OUTSIDE BAND
FINALISED: FROZEN
Polymarket
Bab el-Mandeb Strait effectively closed by September 30?
Window 31 Aug 2026, 22:23 UTC → 31 Aug 2026, 23:53 UTC
Price at window start 5¢ → at trigger 4¢ → at close 6¢
YES down · NO up
Resolves 01 Oct 2026, 03:59 UTC
Frozen payload
- REPRICED Repriced +1.0pts: 5¢ at window start → 6¢ at close
- VOLUME 3.0× this market's 7-day norm, $22.5k in 24h
- BOOK Book 1.5:1 ask, $3.3k/$4.8k within 10¢
- UNUSUAL SIZE Largest trade $1.8k, 1.7× this market's typical big trade
size baseline: 95th pct of 125 trades / 7d
Book 1.5:1 ask, $3.3k/$4.8k within 10¢ · spread 2.0¢
Triggers (1)
- 31 Aug 2026, 22:23 UTC: Band breach (lower): 5¢ → 4¢ (-1.0pts), confirmed over 30s
Context
- Opening move ≈ 0.33× the market's trusted 7-day band width at trigger time
- 4 trades printed in the window (Polymarket public tape)
Outcome: graded at window close
- +2m after alert: 4¢, drift +0.0pts in the alert direction
- +30m: 7¢, held -1.5ptspts
- Peak move: +1.0pts
- Held 0% 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: 6¢
- Graded from 180 snapshots