I like the part where you run a mock-exchange and bash all other projects because you have sand in your vagina.
"THE BTC stock exchange" you have got to be smoking crack.
Give yourself a little time. After you cross the one year mark you start seeing things differently.
Provided, of course, you do ever get to be that old.
Here's a hint: MPEx is older than Bitcoinica. It saw Pirate rise and fall. It saw GLBSE go to shit. It saw MtGox die. All these things seemed like hot shit to Bitcoin's mayflies.
It's not just that it's older than you, or that it'll survive you, it's a lot more than that. Things you can't even imagine.
I assume the clear technical advantage and communication skills that you obviously possess is the reason that Mpex has about the volume of a mid sized pizza parlor.