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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Prediction Markets APIs
Are our betting exchanges’ APIs programmable? Fred Wilson insists on read/write APIs (#5). Any comments?
Posted in Information Technology, Internet Usability, Inventions & Innovations, Software
Tagged API, APIs, betting exchanges, betting markets, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, prediction exchanges, Prediction Market Software, prediction markets, Software, software for prediction markets
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Are you a British trader who bets on UK politics at BetFair?
Wanna talk to a British journalo about it?
Inkling Markets in BusinessWeek
Posted in Business, Collective Forecasting, Consulting, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged BusinessWeek, inkling markets
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Speculating and hedging on BetFair’s sports prediction markets
The Galileo Fund will be doing just that. Jason Ruspini is next, I predict.
6 new prediction market papers are coming out soon.
Read David Pennock. In other news, Ricky Martin is gay.
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets
Tagged papers, prediction market papers, prediction markets
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BetFair’s Mark Davies (the Prince of betting exchange PR) has just gotten a second omelet in the face.
First, the Financial Times —and, now, Freakonomics. The journalistic rule should be that, if you cite one prediction exchange, you should cite the one that is the most liquid on the market you are writing about. For UK politics, it … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchange Liquidity, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities
Tagged BetFair, betting exchanges, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, Exchange Liquidity, Freakonomics, InTrade, Mark Davies, Market Liquidity, prediction markets
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The Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) comes out as fiercely against movie business futures.
On the ground of insider trading. Keywords: CFTC & Cantor Exchange. Via Max.
Posted in Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Regulations
Tagged betting markets, Cantor Exchange, event derivative markets, event derivatives, futures, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, Motion Picture Association Of America, movie box office, movie business, movies, MPAA, prediction markets
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The UK political prediction markets are starting to get fun.
The British Republicans (“the Tories”) have dipped a bit more at BetFair, yesterday, and everybody is wondering why. (See the first comment in the second link.) Expect Max Keiser to weight in. We are going to have fun this spring, … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Politics
Tagged BetFair, betting markets, conservatives, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, political prediction markets, Politics, prediction markets, Tories, UK political prediction markets, UK politics, United Kingdom
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MAT FOGARTY FOR PRESIDENT
Posted in Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Consulting, Exchanges & Markets, Software
Tagged betting markets, Collective Forecasting, corporate prediction markets, CrowdCast, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, internal prediction markets, Matt Fogarty, prediction markets, private prediction markets
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