Hollywood Stock Exchange, a digital media company that operates an entertainment stock market at www.hsx.com. Max has his roots in the trenches of Wall Street, where, during the high-flying 80’s, he worked as a leading options broker for the some of the most prominent brokerage firms in the world. The mission then was to ride the bull market that has made the US stock market the forefront of the American Dream. At the apex of his career, Max went to Paris for a two-week vacation that turned into a five-year retreat. It was there that he dreamt up the Hollywood Stock Exchange. The vision was clear. Why couldn’t entertainment properties become commodities, the same way companies have been for hundreds of years? "The Internet, this great equalizer that puts the power of information into the hands of the people was in its infancy and it marked the beginning of a new era in mass communication that could support the dream I had," says Max. Max went directly to Los Angeles to see the only person he knew there, a prominent investment banker he worked with in his Wall Street days. Six months later, the dream had become a reality. The Hollywood Stock Exchange opened its doors to the world in April of 1996, the offices of the company located in the bedroom of a Hollywood apartment. Today, the Santa Monica, California based Hollywood Stock Exchange boasts approximately 65 employees and over 500,000 registered traders that are shifting the values of movies, stars and musical artists in real time.
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Max Keiser (born January 23, 1960) is a film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader. Max hosts The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News. Previously he produced and appeared regularly in the TV series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English network. Max also presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM. Max writes for The Huffington Post.
