Tag Archives: Boris Johnson

Londoners (among them many faithful Midas Oracle readers) go voting today. Spot, in the first chart, that British political betting expert Mike Smithson serves some (IMPLIED) PROBABILITIES EXPRESSED IN PERCENTAGES to his readers —and not those fung fractional odds, or those equally fung digital / decimal odds.

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Boris Johnson, next mayor of London: – RELATED: BetFair’s “percentage vote share” prediction markets are illiquid, alas. – BetFair blog’s London page — Tabloid style. I don’t like it much. I think politics should be treated more seriously. Mike … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Politics | Tagged Bath, BetFair, Boris Johnson, Bristol, decimal odds, digital odds, elections, event derivative markets, event derivatives, fractional odds, Google, Ken Livingstone, London, mayor, Mike Robb, Mike Smithson, New York Times, percentages, prediction markets, probabilities | Leave a comment

How BetFair screw up the “Next Mayor Of London” embeddable, enriched, compound chart widget —BIG TIME

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- PUT YOUR MOUSE CURSOR ON ONE OF THE WHITE DOTS PRESENT ON THE CHART, AND SPOT THE POP-UP MESSAGE. – IF YOU’RE READING THIS FROM WITHIN YOUR FEED READER, GO TO THE BLOG POST, ON THE MIDAS ORACLE WEBSITE, … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Software | Tagged BetFair, Boris Johnson, Central Park, chart widgets, dynamic charts, embeddable compound chart with news markers, GBP, Homer's brain, Ken Livingstone, London, mayor, Mayor of London, news markers, prediction market data visualization, prediction markets, reading | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Boris Johnson

How BetFair screw up the “Next Mayor Of London” embeddable, enriched, compound chart widget —BIG TIME

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