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Tag Archives: Robin Marks
Did the BetFair blog use trading data from InTrade to hint at BetFair’s accuracy??
Latest update on the BetFair blog fiasco — I am alerted today that the BetFair blog has updated its infamous Michigan story with a new compound chart bearing a clearer label. It reads now: Republican nomination – The race so … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Prediction Journalism
Tagged ABC, accuracy, BetFair, BetFair blog, betting markets, blog editor, BMP, David Jack, Editor, Ethics, event derivative markets, event derivatives, furious Betair blog writer, governor, Internet connection, Leighton Vaughan-Williams, Mark Davies, McCain, Michel Robb, Michigan, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, Niall O'Connor, Niall Or'Connor, prediction market journalism, prediction markets, Professor, Robin Marks, Tony Clare, web publisher, web publishing, writer
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BetFair-TradeFair fights corruption, while TradeSports-InTrade does not.
— BetFair-TradeFair is legal and has ethics, while TradeSports-InTrade is not and has none. — Via Steve Roman who provides the recap and another excerpt, The New York Times: [...] At the center of the investigation is Betfair, one of … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, Regulations
Tagged Analysis (Data) - Sports / Politics Corruption, Argentina, BetFair, Betfair spokesman, Davydenko, Internet addresses, London, Martin Vassallo Arguello, Poland, prediction markets, Rafael Nadal, Robin Marks, Roger Federer, so-called online sports exchanges, Sopot, sports leagues, Steve Roman, tennis, the New York Times, USD, Wimbledon
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Does betting exchange BetFair handle more daily trades than the New York Stock Exchange?
No, but BetFair might well be the world’s third financial exchange in terms of transaction volumes (which is a secondary metrics, of course). Steve Roman (who works in NYC’s financial industry) attracted my attention to this line from The Los … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Data), Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Market Liquidity
Tagged Australia, Chicago, Civil Rights Action Corporation, Eric Zitzewitz, head, Internet gambling colossus
Betfair, Jason Ruspini, Jed Christiansen, London, London Stock Exchange, Los Angeles Times, New Financial Betting, New York Board of Trade, New York Stock Exchange, prediction markets, Robin Marks, Steve Roman, The Los Angeles Times, United Kingdom
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BetFair has an anti-fraud team whereas InTrade-TradeSports has none.
That’s the chunk of truth that no US journalist or blogger or prediction market scholar will dare telling you. — Czarek Sokolowski / AP — The Los Angeles Times has a two-page investigation into the alleged corruption of that tennis … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Regulations
Tagged Analysis (Data) - Sports / Politics Corruption, BetFair, British Horseracing Authority, Internet gambling colossus, journalist, London, Los Angeles Times, New York Stock Exchange, Nikolay Davydenko, online forum, Poland, prediction markets, Robin Marks, soccer, Sopot, spokesman, tennis, United States, USD
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