*Note* This is not an exchange traded fund by the typical financial definition. This is a fund, in the financial sense, which is traded on the exchange GLBSE.
I am pleased to announce the creation on the Mircea Popescu's Option Emporium Exchange Traded Fund.
As you may know,
Mircea Popescu's Option Emporium (MPOE) has gone public, however, he did it on his own. I'm sure many of us would like to be able to trade stock in MPOE on an exchange, so I decided to create this fund to satisfy this desire.
Below is a copy of the terms of each certificate. It outlines exactly how it works. Feel free to ask any questions. You may also catch me in #bitcoin-otc or various other bitcoin channels on freenode as smickles.
The owner of this certificate (here after know as "THE OWNER") holds one share of MPOE ETF (hereafter know as "THE FUND"). Each share of THE FUND entitles its owner to a distribution of the net gains (hereafter know as "THE DIVIDEND") generated by THE FUND. Each share of THE FUND does not convey any voting rights.
THE FUND will attempt to generate gains by investing its capital in the stocks of Mircea Popescu's Options Emporium (
http://polimedia.us/bitcoin/options.php) (hereafter know as "THE INVESTMENT").
THE FUND will raise capital by issuing stock and retaining earnings.
The initial issuance of stock will be in an amount to meet demand at a price of 0.1 BTC per share and will be offered until the public offering of THE INVESTMENT on March 31, 2012. Going forward Stock will be issued in an amount to meet demand during a period of 7 days prior to each public offering of THE INVESTMENT. These future issuances will be offered at a price equal to the average of 7 days market value of THE FUND previous to the first day of each issuance period.
Net gains will be equal to gross gains less expenses and retained earnings.
Gross gains will be equal to any dividends received from THE INVESTMENT, as well as any profit from sale of portions of THE INVESTMENT.
Expenses will be an initial, single occurrence, of 20 BTC as a listing fee which will be recouped from the capital gained by the initial issuance of stock, and, going forward equal to 1% of gross gains.
Retained earnings will be equal to 49% of gross gains.
THE DIVIDEND will be equal to 50% of gross gains and will be paid on the 15th of each month starting April 15th, 2012.
THE FUND had received the approval of Mircea Popescu himself.
Any modification of these terms shall be subject to the bylaws presented at (
http://mostofmany.com/mpoe-etf/bylaws.html).
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To all concerned, my name is Michael Carver. I go by smickles on
http://bitcointalk.org and I also go by the name smickles on #bitcoin-otc on freenod. I use the Web of Trust which is associated with that channel as the user smickles.
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