Tag Archives: transaction costs

My response on high frequency trading, price discovery, liquidity, and transaction costs is up.

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Caveat Bettor

Here, in response to this, which has Wall Street abuzz today. An excerpt from “Bovine Scatology”: Ten years ago, your mutual fund manager would have to use Goldman or a competitor’s block desk to move 100,000 shares of Proctor and … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Finance | Tagged Finance, high frequency trading, liquidity, price discovery, transaction costs | 6 Comments

All against the BetFair premium charges

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Excellent analysis from the “Punt” blogger. Serial bet winners are accused (that’s the word) to withdraw money from the BetFair machine, compelling BetFair to attract new money from newbies at a high marketing cost, and thus BetFair has decided to … Continue reading →

Posted in Betting, Ethics, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Market Transaction Costs | Tagged BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fee structure, BetFair fees, betting exchanges, betting markets, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Premium Charges, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees | 16 Comments

Marketing web publication accuses de facto monopoly BetFair of gouging customers.

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- – Previously: Our blog post on the BetFair Premium Charges -

Posted in Ethics, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fee structure, BetFair fees, betting exchanges, betting markets, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, marketing, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Premium Charges, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees | Leave a comment

The anti-BetFair Premium Charges video reappears on YouTube under a new account.

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The Ghost Of Premium Charges – PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new â€œPremium Chargesâ€â€¦ Do BetFair gag the critics, too? -

Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fees, betting exchanges, betting markets, censorship, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Premium Charges, The Ghost Of Premium Charges, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees, videos, YouTube videos | Leave a comment

The BetFair “crisis board meeting” was a total invention of the Daily Mail, but the PR debacle is real.

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Mark Iverson’s take – Racing UK discussion on the BetFair Premium Charges http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/65316b3dad_13.76MB http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/e050785511_12.87MB Go first to the 2 webpages above. Then, right-click the link, and download the files. – A list of the Betfair forum threads about the … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Market Transaction Costs | Tagged BetFair, BetFair cost structure, BetFair crisis board meeting, BetFair Premium Charges, BetFair trading costs, BetFair transaction costs, customer relationship, David Yu, marketing, prediction markets, The Sporting Exchange, trading costs, transaction costs | 28 Comments

AUDIO on the BetFair Premium Charges

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/65316b3dad_13.76MB http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/e050785511_12.87MB Go first to the 2 webpages above. Then, right-click the link, and download the files. Racing UK discussion on the BetFair Premium Charges PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new â€œPremium Chargesâ€â€¦ Do BetFair gag the critics, too? -

Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Market Transaction Costs | Tagged BetFair, BetFair cost structure, BetFair Premioum Charges, BetFair trading costs, BetFair transaction costs, customer relationship, marketing, prediction markets, Racing UK, The Sporting Exchange, trading costs, transaction costs | 1 Comment

BetFair deny there was a “crisis board meeting” to clean up the mess created by the arrogant British incompetents who devised the “Premium Charges”.

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- UPDATE: BetFair deny there was a “crisis board meeting”. – UPDATE: Mark Iverson’s take – UPDATE: http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/65316b3dad_13.76MB http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/e050785511_12.87MB – Go first to the 2 webpages above. Then, right-click the link, and download the files. Racing UK discussion on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged BetFair, BetFair cost structure, BetFair Premium Charges, BetFair trading costs, BetFair transaction costs, customer relationship, David Yu, marketing, prediction markets, The Sporting Exchange, trading costs, transaction costs | 4 Comments

WE ARE BETFAIR. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- A list of the Betfair forum threads about the new premium charges. A FaceBook group has been created to protest the new BetFair premium charges. PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Charges”… Do BetFair gag the critics, too?

Posted in Ethics, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Humor, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fee structure, BetFair fees, BetFair Forum, BetFair Q & A, betting exchanges, betting markets, censorship, derivative exchanges, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, Humor, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Premium Charges, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees | 2 Comments

With the “premium charges”, BetFair is asking the hogs to pony up. However, the collateral damage is that the concept of “exchange” is stabbed in the back.

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- – - A list of the Betfair forum threads about the new premium charges. A FaceBook group has been created to protest the new BetFair premium charges. PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Charges”… Do BetFair gag the critics, too?

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Business, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Market Transaction Costs | Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fee structure, BetFair fees, BetFair Forum, BetFair Q & A, betting exchanges, betting markets, censorship, derivative exchanges, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, futures exchanges, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Premium Charges, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees | Leave a comment

One day after BetFair’s PR move, the very active event derivative traders are still very displeased by the new BetFair “premium charges”.

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

I have re-published yesterday’s BetFair Q & A at the bottom of my previous post —because that’s the post that Google features, bringing in 300 people a day. – My analysis of this PR debacle: BetFair has a very complex … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Business, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fee structure, BetFair fees, BetFair trading technology, betting exchanges, betting markets, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, FlyWheel, FlyWheel Lite, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Premium Charges, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees | 1 Comment