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Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · No. 140

Will Likud win 25-29 seats in the 2026 Israeli legislative election?: 18% → 94%

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Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · No. 139

Will voter turnout in the 2026 Serbian parliamentary election be 66-70%?: 36%…

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Monday, October 26, 2026 · No. 138

Will Iliana Iotova win the 2026 Bulgarian presidential first round by less th…

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Sunday, October 25, 2026 · No. 137

Russia-Ukraine peace talks by November 30, 2026?: 19% → 72%

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Saturday, October 24, 2026 · No. 136

Next Fable Model (5.2+) released by October 31, 2026?: 85% → 23%

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Friday, October 23, 2026 · No. 135

Will Russia target Kyiv on October 17, 2026?: 94% → 11%

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Thursday, October 22, 2026 · No. 134

Will Russia target Kyiv on October 17, 2026?: 92% → 13%

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Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · No. 133

Will Russia target Kyiv on October 17, 2026?: 86% → 8%

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Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · No. 132

Papertrade FDV above $50M one day after launch?: 92% → 46%

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Monday, October 19, 2026 · No. 131

Will Russia target Kyiv on October 17, 2026?: 87% → 11%

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Sunday, October 18, 2026 · No. 130

Will Russia target Kyiv on October 17, 2026?: 92% → 9%

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Saturday, October 17, 2026 · No. 129

Perim Island no longer under Houthi control by October 31?: 56% → 10%

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Friday, October 16, 2026 · No. 128

Will the Tesla Roadster's 0-60 time be less than 1 second?: 21% → 98%

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Thursday, October 15, 2026 · No. 127

Will Los Angeles Dodgers win the 2026 National League Championship Series?: 6…

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · No. 126

Next Fable Model (5.2+) released by October 17, 2026?: 28% → 74%

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · No. 125

Will Cleveland Guardians win the 2026 American League Championship Series?: 7…

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Monday, October 12, 2026 · No. 124

Will "Other Mommy" Opening Weekend Box Office be between 27m and 30m?: 19% → 98%

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Sunday, October 11, 2026 · No. 123

Will Riyadh airport be closed by October 15?: 9% → 88%

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Saturday, October 10, 2026 · No. 122

US x Iran ceasefire continues through October 12?: 27% → 95%

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Friday, October 9, 2026 · No. 121

Will Yulia Navalnaya win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026?: 4% → 31%

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Thursday, October 8, 2026 · No. 120

Will Jynxzi, Ron, and Los have between 90 and 119 Minecraft deaths during the…

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Wednesday, October 7, 2026 · No. 119

Will Eduardo Paes win the Governor of Rio de Janeiro election?: 83% → 7%

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Tuesday, October 6, 2026 · No. 118

Will Eduardo Paes win the Governor of Rio de Janeiro election?: 86% → 6%

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Monday, October 5, 2026 · No. 117

Will Eduardo Paes win the Governor of Rio de Janeiro election?: 85% → 8%

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Sunday, October 4, 2026 · No. 116

Will "Verity" Opening Weekend Box Office be between 30m and 32m?: 30% → 78%

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Saturday, October 3, 2026 · No. 115

Spain snap election called in 2026?: 14% → 63%

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Friday, October 2, 2026 · No. 114

Will Tesla deliver between 475000 and 500000 vehicles in Q3 2026: 24% → 96%

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Thursday, October 1, 2026 · No. 113

Traders Bet Google's Next Gemini Won't Show This Month

Markets slashed the odds of an October Gemini Pro release by 55 points in a day, flipping to a 76% bet against any launch before November. Meanwhile Gulf diplomacy kept losing ground and Flávio Bolsonaro's debate odds firmed to 96% in Brazil.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 · No. 112

Peace Talks Freeze From Kyiv to Tehran as Oura's IPO Hopes Collapse

Markets now put 74% odds on no Putin-Zelenskyy summit before 2027, longer-dated US-Iran talks keep losing ground, and traders have all but buried Oura's public listing at 84%.

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · No. 111

Trump's AI Rebrand Odds Surge as Sonnet Nears Elite Benchmark

Traders pushed the odds Donald Trump renames AI by September 30 to 54%, up 26 points on the day, while pricing Anthropic's next Sonnet model at a 93% chance of clearing an elite benchmark score. Meanwhile the Ballon d'Or tightened to a near coin-flip and Bulgaria's presidential race grew more lopsided.

Monday, September 28, 2026 · No. 110

Traders Move Up US-Iran Talks as Lynx's Title Hopes Crater

Prediction markets pulled forward the timetable for the next US-Iran diplomatic meeting and tilted its likely venue toward the United States. Minnesota's WNBA championship odds cratered overnight, and traders kept raising the odds of a Trump-driven AI rebrand.

Sunday, September 27, 2026 · No. 109

Raman Pulls Ahead in Los Angeles as Anthropic's IPO Odds Collapse

Nithya Raman's mayoral odds climbed to 59% this week while Anthropic's IPO timeline slid further out of reach, even as the Strait of Hormuz and Mykolaivka fronts saw risk quietly repriced downward.

Saturday, September 26, 2026 · No. 108

Arsenal Storms Past City as Markets Rewrite the Premier League Script

Traders slashed Manchester City's 2027 title odds by 15 points overnight while Arsenal surged to favorite, even as slower-moving contracts on Saudi oil, Venezuela, and Los Angeles's mayoralty kept shifting beneath the surface.

Friday, September 25, 2026 · No. 107

Markets Flip the Trump-Xi Handshake Call as Hormuz Risk Climbs

A summit-day gesture goes from afterthought to coin flip overnight, while traders price rising odds of a Hormuz shipping incident and cool sharply on a Houthi tanker seizure.

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · No. 106

Traders Flip Los Angeles Mayor's Race as Raman Overtakes Bass

Bettors abandoned Karen Bass for Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayor's race on record volume, while Bucharest's premiership odds flipped from Alexandru Nazare to Sorin Grindeanu and Wall Street pushed Anthropic's IPO timeline toward year-end.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · No. 105

Traders See a Crowded Room as US-Iran Talks Odds Surge

A single day's trading pushed Qatar's foreign minister from afterthought to favorite in the race to attend US-Iran talks, while Riyadh's pipeline timeline slipped later and the Fed's hawks gained further ground.

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · No. 104

Caracas Succession Bet Flips: Rodríguez Rises as Maduro Fades

Polymarket traders now give Delcy Rodríguez a 43% chance of leading Venezuela by year-end, up 32 points this week, while Nicolás Maduro's odds have slipped to 55%, down 29 points. Elsewhere, chess, entertainment, and a Senate race posted the sharpest swings of the day.

Monday, September 21, 2026 · No. 103

Greenland Deal Priced as Certainty; Anthropic's IPO Clock Slips

Traders now put a Trump-brokered Greenland pact at 98%, up 83 points in a week, even as they push Anthropic's IPO timeline deeper into December and turn hawkish on the Fed.

Sunday, September 20, 2026 · No. 102

Caracas Power Bet Flips: Traders Now Favor Rodríguez Over Maduro

Markets flipped Venezuela's succession odds overnight, while Gulf oil and shipping risk swung hard and Anthropic's IPO clock kept slipping.

Saturday, September 19, 2026 · No. 101

Greenland Deal Vaults From Fringe Bet to Near-Certainty

A Trump-Greenland deal contract that traders had all but written off jumped 80 points in a single day to 94%, the sharpest repricing on the board, while Anthropic's October IPO odds collapsed and OpenAI's hardware bet doubled overnight.

Friday, September 18, 2026 · No. 100

Romania's Premiership Flips as Traders Abandon Their Frontrunner

Alexandru Nazare's odds of becoming Romania's next prime minister cratered 41 points in a day, handing the lead to a rival few had priced above 12% a week ago. Elsewhere, traders grew newly convinced AI will crack a century-old math problem and that MrBeast's numbers will land exactly where his fans expect.

Thursday, September 17, 2026 · No. 99

Resident Evil's Flop Odds Collapse as Fed Hike Bets Near Lock-In

Traders erased nearly all odds of a Resident Evil box-office bust while Fed rate-hike consensus hardened toward 66% — separate markets, same appetite for certainty.

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · No. 98

Senate's Clarity Act Craters as Fed Hike Bets Harden Toward Certainty

A crypto market-structure bill's Senate prospects collapsed overnight, while traders pushed the odds of a 2026 Fed rate hike to near-lock territory.

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 · No. 97

Israel-Lebanon Meeting Odds Rocket 50 Points as Diplomacy Heats Up

A sudden diplomatic opening in the Levant dominated the tape, while bond markets quietly cemented a higher-for-longer rate view and the Fed's own verdict arrived mostly by calendar.

Monday, September 14, 2026 · No. 96

Traders Coalesce Around a Fed Hike, Not a Pause, in September

Odds of a 25-basis-point increase have climbed to 80% on the September contract and 89% for the year, a seven-day swing traders are treating as a live call rather than a formality. Elsewhere, Gulf diplomacy cooled as fast as it warmed a week ago.

Sunday, September 13, 2026 · No. 95

AI Valuation Optimism Cools as Traders Trim Anthropic, OpenAI Odds

Prediction markets pulled back from a week-long AI-IPO rally, trimming Anthropic and OpenAI valuation odds even as their conviction on a September Fed hike kept hardening.

Saturday, September 12, 2026 · No. 94

Traders Now Bet the Fed Hikes, Not Cuts, in September

Fed-hike odds jumped to 80% on the day the US-Iran ceasefire firmed further and OpenAI's Astra model face-planted on its Arena debut.

Friday, September 11, 2026 · No. 93

Markets Bet on Middle East Thaw as Israel Airspace Odds Hit 97%

Traders now put an Israeli airspace closure by September 30 at 97%, up 87 points over the week, while odds of an Israel-Lebanon meeting by September 15 leapt 67 points in a day to 80% — the sharpest geopolitical repricing on the board.

Thursday, September 10, 2026 · No. 92

Meme Token 'LAPTOP' Rockets Toward $500M Valuation as Traders Pile In

Markets now price a 65% chance the freshly launched $LAPTOP token's fully diluted value tops $500M within a day — up 40 points since yesterday — even as its odds of landing on Binance or Bybit within a month collapsed. The divergence captures a day when traders raced ahead of the facts across crypto, tennis, and geopolitics alike.

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · No. 91

Israeli Airspace Closure Nears Certainty as Apple's Foldable Dream Deflates

Prediction markets pushed the odds of an Israeli airspace shutdown to 96% this week, even as Apple's foldable iPhone bets cratered overnight and Anthropic's IPO timeline retreated across nearly every date on the board.

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · No. 90

Iran Ceasefire Odds Jump as Sweden's Liberals and Spider-Man Surge

Traders lifted the odds of a durable Iran ceasefire and a Sweden Liberal breakthrough overnight, while a surprise re-rating sent Spider-Man's box-office forecast surging 44 points in a single day.

Monday, September 7, 2026 · No. 89

Israel Airspace Closure Nears Certainty as Anthropic IPO Odds Cool

Traders push Israeli airspace-closure odds to 82% as the month's deadline nears, while conviction in an Anthropic IPO by October 31 cools 28 points over the week. Elsewhere, Carlos Alcaraz tightens his grip on the US Open and Sachsen-Anhalt's AfD landslide simply confirms itself as votes are counted.

Sunday, September 6, 2026 · No. 88

Markets See Israel Strike on Lebanon as Near-Certain, Odds Surge to 98%

Overnight repricing pushed the odds of Israeli military action against Lebanon to near-certainty, while Anthropic's IPO clock reset sharply later and Lindsay Clancy's conviction odds kept sliding.

Saturday, September 5, 2026 · No. 87

Israel Airspace Closure Odds Rocket to 71%

Markets swung the odds of an Israeli airspace shutdown up 62 points in a single day. Meanwhile Wall Street's conviction in an Anthropic IPO evaporated and Lindsay Clancy's murder-conviction odds collapsed to single digits.

Friday, September 4, 2026 · No. 86

Traders Talk Themselves Out of a Fed Hike, For Now

September rate-hike odds cooled sharply on the day even as the week's drift still pointed toward tightening, while Sweden's Liberals extended a slow climb and OpenAI's Astra ran out the clock on its own deadline.

Thursday, September 3, 2026 · No. 85

GPT-6 Odds Rocket 42 Points in a Day as AI Race Hits Fever Pitch

Traders piled into a Sept. 15 GPT-6 launch, sending its odds from 46% to 88% in 24 hours, while sibling bets on OpenAI's Astra and the next Mythos-Class model raced toward certainty too. Elsewhere, the Fed's rate path wobbled and Tehran's blockade odds kept fading.

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 · No. 84

Brazil's Cury Craters to 2% While Third Place Fight Rages On

Markets have priced Augusto Cury out of Brazil's presidency at 2%, down 32 points this week, even as he still leads the fight for third place at 50%. Elsewhere, traders nudge a Trump-Putin summit toward China and warm to an Israel-Lebanon meeting.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · No. 83

Traders Flip: Markets Now Favor a Fed Hike Over a Hold in September

Rate-hike odds for the September Fed meeting overtook hold odds for the first time this week, even as traders raised the odds of a wider Gulf conflict and a Brazilian third-place upset gathered steam.

Monday, August 31, 2026 · No. 82

Markets Price a Wider Iran Strike Front Across the Gulf

Strike-risk contracts on the UAE and Qatar jumped double digits at horizons a month out, not just tomorrow's deadline market — while a $1.9 million Fed contract flipped toward a September hike.

Sunday, August 30, 2026 · No. 81

Traders Pull Forward the AI Release Calendar

Markets now bet GPT-6, OpenAI's Astra, and the next Mythos-class model all arrive sooner than they thought a week ago, even as the Fed stays split on September and traders start pricing a December hike too.

Saturday, August 29, 2026 · No. 80

Traders Price In a September Fed Hike as 'No Change' Odds Crumble

Fed decision markets swung 13 points overnight, with a 25-basis-point September increase jumping to 44% as 'no change' fell to 56%. Traders separately embraced a stranger repricing: odds that Google Maps renames Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' by September 15 leapt 52 points to 88%.

Friday, August 28, 2026 · No. 79

Traders Bring Anthropic's IPO Forward as Moonshot Eclipses Z.ai Overnight

Prediction markets pulled Anthropic's IPO timeline forward and lifted its valuation targets in tandem, even as they crowned Moonshot the new second-best Chinese AI lab overnight. Z.ai's collapse to 5% was the sharpest reversal of the day.

Thursday, August 27, 2026 · No. 78

Traders Recast Mecca Agreement's Guest List as Sudan Fades, Lebanon Rises

Overall odds that any nation joins the pact by October 31 collapsed to 10%, down 42 points in a day — not because the deal is dying, but because traders swapped their favorite signatory, sending Lebanon to 51% and Sudan down to 9%.

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · No. 77

Anthropic Overtakes SpaceX in 2026 IPO Race as Traders Rotate

The largest-IPO wager flipped hands overnight, with SpaceX's odds down 25 points and Anthropic's up 13, while transfer-market chaos and a fading blockbuster reshuffled expectations elsewhere.

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · No. 76

Iran Ceasefire Confidence Surges to 94% as Traders Reprice a Quiet September

Markets now give the US-Iran ceasefire a 94% chance of lasting through August, up 40 points in a week, even as a rival Hormuz accord loses ground. Elsewhere, Chelsea's grip on Enzo Fernández evaporated overnight.

Monday, August 24, 2026 · No. 75

Iran's Rial Slides as Markets Bet Russia Nears Mykolaivka

A 42-point overnight swing in Iran's currency market and a five-week climb in Russia's odds of taking Mykolaivka gave prediction markets their sharpest reads of the week, while Hollywood, the gridiron, and Silicon Valley all posted double-digit repricings of their own.

Sunday, August 23, 2026 · No. 74

Will Team Spirit Win the CS2 EWC 2026?: 16% → 76%

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Saturday, August 22, 2026 · No. 73

Gold Eyes $5,000 as Traders Price In a Fed Hike, Not a Cut

Gold's odds of topping $5,000 by year's end climbed to 64%, up 8 points on the day and 19 over the week, rising in step with the odds of a 2026 rate hike, now 56% and up 7 points since yesterday.

Friday, August 21, 2026 · No. 72

Anthropic Closes In on SpaceX in Race for 2026's Biggest IPO

Traders now see Anthropic's IPO market cap edging past SpaceX's, a 22-point swing in a week, even as OpenAI's Astra model surges toward release and Iran-related risk markets stay elevated.

Thursday, August 20, 2026 · No. 71

Iran Ceasefire Odds Firm Up as Traders Price Wider Regional Strike Risk

Markets now give the US-Iran truce 96% odds of lasting to August 25, even as bets on an Iranian strike against an Arab neighbor climb toward month's end — a reminder that de-escalation and risk can price up together.

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · No. 70

Anthropic's Valuation Climbs as OpenAI's Astra Launch Keeps Slipping

Traders lift Anthropic's odds of a $1.75 trillion valuation to 83% while pushing back their timeline for OpenAI's Astra and GPT-6, even as the Fed's September hold gains conviction.

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 · No. 69

Markets Price Iran-Arab Strike at 85% as Likud Crowns Eli Cohen

Traders priced a confrontation between Iran and an Arab neighbor at 85% overnight while Israel's ruling party handed its primary to Eli Cohen in a near-total landslide. Peace-talk odds cooled in tandem, and NATO's drone-intercept tally crept toward certainty.

Monday, August 17, 2026 · No. 68

Markets See Escalation Rising as Diplomacy Craters From Tehran to Kyiv

Traders lifted NATO's odds of downing a second Russian drone to 93%, up 30 points in a day. Diplomatic markets moved the opposite way, with Iran-Oman talks and any Russia-Ukraine meeting both sliding toward one in five.

Sunday, August 16, 2026 · No. 67

Traders Bet Big on Anthropic's Trillion-Dollar Climb

Markets now favor Anthropic over SpaceX for 2026's largest IPO market cap, a stunning reversal from a week ago, even as Iran diplomacy drifts further into stalemate and Hollywood's late-summer numbers swing hard.

Saturday, August 15, 2026 · No. 66

Markets Give Up on Iran Talks, Bet on a Long Freeze

Traders have slashed the odds of a swift end to the Iranian blockade and now see no qualifying US-Iran meeting before October as more likely than not, even as a Wisconsin surge and a tightening IPO race show plenty of movement elsewhere.

Friday, August 14, 2026 · No. 65

Markets Harden Around a Fed Pause, Eyeing Calm Through December

Traders push the odds of no Fed move in September to 72%, up 24 points on the week, while an overnight reversal hands Google the lead over Alibaba as AI's second-best lab.

Thursday, August 13, 2026 · No. 64

Markets Warm to a Venezuela-Israel Thaw as Grok's Ambitions Cool

Traders lifted Venezuela's odds of recognizing Israel to 79% overnight, even as they slashed expectations for xAI's next Grok model and the Fed's September path firmed toward standing pat.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 · No. 63

Markets Push Iran Blockade Resolution Deeper Into Autumn

A week ago traders gave the blockade's end 77% odds by August 15; that's collapsed to 12%, even as October 31 confidence barely moved, down just 18 points to 72%. The market isn't losing faith in a resolution — it's rescheduling one.

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · No. 62

Anthropic IPO Bets Surge as Markets Price an October Listing

Prediction markets pushed October-2026 Anthropic IPO odds to 62%, up 18 points on the day, while a swelling Bank of Japan rate-hike bet and a Rodri transfer that's now nearly certain rounded out a day of decisive repricing across sports and economics.

Monday, August 10, 2026 · No. 61

Iran Ceasefire Hits 90% as Hormuz Side-Deal Collapses 35 Points

Traders now treat the US-Iran truce as nearly locked in, but confidence in the diplomatic scaffolding around it — a Hormuz shipping pact, a formal end to the blockade — is evaporating just as fast.

Sunday, August 9, 2026 · No. 60

Traders Dump Iran Blockade-End Bets Across Every Near-Term Date

Markets slashed the odds of a near-term end to the Iranian blockade across every date on the board, even as confidence in the underlying US-Iran ceasefire stayed near multi-week highs. The reassessment came on the day's heaviest volume, over $1 million traded on the blockade question alone.

Saturday, August 8, 2026 · No. 59

Fed Rate-Hike Bets Crumble as Traders Price In a Hold

September's no-change probability jumped 14 points to 62% on the dataset's largest volume, while a quarter-point hike slid to 36% — even as Iran ceasefire markets pushed toward 90% and Minas Gerais swung hard toward Cleitinho Azevedo.

Friday, August 7, 2026 · No. 58

Iran Blockade Bets Shift From This Week to This Month

As the August 7 deadline passes without resolution, traders push the blockade's end toward mid-month and beyond, while a broader ceasefire holds near 80% and Rodri's Barcelona move crosses into near-certainty.

Thursday, August 6, 2026 · No. 57

Madrid's Whiplash: Vinicius Odds Soar as Rodri's Move There Collapses

Real Madrid's transfer market flipped within a day, Vinicius Junior's odds soaring as Rodri's cratered. Elsewhere, Iran ceasefire bets cooled from last week's highs even as NVIDIA tightened its grip atop the market-cap table.

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · No. 56

Gulf De-Escalation Bets Surge as Traders Price an Iran Endgame

A cluster of Iran-linked contracts moved sharply and in unison, with traders now pricing meaningful odds that the Hormuz standoff resolves within weeks rather than dragging into autumn.

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 · No. 55

Apple Concedes the Crown, Bets Shift to Bronze

Traders now favor Apple for third place by August's end while abandoning hopes of the top spot; Alphabet climbs into second as Nvidia's lead looks untouched.

Monday, August 3, 2026 · No. 54

Gaza Odds Migrate to December as Near-Term Bets Fade

Hamas disarmament by December 31 now sits at 60% on prediction markets, up 47 points this week. Meanwhile traders have slashed odds of foreign intervention by August's end to just 8%, down 34 points, pushing the whole Gaza timeline toward year's end.

Sunday, August 2, 2026 · No. 53

Iran Detente Odds Jump as Traders Price In Blockade's End

Polymarket's Iran-related contracts moved further overnight than in the past week combined, with ceasefire and blockade-end wagers each jumping over 20 points. Elsewhere, South Carolina Republicans have all but buried Mark Sanford's Senate bid.

Saturday, August 1, 2026 · No. 52

Gaza Disarmament Bet Craters, Iran Ceasefire Confidence Slips

Markets that spent the week pricing a Gaza-Iran thaw spent today unwinding it. Hamas disarmament odds fell 31 points and Israel-Iran ceasefire confidence eroded across every horizon, even as a transfer saga and a Fed bet moved the other way.

Friday, July 31, 2026 · No. 51

Gaza and Iran Fronts Both Firm Up as Traders Price a Middle East Thaw

Disarmament and ceasefire markets surged together for the first time in months, while Michigan's Senate primary flipped underneath everyone's feet.

Thursday, July 30, 2026 · No. 50

Apple Reclaims the Market-Cap Crown as NVIDIA's Odds Collapse

Traders now give Apple a 93% chance of ending July atop the corporate world, an 80-point weekly reversal that also flipped the race for second place. NVIDIA, briefly installed as the world's biggest company, has slid to just 8%.

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 · No. 49

Iran Ceasefire Confidence Erodes Across the Board

Traders trimmed the odds of Israel-Iran and US-Iran ceasefires holding on nearly every dated contract, even as hopes for a next round of talks slipped further out of reach. Meanwhile Apple clawed back into a dead heat with Nvidia for the world's largest company, and 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' firmed toward blockbuster territory.

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 · No. 48

Apple Retakes the Crown: Markets Flip on World's Biggest Company

In a single trading day, traders swapped NVIDIA and Apple's rankings entirely — Apple surged to 79% favorite for largest company honors while NVIDIA cratered to 22%, a mirror-image reversal across both the top and second-place contracts.

Monday, July 27, 2026 · No. 47

Markets Dump Pirlo, Anoint Mancini for Italy's Bench

A violent reversal in Rome's coaching race overshadowed a broader day of drift, as traders also chased Iran's ceasefire higher, cooled on Claude's current model, and bid up a Chinese chip IPO.

Sunday, July 26, 2026 · No. 46

Markets Bet the Iran Ceasefire Holds — Odds Climb Into August

Traders pushed the odds of an Israel-Iran ceasefire lasting through July 31 to 84%, up 19 points in a day, while a broader Iran truce climbed across every horizon out to August 31. Elsewhere, the Fed's hawkish drift rolled into September and Lionel Messi's Ballon d'Or hopes kept fading.

Saturday, July 25, 2026 · No. 45

Traders Reprice a Hawkish Fed as Hike Odds Surge Across the Curve

Odds of a Fed rate hike jumped across every 2026 meeting this week, even as traders priced in a sharp escalation in Houthi-Saudi tensions and a stunning discount on LeBron James's next contract.

Friday, July 24, 2026 · No. 44

Markets Ditch Iran Ceasefire Bets as Gulf Strike Odds Near Lock

As hopes for a near-term Washington-Tehran ceasefire evaporate, traders now see Iranian action against a Gulf state as all but certain — even as longer-dated relief bets keep climbing.

Thursday, July 23, 2026 · No. 43

Traders Price In Russian Breakthrough at Krasnoiarske

A single day's trading sent invasion odds for the city rocketing from single digits to 94%, while bets on a Netanyahu visit to New York and LeBron's move to Miami both firmed sharply.

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · No. 42

Fed Hike Bets Creep Back as Gulf Tensions Reignite

Traders now give a September rate hike 48% odds, up 12 points on the week and ahead of a no-change vote for the first time in weeks, while contracts on an Iran strike against a Gulf state jumped 16 points in a day to 68%. South Carolina Republicans are meanwhile coalescing around a single Senate nominee, and LeBron James's market for a Miami return keeps climbing.

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · No. 41

Fed Hike Bets Evaporate as Gulf Tensions Ebb

Traders slashed the odds of a July rate rise to 7% even as shipping-lane and Iran-strike risk in the Gulf cooled sharply, while a stunning surge lifted a little-known South Carolina Republican to front-runner status.

Monday, July 20, 2026 · No. 40

Traders Crown Mahmood Next Chancellor After 86-Point Weekly Swing

Prediction markets now assign a 91% chance Shabana Mahmood becomes the UK's next Chancellor of the Exchequer, a probability that has surged 86 points in a week as rival Ed Miliband's odds collapsed 66 points to just 2%.

Sunday, July 19, 2026 · No. 39

Gulf Tensions Spike as Traders See Iran Action Almost Certain

Markets now price an 84% chance of Iranian military action against a Gulf state, up 58 points this week, even as odds of a US-brokered halt collapsed to 10%.

Saturday, July 18, 2026 · No. 38

Dark Horses Surge: Mahmood and Nordone Rewrite the Board

Prediction markets flipped two leadership races overnight, naming Shabana Mahmood the clear favorite for UK Chancellor and Darline Graham Nordone the frontrunner for South Carolina's GOP Senate nod — both were afterthoughts a week ago.

Friday, July 17, 2026 · No. 37

Gulf Tensions Boil as Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Vanishes From July

Traders have all but erased a Trump-Netanyahu sit-down before July 20, even as they price an 80% chance of Iranian military action against a Gulf state today and watch Hormuz shipping forecasts keep sliding.

Thursday, July 16, 2026 · No. 36

Mahmood Surges to Favourite as Whitehall Reshuffle Bets Cascade

Traders now back Shabana Mahmood for Chancellor at 83%, up 49 points in a single day, as parallel bets on the Home and Foreign Secretary posts swung just as sharply toward Yvette Cooper and Ed Miliband.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 · No. 35

Markets Bet Hormuz Traffic Thins as Iran-Gulf Tensions Boil

Traders now give just 31% odds that 30 ships cross the Strait of Hormuz by month's end, down 63 points in a day. Meanwhile they price Iranian military action against a Gulf state at 94% for today and 74% for tomorrow — a pairing that reads less like noise than a coherent bet on escalation.

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 · No. 34

Prediction Markets Now Favor a September Fed Hike

Traders have flipped their Fed bet: a 25-basis-point September hike is now favored at 51%, up from a minority view a week ago. Meanwhile South Carolina Republicans consolidated fast behind one Senate candidate, and Gulf shipping risk collided with its own deadline.

Monday, July 13, 2026 · No. 33

Iran Strike Odds on Gulf State Jump 46 Points as Talks Fade

Contracts on Iranian military action against a Gulf state surged to 65-74% across near-term windows, even as traders' odds of a US-Iran diplomatic meeting by July 31 slid to 30%, down 43 points on the week.

Sunday, July 12, 2026 · No. 32

Iran Blockade Odds Climb as Peace-Talk Bets Collapse

Traders push the odds of a US blockade on Iran to 58% by year end while the chance of near-term peace talks craters to 7%, even as World Cup and Fed markets reprice elsewhere.

Saturday, July 11, 2026 · No. 31

AI Markets Reprice: GPT, Grok Debut Bets Crater as Google Surges in Math

Traders erased expectations that the next GPT or Grok model will debut atop the leaderboard, while Google's math model vaulted past Anthropic's for the first time this cycle.

Friday, July 10, 2026 · No. 30

Markets Stand Down: Iran-Gulf Strike Odds Crater, but Hormuz Stays Snarled

Prediction markets stood down from Gulf-strike bets across four separate dates this week, even as they pushed the Strait of Hormuz's return to normal further into the future — a sign traders see the acute crisis cooling but the shipping disruption lingering.

Thursday, July 9, 2026 · No. 29

Traders Reprice the Fed: Hike Odds Surge to 58% as 'Pause' Bets Crumble

Odds of a 2026 rate hike jumped to 58%, up 9 points on the day, as traders across three separate Fed contracts abandoned bets on a steady pause. Gulf shipping risk and a scrambled AI release calendar added to the day's volatility.

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 · No. 28

Markets Reinstate Le Pen as France's 2027 Front-Runner, Bardella Fades

Traders now put Marine Le Pen's odds of being the National Rally's 2027 presidential candidate at 94%, up 74 points in a day, as Jordan Bardella's collapse to 4% marks one of the sharpest reversals prediction markets have priced this year. The reversal follows her ineligibility-ban appeal market settling at 94% just as it hit its deadline.

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 · No. 27

Platner Exit Nears Certainty as Iran Shipping Fears Ignite Markets

Traders now see a 96% chance Graham Platner exits his race, a 67-point swing in a day, while Iran-shipping contracts spiked above 90% and Hormuz-normalization bets sank to 8%.

Monday, July 6, 2026 · No. 26

Iran Talks Go Cold, GPT-5.6 Hype Goes Hot, LeBron Odds Climb to 58%

Traders slashed the odds of a July 10 US-Iran meeting to just 3%, a 42-point weekly collapse, even as they piled into a July 9 GPT-5.6 launch and a LeBron return to Cleveland.

Sunday, July 5, 2026 · No. 25

Traders Bet GPT-5.6 Slips Past July 7 as Iran Talks Edge Back On

A cluster of near-term bets repriced hard overnight: the AI industry's launch clock, Tehran's diplomatic calendar, Whitehall's next top diplomat, and LeBron James's next jersey all moved by double digits in a single day.

Saturday, July 4, 2026 · No. 24

Crowd Bets Big on GPT-5.6's July Debut as Hormuz Risk Refuses to Fade

Traders have pushed the odds of an imminent GPT-5.6 launch to fresh highs even as they cut expectations for a Gulf de-escalation — a reminder that certainty in one market rarely travels to another. Elsewhere, crypto sale commitments, a Ukrainian frontline city, and LeBron's next jersey all saw double-digit swings.

Friday, July 3, 2026 · No. 23

Hormuz Alarm: Markets Write Off July Return to Normalcy

Strait traffic odds halve in a week as Iran talk hopes implode; GPT-5.6 crystallises for Monday while the Fed holds firm.

Thursday, July 2, 2026 · No. 22

Iran Strike Risk Craters; GPT-5.6 Markets Lock on Monday

A week-long collapse in Persian Gulf threat premia coincides with a late surge in AI model anticipation—and Colorado Republicans hand their primary to a 24-hour sensation.

Wednesday, July 1, 2026 · No. 21

Claude Access Crisis Ends as Lebanon Peace Window Closes

Markets delivered two clean verdicts on July 1: one AI embargo apparently lifted, one diplomatic deadline quietly expired.

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · No. 20

Trump-Starmer Fracture Reaches 96% as Alphabet Dethrones Apple

A single session repriced trans-Atlantic relations, big-tech rankings, and SpaceX's debut valuation all at once.

Monday, June 29, 2026 · No. 19

Lebanon Talks Collapse, Vučić Exit Certain, Starmer Priced Next

A single trading session wiped out the Lebanon-Israel normalization trade while Balkan finality and a British political countdown sharpened into focus.

Sunday, June 28, 2026 · No. 18

Vučić at 98%, Lebanon at 61%: Markets Reprice Two Certainties

A Serbian presidency ends and a Middle East diplomatic taboo shatters — at least in the estimation of prediction markets — as two 50-point-plus swings define the day.

Saturday, June 27, 2026 · No. 17

Venezuela at 97%, Starmer Crisis Deferred, GPT-5.6 Deadline Expires

Markets near-certify US forces are back in Venezuela while London's leadership crisis shifts from imminent to postponed; GPT-5.6 runs out of June.

Friday, June 26, 2026 · No. 16

Troops to Caracas? Markets Price US Venezuela Action at 93%

The week's sharpest single-market reprice puts US military re-entry in Venezuela at near-certainty, while the Iran nuclear deal and GPT-5.6's June launch evaporate together.

Thursday, June 25, 2026 · No. 15

Starmer at 90%, Oil Below $70, GPT-5.6 at 7%: A Week of Collapses

Prediction markets spent the week pricing three simultaneous implosions: a British prime ministership, a commodity floor, and an OpenAI product roadmap.

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 · No. 14

Iran at 2%, Starmer at 84%: Markets Declare Two Deals Dead

Prediction markets spent the week pricing out optimism on both a nuclear accord and a British premiership — while the AI race ran a full lap without OpenAI or Google keeping up.

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 · No. 13

Markets reprice the week

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Monday, June 22, 2026 · No. 12

Markets reprice the week

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Sunday, June 21, 2026 · No. 11

Markets reprice the week

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Saturday, June 20, 2026 · No. 10

Markets reprice the week

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Friday, June 19, 2026 · No. 9

Iran Talks Implode on Contact; Starmer Defenestration Odds Surge

Markets erased majority odds of an imminent US-Iran meeting overnight, yet simultaneously raised the chances of a uranium deal. Across the Channel, traders now price Keir Starmer leaving office by July 31 at nearly three-to-one.

Thursday, June 18, 2026 · No. 8

Iran Signing Roster Upended; Sharif Surges as Ceremony Odds Crater

Markets wholesale repriced who signs the US-Iran deal overnight, while crude oil marches past $75 and the Fed turns hawkish.

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 · No. 7

Markets Price Iran Deal Near-Certainty; Oil Collapses on Diplomacy Wave

Prediction markets have swung violently toward a US-Iran diplomatic breakthrough this week, dragging crude oil down with them. Peru's election margin, meanwhile, has been filed to the nearest decimal point.

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · No. 6

Markets Price Iran Peace at 97% After Week-Long 92-Point Surge

Prediction markets recorded one of their largest geopolitical repricings in recent memory as the US-Iran diplomatic cluster moved en masse; crude oil followed within hours.

Monday, June 15, 2026 · No. 5

Iran Peace Deal Prices In at 85% on Its Own Deadline Day

Prediction markets logged their largest single-session swing of the year on the US-Iran front, while crude oil priced out its geopolitical risk premium and Elon Musk's UFC attendance evaporated overnight.

Sunday, June 14, 2026 · No. 4

Markets Price Iran Peace at 50-50 as June Deadline Looms

A week of relentless buying has pushed US-Iran permanent peace to 50% and a nuclear deal to 66%, with traders treating June 30 as the most consequential date on the calendar.

Saturday, June 13, 2026 · No. 3

Iran Deal Odds Surge; Oil Bears Take Control as Gulf Tensions Ease

Prediction markets swung decisively toward a US-Iran agreement this week, dragging crude toward $80 and reordering every adjacent market in its wake.

Friday, June 12, 2026 · No. 2

Musk Odds at SpaceX Bell Fall to 29% as Iran Nuclear Deal Climbs to 44%

A single session repriced both stories: traders stripped Elon Musk of his own IPO ceremony role while simultaneously marking up the odds of a US-Iran nuclear agreement to levels not seen before this week.

Thursday, June 11, 2026 · No. 1

Iran Deal Odds Surge as Airspace-Closure Risk Collapses

Markets staged a near-total overnight reversal on US-Iran diplomacy: meeting probability hit 70%, a nuclear deal by June 30 reached 42%, and the airspace-closure threat across all dates fell to single digits.