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Tag Archives: market scoring rule
Emile Servan-Schreiber’s Jedi mind tricks didn’t work on Nigel Eccles.
The conversation ended up on a draw. Robin Hanson was AWOL.
Since YooPick opened their door, Midas Oracle has been getting, daily, 2 or 3 dozens referrals from FaceBook.
I understand that YooPick is a FaceBook application, but I’d like to know what these people are talking about, and in what context they link to Midas Oracle, and what they expect to find out on Midas Oracle when they … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Midas Oracle Network, Midas Oracle Statistics
Tagged David Pennock, FaceBook, Google, Google Search, Google Web Search, Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet search engines, intrepid webmaster, market scoring rule, Market Scoring Rules, Midas Oracle, MSR, play-money betting, play-money trading, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, Search Engines, social networking, social networking websites, Web search, YooPick
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HOW TO DESTROY INTRADE, TRADESPORTS AND BETFAIR: a betting application for FaceBook
If US laws were gambling compatible, would a FaceBook betting application solve the chicken-and-egg problem that any brand-new prediction exchange is facing? (Short sellers will come to the exchange only if there are enough backers, who will come only if … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchange & Market Designs, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Inventions & Innovations, Mechanism Designs
Tagged David Pennock, FaceBook, market scoring rule, Market Scoring Rules, MSR, play-money betting, play-money trading, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, YooPick
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Grave problem with MSR that Robin Hanson and/or exchange executives should address
When there’re few trades (in this case, only 3), the last price/probability is too much dependent on the initial price set up by the exchange manager. – Nigel, you f***ed it up. I want your apology letter posted on Midas … Continue reading
STRAIGHT FROM THE DOUBLESPEAK DEPARTMENT: NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber, well known to chase tirelessly the Infidels who dare calling “prediction markets” their damn polling system, is eager to sell the confusion to his clients and whomever would listen.
Emile’s made up a phrase that means nothing (except in his fertile imagination), “a proprietary prediction market variant“ —sounds like a red herring to me. Unlike Consensus Point, Inkling Markets and Xpree, NewsFutures is the only prediction market software vendor … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Software
Tagged CEO, Consensus Point, corporate prediction markets, DOUBLESPEAK DEPARTMENT, Emile Servan-Schreiber, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Inkling, inkling markets, internal prediction markets, market scoring rule, MSR, NewsFutures, NewsFutures CEO, Prediction Market Software, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Robin Hanson, simplified trading technology, Xpree
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With the multiples, BetFair takes the role of a bookmaker.
BetFair Help: What is multiples betting? Betfair offers multiples betting, also known as accumulator betting. You can combine a number of selections from different markets into one bet. Betfair allows multiples of between two and eight legs. A leg is … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Betting, Exchanges & Markets, Market Makers (Human), Market Trading, Mechanism Designs
Tagged BetFair, BetFair Malta, BetFair multiples, combinatorial market scoring rule, combinatorial technology, Joint Committee, market scoring rule, MSR, multiples betting, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, UK Gambling Commission
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BetFair Multiples
BetFair Help: What is multiples betting? Betfair offers multiples betting, also known as accumulator betting. You can combine a number of selections from different markets into one bet. Betfair allows multiples of between two and eight legs. A leg is … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Betting, Exchanges & Markets, Explainers, Market Makers (Automated), Market Makers (Human), Market Trading, Mechanism Designs
Tagged Bet Manager, BetFair, BetFair Malta, BetFair multiples, combinatorial market scoring rule, market scoring rule, Match Odds, MSR, multiples betting, multiples group, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, runner, tennis
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