OUTSIDE BAND
FINALISED: FROZEN
Polymarket
Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?
Window 12 Aug 2026, 12:02 UTC → 12 Aug 2026, 13:32 UTC
Price at window start 37¢ → at trigger 36¢ → at close 34¢
YES down · NO up
Resolves 16 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Frozen payload
- REPRICED Repriced -3.0pts: 37¢ at window start → 34¢ at close
- OUTSIDE BAND Outside the 7-day band: below the lower bound 36¢ (band 36¢–47¢)
band from 166 hourly obs / 7.0d
- BOOK Book 2.3:1 ask, $40.1k/$91.8k within 10¢
- UNUSUAL SIZE Largest trade $14.0k, 7.2× this market's typical big trade
size baseline: 95th pct of 2,659 trades / 7d
- VOLUME 1.3× this market's 7-day norm, $665.1k in 24h
Book 2.3:1 ask, $40.1k/$91.8k within 10¢ · spread 1.0¢
Triggers (5)
- 12 Aug 2026, 12:02 UTC: Band breach (lower): 37¢ → 36¢ (-1.0pts), confirmed over 30s
- 12 Aug 2026, 12:30 UTC: Sustained reprice: 36¢ → 30¢ (-6.0pts), confirmed over 30s
- 12 Aug 2026, 12:36 UTC: Sustained reprice: 30¢ → 35¢ (+5.0pts), confirmed over 30s
- 12 Aug 2026, 12:47 UTC: Sustained reprice: 35¢ → 31¢ (-4.0pts), confirmed over 30s
- 12 Aug 2026, 13:29 UTC: Sustained reprice: 31¢ → 34¢ (+3.0pts), confirmed over 30s
Context
- Opening move ≈ 0.08× the market's trusted 7-day band width at trigger time
- 284 trades printed in the window (Polymarket public tape)
Outcome: graded at window close
- +2m after alert: 36¢, drift +0.0pts in the alert direction
- +30m: 31¢, held +6.0ptspts
- Peak move: +7.5pts
- Held 40% of the peak move at close
- Still beyond trigger at +10m: no
- Still beyond trigger at +30m: yes
- Still beyond trigger at +60m: yes
- Gave back half within 60m: yes
- Price at close: 34¢
- Graded from 180 snapshots