Midas Oracle .ORG » expired event deivative http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:24:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The definitive proof that it’s presently impossible to practice prediction market journalism with BetFair. http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/04/19/charts-of-expired-contracts/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/04/19/charts-of-expired-contracts/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:02:57 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=6656 Continue reading →]]> Homer\'s brain
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Unlike InTrade and NewsFutures, BetFair does not deliver any chart after that the prediction market has expired —leaving the blog post that linked to it totally blank (in a digital world where old content is King, and where Google sends traffic to old blog posts).

The BetFair marketing department is staffed by arrogant incompetents who are incapable of establishing a working relationship with prediction market bloggers like me.

There is nothing more important for our industry than the uprising of new blogs that would hot-link to the charts of prediction markets. The BetFair marketing team hasn’t computed that yet, in spite of all efforts made in their direction.

Of all the prediction market firms I talk with, BetFair is the most impermeable to the prediction market approach: their degree of arrogance is inversely proportional to their level of competency.

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