[Evan]

A corporation is treated as an "individual", but not in the same sense you are. There are different rules. You could issue shares of a corporation that you run, you could not issue shares of "yourself". The guidelines for doing this depend on the state you live in, how much money you intend to raise and how many shareholders you intend to have. Your stock would not go up or down in the sense that you are thinking because it would not be publicly traded. Getting a stock listed on a public exchange is VERY hard.

Basically this isn't going to work.