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Category Archives: Market Makers (Human)
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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Speculating and hedging on BetFair’s sports prediction markets
The Galileo Fund will be doing just that. Jason Ruspini is next, I predict.
Does InTrade participate on its 2012 Republication Nomination prediction markets?
A mysterious InTrade forum user (could be a trader or could be John Delaney) has posted this: ***** Newbie Joined: 24/01/2010 15:58:35 Messages: 1 Original thread at midasoracle.org: So the actor has to a) not care about the transaction fee … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchange Liquidity, Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Makers (Automated), Market Makers (Human), Market Prices & Probabilities, Market Trading, Market Transaction Costs
Tagged betting markets, event derivative markets, insider trading, InTrade, manipulation, prediction markets
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Does InTrade participate on its own prediction markets?
One (anonymous) InTrade trader: I am utterly convinced Intrade participates in its own markets. Every few hours some kind of API hits the bids on the GOP 2012 nomination contract when the bids sum to more 100. It will even … Continue reading
BetFair – Live Chat Session – Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
BetFair – Live Chat Session – Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 – [This link is only available to the BetFair registered users, alas. In the future, BetFair should make the transcripts of all chat sessions available to the public at large, … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Betting, Ethics, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Explainers, Market Makers (Human), Market Transaction Costs, Regulations
Tagged BetFair, BetFair Chat, BetFair Forum, BetFair Premium Charge, Betting, betting exchanges, betting markets, bookmakers, corruptions, Gambling Commission, horseracing, laws, Live Chat Sessions, manipulations, Mark Davies, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Premium Charge, Regulations, sportsbooks, Tony Clare, trading
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CDA, MSR, the automated market makers, and the human market makers
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Market Makers (Automated), Market Makers (Human), Mechanism Designs, Midas Oracle Archives
Tagged automated market makers, betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, HubDub, market designs, Market Scoring Rules, Mechanism Designs, MSR, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, zigzagging
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BetFair Malta’s combo market maker (trading algorithm + human market makers) operating on the multiples
Tony Clare of BetFair (The Sporting Exchange) to me: Dear Mr. Masse, Thank you for the questions you submitted to tonight’s Q&A session. The session is intended specifically to address questions from Betfair customers. We therefore don’t feel it would … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Exchanges & Markets, Market Makers (Automated), Market Makers (Human), Market Trading, Mechanism Designs
Tagged bet matching, bet matching logic, BetFair, BetFair Malta, BetFair multiples, chairman, combo market maker, human market makers, job candidate, Malta, market designs, Market Trading, Masse, Midas Oracle Advisory Board, multiples betting, multiples product, prediction markets, telephone brokers, Tony Clare, traders
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Is the BetFair marketing message a big lie?
Rab Bibater’s comment on Midas Oracle: [...] BetFair needs to nip the current round of noise in the bud once and for all. It needs to clarify its own advertisements, in which it states that “Because you are betting against … Continue reading