OUTSIDE BAND
FINALISED: FROZEN
Polymarket
Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?
Window 13 Aug 2026, 12:30 UTC → 13 Aug 2026, 14:00 UTC
Price at window start 33¢ → at trigger 31¢ → at close 28¢
YES down · NO up
Resolves 16 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Frozen payload
- REPRICED Repriced -4.0pts: 33¢ at window start → 28¢ at close
- OUTSIDE BAND Outside the 7-day band: below the lower bound 32¢ (band 32¢–47¢)
band from 165 hourly obs / 6.9d
- BOOK Book 1.5:1 ask, $85.8k/$129.0k within 10¢
- UNUSUAL SIZE Largest trade $11.9k, 6.2× this market's typical big trade
size baseline: 95th pct of 2,787 trades / 7d
- VOLUME 0.6× this market's 7-day norm, $325.7k in 24h
Book 1.5:1 ask, $85.8k/$129.0k within 10¢ · spread 1.0¢
Triggers (2)
- 13 Aug 2026, 12:30 UTC: Band breach (lower): 33¢ → 31¢ (-2.0pts), confirmed over 30s
- 13 Aug 2026, 12:50 UTC: Sustained reprice: 31¢ → 27¢ (-4.0pts), confirmed over 30s
Context
- Opening move ≈ 0.13× the market's trusted 7-day band width at trigger time
- 126 trades printed in the window (Polymarket public tape)
Outcome: graded at window close
- +2m after alert: 30¢, drift +1.0pts in the alert direction
- +30m: 27¢, held +6.0ptspts
- Peak move: +6.0pts
- Held 67% of the peak move at close
- Still beyond trigger at +10m: yes
- Still beyond trigger at +30m: yes
- Still beyond trigger at +60m: yes
- Gave back half within 60m: no
- Price at close: 28¢
- Graded from 180 snapshots