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by nojito 60 days ago
>Prediction Markets require insider trading to function.

And yet there are folks like me who have been on them for years before kalshi/polymarket making a very good side income from them without having insider knowledge.

Prediction markets as a whole are very very inefficient. That's not to say that insider trading doesn't exist but you can't claim that they require insider trading to function.

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> making a very good side income

If you had a reliable edge, your income would be exponential. Why isn’t it?

The markets I participate in tend to be illiquid, but as prediction markets get more popular things are getting better on that front.
Do you need a reliable edge or just a slightly better than average edge?