OUTSIDE BAND
FINALISED: FROZEN
Polymarket
Bab el-Mandeb Strait effectively closed by September 30?
Window 23 Aug 2026, 11:05 UTC → 23 Aug 2026, 12:35 UTC
Price at window start 8¢ → at trigger 7¢ → at close 7¢
YES down · NO up
Resolves 01 Oct 2026, 03:59 UTC
Frozen payload
- REPRICED Repriced -0.5pts: 8¢ at window start → 7¢ at close
- BOOK Book 2.0:1 ask, $4.9k/$9.9k within 10¢
- VOLUME 0.4× this market's 7-day norm, $8.4k in 24h
Book 2.0:1 ask, $4.9k/$9.9k within 10¢ · spread 2.0¢
Triggers (1)
- 23 Aug 2026, 11:05 UTC: Band breach (lower): 8¢ → 7¢ (-1.0pts), confirmed over 30s
Context
- Opening move ≈ 0.19× the market's trusted 7-day band width at trigger time
- 0 trades printed in the window (Polymarket public tape)
Outcome: graded at window close
- +2m after alert: 7¢, drift +0.0pts in the alert direction
- +30m: 7¢, held +1.0ptspts
- Peak move: +1.0pts
- Held 50% 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: 7¢
- Graded from 180 snapshots