Comments on: Intrade polictical prediction market manipulation http://www.uglychart.com/blog/2008/10/20/intrade-polictical-prediction-market-manipulation/ Beauty is in the eye of the shareholder Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:13:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: uglychart http://www.uglychart.com/blog/2008/10/20/intrade-polictical-prediction-market-manipulation/comment-page-1/#comment-46113 uglychart Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:53:23 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/?p=4556#comment-46113 Nigel - thanks for the correction Nigel – thanks for the correction

]]> By: Nigel Eccles http://www.uglychart.com/blog/2008/10/20/intrade-polictical-prediction-market-manipulation/comment-page-1/#comment-46112 Nigel Eccles Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:39:23 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/?p=4556#comment-46112 Just a quick correction: The McCain contract has been consistently 10% higher on Intrade than on similar exchanges (like ours here: <a href="http://www.hubdub.com/m17795/Who_will_win_the_2008_US_Presidential_Election" rel="nofollow">http://www.hubdub.com/m17795/Who_will_win_the_2...</a>) not higher than the Obama contract.<br><br>Currently Obama is trading at about 85-88% across nearly all the exchanges. I'm not sure why Clinton is trading at 1.1%. I think it may be something to do with their commission structure. Just a quick correction: The McCain contract has been consistently 10% higher on Intrade than on similar exchanges (like ours here: http://www.hubdub.com/m17795/Who_will_win_the_2...) not higher than the Obama contract.

Currently Obama is trading at about 85-88% across nearly all the exchanges. I'm not sure why Clinton is trading at 1.1%. I think it may be something to do with their commission structure.

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