KalshiMacro / FedDevelopingUpdated 12m ago

Will the upper bound of the federal funds rate be above 4.75% following the Fed's Oct 27, 2027 meeting?

As of Oct 23, 2026, 6:13 PM ET, Kalshi priced this market at 48.5% (down from 51.0% 24 hours earlier). It had $54 traded in the past 24 hours, $204.8 of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 85.0 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as weak.

Market probability
48.5%
−2.5 percentage points
over 24 hours51.0% → 48.5%

Thin market where small orders can move the price; we can't yet see which accounts drove today's move.

Price historyKalshi

Source: Kalshi price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Weak

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

ThinLoosely priced

Order-book liquidity

$204.8

Bid-ask spread

85.0 pts

24h volume

$54

cash traded · $108 notional on Kalshi

Open interest

$108

It would take roughly $456.2K of buying to move the price up by ~5 pts.

Little money on the book — a modest order can move this price, so treat swings with care.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Participation data isn't captured for this market yet.

Participation data isn't captured for this market yet, so we can't say how many accounts set this price.

What this market actually measures

If the upper bound of the target federal funds rate published on the Federal Reserve's official website is greater than 4.75% following the Federal Reserve's Oct 27, 2027 meeting, then the market resolves to Yes.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

If the upper bound of the target federal funds rate published on the Federal Reserve's official website is greater than 4.75% following the Federal Reserve's Oct 27, 2027 meeting, then the market resolves to Yes.

Resolution source: If the upper bound of the target federal funds rate published on the Federal Reserve's off…

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesOctober 27, 2027 at 1:55 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 23, 6:25 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±28 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Low liquidity score (27)
  • Wide spread (85.0 pts)

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
3Low
Where the price path tends to go next489 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet98%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting1%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~9h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward One big trader.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H-2.524H-2.57D-2.5

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