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>The biggest market there, by far, is on whether Ether will trade above $500 at the end of the year. This is an interesting market because Augur bets are made i
by kolbe 8y ago
>The biggest market there, by far, is on whether Ether will trade above $500 at the end of the year. This is an interesting market because Augur bets are made in Ether. So even though the market (as of last time I checked) says it’s 74% percent to be trading above $500 and it’s currently $480 (it’s currently Thursday, July 26, and I’m not going to go back and keep updating these numbers). When I first saw this the market was at 63%, which seemed to me like a complete steal. Now it’s at 74%, which seems more reasonable
Hi. My job is to essentially figure out reasonable probability distributions for securities on which to price derivatives contracts. Certainly, due to some securities having negative skewedness, it's common for a stock to have more than a 50% chance of going up. I've seen it as high as 65%, but the counterpoint to that is that there's usually very small probability that it goes a lot higher.
I would love to know what probability distribution this guy is using to think that the probability of going up over $20 being 74% is reasonable.
- dmurray 8y agoAs I read it, it says a 74% chance of going up if you look at the market naively and forget that it's priced in ETH. Since it's priced in ETH, you can't derive the probability that ETH goes up directly - there are an infinite number of sets of probability distributions that are consistent with any price. If it goes up, you get paid off more (in USD), so if you thought the odds were 50% of it going up and you were offered an even money ETH bet, you should jump at it.