Invesments on the Candidates market

[Nicholas_J]

This site links to a "Futures Market in which people invest in various Futures, in thing like sports and political candidates, and this is the market as it currently stands for who thises investors beleive will get the democratic nomination, and breaks the candidates market doen by shares, volume, bd, asked and closing prices.
Kerry is the the best "BLUE CHIP " invesment in this market.




Contract B Qty Bid Ask A Qty Last Vol Chge
DEM.2004.KERRY 298 31 33 6 33 22.3k 0
DEM.2004.DEAN 8 23 26 20 25 11.3k 0
DEM.2004.LIEBERMAN 395 14 17 300 16 18.8k 0
DEM.2004.EDWARDS 3 9 12 300 10 7301 0
DEM.2004.GEPHARDT 4 7 8 388 8 8839 0
DEM.2004.H.CLINTON 80 7 8 630 7 16.1k 0
DEM.2004.MCCAIN 0 - 1 1 1 355 0
DEM.2004.FIELD 300 7 11 19 10 3408 0


http://www.tradesports.com/

An interesting way in seeing hoe the nominations market is doing.

[ima_sinnic]

1. "a new 0-100 proposition contract on Admiral Poindexter"

these people bet on anything and everything:

"Tradesports has opened a new 0-100 proposition contract on Admiral Poindexter remaining on the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency(DARPA) payroll by August 31st 2003. . . . The contract will expire at 100 if Admiral Pointexter is still officially on the DARPA payroll by 11:59pm ET on the specific date. The contract will expire at 0 if for any reason (eg retirement) Admiral Poindexter is not on the DARPA payroll at this time."

They also have bets going on when WMD will be found in Iraq, and on the date of killing/capturing of Hussein and bin Laden.

[gottaB]

2. the irony of the poindexter contract kills me n/t

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. On the Iowa Electronic Market...

...which has done races going back to Clinton/Bush I, ROF (Rest of Field, including Dean) is beating Kerry $0.42 to $0.30