Tag Archives: David Jack
The Sporting Exchange’s TradeFair (BetFair’s twin prediction exchange) is shooting to the Moon.
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External Link: TradeFair
Robin Osmond, TradeFair CEO
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The Telegraph
TradeFair is seeking the British FSA’s stampf of approval. Great. Maybe they will seek out the US CFTC’s stamp of approval, after that. (Or maybe not. We don’t know.) That would be great.
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FYI, David Jack has always been indexed at LinkedIn as “Director”. He was never listed there as “CEO”, as far as I [...]
BetFair-TradeFair (slightly) improve their blog, finally (it was about time) —and open 2 new sections: “prediction markets” and “financials”.
Here’s the vertical menu of the BetFair blog. Scroll down until you see “Politics”, and “Prediction Markets”.
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Here’s their section on politics:
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Here’s their section on finance:
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My thoughts:
Their “about” page still does not list the names of their editor(s) and publisher(s). It would give them credibility.
My understanding is that their blog is run by their PR department. [...]
Did the BetFair blog use trading data from InTrade to hint at BetFair’s accuracy??
Latest update on the BetFair blog fiasco
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I am alerted today that the BetFair blog has updated its infamous Michigan story with a new compound chart bearing a clearer label. It reads now:
Republican nomination – The race so far
I’ll have some comments, below the chart, but first a technical note. The new chart posted is a [...]
HubDub wil redefine the play-money exchange landscape.
In “private beta”.
So I can’t say anything.
Or, next thing, I’m a dead blogger.
As soon as you catch this post, RUSH THERE AND TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR. Awesome. Nigel Eccles is the man. John Delaney, David Jack, Adam Siegel and Emile Servan-Schreiber can return to the locker room. Robin Hanson and Justin Wolfers are history artifacts, [...]
TradeFair Binaries is clearly the major, and TradeFair Spreads is the minor.
BetFair-TradeFair press release (2007-12-03):
Betfair enters financial markets with Tradefair launch
Tradefair to provide a revolutionary new retail binaries exchange
Betfair, the world’s leading online betting exchange has announced the formation of an exciting new business, Tradefair. Established to provide a range of financial products to the retail market, Tradefair launches with a binaries trading exchange and a [...]
The London School of Economics chose InTrade-TradeSports over BetFair-TradeFair for floating event derivatives on global warming.
The London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), located at the center of London (nearby the Waterloo Bridge), chose not to partner with BetFair-TradeFair, the world’s #1 prediction exchange (betting exchange), located west of London (near the Hammersmith Bridge). Instead, the CEP went with Ireland-based InTrade —North America’s illegal market leader, and the [...]
TradeFair’s David Jack = the $20 million man
Hidden this morning deep into The Sunday Times:
Betfair, the online sports-betting firm, has invested £10m to launch Tradefair, a new subsidiary company specialising in bets on the financial markets. It believes that the market for financial betting could exceed £400m. [*] Tradefair will operate independently of its parent. [**]
£10 million = $20.3 million = [...]
Alas, TradeFair managing director confirms that they will float financial event derivatives, only.
David Jack has just published a blog post on Midas Oracle, and here’s one short excerpt:
Take a look at Betfair today – it has some of the most liquid, volatile and high participation prediction markets in the world. Participation drives the price down and provides fantastic value to our customers. This has allowed us to [...]
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