Monday 22 September 2008

New iPredict stocks

iPredict has three new stocks on offer:
  1. Benson.Pope - will pay out $1 if David Benson-Pope stands as a non Labour candidate in the 2008 general election. Has launched at 80 cents.
  2. US.Obama08 - will pay out of $1 if Obama is elected President. Will be launched at 49.5 cents.
  3. US.McCain08 - will pay out of $1 if McCain is elected President. Will be launched at 49.5 cents.
Numbers 2 and 3 will launch at 6pm tonight.

1 comment:

Eric Crampton said...

Paul: for some arbitrage, set up an account on InTrade where Obama's trading at 51.4% chance of winning. Buy Obama at InTrade. Then, short Obama on iPredict at 60%. Then, if you're really risk averse, do some currency hedging :>