ManifoldPlay moneyOtherDevelopingUpdated 7m ago

Will the US enter a depression if the Democrats win the midterms?

As of Oct 13, 2026, 4:18 AM ET, Manifold priced this market at 11.0% (up from 10.0% 24 hours earlier). It had 2K mana traded in the past 24 hours and 1.5K mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
11.0%
+1 percentage point
over 24 hours10.0% → 11.0%

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, with only a few recent trades.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Stable

Contract clarity

Medium

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?

Thin

Pool liquidity

1.5K mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

2K mana

Total volume

2K mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Too few trades
100%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

1

Trades

2

over 1 min

Largest order

1.3K mana

2K mana traded across these 2 trades (last 1 min).

Too few recent trades to say who is setting this price.

Recent trade activity$2K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2028 at 6:59 PM ET

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

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 13, 4:26 AM 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 ±17 pts.

Quote-drivenLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

low classifier confidence
Quote-driven

A tight, deep, quote-driven book with little executed flow. The price is stable but reflects resting quotes more than active trading.

  • Tight spread on a liquid, calm market
  • Little executed flow — price is quote-driven, not trade-driven

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

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
20Low
Where the price path tends to go next704 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

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

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~5h
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.

Change (pts)1H0.06H+1.024H+1.07D+1.0

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