PolymarketPoliticsLikely noiseUpdated 5m ago

Next White House Press Secretary announced by November 30, 2026?

As of Oct 17, 2026, 4:48 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 61.5% (up from 60.5% 24 hours earlier). It had $40.5K traded in the past 24 hours, $37.4K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 1.0 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as weak.

Market probability
61.5%
+1 percentage point
over 24 hours60.5% → 61.5%
Moving fastBig move, weak backing

Thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Weak

Consensus stability

Unsettled

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?

ThinTight spread

Order-book liquidity

$37.4K

Bid-ask spread

1.0 pts

24h volume

$40.5K

Total volume

$0

It would take roughly $5.4K 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?

A few accounts
38%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

103

Trades

162

over 24h

Largest order

$4.3K

$24.3K traded across these 162 trades (last 24h).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$24.3K traded

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

What this market actually measures

This market will resolve to "Yes" if Donald Trump or the Trump administration announces a new White House Press Secretary to replace Katie Zacharia between market creation and the specified date, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".

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

This market will resolve to "Yes" if Donald Trump or the Trump administration announces a new White House Press Secretary to replace Katie Zacharia between market creation and the specified date, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No". An individual announced as an acting or interim Press Secretary will not qualify toward this market's resolution. Any qualifying announcement made within this market's time frame will count, regardless of when the new Press Secretary is sworn in or begins serving. This market's primary resolution source will be official information from the Trump administration; however, a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesNovember 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET

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

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 17, 4:54 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Probability by deadline

The same event, priced across deadline contracts on this venue.

Extending the deadline from Nov 30 to Dec 31 adds about 19.0 percentage points of implied probability.

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 ±24 pts.

Reacting to newsLegacy movement classifier: noisy

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
23Low
Where the price path tends to go next26 observed
  • Thin-liquidity spike75%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting11%
  • Trend continuation7%

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.

Change (pts)1H+4.06H+1.024H+1.07D+1.0

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