OUTSIDE BAND
FINALISED: FROZEN
Polymarket
Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?
Window 21 Aug 2026, 13:42 UTC → 21 Aug 2026, 15:12 UTC
Price at window start 28¢ → at trigger 30¢ → at close 33¢
YES up · NO down
Resolves 16 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Frozen payload
- REPRICED Repriced +5.0pts: 28¢ at window start → 33¢ at close
- OUTSIDE BAND Outside the 7-day band: above the upper bound 28¢ (band 25¢–28¢)
band from 167 hourly obs / 7.0d
- VOLUME 2.0× this market's 7-day norm, $506.9k in 24h
- BOOK Book 5.5:1 bid, $214.1k/$38.9k within 10¢
- UNUSUAL SIZE Largest trade $18.9k, 9.6× this market's typical big trade
size baseline: 95th pct of 1,563 trades / 7d
Book 5.5:1 bid, $214.1k/$38.9k within 10¢ · spread 1.0¢
Triggers (2)
- 21 Aug 2026, 13:42 UTC: Band breach (upper): 28¢ → 30¢ (+2.0pts), confirmed over 30s
- 21 Aug 2026, 14:34 UTC: Sustained reprice: 30¢ → 33¢ (+3.0pts), confirmed over 30s
Context
- Opening move ≈ 0.5× the market's trusted 7-day band width at trigger time
- 204 trades printed in the window (Polymarket public tape)
Outcome: graded at window close
- +2m after alert: 30¢, drift +0.0pts in the alert direction
- +30m: 31¢, held +3.0ptspts
- Peak move: +5.0pts
- Held 100% 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: 33¢
- Graded from 180 snapshots