About Midas Oracle
- About Midas Oracle — (this present webpage)
- What the social media say about Midas Oracle
- Midas Oracle was founded and is presided by Chris Masse.
- Our Chief Economist is professor Michael Giberson.
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What Is Midas Oracle About?
Midas Oracle is a popular group blog about prediction markets (a.k.a. event derivative markets) and:
- their predictive power (investigated by many economists);
- their profit opportunities (sought by the traders speculating on the prediction exchanges);
- their hedging utility (employed by the risk managers and overseen by the US CFTC);
- their entertainment ability (delivered by the play-money prediction exchanges, mainly);
- anything else.
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What Does “Midas Oracle” Come From?
- “Midas” refers to the financial traders.
- “Oracle” refers to the predictive power of the financial markets.
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What Are The Issues Discussed On Midas Oracle?
- Prediction market science;
- Accuracy and precision of prediction markets;
- Efficiency of prediction markets;
- Comparison between prediction markets and the reporting from the mass media;
- Analysis of mechanisms, behaviors and dynamics;
- 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;
- Enterprise prediction markets;
- Business cases and case studies;
- Listing of the companies that use prediction markets internally;
- Analysis of the prediction market industry;
- Legality of real-money prediction exchanges;
- Development of real-money and play-money prediction markets;
- Proposals of brand-new prediction markets;
- Internet marketing of the prediction exchanges/markets;
- Information technology used by the prediction exchanges and the traders;
- Prediction market journalism.
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What Is The Uniqueness Of Midas Oracle?
- We publish the best mutant ideas.
- We link out a lot to external resources.
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Who Is (Hidden) Behind Midas Oracle?
- “Midas Oracle” is a trademark of Chris F. Masse.
- Midas Oracle was founded and is presided by Chris F. Masse.
- Midas Oracle Blog Authors
- Midas Oracle Blog Posters
- People in the Midas Oracle Network
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Contact Information
- Kudos We Have Received
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How Is Midas Oracle (Mis-)Managed?
- Copyright is retained by each author.
- Terms Of Use (including Privacy Policy)
- Code Of Conduct
- Software Powering the Midas Oracle Sites
- Midas Oracle Statistics
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How Can I (Re-)Publish My Ideas On Midas Oracle?
- You’re welcome: How To Become An Author.
- You take your turn: How To Publish.
- You add your grain of salt: How To Comment.
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How Many Midas Oracle Blogs Are Published, Actually?
- Midas Oracle .ORG = News Prediction Markets + Prediction Market News
- Midas Oracle .NET = Everything But Prediction Markets
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What Advice Would You Give To A Newbie Discovering This Blog?
- Read our blog(s) using a feed reader —we highly recommend Google Reader.
- The newbies might consider reading the best posts.
- To get a list of highly selected external resources, then head for the “Predictions” page.
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