Tag Archives: EUR

If the British legal betting companies offer bets on the sport, it is because there is demand for bets on the sport —and if that demand were not offered in a regulated environment, it would be filled in an unregulated one (like what we see with TradeSports-InTrade and MatchBook in the US market).

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Mark Davies of BetFair (PDF file): International Leaders in Sport conference, Auckland, New Zealand. April 3-4th 2008. Keynote speech, April 4th. Mark Davies, Betfair. “New Understandings in Sports Betting” Minister, ladies and gentlemen… Thank you very much for your kind … Continue reading →

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How will the prediction markets respond?

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Niall O'Connor

Ireland’s largest bookmaker Paddy Power is already paying out on Barack Obama to win the Democratic nomination for the race to the White House. They decided yesterday to pay out 50000 Euros to punters who had backed him at odds … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting | Tagged Barack Obama, EUR, Iowa, Ireland, Obama, Paddy Power, spokesman, White House | 2 Comments

TradeFair’s David Jack = the $20 million man

Posted on December 9, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Hidden this morning deep into The Sunday Times: Betfair, the online sports-betting firm, has invested Â£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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Betting, Business, Exchanges & Markets, Finance | Tagged BetFair, David Jack, David Pennock, EUR, GBP, Hidden, Managing Director, online sports-betting, prediction markets, TradeFair, United Kingdom, USD | 3 Comments

Miles Rodgers, the British professional bettor, who heavily traded horse racing on BetFair, who was a suspect in the Fallon case, and who was cleared today.

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— Â£11 million = $22.3 million + â‚¬15.2 million — External Link on the Fallon Case: BBC News – (Thanks to our good friend Niall O’Connor for the tip.) — The Guardian… [...] However, there had already been dialogue between … Continue reading →

Posted in Betting, Exchanges & Markets, People, Regulations | Tagged BBC, BetFair, Betfair lawyer, Daily Mail, David O'Reilly, EUR, Fallon trial, GBP, horse racing, Joanne Richardson, Jockey Club, Kieren Fallon, Miles Rodgers, Niall O'Connor, prediction markets, The Guardian, USD | Leave a comment

Cocky speculator is betting that the European stock markets will crash soon.

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Via Adam Siegel of Inkling Markets, Financial News: An anonymous investor has placed a bet on an index of Europe’s top 50 stocks falling by a third by the end of September, as world equity markets plunged for a third … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Market Calls), Exchanges & Markets, Finance | Tagged Adam, Adam Siegel, Bloomberg, EUR, Europe, Jason Ruspini, manager | Leave a comment

Result of the 2007 French presidential election

Posted on May 6, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

UPDATE: – French Republican Nicolas Sarkozy: 53,06% — If you have speculated on one of the candidates, you may want to know the result before the first quasi-official media reports (8:00 PM, Paris time). French laws prevent the French bloggers … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged EUR, French government, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, quasi-official media reports, Swiss National Radio | 5 Comments

PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKING: LinkedIn for North-America + Xing for Europe

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Tech Crunch: Professional social network LinkedIn will announce a previously rumored $12.8 million round of financing on Monday, led by Bessemer and the European Founders Fund. The company, which has been profitable since March 2006, has raised $13.4 million in … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources - References | Tagged America, Bernd Ankenbrand, Bessemer, EUR, Europe, European Founders Fund, Fabian John, Germany, LinkedIn Answers, prediction markets, Professional social network, USD | Leave a comment

Were the NewsFutures real-money prediction markets on Dutch elections accurate?

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

NewsFutures blog post: [...] At first glance, the quality of the marketâ€™s vote share predictions were somewhat disappointing compared to the three main polls [...] However, the story changes dramatically if, instead of looking at the predictions just before the … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged Adam, Adam Siegel, disgruntled trader, Emile Servan-Schreiber, EUR, Inkling CEO, NewsFutures CEO, Trader | 1 Comment

Will the first commercial A380 be delivered by the 31st of October, 2007?

Posted on January 26, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

It’s a great prediction market. (((However, as I said last time, I really would like to see a “new orders of aircraft” prediction market —Airbus vs. Boeing.))) No: 55% Yes: 45% Airbus has once again delayed the delivery of its … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Inventions & Innovations, Market Contract Statements, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged A380, Airbus, Airbus Chief Executive, Boeing, chief executive, Christian Streiff, EUR | Leave a comment

Why NewsFutures Sucks – A disgruntled trader’s story

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Chris F. Masse

Via reader Jill Peters, a long and detailled blog post from an unhappy NewsFutures real-money trader from Holland. Let’s see whether his criticism is fair —if it’s possible for a third party to judge (we will see). Below is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Trading, Software | Tagged BetFair, De Volkskrant, disgruntled trader, Emile Servan-Schreiber, EUR, Friedrich Nietzsche, front-end systems, Information Technology, Ireland, Jill Peters, NewsFutures, Player, prediction markets, real-money trader, software developer, The Netherlands, Trader, unhappy trader, United Kingdom, United States, web standards | 1 Comment