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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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BetFair’s brand-new bet matching logic

BetFair: Betfair Customer Services 06 Jun 15:55 We held a forum Q&A session in March in which we announced that we were working on an improved version of bet matching. This would allow us to match bets across selections, and … Continue reading

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BetFair’s new bet-matching logic + BetFair Malta’s trading on the multiples

BetFair: Bet Matching Forum Q&A Session 19/03/08 Betfair Customer Services 17 Mar 11:50 As announced last week we’ll be hosting a Q&A session on the forum this Wednesday evening (19th March) between 6pm and 7pm (UK Time). The purpose of … Continue reading

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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

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Intrade: Obama and Clinton at near-parity

Full disclosure: I trade real money in all markets mentioned. Both preceding and after the utterly uninformed pronouncements from the past week or so that Hillary was “the one to beat,” that she was “in a league with Tiger Woods … Continue reading

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