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The Germans In Germany & The Prediction Exchanges In Great Britain
If I have understood correctly what Fabian John has just told me, the Germans can legally trade on the British prediction exchanges regulated by the Financial Services Authority (like TradeFair Spreads or SpreadFair), but not on those regulated by the Gambling Commission (like BetFair, Betdaq, or TradeFair Binaries).
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Fabian John (who runs a web forum for [...]
A little lady (who was featured in the ABC 20/20 story about InTrade) claims that she speculated on the McCain and Obama prediction markets and got a R.O.I. of 1,000% in less than a year.
And she is out with a Press release.
Via Fabian John (Financial Services Consultant)
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ABC 20/20 featuring InTrade – (May 9, 2008)
Foretelling The Future: Online Prediction Markets — (4 pages in all)
ABC video
YouTube video
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How have Jason Ruspini’s tax futures markets at InTrade-TradeSports fared, so far?
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The most liquid of the Jason Ruspini-created contracts:
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I would like to talk a bit about the Internet marketing of these prediction markets, in the rest of this present post.
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As you all know, Jason Ruspini published a blog post on his (semi-abandoned) blog (spot the comments), was interviewed by Bloomberg, and then went to BNN [...]
TradeFair-BetFair is in a tough, competitive space.
MF Global Ltd., the world’s leading futures and options broker, has acquired ChoiceOdds, a leading independent UK-based financial binary trading firm.
ChoiceOdds is a specialist in financial binary trading offering an unrivalled selection of fixed odds, floating odds and binary trades. ChoiceOdds is the only technology platform to offer such a wide variety of trades as [...]
IG Index’s PureDeal
The IG Index software is called PureDeal and have the capability to offer clients FSB, Binary Bets, Ladder Trading (same line InTrade), and many other products. The new CFD platform looks nearly identically.
This is from our good friend Fabian John (from Germany). Right-click on the image below, and you’ll see a Flash presentation of IG [...]
William F. Buckley Jr. once said that he would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone directory than by the entire faculty of Harvard University.
First line of a Wall Street Journal piece on Brian Caplan’s book (The Myth of the Rational Voter), which mentions in passing James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom Of Crowds (our bible ).
Thanks to Fabian John in Germany for the good tip.
WWWDOT – GOOGLE = DOTCOM
[...] Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that values for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeros are allowed.
WWWDOT – GOOGLE = DOTCOM
This can be solved through systematic application of logic. [...]
Plenty of science and technology quizzes used by the Google recruiters in this long blog post: Google Recruitment Paper – Reason [...]
Meet Andrew Wing, the new CEO of Cantor Entertainment, which operates the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
Andrew Wing
Variety:
He’ll work closely with the HSX team to adapt the technology of the virtual stock exchange in developing new products.
TRANSLATION: The current version of the HSX software is stodgy, which may explain why they have only Storage Markets and Pop Sci as clients for their software platform, it seems.
Thanks to Fabian John in Germany [...]
TradeSports vs. InTrade at Google Trends
Via Fabian John from Germany
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