Category Archives: Market Transaction Costs

BetFair loses CEO, buys back shares… and increases premium charges on big traders. — [LINK]

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

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 →

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InTrade are removing all trading and expiry fees.

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

InTrade will also make their API more freely available, make historical market data more freely available, and introduce a monthly membership fee.

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Paul Krugman Makes a Boo Boo.

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Paul Hewitt

In Paul Krugman’s blog entry, Done, at 4:39pm (EDT) on March 21, 2010, he commented: “OK, nothing is sure in this world. Intrade is still giving Obamacare a 2.2% chance of failing, …” He was talking about the InTrade market … Continue reading →

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Does InTrade participate on its 2012 Republication Nomination prediction markets?

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

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 →

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BetFair – Live Chat Session – Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

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 →

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World’s #1 finance blogger withdraws all his money from InTrade… and blogs about it —detailing his negative customer experience to his thousands of Wall Street readers.

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Market Movers: Dec 3 2008 5:52PM EST The Problem With InTrade I recently withdrew money from an InTrade account I’ve had for some years. The total cost of withdrawing the money was $53.10: A $20 fee to InTrade for “processing … Continue reading →

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“TradeSports – a classless act – right to the very last day.”

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Our good friend Todd is not happy with the TradeSports-InTrade money transfer fees. -

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All against the BetFair premium charges

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Excellent analysis from the “Punt” blogger. Serial bet winners are accused (that’s the word) to withdraw money from the BetFair machine, compelling BetFair to attract new money from newbies at a high marketing cost, and thus BetFair has decided to … Continue reading →

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The BetFair “crisis board meeting” was a total invention of the Daily Mail, but the PR debacle is real.

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Mark Iverson’s take – Racing UK discussion on the BetFair Premium Charges http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/65316b3dad_13.76MB http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/e050785511_12.87MB Go first to the 2 webpages above. Then, right-click the link, and download the files. – A list of the Betfair forum threads about the … Continue reading →

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AUDIO on the BetFair Premium Charges

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/65316b3dad_13.76MB http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/e050785511_12.87MB Go first to the 2 webpages above. Then, right-click the link, and download the files. Racing UK discussion on the BetFair Premium Charges PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Charges”… Do BetFair gag the critics, too? -

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