Ways to trade




Buying

Buying is one of several ways you can trade on the Hollywood Stock Exchange®. By buying a MovieStock®, for example, you are betting that the price will rise. If the price does rise, you've made money. If the price falls, you've lost money. Reading news and interacting with the community is a great way to keep track of what may be a good buy on the exchanges.

Selling

Selling is another one of several ways you can trade on the Exchange. Sell when you think a security has already peaked in its price. In the case of selling, you must have already owned the item prior to selling it.

Short Selling

The simple rule behind short selling is that if you think a particular security is overvalued and the price is going to go down, you should sell the security "short." On the Hollywood Stock Exchange, almost anything goes, including using the failures of others to make a profit. If the next big blockbuster film looks to be an overhyped, overrated mess, you can still make a profit by shorting.

Covering

Covering is the opposite of short selling. Realize your profit/loss by covering your shorted security. You must already have the item short prior to covering it.

Commissions

There is no such thing as a free lunch in Hollywood, and the same goes for the Hollywood Stock Exchange. All trades made on the Movie Market™are subject to a one-percent commission, with a minimum of 2 cents per share, automatically deducted from your portfolio.

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Ben Kingsley (BKING) 10 14.75 (0.00)          B.J. Novak (BJNOV) 40 100.55 (0.00)          Anne Hathaway (AHATH) 40 24.76 (0.00)          Antoine Fuqua (AFUQU) 50 114.68 (0.00)          Aaron Eckhart (AECKH) 10 13.26 (0.00)          White Elephant (WELEP) 150000 18.36 (+0.30)          Colony (CLONY) 150000 2.02 (+0.16)          Colony (CLONY) 150000 2.02 (+0.16)          White Elephant (WELEP) 150000 18.36 (+0.30)          Deep Water (DEEPW) 150000 4.09 (+0.21)          Over Your Dead Body (TETRP) 100 3.73 (0.00)          Deep Water (DEEPW) 150000 4.09 (+0.21)          Stuntnuts: The Movie (STUNT) 100 13.16 (-0.04)          Disclosure Day (SKIES) 100 153.93 (0.00)          The Devil Wears Prada 2 (PRAD2) 110 198.62 (0.00)          One Spoon of Chocolate (OSOCH) 110 1.41 (0.00)          Nimrods aka New Years Rev (NIMRD) 100 4.57 (+0.25)          The Devil Wears Prada 2 (PRAD2) 1000 198.62 (0.00)          Mortal Kombat II (MKMB2) 100 100.36 (-0.02)          Michael (MJACK) 100 246.40 (0.00)          I Swear (ISWEA) 1000 2.55 (0.00)          I, Object (IOBJC) 100 1.41 (0.00)          Girls Trip 2 (GRLT2) 100 13.66 (0.00)          George Clinton biopic (GCLNT) 100 17.77 (0.00)          Fuze (FUZE) 10 4.39 (0.00)          Forge (FORGE) 100 0.53 (0.00)          Desert Warrior (DSRTW) 10 0.91 (0.00)          Deep Water (DEEPW) 110 4.09 (+0.21)          Verity (VERTY) 3000 49.15 (-0.05)          Cut Off (CUTOF) 100 32.78 (0.00)          Escape From New York (ESCNY) 10000 6.88 (+0.19)          The Sheep Detectives (3BAGF) 100 47.01 (0.00)          Varanasi (VARAN) 3 8.13 (-0.02)          Varanasi (VARAN) 150000 8.13 (-0.02)          Jehanne d'Arc (JDARC) 5000 28.11 (+0.49)          Ibelin (IBELN) 100000 7.07 (+0.58)          Passenger (PSNGR) 10000 29.35 (+0.74)          Disclosure Day (SKIES) 111 153.93 (0.00)          White Elephant (WELEP) 150000 18.36 (+0.30)          April X (APRLX) 150000 1.99 (-0.01)          Passenger (PSNGR) 150000 29.35 (+0.74)          Spaceballs: The New One (SPCB2) 1577 128.12 (0.00)          Girls Like Girls (GRLGR) 31000 5.47 (0.00)          The Breadwinner (BREDW) 150000 27.05 (0.00)          The Great Beyond aka Ghostwriter (ACRNS) 5000 122.05 (+0.12)          John Rambo (RAMB6) 2000 33.27 (-0.03)          Spaceballs: The New One (SPCB2) 1423 128.12 (0.00)          John Rambo (RAMB6) 5000 33.27 (-0.03)          Rolling Loud (RLOUD) 150000 9.81 (-0.17)          Rolling Loud (RLOUD) 150000 9.81 (-0.17)