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Proud Ryu
Deshi Basara
Joined: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:36 pm Posts: 5322 Location: The Interstice
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HSX Discussion Thread
I'm not sure how much interest there is on this board in HSX, the Hollywood Stock Exchange. But now that the Box Office Mojo Derby is dead, I've finally decided to give HSX a try.
I know at least a few KJ members play the game, and perhaps other members of this forum might be interested as well now that their box office predicting energies can no longer be channeled into the defunct BOM Derby. HSX faced extinction not too long ago similar to what has happened to the BOM Derby, yet it has continued to survive.
Here's a little info for those with no clue, and I just started so I know very little myself. The game is free, for starters - you just register with a user name and password. The idea is basically that it's a game that simulates a real stock exchange, only all the securities (i.e. companies) that are traded are mostly movies or filmmakers. You start out with $2,000,000 in monopoly money and use it to buy shares, or other more complicated financial products, of movies based on whether you think they are under or over-priced (based on your box office predictions of opening weekend, four week total, etc), and the aim is to build the most valuable portfolio you can.
The site has pretty much all the terms and rules defined, however it might be helpful for those here interested in playing to have a thread to discuss how to play or otherwise to post their accomplishments as was done in the derby thread.
So if there's any interest, here's a thread.
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Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:50 pm |
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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36923
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
Hmm, sounds very interesting. I will give it a try sometime next week.
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Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:29 pm |
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Johnny Dollar
The Lubitsch Touch
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:48 pm Posts: 11019
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
tintin is crazy overpriced so short, short, short
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Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:58 pm |
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Proud Ryu
Deshi Basara
Joined: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:36 pm Posts: 5322 Location: The Interstice
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
I'm not sure about Tintin, but I'm leaning toward short as well.
Titanic 3D is quite a bargain right now.
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Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:32 pm |
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Johnny Dollar
The Lubitsch Touch
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:48 pm Posts: 11019
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
I disagree. Titanic stopped being cool eleven years ago, and with 3D on the wane I think its a real stretch to ask audiences to wear those annoying friggin' glasses during a 3+ hour drama that's on cable every week.
I know, I know, its James Cameron, patron saint of 3D, but still. Lion King worked because it catered to a wholly different crowd.
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Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:11 pm |
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Johnny Dollar
The Lubitsch Touch
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:48 pm Posts: 11019
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
What section of the audience is dying to see Titanic in 3D? Two thirds of the film is just people standing around exchanging stilted dialogue in cabins and in dining rooms and against the occasional state-of-the-art CGI backdrop--state-of-the-art in 1997, that is.
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Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:13 pm |
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Libs
Sbil
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48626 Location: Arlington, VA
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
Yoshue: Titanic 3D is going to make a lot of money. That is all.
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Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:25 pm |
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overhyped
Full Fledged Member
Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:26 pm Posts: 72
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
good money to be made on The Devil Inside
i currently have Net Worth: H$733,915,931.96
hope to hit 1b this year
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Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:52 am |
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Extraordinary
Joined: Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:53 pm Posts: 11571
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
Thank you Flash and IJ5. I've made 6.3M from shorting IJ5 and 13.4M so far from Flash so the worse the box office does the better I seem to do on HSX.
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lilmac
Veteran
Joined: Wed May 25, 2005 12:07 am Posts: 3130
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
What a blast from the past. I remember HSX. Lol
Those were the times. Along with Lee’s Movie Inflation Adjuster site, IMDb forums, Boxoffice Reports, BOM, Time Pathfinder Movie Forums.
From that list WOKJ is the only one happily still chugging along from those pre-2010 days!
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I was blind, but now I see.
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Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:52 pm |
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Excel
Superfreak
Joined: Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:54 am Posts: 21901 Location: Places
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
The OG insider NOT FABIO still posts there to this day I believe.
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Mon Jul 03, 2023 12:02 am |
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Extraordinary
Joined: Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:53 pm Posts: 11571
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Re: HSX Discussion Thread
I passively started playing over the pandemic again but this time of year really is the best for easy money. Some of the smaller Christmas movie openers are WAY undervalued.
Anyone But You is currently at H$39.98 for its 4 week total. It will be at by tomorrow with another 10 days.
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