ManifoldMacro / FedUpdated 9m ago

US Average Gas Price Is $4.4200 or more on October 5 2026?

As of Sep 28, 2026, 9:53 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 46.0% (down from 50.0% 24 hours earlier). It had Ṁ83.5 traded in the past 24 hours and Ṁ1K of order-book liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
46.0%
−4 percentage points
over 24 hours50.0% → 46.0%
5 days until the event deadline
Deadline: October 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM ET

A repricing with partial backing — read the new probability with some caution.

The pricing has partial support: moderate trading volume.

How credible was the move?

Three separate questions — a move can be genuine while the latest price is still settling. Methodology →

Move validity

Is the move backed by real trading and depth?

Moderate

The pricing has partial support: moderate trading volume.

Consensus stability

Has the market settled at the new probability?

Forming

Movement has slowed (4 points over six hours) but the market has not fully settled.

Contract clarity

Will the rules resolve without ambiguity?

Medium

Moderate resolution risk, driven mainly by no resolution basis.

Why the odds moved

The probability fell 4.0 percentage points over the last 24 hours (50.0% → 46.0%).

No verified catalyst has been linked to this move yet. ProbCast does not attribute moves to news without evidence connecting the timing of a specific report to the repricing.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesOctober 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM ET

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

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Sep 28, 10:02 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 ±27 pts.

Reacting to newsLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

low classifier confidence
Reacting to news

The price is actively repricing on real volume. The number is still moving — don't treat the latest print as settled consensus yet.

  • Probability moved 4.0 pts in ≤6h on adequate liquidity

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

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
13Low
Where the price path tends to go next818 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%
  • 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 <1h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Thin market.

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.

Market data

24h volume

Ṁ83.5

Liquidity

Ṁ1K

Total volume

Ṁ83.5

Category
Macro / Fed
Venue
Manifold
Open interest
—
Current probability
46.0%
7-day range
46.0% – 50.0%
Resolves
Oct 4, 2026
Change (pts)1H0.06H-4.024H-4.07D-4.0

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