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HSX Traders Hit 82% of Oscar Nominations on its popular online entertainment game.
Los Angeles, California, January 23, 2007 - Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX), the popular entertainment Trading game and longest continuously operating prediction market, announced an 82% success rate for picking this year's Oscar Nominations.
This year Traders hit 32 of 39 (Borat was not an available NominOption) for an 82% accuracy rate in predicting the nominees, bringing HSX' average to 82.7% over the past nine years. Traders scored a perfect 100% in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories. This continues HSX Traders' outstanding trend in picking nominees and Award winners. Past years predictions were:
78th Annual Academy Awards (2006): 35/40 NominOptions correct: 87.5% while successfully picking 7 out of 8 final winners.
77th Annual Academy Awards (2005): 33/40 NominOptions correct: 82.5% with a 100% success rate in picking the winners in all 8 top categories.
76th Annual Academy Awards (2004): 29/39 NominOptions correct: 74.4% (City of God was not an available NominOption) with 7 of 8 top category final winners.
75th Annual Academy Awards (2003): 33/40 NominOptions correct: 82.5% with 4 of 8 top category final winners.
74th Annual Academy Awards (2002): 35/40 NominOptions correct: 87.5% with 5 of 8 top category final winners.
73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001): 33/39 NominOptions correct: 84.6% with 6 of 8 top category final winners.
72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000): 31/39 NominOptions correct: 79.5% with 8 of 8 top category final winners.
71st Annual Academy Awards (1999): 32/38 NominOptions correct: 84.2% with 5 of 8 top category final winners.
Since its establishment in 1996, HSX has registered over 1.6 million users. HSX offers consumers the opportunity to buy and sell virtual shares of films and actors.
HSX also offers unique Trading opportunities surrounding special Award ceremonies and consistently beats polls and industry pundits in predicting the outcome of entertainment events.
About the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX)
The Hollywood Stock Exchange, LLC is an integrated marketing, research and technology company driven by its patented entertainment stock market, www.hsx.com, the world's first and most popular commercial prediction market. The Company's Virtual Specialist™ technology allows an unlimited number of consumers to trade thousands of virtual entertainment securities in a fair and orderly, supply-and-demand-based market. Founded in 1996, HSX is now a subsidiary of Cantor Index Holdings, L.P.
HSX is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
For additional information regarding the Hollywood Stock Exchange and prediction markets, please contact:
Amy Lamare
Hollywood Stock Exchange, LLC
310.788.5802
alamare@hsx.com
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