open‑snipe

module 1.0 · v68 ← trader

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.

The race for untraded markets

8reached first (journal)
0taken while deciding
100%of qualifying markets won
0traded before we looked
0markets judged (traces)

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.

What the history said, market by market

bet 19 · v68
bet 15 · v68
bet 15 · v68
bet 15 · v68
bet 100 · v68
bet 15 · v68
bet 9 · v68
bet 9 · v68

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.

Where candidates died

The book · v68

utcversionmarketbetresultwhy
08-30 18:48v68Anthropic has a profitable quarter in 2027?NO 15open +0virgin market: cell [ai|mid|>=45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.35 vs creator open 0.50
08-30 18:46v68Will any model at least as good as Claude Fable 5 and 10x cheaper be released by the end of 2026?NO 15open +1virgin market: cell [ai|mid|>=45d|lg] historically resolves YES 0.33 vs creator open 0.50
08-30 18:29v68Will any model at least as good as Claude Fable 5 and 10x cheaper be released by the end of March 2027?NO 15open -11virgin market: cell [ai|mid|>=45d|lg] historically resolves YES 0.33 vs creator open 0.50
08-30 18:27v68Will the EIA weekly U.S. average regular gasoline price fall below $3.75/gallon before November 2026?NO 15open +7virgin market: cell [other|mid|>=45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.33 vs creator open 0.45
08-30 15:00v68Will it Snow in September in Houston?NO 9open +8virgin market: cell [other|mid|<45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.41 vs creator open 0.50
08-29 17:17v68Will Adobe report Q3 FY2026 revenue of at least $6.80 billion?NO 9settled +9virgin market: cell [other|mid|<45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.41 vs creator open 0.50
08-29 16:48v68Will Google release a higher-quality successor to Nano Banana Pro before November?NO 19open -1virgin market: cell [other|mid|>=45d|sm] historically resolves YES 0.33 vs creator open 0.50
08-28 14:12v68Will Anthropic extend the Claude Code 50% limit boost before September?YES 100settled +162virgin market: cell [ai|mid|<10d|lg] historically resolves YES 0.49 vs creator open 0.35

8 trades, 198 staked, realised +171, open +7 if held / +4 if sold.

Of 0 markets judged in the traces on hand, 8 cleared every rule and 8 were reached before anyone else, for 198 mana. Of those, 2 settled for +171. 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. Built 2026-09-22 18:01Z.