About this episode

The episode discusses building a prediction market trading team, featuring insights from industry experts.

Kalshi is rolling out compute forward curves and really expanding after World Cup markets have brought an insane wave of volume into prediction markets this summer. Also, Underdog Fantasy is officially entering the space with its own prediction market exchange and Henry and Chris discuss what platforms will be most popular for the NFL season ahead. Then, Larry and Joe join them in the OpticOdds Hot Seat and they talk through their backgrounds, what each of them specializes in and how they would approach building a prediction market trading team from the ground up. They get into hiring strategy, the different skill sets a market-making team needs and how to find people with a real edge.

People in this episode

Hosts: Henry, Chris

Guests: Larry, Joe

Topics covered

• prediction markets
• trading teams
• NFL season
• market-making
• hiring strategy

Keywords

• prediction markets
• trading team
• Kalshi
• Underdog Fantasy
• NFL
• market-making
• hiring strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kalshi, Underdog Fantasy

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