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Category Archives: Exchange & Market Management
New Zealand’s election gag law suspends iPredict’s political prediction markets. — [LINKS]
- Election gags and efficient markets. – Election gag.
Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Market Trading, Politics, Regulations
Tagged betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Exchange, exchanges, iPredict, iPredict New Zealand, laws, Market, markets, New Zealand, prediction market management, prediction markets, Regulations
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Prediction market manipulation — [LINK]
@ iPredict (New Zealand).
BetFair continues to be lambasted by The Guardian, and for all the good reasons. — [LINKS]
One, they are losing all their good people. Two, they’ve banned the media from their stockholder assembly, which is a guarantee to get horrific press. Thanks for our faithful reader for the links.
Posted in Business, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged BetFair, Business, management, marketing, Media, P.R., PR, press, public relation, The Guardian, The Sporting Exchange
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Are InTrade lying about the number of ‘predictions’ they process? — [GUEST AUTHOR]
Intrade now post the following claim on their home page: Platform Metrics (More Soon) Platform operational: Since 2001 Total Predictions: 619,141,899 Average Daily Predictions: 169,589 This is just a preposterous misrepresentation of the volume of activity on the site. The … Continue reading
Ex-HSX Max Keiser claims that InTrade’s Ron Paul prediction market is manipulated. — [VIDEO]
Posted in Analysis (Market Calls), Betting, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Makers (Human), Market Prices & Probabilities, News, Politics
Tagged Alex Jones, Betting, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, event derivative market, event derivatives, forecasting, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, manipulation, market manipulation, Max Keiser, Politics, predicting, prediction market, prediction markets, radio, Ron Paul, US politics
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Your prediction markets can power the American Civics Exchange. — [IDEA MILL]
American Civics Exchange: Having just executed an initial round of closings for the funding we’ve been raising, we’re entering the final run-up to our real-money trading launch. With that in mind, we’ve launched a community feature where prospective traders (and … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchange & Market Management, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Market Genesis
Tagged All Rockets Ready To Fly, American Civics Exchange, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, event derivative markets, event derivatives, exchange genesis, forecasting, genesis, IDEAS, market genesis, predicting, prediction, prediction markets, Predictions, proposals
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The InTrade crisis deepens as their #1 fanboy calls for unwinding all trades on the debt ceiling prediction market — [SCANDAL]
Previously: Post-Delaney InTrade experiences turmoil related to the debt ceiling prediction market. — [CHART + LINK] As I said many times, Carl Wolfenden is an incompetent, and all the economists advertising InTrade on their blogs and in the media are … Continue reading
Post-Delaney InTrade experiences turmoil related to the debt ceiling prediction market. — [CHART + LINK]
37 pages (!!) on the InTrade message board. Once again, one can question the professionalism of the InTrade execs and the usefulness of the prediction markets.
BetFair loses CEO, buys back shares… and increases premium charges on big traders. — [LINK]
Guardian: Share buybacks are a popular tactic for mature businesses and are typically employed when companies cannot think of efficient ways of deploying spare cash. However, Betfair was sold to investors in October as a company that had strong growth … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Market Transaction Costs
Tagged BetFair, BetFair Premium Charge, BetFair Premium Charges, BetFair's premium charge, BetFair's premium charges, betting exchanges, charges, derivatives, event derivative markets, event derivatives, fees, Finance, futures, LMAX, prediction markets, shares, stock market, stocks, The Sporting Exchange
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