As someone who was a student in college, I would have to say the main draw was the 24/7 trading. I got up late, I was in class during the day and at night I was “out,” there would have been no time for be to trade under the normal Stock Exchange trading hours. The [...]

Will the trading of sports derivatives (please correct me if that term is incorrect) more closely resemble the trading of futures or the trading of stock options? There are many more investors who are familiar with stock options than there are who trade futures. I think this is an important distinction that will help determine [...]

Chris, the last sentence of your response to me was “It will all be driven by how we bring understanding to the marketplace and the intuitive nature of the trading interface.” I was under the impression that the trading of sports derivatives would take place via a brokerage firm or online trading firm; just like [...]

Not sure this is the appropriate place for this observation, but, how would the market reacted when LeBron left Cleveland for Miami? I would’ve loved to have had the SRI in place prior to that transaction. This would’ve brought some excitement on another level. I’m not clear on your question, Chris, on div payments vs [...]

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This is funman - loved the ASM platform on many different levels… I’m a IT man as a career, longtime sports fan, and stock market player… all of these and the 24/7 availablity, as well, were exactly what I loved… the trading, the dividends, the IPO’s, the whole experience was so exciting…. I do not [...]

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How much of a factor were the dividend payments versus the price changes?

1. Real-time and 24-7 online trading 2. The competitive nature of the teams involved 3. Ease of user interface 4. Comradre with other traders I remember one Super Bowl where Pittsburgh was playing and during the entire game I was trading back and forth with each score. It added an element of excitement that paralleled [...]

Thank you very much for the input, Allan. Do you understand the basic operation of the SRI and the types of standard contracts that will be written against it? If so, do you think that the public will receive the product with the same enthusiasm as the ASM product and platform? Since this is an [...]

My first thought was, Wow! Somebody actually made a stock market based on sports and where you can place trades and make money based on your knowledge of sports. This is fantastic! Now I’m not even a big sports fan but, having worked in the Brokerage/Securities industry for more than a decade, ASM immediately made [...]

David, honestly , I don’t know what you are talking about. Please explain a little more.

Why I bought up the (where you (I don’t remember what I did exactly bought I lst a little bit of cah accumuating the Falcons stocks for the long term. All them gambler friends of mine started getting stocks without paying, and then closing their accounts, So over a few days period of time I [...]

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