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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission will have authority to decide what derivatives must be centrally cleared rather than letting private parties make the call.
“Central clearing interposes a regulated clearinghouse between the original counterparties in a derivatives transaction and so creates an opportunity to make dealing more transparent.”
CNBC video
Feedback trading in prediction markets
Robin Hanson is schooled about prediction market trading.
Our guest author to our Master Of All Universes:
Feedback trading just means the kind of momentum trading that is pervasive in traditional assets, again, less so in prediction markets. In the biastest experiment, traders were given formal “clues” about the settlement, but for many market participants, the best [...]
BetFair – Live Chat Session – Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
BetFair – Live Chat Session – Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 – [This link is only available to the BetFair registered users, alas. In the future, BetFair should make the transcripts of all chat sessions available to the public at large, in my view.]
Here is a transcript, transmitted to me by Mike Robb of BetFair —many [...]
Freakonomics is the latest in a long series of (usually, serious) bloggers who have misinformed the public by stating that the institutional investor is manipulating the US political election prediction markets.
The anonymous blogger (probably the editor, Annika Mengisen) titles the post, “A New Kind of Campaign Advertising?”, and asks:
Will market manipulation for political candidates become the norm as ever-wealthier campaigns try to control the news cycle?
No…!!!…
John Delaney said that that firm has been hedging on InTrade —a normal and beneficial activity on the other (larger [...]
Economics blogger Zubin Jelveh got it right about the InTrade hedging thing.
“No Manipulation At InTrade“
Exactly.
John Delaney said that that firm has been hedging on InTrade —a normal and beneficial activity on the other (larger and more liquid) financial markets.
InTrade is not liquid enough to weather (quickly enough) the impact made by the hedging activities, at this time, but will in the future, if growth continues.
Manipulation is [...]
A blogger at the New York Times misinforms the public about the alleged manipulations on the InTrade US political prediction markets.
The blogger titles the post, “Cheating the Spread”.
No…!!!…
John Delaney said that that firm has been hedging on InTrade —a normal and beneficial activity on the other (larger and more liquid) financial markets.
InTrade is not liquid enough to weather (quickly enough) the impact made by the hedging activities, at this time, but will in the future, [...]
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