A brand-new market has exactly one price in it, and that price is whatever its creator picked. Markets of the same shape — same topic, same opening price, same horizon, same ante — have a resolution rate the venue has already revealed. When that history and the creator's price disagree by more than 8%, this module bets 50% of the way from the price toward the history. It only works on markets nobody has traded yet, so its real competitor is not a price — it is everyone else who got there first.
Every market in the second column cleared this module's rules and was lost to whoever arrived sooner. That is the only bucket here that represents money left on the table. Markets already traded when we first looked never reached the rules at all, so they are counted apart; the rest are markets it did not want.
Dark tick is the creator's opening price; coloured tick is what the history said — on a decline, the rate markets of this shape resolve at; on a bet, the price this module moved it toward. The bar between them is the edge, and its colour is the side of the bet — warm toward YES, cool toward NO. Rows marked bet are the journal's; the rest are traces.
| utc | version | market | bet | result | why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08-28 13:50 | v67 | Will 0x53a125F03c90B8E07BA50356B312F4b7b9bA47A7 REACH more than 210.30 USDC on Base by the end of August | YES 11 | settled -11 | virgin market: cell [other|lo|<10d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.53 vs creator open 0.05 |
| 08-28 12:51 | v67 | Will Justin Sun launch a Jing Tian-related token by the end of September 30, 2026? | NO 9 | open -1 | virgin market: cell [other|mid|<45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.41 vs creator open 0.50 |
| 08-28 12:42 | v67 | Will LLMs be generally able to produce human-level text in 2026? | NO 15 | open -7 | virgin market: cell [other|mid|>=45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.33 vs creator open 0.50 |
| 08-28 11:45 | v67 | Will the San Francisco Giants sweep the St. Louis Cardinals OR will the 3-game series total 24 or more runs? | NO 9 | settled +0 | virgin market: cell [other|mid|<45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.41 vs creator open 0.49 |
| 08-28 09:14 | v67 | Will China intervene and offer Iran nuclear power plants, ending the war, in 2026? | NO 15 | open +12 | virgin market: cell [geopolitics|mid|>=45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.28 vs creator open 0.50 |
5 trades, 59 staked, realised -11, open +5 if held / +4 if sold.
Of 0 markets judged in the traces on hand,
5 cleared every rule and 5 were reached before
anyone else, for 59 mana. Of those, 2 settled for -11. Losing a market
to a faster participant is not a rejection and is counted separately
from one.
Traces are diagnostic and rotate; the trading journal is the book above.
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