Midas Oracle = Prediction Markets

What Is Midas Oracle About?

Midas Oracle is a popular group blog about prediction markets (a.k.a. event derivative markets) and:

their profit opportunities (sought by the traders operating on the prediction exchanges);
their predictive power (investigated by the economists);
their decision-making capacity (used by the enterprises and the non-profit organizations);
their motivational function (indeed, enterprise prediction markets reward engaged employees);
their hedging utility (employed by the risk managers and monitored by the US CFTC);
their entertainment ability (delivered by the play-money prediction exchanges, mainly);
anything else.

What Are The Issues Discussed On Midas Oracle?

Analysis of mechanisms, behaviors and dynamics;
Legality of real-money prediction exchanges;
Development of real-money and play-money prediction markets;
Proposals of brand-new prediction markets;
Wording of the event derivative contracts;
Mechanism designs of prediction markets (CDA, MSR, DPMM) and other forecasting tools;
Transaction costs;
Human and automated market makers for prediction markets;
Liquidity of prediction markets, and how to overcome thin markets;
Manipulation of prediction markets;
Arbitrage possibilities between prediction markets;
Accuracy and precision of prediction markets;
Efficiency of prediction markets;
Prediction market science;
Prediction market journalism;
Prediction market plugin for WordPress;
Internet marketing of prediction exchanges;
Analysis of the prediction market industry;
Enterprise prediction markets;
Business cases and case studies.

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Midas Oracle .ORG = A group blog about the prediction markets and the event derivative exchange industry.
Midas Oracle .COM = Only the dynamic, probabilistic predictions generated by the event derivative markets.
Midas Oracle .NET = Only the prediction market content that is of interest to businesses.

What Advice Would You Give To A Newbie Discovering This Blog?

Read our blog(s) using a feed reader —we highly recommend Google Reader.
You should be able to scan-read quickly the items within your feed reader —classify them, tag them, share them, and search them.
This present blog (Midas Oracle .ORG) might be overwhelming for the newbies. Please, consider reading the best posts, only —there is a “best posts” feed, too. Alternatively, you could pick up one category or one tag.
If you want to get a list of highly selected resources and readings on prediction markets (as opposed to reading the full blog), then head for the BEST or PREDICTIONS pages, and, there, cherry-pick exactly what you need.
If you care only about the prediction markets by themselves (and not about the industry), then you may want to consider our twin blog, Midas Oracle .COM —instead of this present blog (Midas Oracle .ORG). Reading the two blogs is not such a great idea —choose one and stick with it.