk_BA |
| BadlyDrawnBoy | BadlyDrawnBoy |
| BRIAN_1972 | DVDTalk_BRIAN_1972 |
| Corvin | DVDTalk_Corvin |
| cruzness | DVDTalk_cruzness |
| devilshalo | devilshalo |
| DRG | DVDTalk_DRG |
| flashburn | DVDTalk_flashburn |
| fnordboy | DVDTalk_fnordboy |
| Fred C. Dobbs | DVDTalk_FredCDobbs |
| gcribbs | Dvdtalk_gcribbs |
| Giles | DVDTalk_Giles |
| Groucho | DVDTalk_Groucho2 |
| innocentfreak | DVDTalk_Bizastard |
| Jack's Smirking | DVDTalk_JacksSmirk |
| Jackskeleton | DVDTALK_Jackskeleton |
| JasonF | DVDTalk_JasonF |
| jdpatri | jdpatri |
| J-Dubya | JDubya |
| kninestile | DVDTalk_kninestile |
| Kumar J | Dvdtalk_KumarJ |
| mano365 | DVDTalk_mano365 |
| matome | matome |
| Mittman | DVDTalk_Mittman |
| movieking | DVDTalk_Movieking |
| OutcastJA | DVDTalk_outcastja |
| RoboDad | DVDTalk_RoboDad |
| Sherbz | DVDTalk_Sherbz |
| shill66 | dvdtalk_swh |
| shimmoril | DVDTalk_shimmoril |
| Suprmallet | DVDTalk_Suprmallet |
| The Dude | DVDTalk_TheDude |
| TomOpus | DVDTalk_TomOpus |
| Trigger | DVDTalk_Trigger |
Last edited by Groucho; 04-12-04 at 08:15 AM.
04-06-04, 11:14 AM
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Originally posted by Trigger
I took their suggestion for securities or whatever and got stuck with some crap.
I took their suggestion for securities or whatever and got stuck with some crap.
Successfully added Trigger and Giles, but user name "DVDTalk_Antennaball" is not showing up as valid.
04-06-04, 11:18 AM
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Originally posted by Groucho
Under "Account Information" there's an option to reset your account back to H$2,000,000.
Successfully added Trigger and Giles, but user name "DVDTalk_Antennaball" is not showing up as valid.
Under "Account Information" there's an option to reset your account back to H$2,000,000.
Successfully added Trigger and Giles, but user name "DVDTalk_Antennaball" is not showing up as valid.
04-06-04, 11:31 AM
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Originally posted by Trigger
Should I go back to the way I started and not take their securities?
Should I go back to the way I started and not take their securities?
04-06-04, 11:35 AM
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No - I didn't take any freebies - after they opened my account, they asked me if i wanted to accept some randomly generated securities stocks and I had it generate new lists a few times and accepted it. It took half my money.
04-06-04, 11:36 AM
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Originally posted by Trigger
No - I didn't take any freebies - after they opened my account, they asked me if i wanted to accept some randomly generated securities stocks and I had it generate new lists a few times and accepted it. It took half my money.
No - I didn't take any freebies - after they opened my account, they asked me if i wanted to accept some randomly generated securities stocks and I had it generate new lists a few times and accepted it. It took half my money.
04-06-04, 01:50 PM
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Originally posted by devilshalo
Are we limiting this to weekend openings over/under and the blockbuster over/under funds?
Are we limiting this to weekend openings over/under and the blockbuster over/under funds?
04-06-04, 01:59 PM
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Holy crap, I hadn't checked my account in years since it went in the toilet, and suddenly it's worth $4 mill+, thanks entirely to 17,000 shares of Liv Tyler that I bought for $7 a share...
