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PPX

The Popular Science Predictions Exchange, or PPX is a licensed copy of the HSX virtual specialist application that runs a prediction exchange on the Popular Science website. Stocks are based on future events coming true or not, and range in price from 0 to 100, all stocks start at a value of 50, and players get $250,000 PopSci dollars to play with.

This market has been involved with a whole bunch of stuff since it went public back in June. There are currently 3 players over $1 million PopSci dollars, there have been accusations both veiled and open of cheating and collusion. The market suffered a major systems glitch on one Friday, now called Black Friday by the players effected by it. The system does not appear very stable, and analysis has determined that the actual processing code to do stock trades has to run from the PPX server, back into the Cantor servers and then the results are fed back to the PPX servers. This has caused numerous failures and severe lags as it links PPX to the poorly written HSX engines.

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