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Tag Archives: Market Trading
HubDub question
I did bet $20 on the “yes” side of the CFTC prediction market. But now, I want to sell those this “yes” contract and buy a “no” contract instead. How can I do that on HubDub? Thanks. – UPDATE: Jed … Continue reading
InTrade, TradeSports and BetFair trading … thru your BlackBerry
- InTrade PDA interface TradeSports PDA interface – You can trade on BetFair via BlackBerry: By downloading Betfair Mobile, a Java application available with versions specific to the most popular mobile phones and PDAs; By using your device’s browser, connected … Continue reading
InTrade’s Software Glitch? – [See Jason Ruspini's comment, at the bottom of the post.]
Here is a beauty from InTrade, 12 hours ago: Bids and Asks at the same price. Looks like the ‘ol InTrade price-matching mechanism is working great. Signed: Deep Throat – - Editor’s Note: Here’s a new screen shot, taken this … Continue reading
Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, Software
Tagged bid-ask prices, Editor, event derivative markets, event derivatives, glitch, InTrade, Jason Ruspini, Market Trading, prediction exchange, prediction markets, same trader, software glitch, US' Easter
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BetFair Education has now a sub-site within the BetFair blog.
BetFair Education – The navigation is easy —see the menu on the left-side sidebar. I encountered only one 404. They are using Movable Type, and not WordPress, alas. The list of posts is comprehensive. They could have integrated their events … Continue reading
BetFair’s future bet-matching logic
- SALIENT VIRILITY REGAINED, BRITISH HONOR RESTORED, QUEEN ESCAPES AFFRONT: Astute and resourceful BetFair SEO expert has managed to put one of their sub-sites ahead of Midas Oracle in Google Web Search results. [Nick Garner] – - BetFair’s future bet-matching … Continue reading
The hard questions that BetFair’s Mark Davies ducked
A BetFair trader called Pablo (no deep link): It simply beggars belief that people can have had matched bets removed from their account when nothing has gone wrong. Will there be a new department to judge the fairness of the … Continue reading
David Pennock, a respected expert in prediction markets and market design, discusses some aspects of BetFair’s new bet-matching logic.
David Pennock: Arbitraging bets is the same thing as matching bets. They are equivalent. When someone places a bid at price 10 and someone else places an ask at price 9, there is an “arbitrage” that the exchange eliminates by … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Market Trading, Market Transaction Costs, Mechanism Designs
Tagged bet matching, bet matching logic, BetFair, chairman, combo market maker, David Pennock, economist, human market makers, job candidate, market designs, Market Trading, Michael Giberson, Midas Oracle Advisory Board, prediction markets, traders
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The free but unsollicited piece of advice from the Chairman of the Midas Oracle Advisory Board to the BetFair market designers.
Michael Giberson: Jason, I think the allegation of queue jumping made in some of the comments is based upon a misunderstanding. BetFair is just matching the orders when a match becomes available, not inserting new orders at the front of … Continue reading