P2P Trading Exchanges

[Anonymous]

Are there any alternative P2P financial trading exchanges to those like CME, LIFFE?

 

[Windlesham1]

That's an interesting thought. Why not allow people to sell calls on their underlying shares on Ebay? Should be simple enough to draw up a one-size-fits-all contract-and the postage would be nil.

 

[Anonymous]

Ebay doesn't allow it. Calls on underlying shares would come under: Prohibited: Stocks and Other Securities, Questionable: Contracts and Tickets, Potentially Infringing (copyright & trademark): Contracts and Tickets.

Even if you were to use calls or puts on underlying collectibles eg. www.thepit.com , Ebay would still, most probably, prohibit it.

Besides, you need some medium to collect the payment, eg. Paypal, which can take some time for the money to clear.

 

[Windlesham1]

Clearly the evil empire won't allow Ebay to permit such trading.Even second-hand car dealers are allowed to ply their sordid trade! Thank goodness we live in a democracy.
I have been thinking along the lines of a P2P exchange,- the Windlesham International Futures Exchange?

 

[Airthrey Capital]

Clearly the evil empire won't allow Ebay to permit such trading.Even second-hand car dealers are allowed to ply their sordid trade! Thank goodness we live in a democracy.
I have been thinking along the lines of a P2P exchange,- the Windlesham International Futures Exchange?

Or WIFE for short.......

Wonder how much I'd be bid for the Mrs.?

 

[Anonymous]

Does the Windlesham International Futures Exchange trade options on Darth Vader and C3PO? What is its web site?

 

[Windlesham1]

our product range:
WIFE Swaps,WIFE exotic and barrier options,and if you outperform our index,you become a wifebeater(sorry)
No website as in the true tradition of British financial institutions there is no transparency,and no liquidity except when we want to fiddle option settlements.

 

[Anonymous]

Maybe there can be a tradeable futures index based on the national statistics of monthly beatings, and over or under the national average options on futures?