What is the Washington Stock Exchange (WSX)? “The Washington Stock Exchange is a political stock market where you can buy and sell shares in politicians and political events in the same way that you buy shares of companies on the financial markets — except it’s totally free, way more fun and you can put your political skills on display in front of the whole world.”
Washington Stock Exchange was a lot of fun to play with. It is very simple to use and they offer you a lot of money with which to play initially. This seems to be a very important part of my happy experience. I have been playing around the Washington Stock Exchange until I invested all of my money. Of course, Washington Stock Exchange has to do with Washington politics so I am doing rather well. There is also quite a diversity of choices so that one can quickly participate right out of the box.
WSX is a prediction market for buying and selling shares in politicians and political events. Buy if you expect an outcome or sell (or sell short) if you don’t.
WSX is a very structured prediction market based on a limited number of real-world political outcomes. When outcomes are judged to be true, reward payments are payed out. WSX looks vulnerable to market gaming and market manipulation — if only because of the mad feeding frenzy that surrounds the 2008 US presidential elections. Market manipulation of any kind is forbidden on WSX and this rule is strictly enforced. The less passionate the issue the more accurate the market prediction. Polarized politics often results in trade wars.
WSX is a fantasy market that trades in a currency called W$. WSX is built on the Foresight platform by Consensus Point, Inc.
