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Hubdub Hot Predictions This Week

Hubdub’s Hot Predictions this week, as decided by Hubdub users and staff, are selected based on their newsworthiness for the week. These stories are bound to be big news this week – and we have forecasts on how they’re likely … Continue reading

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What InTrade CEO John Delaney told the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets)

John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): July 4th 2008 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Three Lafayette Centre 1155 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20581 U.S.A. Attention: Office of the Secretariat RE: “Concept Release … Continue reading

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Work for free for InTrade —and become famous (a little bit).

InTrade embraces ‘crowd sourcing’: Intrade is looking for New Market Ideas! Friday, Jan 25, 2008 What uncertain event are you interested in trading? What uncertain event are you interested in getting predictive information on from the Intrade community? Please let … Continue reading

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John Delaney of inTrade-TradeSports: The North Korea Missile prediction market was a P.R. disaster.

Jed Christiansen: It’s obvious that John wants InTrade to be much more successful than it has been, but he still clearly believes that InTrade can still be very successful. He mentioned that one key in their business is market makers; … Continue reading

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InTrade-TradeSports is still plagued by the North Korea Missile scandal.

Any good journalist writing up a piece on InTrade or interviewing John Delaney does mention the North Korea Missile scandal. — Bet on It! – (page two – page three + a crappy listing of exchanges) – by Spectrum’s Steven … Continue reading

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FREAKONOMICS: John Delaney of InTrade-TradeSports.

Freakonomics (last month): Q: Briefly, what is Intrade? A: InTrade is a marketplace, just like eBay or the NYSE, that provides innovative markets to trade, and the best darn predictive information on uncertain future events bar none! InTrade is a … Continue reading

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Event derivative trader Vancheeswaran has been expelled from the TradeSports-InTrade forum.

And, of course, no reason was cited. Trade Exchange Network Membership Information Dear vancheeswaran, The site administrators have removed your access rights: Violation of T&Cs powered by eve community<http://eve.groupee.com/landing/goto.php?a=community> Hummm… Quite vague. Do they dislike the truth, at Intrade-TradeSports? Here … Continue reading

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INTRADE-TRADESPORTS: John Delaney LIED in his Freakonomics interview.

That’s what tries to demonstrate event derivative trader “Vancheeswaran” in a comment on the Freakonomics blog post featuring a complacent interview of InTrade-TradeSports’ John Delaney. — InTrade-TradeSports’ John Delaney: We listed a market on whether the U.S. Government would formally … Continue reading

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Terrorism Futures = Repugnant Market?

In discussing “Repugnant Markets” on BBC Radio, Tim Harford talks to Robin Hanson about the cancellation of the proposed Policy Analysis Market: HANSON: So on Monday morning two senators you know denounced the project and the very next morning the … Continue reading

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Event derivative trader Azazel pokes fun at InTrade-TradeSports.

Azazel: Because I am a masochist, I think Tradesports should have contract groups relating to controversies surrounding management decisions at Tradesports. These would serve as a nice hedge for people who get screwed over by controversial decisions or are worried … Continue reading

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