Oscar Wilde: "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"
Throughout this season to date we have been utilising the Desmond Strategy to disguise our real positions on an event.
The Desmond Strategy is a construct "invented" by Glasgow Celtic majority shareholder Dermot Desmond when he was trading on Celtic games with Betdaq, a betting exchange he owns.
80% of the time, Desmond's position at Betdaq was real...
... but 20% of the time it was a little white lie.
Obviously, there was a buzz around the trading room if Mr Desmond decided to trade, for example, against a Celtic victory.
Being a one, Desmond knew that the trading room would leak that "knowledge" elsewhere in the marketplace resulting in a general price dynamic against a Celtic victory.
And if he was on one, it allowed proprietary trading on a Celtic victory at a markedly better price (and at much greater volume) than if the strategy wasn't enacted.
Our version of the Desmond Strategy is different.
As a Network, all of our trading goes through one broker and we share profits but we split up as a Network to place paltry trades elsewhere in locations where we know or suspect our "knowledge" is leaked (either to mafia or market or both).
We also leak "knowledge" via a manipulated version of our Corruption Feed.
This produces a range of hyperrealities, six of which are:
a) The Network trade on Team A with broker but trade on Team B publicly
b) The Network trade on Team A with broker and also trade on Team A publicly
c) The Network trade on Team A with broker but put out fake information on Corruption Feed
d) The Network trade on Team A with broker and put out real information on Corruption Feed
e) The Network trade on Team A with broker but wish to hedge this position relatively anonymously
f) The Network cannot solve the market but, by sharing a position with a captured marketplace, we are able to solve the match and trade with broker
But.
We have an extra string to our bow in that we are able to monitor both insider trading and match manipulations after we have shared our "knowledge".
Additionally, we play with time as timing is everything in a matchfixing event.
We put considerable effort into getting the right spacetime to optimise the modelling of the distortions our actions create.
A further type of manipulation utilised by us is one where we put out further disinformation.
So.
We knew Brighton would beat Chelsea last weekend and traded heavily with broker but, as a Network, we put out paltry positions on the Asian Handicaps at BHA +1.0.
Perceived by recipients as a "defensive" position, a position concerned about the likelihood of a Chelsea victory, it enabled greater profits via our broker.
The various feedback loops are a very fine thing indeed.
And the most beautiful aspects of it are:
i) it enhances our proprietary profits
ii) it fucks up the databases of rogues
iii) it reveals corruptions (both known and unknown prior to dipping our toes)
iv) it fucks up the trading of rogues
v) mockery
In effect.
We're disrupting corruption as whistleblowers but we are energising corruption (via the reaction of organised crime) by disrupting the corruption as whistleblowers.
What a twisted flux we feed.
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