Tag Archives: Exchange Liquidity

SMARKETS: £50 million traded got them the attention of Wired UK magazine. — [SNAPSHOT + LINK]

£50 million traded. Wired UK (Hunter Morris and Jason Trost).

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BetFair’s Mark Davies (the Prince of betting exchange PR) has just gotten a second omelet in the face.

First, the Financial Times —and, now, Freakonomics. The journalistic rule should be that, if you cite one prediction exchange, you should cite the one that is the most liquid on the market you are writing about. For UK politics, it … Continue reading

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BRITISH CRETINERY: The Financial Times features the InTrade probabilities —not the BetFair ones.

This is really stupid. The decerebrated journalos at the FT chose to feature the illiquid, Ireland-based, un-regulated InTrade prediction markets instead of the very liquid, UK-based, regulated BetFair prediction markets on the next British congress. Makes no sense at all. … Continue reading

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