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Tag Archives: Market Liquidity
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
Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchange Liquidity, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities
Tagged BetFair, betting exchanges, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, Exchange Liquidity, Freakonomics, InTrade, Mark Davies, Market Liquidity, prediction markets
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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
What is the liquidity on InTrade’s financial prediction markets?
My dear honorable Carlos Graterol, I acknowledge you are a little InTrade fanboy, and that flies OK in my book. You say there are 3,000 daily transactions on the daily DJIA prediction markets. (It was much higher than that before … Continue reading
InTrade is exaggerating the usefulness of collective forecasting via prediction markets.
Look at the market liquidity —too insignificant to say anything: InTrade (like many other industry players and scholars) are exaggerating the usefulness of the prediction markets. When there is no liquidity, just keep your mouth shut. Wait until the market … Continue reading
BetFair traders are getting ready for the BOOM.
BetFair: [...] we’ll be enabling the new matching process on soccer match odds markets, tennis match odds markets and greyhound win markets taking place on the UK exchange shortly. – Previously: BetFair’s new bet-matching logic…. (endorsed by Giberson International Incorporated). … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Mechanism Designs
Tagged bet matching, bet matching logic, bet-matching engine, bet-matching process, bet-matching system, BetFair, Giberson International Incorporated, market designs, Market Liquidity, matching bets, matching trades, Mechanism Designs, prediction markets, soccer, tennis, trading engine, United Kingdom
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How BetFair stole Bastille Day from the French —and how Ed Murray became BetFair’s best friend (NOT A HOAX).
- Michael Giberson (professor of economics and chairman of our scientific advisory board): Actually, I would expect the change to improve liquidity, but the real surprise for Ed Murray is that other than his liquidity argument, I pretty much agree … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Mechanism Designs
Tagged Bastille Day, bet matching, bet matching logic, bet-matching engine, bet-matching process, bet-matching system, BetFair, chairman, market designs, Market Liquidity, matching bets, matching trades, Mechanism Designs, Michael Giberson, prediction markets, professor of economics, professor of economics and chairman, Trader, trading engine
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In a blow to the French, BetFair choose Bastille Day to premiere the revised version of the bet-matching logic of their prediction markets. — IMPROVEMENT MEANS BETTER LIQUIDITY FOR THEIR EVENT DERIVATIVE TRADERS.
- BetFair: Improvements to Betfair’s bet matching logic today, Monday 14th July: What’s changing? We’ve improved the code that matches bets. As well as matching backs against lays as we’ve always done, we’ll also try to match your bet against … Continue reading
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