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A little lady (who was featured in the ABC 20/20 story about InTrade) claims that she speculated on the McCain and Obama prediction markets and got a R.O.I. of 1,000% in less than a year.
And she is out with a Press release.
Via Fabian John (Financial Services Consultant)
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ABC 20/20 featuring InTrade – (May 9, 2008)
Foretelling The Future: Online Prediction Markets — (4 pages in all)
ABC video
YouTube video
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Which software for prediction markets is the best?
John Ives:
HSX software certainly has a lot of head room to offer to a relatively small project such as Storage Markets. Given the prediction market software vendors available to us during late 2005, we were very happy with our choice of HSX. Alex and his team at HSX provided excellent customer service and were extremely [...]
Is NewsFutures the world-wide world’s market leader, really?
I would recommend against that kind of bragging, because it could fire back at NewsFutures if, one day, we get to learn that another consultancy firm (Consensus Point or Inkling Markets or else) has reached the top. In that scenario, then the headline would be, “NEWSFUTURES FALLS FROM THE TOP”… Not the kind of headline [...]
Philanthropy + Prediction Markets = Growth Area
Last July (2007), I told you about an interesting Lady (Lucy Bernholz), whom I read about in the New York Times, who is an expert in philanthropy business (being a consultant for foundations), and who got interested in the idea of foundations subsidizing some socially valuable prediction markets. (Robin Hanson gave his stamp of approval [...]
Using prediction markets to glean, and then sell, business research.
Via George Tziralis of Ask Markets, the New York Times on the eLab Exchange (powered by NewsFutures).
[...] Robin Hanson, an economics professor at George Mason University and a consultant to companies building prediction markets, said: “A lot of new business plans are based on this idea. There’s a big trend in this area, with people [...]
Is Electronic Art still running internal prediction markets??
Mat Fogarty (Prediction Markets Consultant – Founder CEO Xpree)
Ran a 240 participant prediction market at EA which demonstrated the power of collaborative forecasting in a corporate setting.
Every time somebody tells me about EA, they use the past tense, “ran”. Does it mean it’s over, now that Mat Fogarty is out??
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