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HedgeStreet vs. Economic Derivatives

HedgeStreet: The HedgeStreet Exchange has launched binary contracts that allow traders to take positions on the U.S. Department of Labor’s seasonally adjusted Initial Jobless Claims report, announced weekly. The Initial Jobless Claim binaries are listed for trading each week from … Continue reading

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ALL our real-money prediction exchanges (betting exchanges) have a play-money ground.

BetFair – (Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom, E.U.) BetFair Play For Fun Only English Soccer TradeSports – (The Netherlands Antilles) Play-Money TradeSports — PredictionX — Launched in February 2006. InTrade – (Dublin, Ireland, E.U.) FT Predict — (play-money InTrade with … Continue reading

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USFE’s letter to the US CFTC – Binary Event Derivatives

USFE – PDF file (formatting is weird, sorry): U.S. Futures Exchange, LLC (“USFE” or the “Exchange”) intends to list new binary Event Futures (“Event Futures” or “Contracts”) on April 20, 2007. The purpose of this letter is to outline the … Continue reading

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What will the Fed do next?

In talking about the Fed’s likely next move, it’s useful first to review how we got to where we currently are. The Fed now clearly understands that it overdid the stimulus in 2002-2004, and brought us uncomfortably close to a … Continue reading

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