@Joe80, Why does everyone on this site seem so intent on "fixing" everything? I understand that a lot of work went into establishing MC futures as a trading product, and that things shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, but often times, trading products fail. The MC futures are a good idea on paper, but from what we've seen, not so great in practice. It seems to boil down to two things, as far as I can see: 1) For high profile, almost guaranteed high review games, the incentive to trade is mostly removed, and 2) For the low profile games, no one really seems to care, based on trading volume.
I'm also kind of puzzled why the MC futures were added at all, given the rigorous culling of stocks to reduce clutter (and yes, I've seen the blog post). The fact that users must post comments saying essentially "Do people know that X MC future has started trading as well?" would lead me to believe that the MC future hasn't been a winning product, in the same way regular futures have. Personally, instead of the MC futures, I'd like to see PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii software sales futures. That's just me, though.
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Why does everyone on this site seem so intent on "fixing" everything? I understand that a lot of work went into establishing MC futures as a trading product, and that things shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, but often times, trading products fail. The MC futures are a good idea on paper, but from what we've seen, not so great in practice. It seems to boil down to two things, as far as I can see:
1) For high profile, almost guaranteed high review games, the incentive to trade is mostly removed, and
2) For the low profile games, no one really seems to care, based on trading volume.
I'm also kind of puzzled why the MC futures were added at all, given the rigorous culling of stocks to reduce clutter (and yes, I've seen the blog post). The fact that users must post comments saying essentially "Do people know that X MC future has started trading as well?" would lead me to believe that the MC future hasn't been a winning product, in the same way regular futures have.
Personally, instead of the MC futures, I'd like to see PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii software sales futures. That's just me, though.