This document discusses using prediction markets to aggregate information and forecast events. It notes that traditional markets transmit information through stock prices as news is incorporated. Similarly, prediction markets can be used to forecast things like company sales, project deadlines, or a competitor's market share. The document promotes a website, AskMarkets.com, that allows users to create their own prediction markets to estimate probabilities of future events that matter for their organization or enterprise. Creating and participating in markets on the site is described as a simple process.

1. I’ll try to be quick and up to the point,
my whole presentation is 1 slide long.
(ok, I can actually tell the whole story using just this slide..)

2. YHOO at Google Finance
This is a screenshot of the YHOO stock, taken from Google Finance. It
may look a little bit confusing by first sight, but the key elements are 2:

3. key elements
let’s get rid of everything else and focus on these. which are these?

4. News!
the first one is news, actually everything related to YHOO

5. Price!
the second one is price, here you can see the price of YHOO over time.

6. ok, where’s the magic?
ok, but what’s so special about the market?

7. news are here!
market transmits information through prices
market sums up information and transmits it through prices.
all news are weighted and evaluated, finally incorporated into prices.

8. not YHOO but...
the market concept is really remarkable, but what do you do if...

9. not market value but...
you are not interested in YHOO but ACME, and not in its market value
but

10. Sales Q1
? forecasting or...
sales forecasting for example?

11. Project end date
? project management or...
or project management (cost, deadlines, etc)

12. ʻs competitor market share
?
competitive intelligence, you name it
quantify the probability of every future event occuring

13. ʻs competitor market share
?
where’s these markets for your organization?
markets are the best way to aggregate information and estimate the
probabilities of any future event.
But where are the ones regarding what matters for your enterprise?

14. your
questions!
?
just switch to askmarkets.com
There you’ll find or create your questions

15. ?
your
forecasts!
you may enter your predictions

16. your
?
results!
and look at your and other people’s results

17. dead
simple!
trade as in 1-2
making a transaction (aka submitting your prediction) is dead simple

18. dead
simple!
create a market as in 1-2
and it takes two steps to create your own market

19. get a list of markets

20. traders ranking

21. and the latest (anonymous!) predictions

22. so, this is askmarkets.com

23. your
marketplace!
and you may create a discrete, public or private, marketplace for your
organization.

24. http://askmarkets.com/services