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Once again, Robin Hanson exaggerates the usefulness of the prediction markets. — [ANALYSIS]

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

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 | Leave a comment

Conspicacy theory (involving credit cards) about coffee futures — [VIDEO]

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Business, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, The Global Economy | Tagged coffee, coffee futures, coffee price, coffee prices, commodities, commodity, commodity prices, credit cards, derivative trading, derivatives, futures, Hedging, Howard Schultz, inflation, Max Keiser, price, prices, speculation, speculators, Starbucks, trading | Leave a comment

The future belongs to hedge funds — [LINK]

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

Man vs. Machine on Wall Street: How Computers Beat the Market.

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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]

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

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 KhÄmeneâ€™i, traders, trading, world politcs, Yemen | Leave a comment

Trading on Inkling’s prediction markets – [VIDEO]

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

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Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchanges & Markets, Explainers, Market Makers (Automated), Market Trading, Mechanism Designs | Tagged Betting, betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Finance, Financial Markets, Inkling, inkling markets, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, trading | Leave a comment

“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.”

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

“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.”