History of HSX



June 2009:

HSX launches the latest version of it's website featuring a new look and paving the way for exciting, new features.

May 2007:

Hollywood Stock Exchange launches VideoIPO, the virtual stock market of the YouTube® generation.

April 2007:

Hollywood Stock Exchange launches the PopSci Predictions Exchanges, PPX, for its client, 'Popular Science', the world's leading science and technology magazine.

June 2006:

Hollywood Stock Exchange launches the Sports Stock Exchange® with special securities covering the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

April 2006:

HSX Research wins contract for building Storage Markets, an innovative prediction market platform providing insight into the data storage industry.

January 2006:

HSX Research introduces Long Lead Box Office Forecasts, a report series providing projections of box office receipts for individual film titles a full six months prior to release.

October 2005:

Black Entertainment Television (BET) selects Hollywood Stock Exchange for launching the The Ultimate Hustler Xchange, the first online trading game associated with a reality TV show.

June 2005:

Hollywood Stock Exchange wins bid for building Chiron Collective Intelligence, a prediction market for measuring expert opinion about key issues in life sciences.

January 2005:

Hollywood Stock Exchange formally launches Virtual Specialist™, a white label prediction market solution.

October 2004:

The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, features HSX weekly share price charts for new releases and major holdovers.

March 2004:

Hollywood Stock Exchange introduces TVStock® as a recurring trading option on the Exchange.

December 2003:

IMX presented to the AFI Enhanced TV (eTV) Workshop as an AFI awarded leading-edge interactive television concept.

May 2003:

The Hollywood Stock Exchange crosses the one million mark in registered traders.

January 2003:

The IMX television show, based on a new music market, begins airing weekdays live on FUSE Networks bringing virtual trading to a television audience in real time.

December 2002:

Hollywood Stock Exchange launches IMX, the Interactive Music Exchange, a Virtual Specialist™ ASP music market licensed to FUSE Networks.

October 2002:

Alexander Costakis is appointed Managing Director of Hollywood Stock Exchange.

March 2002:

HSX secures sale of its research product to legendary motion picture studio, MGM.

March 2001:

HSX launches HSX Research (www.hsxresearch.com), an innovative entertainment research and technology service.

October 2000:

Launched Virtual Producer (www.virtualproducer.com), an immersive online experience that allows consumers to participate in every aspect of the production of a film.

June 2000:

Deal signed with Pacific Century CyberWorks' (Now.com) to create content based on HSX Movies Market®.

May 2000:

Daily Web show, 'Buy, Sell or Hold'®, launched on HSX.TV.

March 2000:

O2K (Oscar 2000) at House of Blues featuring Moby and Earth, Wind and Fire.

September 1999:

Patent received for Virtual Specialist Technology.

July 1999:

Weekly radio show launched on 97.1 FM in Los Angeles.

June 1999:

Music Market® launched in NYC at Jupiter Plug.In Conference.

March 1999:

Oscar Party at House of Blues featuring Beck and Crystal Method.

April 1996:

The Hollywood Stock Exchange is founded by Max Keiser and Michael Burns.



Help & All About HSX

Learn more about trading on the Exchange and HSX by exploring the links below.


Armor Wars (ARMWR) 2000 66.93 (-0.05)          Hugh Grant (HGRAN) 25000 65.83 (+0.25)          Abigail (ABGAL) 150000 52.69 (-1.88)          With Love (WOLOV) 18609 24.53 (+0.02)          James Bond 26 (JB26) 1 135.08 (-0.22)          Renee Zellweger (RZELL) 25000 21.81 (-0.12)          Tank Girl (TANKG) 1 13.91 (-0.08)          Playdate (PLYDT) 10000 15.00 (0.00)          Lilo & Stitch (LILST) 1 28.70 (-0.03)          In the Hand of Dante (ITHOD) 1 17.14 (-0.02)          Playdate (PLYDT) 150000 15.00 (0.00)          The Pack (TPACK) 30000 13.75 (-0.03)          The Order (TORDR) 150000 7.91 (-0.02)          Matthew Goode (MTGOO) 25000 25.21 (-0.12)          Playdate (PLYDT) 52146 15.00 (0.00)          Dracula - A Love Tale (DRALT) 150000 20.51 (+1.56)          28 Years Later (28LT3) 149997 49.55 (-0.38)          Playdate (PLYDT) 100000 15.00 (0.00)          Project Hail Mary (PRJHM) 150000 89.23 (+2.40)          The Fall Guy (FALGY) 5000 131.97 (-1.86)          The Movie Critic (TMOVC) 25000 38.85 (-3.22)          Scream 7 aka Scream VII (SCRM7) 149997 43.74 (-0.34)          The Movie Critic (TMOVC) 150000 38.85 (-3.22)          Apex aka Untitled Formula 1 Proj (FORM1) 149997 45.71 (+0.26)          Trap (TRAP) 19661 58.16 (+0.36)          28 Years Later (28LT3) 149996 49.55 (-0.38)          Playdate (PLYDT) 150000 15.00 (0.00)          Trap (TRAP) 69661 58.16 (+0.36)          Scream 7 aka Scream VII (SCRM7) 149997 43.74 (-0.34)          Apex aka Untitled Formula 1 Proj (FORM1) 149997 45.71 (+0.26)          Playdate (PLYDT) 150000 15.00 (0.00)          The Order (TORDR) 150000 7.91 (-0.02)          Trap (TRAP) 69663 58.16 (+0.36)          The Movie Critic (TMOVC) 10000 38.85 (-3.22)          The African-American Fund (AFRAM) 1 98.13 (+0.01)          The Movie Critic (TMOVC) 150000 38.85 (-3.22)          Science-Fiction Fund (SCIFI) 1 91.75 (-0.08)          The Opening Weekend Fund (OPENR) 19999 96.46 (+0.20)          In a Violent Nature (IAVNT) 150000 4.59 (+1.31)          The Six Billion Dollar Man (6MILL) 149997 21.50 (+0.16)          Young Woman and the Sea (YWATS) 150000 17.65 (+0.48)          The Six Billion Dollar Man (6MILL) 149999 21.50 (+0.16)          The Movie Critic (TMOVC) 150000 38.85 (-3.22)          Blade (BLAD1) 150000 115.35 (+0.32)          Abigail (ABGAL) 150000 52.69 (-1.88)          The Fall Guy (FALGY) 1763 131.97 (-1.86)          Blade (BLAD1) 150000 115.35 (+0.32)          Abigail (ABGAL) 150000 52.69 (-1.88)          The Piano Lesson (TPLSN) 30000 0.02 (-0.03)          Heat 2 (HEAT2) 1 45.86 (+0.05)