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Annoying InTrade Outages

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Guest Author

InTrade usually closes the session for end of the day processing at 2am EST for 10-15 minutes. Yesterday (Thursday, July 10, 2009), it was 2.5 hours and counting. No advance notice and no explanation… —vintage InTrade. 2.5 hours is 10% … Continue reading →

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Question to the Midas Oracle readers who trade event derivatives on BetFair

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Did the BetFair website fail many times in the past? – Did the Betfair website experience loading problems under some circumstances (political elections, national team wining a game, etc.)? Previously: The InTrade website problems

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BetFair and InTrade (the so-called leaders in the field of prediction markets) haven’t had the first clue about prediction market journalism.

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

SCOOP: We have identified the bozo who edits BOTH the BetFair blog AND the InTrade bulletin. IT’S A FUCKING MONKEY. – WEB EXCLUSIVE — PLEASE, DO CREDIT MIDAS ORACLE FOR THE SCOOP. THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL‘S DAY JOKE. … Continue reading →

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Mat Fogarty’s Xpree needs a mini Chris Hibbert.

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Company: Xpree – prediction market software Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Description: Xpree is a leader [*] in providing software to enable corporations to tap their collective intelligence.  Using prediction market based technology , Xpree’s solution is a fun game … Continue reading →

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