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Looking at connections between PredictIt markets. Trying to find free money, or at least something interesting.
Sep 2, 2019 9 tweets 2 min read
I think it’s conventional wisdom that PI traders skew Republican and contracts for events that are favorable for Republicans have inflated prices. Here’s an attempt to see if that was true leading up to the 2018 election. Here’s a chart from 538 that shows their expectations for the 2018 Senate results. The shaded area is a range that their formula said had an 80% chance of containing the actual result.