Will MM make it better for market creators, by May 1st 2022.
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The problem is one of endorphins. Trading, pushing and pulling money into markets for a fast buck (or lost buck) is fun, immediate and let's say zero-sum ish.
OTOH creating a market is long term, boring in the sense it locks up your ANTE for ages, and extra boring if the market is meaningful and not some short term whalebait crap.
In addition when you create a market, it is your opinion vs. every shark out their who can see a flaw in your logic. On average creating a market means you will get eating by sharks.
It would be good in my opinion to make it better for market makers, so we get more markets created. And by extension, more interesting markets in the mix.
Some ideas:
1. Run the pool as a classic pool as a fundraiser. So as a creator I put in $10, and say it starts once the pot reaches a threshold say $200. During phase 1, people bet blind YES/NO. Once $200 is reached, the probability is calculated based on the $190 of additional bets, and then it is a $200 pool with that prob from the start. If it never reaches $200, run it as a classic PM pool.
The reason this is good because it allow someone with say $500 and a lot of good ideas to create 50 markets, and then if one catches on, the startup phase avoids the problem with $10 pools at the moment that you can only bet $1 at a time without skewing. The blind portion takes away the unfair advantage sharks have at the beginning. It will put off the "professionals" and attract people who are interested in the outcome. IMO.
2. Better rewards for market makers - I think 1% of every transaction (buys, selling shares and then the payout) would be good - and then, like a tip jar, pool this money across the platform and share it across all markets that are 'interesting' as defined by having 5 unique bettors. This rewards small niche market makers, and avoids people feeling like they want to create the "Will this reach $10000 this week" kind of crap.
3. Some kind of loan system for creating markets so capital is not tied up. E.g. $500 loans per player total for market creation.
Resolves YES if anything is done specifically to address the problem of incentives to create markets
Mar 9, 9:51am: Just a thought, something that proves this is a problem is how https://manifold.markets/MetaculusBot works. It seems to be an admin account that prints money to create new markets. You wouldn't need to print (or print as much), if it was better for market makers :-)
Close date updated to 2022-04-24 11:59 pm
May 4, 7:34am: Yes because https://github.com/manifoldmarkets/manifold/pull/107
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