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Tag Archives: sports markets
CFTC regulation and election contracts
Insofar as event markets are within the CFTC’s jurisdiction, they would likely be approved as “excluded commodities”. Here is the relevant part of the definition within the Commodity Exchange Act: (iv) an occurrence, extent of an occurrence, or contingency (other … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Regulations
Tagged ambiguous and arbitrary law, bet exchanges, betting exchanges, betting markets, CFTC, energy, energy products, event derivative markets, event derivatives, event futures markets, Finance, Hillary Clinton, laws, oil find, online sports, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, regulated sports-based hedging markets, Regulations, sports markets, Trader
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??? BetFair bet-matching logic ???
While market design expert Chris Hibbert is puzzled by Niall O’Connor’s statement mentioning an automated trader, event derivative trader Ed Murray (who made a series of accusations against BetFair) has just written a comment bringing in some intriguing (but yet … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Market Trading, Mechanism Designs
Tagged Andrew Black, automated trader, bet matching, bet matching logic, bet matching software, BetFair, BetFair Malta, Chris Hibbert, combo market maker, Ed Murray, event derivative trader, GBP, human market makers, Mark Davies, market designs, Market Trading, Michael Robb, Niall O'Connor, Player, prediction markets, Radio 5, same runner, Securities and Exchange Commission, sports markets, traders, un-hired job candidate, United Kingdom
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IG Group buys HedgeStreet for $6,000,000.
Just as predicted by our Deep Throat in early October 2007 —”They are packaging HedgeStreet for a closing/fire-sale.” RTT News. U.S.-based sed HedgeStreet, which has operated the HedgeStreet Exchange, has liabilities of approximately $1 million and operating costs of approximately … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Exchanges & Markets, Finance
Tagged Australia, chief executive, foreign exchange business services, GBP, Germany, HedgeStreet, IG Group, IG Group Holdings plc, pence, prediction markets, retail, retail client base, retail clients, Singapore, speculative investment products, sports markets, Time Howkins, United Kingdom, United States, USD
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2005: TradeSports-InTrade’s Heyday
Price Discovery Among the Punters: Using New Financial Betting Markets to Predict Intraday Volatility – (PDF) – by Eric Zitzewitz – 2006-07-XX Eric Zitzewitz’s comment: Just to challenge a little the conventional wisdom that commercial prediction market exchanges need sports … Continue reading
Trade Exchange Network Reorganizing
From the TradeSports site feed: Trade Exchange Network Reorganizing Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 Dublin, December 21, 2006: With effect from January 1st, 2007, Trade Exchange Network, owner and operator of TradeSports and Intrade, has agreed to divest its sports related … Continue reading