OUTSIDE BAND
FINALISED: FROZEN
Polymarket
US-Iran 60 day negotiation period extended?
Window 18 Aug 2026, 02:54 UTC → 18 Aug 2026, 04:24 UTC
Price at window start 5¢ → at trigger 4¢ → at close 4¢
YES down · NO up
Frozen payload
- REPRICED Repriced -0.6pts: 5¢ at window start → 4¢ at close
- OUTSIDE BAND Outside the 7-day band: below the lower bound 5¢ (band 5¢–28¢)
band from 156 hourly obs / 7.0d
- VOLUME 5.8× this market's 7-day norm, $498.4k in 24h
- BOOK Book 2.7:1 bid, $7.6k/$2.9k within 10¢
- UNUSUAL SIZE Largest trade $2.1k, 4.7× this market's typical big trade
size baseline: 95th pct of 5,158 trades / 7d
Book 2.7:1 bid, $7.6k/$2.9k within 10¢ · spread 0.1¢
Triggers (1)
- 18 Aug 2026, 02:54 UTC: Band breach (lower): 5¢ → 4¢ (-0.6pts), confirmed over 30s
Context
- Opening move ≈ 0.03× the market's trusted 7-day band width at trigger time
- 35 trades printed in the window (Polymarket public tape)
Outcome: graded at window close
- +2m after alert: 4¢, drift +0.3pts in the alert direction
- +30m: 4¢, held +1.1ptspts
- Peak move: +1.3pts
- Held 48% 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: no
- Price at close: 4¢
- Graded from 180 snapshots