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Introduction
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2000
January
The New Year proves
to be a difficult time in the HSX fansite world.
HSJ calls it quits.
HSX Talk Soup ceases
to be a HSX fansite.
HSBR goes down for an
extended period of time.
Fiscal year 1999 comes
to end with a leaderboard controversy. It is determined that
any portfolio that started the year at less than 2M starting value
does not qualify for leaderboard status. This leads to two
versions of the year end leader board.
Next Friday opens with
a 13K+ per screen average and adjusts up over 20 points.
HSJ re-opens with members
of HEX, HSX Advice, and The Players aboard.
HSJ self-destructs as
the previous mostly text based history of HSJ provides too much
of a hurdle to overcome in working with the graphically talented
Webbie of HEX.
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February
HSJ opens
(again) with a very basic, almost entirely text based format.
SCRM3 shatters
the February opening weekend record with a 34.7M opening.
SWNDY proves
out the ‘infinite’ losses threat with shorts. (i.e. with a
long position, loss is capped at 100% if the stock should go to
zero. With a short, in theory, the price could keep rising
for infinite losses). SWNDY adjusts up 25 points from a 17
halt price.
Mr. JST
shuts down his site to join the Trades.
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March
April
HSXPM opens
MISS2 mysteriously
crashes from a price of 140 or so the price falls to high 60s /
low 70 in a few hours. The price slowly recovers as the opening
draws nearer. GLADI also apparently gets manipulated (although
to a lesser extent) and drops 30 points.
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May
BATER sets
a record for bad WOM / legs as being the first 10M+ opener to have
a less than 2 multiplier on a non-holiday weekend.
MISS2 adjusts
to 200.50 yielding a 2.25M profit to those holding long.
Chavez
starts his Kurtetic log describing his trading and research.
Worth reviewing if one is interested in seeing the success and failures
of a new player and new port.
HSX starts
offering leaderboad prizes for each of the WTD, STD, and YTD number
one finisher for each period.
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June
HSX and
NOW (Network of the World) team
up to produce the Webcast show: Market Update. Former Prophet
dp3 serves up daily opinions on the market.
BGMOM gets
the month off with a bang and adjusts up over 25 points. However
the majority of the month is marked by trader overconfidence in
the openers as the only other movie to debut in June and adjust
up is STORM and that probably belongs in next month anyway.
Among the biggest downward adjusts is MEIRN (-20) as it fall well
short of the predicted 30M open. The failure MEIRN to reach
30 extracts a certain measure of revenge.
After all
of the controversy in 99 with regards to the how Box Office will
be counted for FANTA (IMAX receipts are not counted). FANTA
opens to only 2.8 million on 1313 screens in its normal format opening
weekend.
Darth Mac
fully gives into the Dark Side and becomes a full time HSX employee
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July
Tracking
projects PTROT to be runaway winner over the 4th of July holiday.
Instead the STORM is the major winner and adjusts up over 20 points.
Coincidentally PTROT adjusts down almost the same amount.
SHALO and
XMEN both adjust up over 50 points and WLIES falls just short of
adjusting up
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August
HSX gets
the month off with a proposal to change the weekend halt procedure.
The reaction from the players is swift in its disapproval.
In retrospect, it would seem that both HSX and the players might
have made mistakes on this issue. The original HSX explanation
could have been clearer and the players could have been more receptive
to change. The change is never enacted.
A Players'
Council idea is started as part of the fall out of the halt changes
confrontation.
A whole
new set of funds debut including: COMIC,
ELVES,
BOOKS,
ZOO,
BRITS,
CANUK,
HERO,
and SNL.
HSX changes the ‘exchange rate’ on the funds to $1M of Net Assest
Value (NAV) = HSX $1 fund selling price. This is a change
by a factor of 10 over the previous funds such as DAILY, KAMAL,
and ROSIE. This drastically reduces the free money aspect
of the funds and makes them truly long term investments. The
flip side of this decision is that it allows HSX to have many more
themed funds on the Market.
The Virtual
Producer domain name is moved to HSX servers with a fair amount
of controversy. Virtual Producer players are upset by a turn
of events which has the game’s originator leaving the game (or fired)
and a lack of updates from HSX as to the fate of VP. Once
the dust settles, it is revealed that virtualproducer.com
will be used for a new purpose by HSX. The HSX use for virtual
producer is to allow people to buy shares in upcoming movies.
This entitles one to updates of the production and release via a
special web site and other perks. For a small fee, of course.
The first film to be featured is Shadow of the Vampire.
The game
formerly known as Virtual Producer will eventually be re-opened
under the name HSX Director’s Chair.
Upset and
unwilling to wait for HSX to open Director’s Chair, a group of former
VP players opens The Producers Chair which is essentially the next
version of Virtual Producer.
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September
Ben comes
forth with the first Players' Council proposal. A new discussion
board is also started to discuss changes to the game itself.
HSX merges
with Predict It to form the
new HSX
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November
The Predict
It and HSX Merger is called off
HSX announces
the end of the Porftolio Buyback program. HSJ's Robxs receives
an e-mail with reagards to his portfolio sale that states that his
portfolio is the last one to be purchased by HSX.
The box
office stories of the month are the record opening of CHARL (Charlie's
Angels) and the pheneomenal opening and legs for GRNCH.
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