Monthly Archives: March 2009

Patrick Young = The InTrade co-founder you never heard about

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

The greatest benefit of being the most popular blogger on prediction markets is the private e-mails I get from all the corners of the globe. I come to meet, over the Internet, the world’s finest luminaries —from the Academia or … Continue reading →

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Prof Andrew McAfee steals predictive info from NewsFutures, and beats his students with it.

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Andrew McAfee: Two questions to wind up this post. First, how could I have made better use of crowd wisdom and other available information to make better March Madness picks? And do you have any tips on how to be … Continue reading →

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Excellent industry analysis of YouBet.com

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Excellent industry analysis of YouBet.com.. by financial analyst Jeffrey Walkenhorst —who owns the stock, FYI. Previously: BetFair USA buys out Television Games Network.

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Will Midas Oracle find a business model and make money, one day?

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Back in the year 2000, BusinessWeek and Wired asked, “But will Google ever make money?”…

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PredictMarkets

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

PredictMarkets A play-money prediction exchange in New Zealand —a fertile ground for prediction markets, it seems.

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American Civics Exchange = CFTC-regulated Exempt Board of Trade

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

American Civics Exchange is enabling what InTrade (circa 2006, when they applied for the eBOT status) couldn’t… —getting the CFTC stamp of approval, and running a real-money prediction exchange from within the US territory (as opposed to offshore). The ACE … Continue reading →

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Go vote for Nate Silver on the Time.com website…

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris F. Masse
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250 members of the LinkedIn group on prediction markets

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

- 1. How To Join Us From within LinkedIn, FaceBook, or Google Reader / Google Mail, send me (Chris Masse) an invite and I’ll accept it. You are also invited to join the Prediction Markets group at LinkedIn. We accept … Continue reading →

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The world’s #1 resource on enterprise prediction markets

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

- Do not waste $400 on a “prediction market conference” – Quit listening to the Ivory Tower economic canaries who are over-hyping the prediction markets —and have no experience whatsoever in the field of forecasting. – Instead, do read this … Continue reading →

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Lights! Camera! Futures trading! Cantor Exchange!

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Investment News: “Technically, you can trade anything, because wherever there is a financial interest, there can be a market,” said Andre Julian, chief financial officer of Option Investments Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based independent broker for futures and options traders. “People … Continue reading →

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