Bikini Bottom Stock Exchange

The Bikini Bottom Stock Exchange, also called BBSE is a stock exchange of the sea. It comprises four indexes: djx100 (100 biggest companies), Euronext (stylized as euronext) (tech-heavy), W+P 5000 (the 1001th through 5999th biggest companies and the Ultra Index (all three combined)

Companies below place 6000 are traded under the Euronext Minor.

About
Launched in 1988 as the Sea Exchange, it initally had the top 100 companies - the first value was 2.77.

After three normal cycles (1992 peak 9.04 low 5.38 1995 peak 14.41 low 4.77 1998 peak 26.83 low 11.09) the index suddenly and unexpectedly became clogged with tech companies attempting to join, and the index was extremely volatile. (On March 1, 1999 the index stood at 43.26, but on March 6 it stood at 112.36, and on March 11 52.93) The Board of Directors held an emergency meeting on November 31, 1999 to discuss remedies.

The Euronext was launched on April 24, 2000 and had a starting value of 133.03. The W+P 5000 followed in 2004.

On September 25, 2015 the Board of Directors held a meeting to attempt to address the problem of traders complaining about the lack of modernity in the index. They decided that the index was to be retired and replaced with chronoNega, a modern index.

Dissolution
On September 26, 2015 the chronoNega Index was announced, to be launched on October 31, 2015.

On September 31, 2015, the Board of Directors was dissolved and replaced with Chrono Support.

On October 2, 2015, the Euronext Minor index stopped trading to reopen on November 2, 2015.

The Euronext will stop trading on October 22, 2015 and reopen on November 1, 2015

The W+P 5000 will stop trading on October 24, 2015 and reopen on November 5, 2015.

The djx100 will stop trading on October 29, 2015 and reopen on October 31, 2015.

All minor indexes will stop trading on October 30, 2015 at 11:59:59 and reopen between November 6 and 10, 2015.

The Ultra Index will only pause for 12 hours between October 30, 2015 at 12:00:00 and October 31, 2015 at midnight

Ultra Index milestones
10.00 4/12/1989

20.00 7/14/1993

50.00 7/6/1996

100.00 12/30/1999

250.00 4/1/2004

500.00 7/27/2007

1000.00 11/1/2011

2000.00 4/13/2013

3000.00 9/31/2015