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To: jeffers
Something just occurred to me .... a strange thought, but I'm a bit tired....

do the pros out in Vages make book on where a storm like this will make landfall? If so, where can you check what the odds makers think?

448 posted on 09/22/2005 7:14:42 PM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom

I honestly don't know.

I don't gamble unless I'm "the house".


480 posted on 09/22/2005 7:22:09 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: Zacs Mom
do the pros out in Vages make book on where a storm like this will make landfall? If so, where can you check what the odds makers think?

No. The University of Miami, through the University of Miami, did start a "Hurricane Futures" market this year, (making use of the pre-existing University of Iowa Futures Market) where you buy "Stocks" in different sectors of the coast for landfall and trade them (max investment $500, so not exactly high rolling.

However, Max Mayfield of NHC got upset about the whole Idea, and they did not get SEC certification for the whole thing. They had intended it to be open to anybody (I'd sent in a few bucks to open an account) but they had to send it back to me. So it's running but only open to weather professionals (private ones, NWS mets are prohibited from participating, so you won't find NHC forecasters betting on anything of course.)

485 posted on 09/22/2005 7:22:42 PM PDT by Strategerist
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