Kiwi Poll Guy looks at what has been happening on iPredict:
iPredict is running a contract on National winning the 2014 election. It was originally launched on 26 October 2011, a month before the 2011 General Election, and has been floating around between $0.40 and $0.60 since then. It’s only in the last month that the stock has moved significantly beyond $0.60, so it’s worth taking a quick look.
It is convenient because I took a screen shot of the Buy/Sell in this category back in late January:
Note how someone has flooded the market, almost guaranteeing that the stock won't fall beneath 60 cents. You can't see it at iPredict now, as they only show the Top 10 orders.
Media beware. It's bad enough creating self-fulfilling prophesies with polls. It is quite another to invent futures based on asymmetric gamblers.
