BetFair - Australia
- (Technopark, Glenorchy, Hobard, Tasmania, Australia) — 50%
owned by Australia-based Packer family's Publishing and Broadcasting
Limited (PBL). — Traders should use the Australian wallet.
BetFair - Germany
- (Germany, E.U.) — Deutsche Sportwett GmbH of Dresden (DSG)
acts an intermediary between customers and Betfair in respect of the
transmission of betting data and other personal data.
Licensed
in the U.K., Germany, Austria, Italy, Malta, and Australia. — South Africa, next?
TradeBetX - TradeSports - (The Commonwealth of Dominica - Previously: The Netherlands Antilles - Previously: Dublin, Ireland,
E.U.) — The probability of a future outcome expressed in
percent is given by the last price. — Open to U.S. residents. — Launched in 2002 by John Delaney —
TradeSports
imposes a 4-second order-entry delay on some sports and live
entertainment contracts to compensate for the varying delays with which
members see an event (radio vs. tv; cable vs. satellite; etc.).
MatchBook - (Antigua & Ireland, E.U.) — Open to U.S. residents. — Owned by WSEX.
User interface that mimicks an American sportsbook.
World Sports
Exchange
- (WSEX) - (Antigua) — The "Long-Term Markets" make use of
CDA. The
other lines are typical of the betting operations of any sportsbook,
and thus are not of interest to us. — Founded in 1996
HedgeStreet
- (Delaware, U.S.A. & San Mateo, California, U.S.A.) — Open to U.S. residents only
A designated contract market (DCM)
and a registered derivatives clearing organization (DCO), HedgeStreet
is subject to regulatory oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (CFTC). —
Launched in 2004 by John Nafeh, Russell Andersson, and
Ursula Burger — Now owned by IG Index —
Iowa
Electronic Markets - (IEM) - (Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A.) — Received two "no-action"
letters from the CFTC. — IEM
was launched in 1988 by prediction market co-inventors Robert Forsythe, Forrest Nelson, and George
Neumann. — Research purpose; capped accounts. — Open to U.S. and international residents. —
SpreadFair
- (England, United
Kingdom, E.U.) — The world's first spread-betting
exchange. — Authorized and regulated by the U.K.'s Financial Services
Authority — Launched in 2004/2005??? — Owned by Cantor
Fitzgerald —
UBC - Election
Stock Market
- (UBC-ESM) - (British Columbia, Canada) — Research purpose; capped accounts — Launched in 1996??
Bet 2 Give - (Maryland, U.S.A.) — Donations to charities. — Powered by NewsFutures.
Red Monitor - (Austria, E.U.) — URL: RedMonitor
— in German — Red Monitor is subject to the Austrian
Finanzmarktaufsicht supervision. Red Monitor’s non-CDA market design is
original and patented. Scientific and private use is free.
ToteExchange - ToteSport - (United Kingdom, E.U.) - UK Tote - Just a registered domain name, as for now.
INREEX - (International
Real Estate Exchange) - (London, England, United Kingdom, E.U.) —
Real-money house price prediction exchange — Launched in
2006 by Paul Rozenberg and Gene Sokolov
CME Group - (Chicago,
Illinois, U.S.A.) — A new entity representing the July 2007 merger of
the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade
(CBOT).
US Futures Exchange - (USFE) -
(U.S.A.) - USFE is a designated contract maker (DCM). — USFE uses
The Clearing Corporation to provide its clearing services.
Chicago Board Options Exchange - (CBOE) - (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) — A CBOT subsidiary — Regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (CFTC) —
Chicago Futures Exchange - (CFE)
- (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) — Owned by Chicago Board
Options Exchange (CBOE) — Regulated by the Commodity Futures
Trading
Commission (CFTC) — Launched in 2004
Philadelphia Board of Trade
- (PBOT) - (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) — Soon to
launch event-driven futures markets — All options and
futures traded at PBOT are cleared at The Options Clearing
Corporation. — Owned by Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) — Regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (CFTC) — Relaunched in 2005???
International
Securities Exchange
- (ISE) - (New York City, New York, U.S.A.) — Alternative
markets — MidPoint Match platform, with Best Bid Offer
(BBO) — Owns Longitude — ISE is now owned by Deutsche Börse.
Play-Money InTrade = Play-Money InTrade — CDA with an automated market-maker that synchronizes the prices with those of the real-money prediction exchanges.
Hollywood
Stock Exchange - (HSX) - (L.A., California,
U.S.A.) — URL: HSX — HSX Movies - HSX Community —
CDA with an automated market maker (AMM) that balances buy/sell orders by generating
both buy and sell orders, which keep the market maker in balance as
well. — HSX is a play-money prediction exchange with a game, IPO-like interface. — Owned by Cantor Fitzgerald —
Founded in 1996 by Max Keiser and Michael Burns
Foresight
Exchange - (FX, FSX) - (Alberta, Canada) — URL: IdeoSphere - Alternate URL: Idea Futures —
Launched in 1994 by Ken
Kittlitz, Sean Morgan, Mark James, Greg James, David McFadzean and
Duane Hewitt — Godfathered by Robin Hanson (a prediction market
co-inventor)
NewsFutures
- (Maryland, U.S.A. & France, E.U.) — French News Exchange - Hungarian — Founded in 2000 by Emile Servan-Shreiber and Maurice
Balick — Godfathered by Robin Hanson (a prediction market
co-inventor)
Global Risks Prediction Market —
The Global Risks Prediction Market is a public play-money prediction
exchange. It is owned (i.e., published) by the World
Economic Forum. NewsFutures powers, web-hosts, and co-operates it in
collaboration with WEF staff. — Launched in 2006. — A mix
between CDA trading and Scoring Rule (Competitive Forecasting)
Inkling - (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) — URL: Inkling Markets
— Uses Robin Hanson's Market Scoring Rules (a mix between CDA and
Scoring Rules), in one dimension — Uses an automated market maker (AMM)
— Launched in 2006 by Adam Siegel, Jim
Richmond and Nathan Kontny
Inkling Markets - Entry page to the play-money prediction markets
HubDub - (Scotland, United Kingdom, E.U.) — Play-money prediction exchange & News aggregator — Founded in 2007 by Nigel Eccles
Cenimar
- (Loomis, California, U.S.A.) — Prediction markets settled by
the CIA World FactBook. — With a now mostly disabled automated market
maker (AMM)
Reality Markets
- (Park City, Utah, U.S.A.) — Simplified CDA with an
automated market maker (AMM) and a Banker that handles IPO issues
The Sim Exchange - (U.S.A.) — URL: theSimExchange - Spelled: The simExchange — Wall Street-like play-money prediction exchange on videogame sales.
Media Predict - (New
York City, New York, U.S.A.) — Simon & Schuster — Founded
by Brent F. Stinski in 2006 — Powered by Inkling Markets —
Older brand name: Media Futures Exchange
—
Yahoo! Buzz Game
- (Yahoo! Research Labs,
Pasadena, California,
U.S.A.) — Launched in 2005 by David Pennock et al. — Exchange based on David Pennock's
invention, the dynamic pari-mutuel market
Washington Stock Exchange - (WSX) - (Tennesse, U.S.A.) — URL: WashingtonSX - Alternate URL: theWSX
— Uses Robin Hanson's Market Scoring Rules (a mix between CDA and
Scoring Rules), in one dimension — Uses an automated market maker (AMM)
— Powered by Consensus Point — Launched in 2006 by David Perry and Ken
Kittlitz
Prediction Xchange - (Casual Observer) - (U.S.A.) — Uses Robin Hanson's Market Scoring Rules (a mix between CDA and
Scoring Rules), in one dimension — Uses an automated market maker (AMM)
— Powered by Inkling —
eLab eXchange - (U.S.A.) — Uses two non-trading forecasting techniques from NewsFutures: Competitive Forecasting and Idea Pageant.
Financial Next - (U.S.A.??) —
Uses Inkling Markets technology
— Uses Robin Hanson's Market Scoring Rules (a mix between CDA and
Scoring Rules), in one dimension — Uses an automated market maker (AMM)
FTD-Strategenbörse - FTD-Strategy - (Germany, E.U.) — Financial Times Germany/Deutschland + ECCE TERRAM
Gexid - Global Exchange for Information Derivatives - (Germany, E.U.)
Government Futures - (U.S.A.) — Powered by Inkling — Uses Robin Hanson's Market Scoring Rules (a mix between CDA and
Scoring Rules), in one dimension — Uses an automated market maker (AMM)
Inreex -
(International Real Estate Exchange) - (London, England, United
Kingdom, E.U.) — Play-money house price prediction
exchange — Launched in 2006 by Paul Rozenberg and Gene
Sokolov
MarMix - (Information Systems Institute, U. of Lausanne's business school, Lausanne U., Lausanne, Switzerland) — 2014 candidates - Which city will be designated for the Winter Olympics 2014? — MarMix - (for the Swiss students only) — More info — Launched by Yves Pigneur and Cédric Gaspoz.
PharmaDAQ - (U.S.A.??) —
Pharmaceutical industry prediction exchange (betting exchange). Goal:
forecasting the future size of each drug market segment.
Political
Event Market
- (U. of Virginia, Virginia, U.S.A.) — Founded by Charles
Holt — Potentially, this exchange can also be used with
real money.
Project Destiny - (E.U.) — Technology prediction exchange where only employees of the France Telecom Group can trade.
Prediction Xchange -
(U.S.A.) — URL: PredictionXchange — Uses Robin
Hanson's Market Scoring Rules (a mix between CDA and Scoring Rules), in
one dimension — Launched in 2006 by Rick Hinton — Powered by Inkling
Technology
Futures
Markets - (Germany, E.U.) — Alternate URL: tfMarkets — A stock market game to predict the Future of
Technology —
A cooperation of Austrian Electronic Markets & Chair of
Information
Services and Electronic Markets
We Are Smarter Than Me - (U.S.A.) - Predicting the success of a wiki book. — Powered by Consensus Point
Simon
Exchange
- (U.S.A.) — Law professor Tom Bell (and Robin
Hanson-follower) wants an idea futures exchange (trading science, technology and public policy claims) to be named after a
deceased
libertarian economist.
3. Miscellaneous — (Other websites that might help figuring odds of future events)
Bookmakers, Sportsbooks, Financial Bookmakers, Binary Bookmakers, Spread-Betting Bookmakers, etc.
You Bet - (California, U.S.A.) — Official U.S. Web-based bookmaker/sportsbook for U.S. horse racing events. — Subsiduary: International Racing Group - (Curacao, Netherlands Antilles)
World Spreads - (Ireland, E.U. & United
Kingdom, E.U.)
BetOnMarkets - (Isle of Man) — Bets on financial markets
Options/Futures Exchanges For Sporting Event Tickets
The Ticket Reserve
- (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) — The Ticket Reserve gives you the opportunity to buy sporting event seats at
face value. If your
team you've bought an option on makes it to the big game, you will be
able to buy tickets for less than what is charged on game day. Of
course, if your team doesn't make it, your ticket options are
worthless. CDA futures exchange that makes it actually a sports
prediction exchange. — Launched in 2005 by Rick Harmon
YooNew -
(Baltimore,
Maryland, U.S.A.) — YooNew lets you preorder playoff tickets
before the season starts. Prices are
based on a team's probability to win and averaged ticket prices. YooNew
plans to offer a secondary market, someday. YooNew is built around a futures
exchange based on Robin Hanson's
Combinatorial Market Scoring Rules. —
Founded in 2004 and launched in 2005 by Gerry Wilson and Hagos Mehreteab
Smarkets - (U.S.A.) — Buy/sell shares of Amazon products
Alexa Dex - (U.S.A.??) — Players compete
for fame and glory by buying and selling shares in sites on the World
Wide Web. The price of a share is set at the the site's daily reach per
million, according to Alexa.com.
Real-Money and Play-Money Prediction/Bet Registries
Long
Bets - (California, U.S.A.) — Mid-term and long-term bets (on business, science, society, and
technology issues)
organized by a foundation — Badly maintained; not successful.
ProTrade - (San Mateo,
California, U.S.A.) — Cross between a prediction market game and an
American-style fantasy football game. Traders buy and sell shares in
players. These stocks pay dividends according to how well a player
performs in each game. — Founded in 2005 by Jeff Ma and Mike Kerns, and advised by Justin
Wolfers.
Biz Predict - (U.S.A.??) —
Uses Consensus Point technology
— Uses Robin Hanson's Market Scoring Rules (a mix between CDA and
Scoring Rules), in one dimension — Uses an automated market maker (AMM)
Economic
Derivatives
- (U.S.A.) — CME + ICAP + Longitude (previously with Goldman Sachs) — These
financial instruments are traded through a
Universal Dutch Auction format —an
automated parimutuel technique. — OTC market (which limits
participants to eligible contract participants) excluded from
regulation by the CFTC.
Crowd IQ - (N.Y.C., N.Y., U.S.A.) — URL: CrowdIQ — Launched in 2006 by Chris Sun and Frank Conway — It has bellied up.
BetBug
- (Jersey) — Bills
itself as "the Kazaa of betting". — It has bellied up.
LCD TV Futures —
Not an exchange, no trading. — The LCD TV Futures game is open to the public. — Scoring Rules:
players' predictions are scored on 3 criteria: accuracy, duration, and
certainty. — Discontinued.
Penn State Idea Futures Market - (Penn State U., Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.) — For use by human resource
professionals — In collaboration with the Human Resource Institute — Launched in February 2006 by David L. Passmore and Rose M. Baker — Powered by NewsFutures
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