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Tag Archives: traders
This economic crisis is like a cancer, if you just wait and wait hoping it is going to go away, just like a cancer it is going to grow and it will be too late! — [VIDEO]
Market is toast: http://www.facebook.com/alessiorastani
Once again, Robin Hanson exaggerates the usefulness of the prediction markets. — [ANALYSIS]
InTrade’s prediction markets on the recent Arab revolutions didn’t bring anything interesting in our understanding of the Middle East. Robin Hanson’s insistence is absurd.
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Prediction Post-Mortem
Tagged Algeria, Arab countries, Arabs, Bahrain, bets, Betting, betting markets, bettors, Egypt, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasting, forecasts, InTrade, Libya, Politics, predicting, prediction markets, Predictions, Robin Hanson, traders, trading, Tunisia, world politcs, Yemen
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InTrade was not able to predict anything regarding the Fukushima nuclear energy plant. — [PREDICTION POST-MORTEM]
Contra to Robin Hanson, Justin Wolfers and James Surowiecki (who all have exaggerated the usefulness of the prediction markets), collective forecasting is not a tool we can rely on for just anything. As I wrote in the past, we need … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Prediction Post-Mortem
Tagged betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, electricity, energy, event derivative markets, Fukushima, InTrade, James Surowiecki, Japan, Justin Wolfers, nuclear electricity, nuclear energy, nuclear energy plant, nuclear energy plants, nuclear power, power plant, power plants, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, traders
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The future belongs to hedge funds — [LINK]
Man vs. Machine on Wall Street: How Computers Beat the Market.
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets
Tagged Finance, Financial Markets, traders, trading, Wall Street
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Arab Revolt Prediction Markets – {Predictions for next Arab country to revolt} – {Which country is the next ‘domino’?} – {What will happen in the Middle East & Northern Africa?} – [PREDICTION MARKET CHARTS]
Predictions for next Arab country to revolt: Libya — Muammar al-Gaddafi – [5 spellings: Gaddafi, Qaddafi, Gadhafi, Khadafy and Khadafi]: Bahrain — Khalifah ibn Sulman al-Khalifah: Yemen — Ali Abdullah Saleh: Iran — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iran — Seyed Ali Hoseyni … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Genesis, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Predictions - Forecasts
Tagged Ali Abdullah Saleh, Arab countries, Arabs, Bahrain, bets, Betting, betting markets, bettors, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasting, forecasts, Gaddafi, Gadhafi, InTrade, Iran, Khadafi, Khadafy, Khalifah ibn Sulman al-Khalifah, Libya, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Politics, predicting, prediction markets, Predictions, Qaddafi, Seyed Ali Hoseyni KhÄmene’i, traders, trading, world politcs, Yemen
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“The REAL lesson most investors should take away from the largest institutional insider-trading investigation in history is that competition in the global financial markets is so intense that it’s basically idiotic to trade.”
“the folks they are competing with have millions and millions of dollars to spend gathering information that will never be published anywhere or appear on a screen or in a chart or graph.”
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets
Tagged Finance, Financial Markets, information, stocks, traders, trading, Wall Street
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Algorithms that execute thousands of trades per second
Automated transactions executed at lightning speed
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations, Software
Tagged algorithmic trades, algorithmic trading, algorithmic transactions, algorithms, automated trades, automated transactions, hedge funds, high frequency trading, high-frequency automated trading, high-frequency traders, quant funds, quantitative analysis, statistical patterns, traders, trades, trading, transactions
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