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Introducing the Blue Hampshire Primary Stock Market

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The people at Blue Hampshire are proud to announce the Blue Hampshire Primary Prediction Market.

That’s a mouthful, so we’ll refer to it as the BHPM from now on. But go there, sign up, and you’ll get the idea. You buy “stock” in the candidate you think will win the primary, or, if you think a candidate is riding too high, you can short their stock.

Update: All this occurs with FAKE money. The only real thing you win is a beer at the monthly Keene DL if you are on top that month. And of course the unending adoration of your peers.

We were originally going to limit it to NH natives, but screw it. You guys here at BMG are smart, we want you in.

If you have any problem with signing up for it, drop a thread over here, or for faster service, on any current FP thread at Blue Hampshire.

Oh, and Mark Warner just IPO’d because we’re all getting Christmas cards from him, so you might want to jump on that. Also Evan Bayh is still too high. Please short.

Thanks, and good luck. We publish the top traders periodically at BH. If BMGers start kicking our asses, we’ll own up on the site.

Go to the Blue Hampshire Primary Prediction Market.

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  2. Can I ‘short’ Robert Reich?

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    Can I ‘call’ Kucinich?

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    Can I ‘put’ John Kerry?

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    Can I ‘delist’ Richardson?

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    Can I have an IPO for Hillary?

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    I need to think about this….

  6. Well, I tried it, and I’m frustrated enough that I may not come back.  I shorted one candidate 50 shares.  Then I tried to short another and kept getting an error that it’s more than I’m allowed to sell on credit… even when I tried just 10 shares.  I looked up the documentation, and it doesn’t make sense – it claims it’s trying to keep me out of debt, but the amount of money I supposedly have in my account is more than enough to cover everything.  So, okay, fine, I tried to reduce my short position in the first candidate to maybe free up some credit: no go.  I can only buy back all 50 at once.  What sense does that make?  Yuck.

    • They know what’s best for you better than you do, and will regilate your commercial activity for your own good and penalize you if you try to deregulate yourself.

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