OUTSIDE BAND
FINALISED: FROZEN
Polymarket
Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?
Window 18 Aug 2026, 21:46 UTC → 18 Aug 2026, 23:16 UTC
Price at window start 37¢ → at trigger 36¢ → at close 36¢
YES down · NO up
Resolves 31 Dec 2026, 00:00 UTC
Frozen payload
- REPRICED Repriced -1.0pts: 37¢ at window start → 36¢ at close
- OUTSIDE BAND Outside the 7-day band: below the lower bound 36¢ (band 36¢–47¢)
band from 164 hourly obs / 7.0d
- BOOK Book 1.2:1 bid, $54.9k/$44.4k within 10¢
- UNUSUAL SIZE Largest trade $1.1k, 1.3× this market's typical big trade
size baseline: 95th pct of 1,528 trades / 7d
- VOLUME 1.0× this market's 7-day norm, $91.0k in 24h
Book 1.2:1 bid, $54.9k/$44.4k within 10¢ · spread 1.0¢
Triggers (1)
- 18 Aug 2026, 21:46 UTC: Band breach (lower): 37¢ → 36¢ (-1.0pts), confirmed over 30s
Context
- Opening move ≈ 0.1× the market's trusted 7-day band width at trigger time
- 13 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: 36¢, held +1.0ptspts
- Peak move: +1.0pts
- Held 100% of the peak move at close
- Still beyond trigger at +10m: no
- Still beyond trigger at +30m: no
- Still beyond trigger at +60m: no
- Gave back half within 60m: yes
- Price at close: 36¢
- Graded from 180 snapshots