Tag Archives: Fabian John

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 … Continue reading

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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) – 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?

- The most liquid of the Jason Ruspini-created contracts: – - – I would like to talk a bit about the Internet marketing of these prediction markets, in the rest of this present post. – As you all know, Jason … Continue reading

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Tax Futures – Jason Ruspini Edition

Video uploaded to YouTube by Fabian John of Tom Next (a German web forum on financial event derivative trading) Tax rate prediction markets – YouTube Related: Bloomberg – Jason, You’re almost perfect. One thing that intrigues me is that you’re … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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TradeSports vs. InTrade at Google Trends

Via Fabian John from Germany

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