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This is BlueDuck...

Posted by: RazorHawk on May 17, 09:31 in response to tealfan's post What is BlueDuck? =P

BlueDuck was one of the anchient players of HSX. He was a smart player and successful. He holds a number of notable HSX accomplishments:

1) He was the first HSX Player to sell his port for real money (auctioned it off on EBay) (link)

[his $136mill port sold for $1,050 real dollars in 1999]

2) BlueDuck was (technically) the first news tagger (like Captain America is the first avenger)

BlueDuck was a member of several different HSX Fansites (back in the day there were like 12 sites similar to the current HSX Dude). (link)

But most importantly, when the fansites died down and started going inactive, BlueDuck saved whatever historical info he could and founded the website "Project Genome" which was a HSX fansite that was styled like an encyclopedia and had a listing for every HSX stock on his website and had daily entries of all the posted news. When HSX released this current new version of the game in 2009, HSX included a new feature of tagging news (which was likely inspired by the Project Genome).

3) BlueDuck met his future wife while playing HSX. She applied for a job as a writer on the HSX fansite that he was running... (link)

"The person who did get the gig, Ultimate Frisbee, married one of the other people on the site" (link)

4) Project Genome was the keeper of The Bucket List. I worked at Project Genome for a span of time tagging the daily news on their website, but left when HSX released this new version of HSX (which had a lot of bugs at startup and players were extremely unhappy). I started The HSX Dude as a blog where I could share my HSX feelings with other players who were interested. When Project Genome announced it was shutting down, The HSX Dude "inherited" The Bucket List and The HSX Dude transitioned from being an opinon blog to a news/commentary fansite.

Is Paul2k the greatest trader who ever lived? Where does karspov fit in? Opinions? {nm} lhayes37 May 17, 07:51

Oh dear. This is a can of worms. {nm} Ryan_Stewart May 17, 07:59

I am writing my answer {nm} RazorHawk May 17, 08:01

I'm partial because karspov taught me this game. I learned to trade like a maven by mimicking his trades in ADJUS. {nm} lhayes37 May 17, 08:01

Paul2k pales in comparison to grory and many of the old time traders who made billions under the old rules. {nm} Paul2k May 17, 08:16

that is a point. The rules have changed and making money is easier. But one can still do the math with port size with percentage gains... Ryan_Stewart May 17, 08:18

Rule changes have made openers easier, but wasn't reset trading a lot easier (and obscenely profitable) years ago? {nm} Dave3626 May 17, 08:27

I'm not a long time player, been here for just over a year, so Paul2k is the top dog I know... The older greats I respect a lot, but feel slappydavid May 17, 08:16

here is my opinion... RazorHawk May 17, 08:36

What is BlueDuck? =P {nm} tealfan May 17, 08:50

This is BlueDuck... RazorHawk May 17, 09:31

thanks for the history daveart May 17, 09:34