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Interview with Alex Costakis of Hollywood Stock Exchange and Cantor Exchange

Interview with Alex Costakis of Hollywood Stock Exchange and Cantor Exchange

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The HSX bozos, who briefly experimented with a website “redesign”, have now reverted to their original platform.

Towards the end of October, I chronicled, in very harsh words, the so-called “redesign” of the Hollywood Stock Exchange website. I wrote that the HSX executives who gave the green light to that “redesign” are a bunch of usability bozos, … Continue reading

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At inception, I created an “Internet usability” category, and, since, I have published many Jakob Nielsen stories. Many wondered why I would bother. Now, the Midas Oracle readers can understand why.

These traders are talking down the newly redesigned Hollywood Stock Exchange website. – - [They guy above has misspelled, two times. He meant: "unusable".] – - Previously: #1 – #2 – #3 – #4 – UPDATE: Traders talk on Twitter … Continue reading

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Meet Andrew Wing, the recently appointed CEO of Cantor Entertainment, who (along with Alex Costakis) has lead to the complete and definitive destruction of the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

Andrew Wing – Variety – (at the time of the Andrew Wing appointment): He’ll work closely with the HSX team to adapt the technology of the virtual stock exchange in developing new products. – Well, now we see the results … Continue reading

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The Hollywood Stock Exchange traders are revolting against the new “social networking” functionalities brought in there by some snake-oil “social media” consultant.

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How to break a successful prediction exchange in less than one week

Whiskey Kilo (a Hollywood Stock Exchange trader): Change is one thing, breaking the whole site and acting like its nothing happened is another. The whole concept of trading movie stocks, movie bonds and options have taken a backseat to making … Continue reading

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The new Hollywood Stock Exchange website (recently redesigned) sucks as much as an indigestible fruit cake.

HSX-sucks.com — I predict that somebody will soon register this domain name. Many HSX event derivative traders have complained to me privately about the website redesign: they hate it more than they hate the recent financial bailout. One HSX trader … Continue reading

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Alex Costakis of Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) discussing the Weekend Box Office and Summer Releases and predictions on Fox Business.

Those morons at Fox Business spelled his last name “Kostakis”, in the video. So, now you know why nobody watches Fox Business —they are all on CNBC, who can spell correctly. – I’m not sure the video will go into … Continue reading

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Alex Costakis of Hollywood Stock Exchange on Fox Business

Video #1 – Video #2

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BetFair, TradeSports-InTrade and the Hollywood Stock Exchange do control what you read on Wikipedia.

— — – BetFair has been editing Wikipedia 6 times. – TradeSports-InTrade has been editing Wikipedia 33 times. – Cantor (the owner of the HSX): 134 times. – Google (of Bo Cowgill) and Yahoo! (of David Pennock and Daniel Reeves): … Continue reading

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