Monthly Archives: March 2010

Prediction Markets APIs

Are our betting exchanges’ APIs programmable? Fred Wilson insists on read/write APIs (#5). Any comments?

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Are you a British trader who bets on UK politics at BetFair?

Wanna talk to a British journalo about it?

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Inkling Markets in BusinessWeek

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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.

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6 new prediction market papers are coming out soon.

Read David Pennock. In other news, Ricky Martin is gay.

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Peter Schiff for President

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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

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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.

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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

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MAT FOGARTY FOR PRESIDENT

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