HSX

My name is Stephanie Curtis and I am a Hollywood Stock Exchange addict.

If you don't know about it (hopefully you have a life and don't) hsx.com is a market which predicts how much money movies will make based on people buying and selling shares in movie. It's free! Of course, none of the people trading actually make money off the exchange. There are no prizes to be won. In fact, it's even hard to measure your movie-picking abilities against that of other people. So why do I do it? I have no idea, but every morning and every night I log on and buy and sell fake movie stocks.

It's sad, isn't it?

But what is even sadder is the fact that Hollywood Stock Exchange was crashed this week. I was bereft. I searched message boards for updates on when trading would resume. I looked for other traders online with whom I could commiserate (my family has banned me from talking about the exchange with them).

But I am happy to report that the exchange is back up and my life a fake movie stock picker can continue! So how am I doing? I'm ranked 28,002nd! (Yeah, I know. My family's not very impressed either).