PolymarketGeopoliticsConfirmed moveUpdated 6m ago

Will Kylian Mbappé win the 2026 Ballon d'Or?

As of Oct 24, 2026, 6:42 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 18.1% (down from 20.3% 24 hours earlier). It had $841.7K traded in the past 24 hours, $189K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 0.9 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as strong.

Market probability
18.1%
−2.3 percentage points
over 24 hours20.3% → 18.1%
Moving fastResolving soon

Deep, easy-to-trade market — and today's move was spread across many accounts.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Strong

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?

DeepTight spread

Order-book liquidity

$189K

Bid-ask spread

0.9 pts

24h volume

$841.7K

Total volume

$6.4M

It would take roughly $2.4K of buying to move the price up by ~5 pts.

Lots of money on the book and a tight spread — a single ordinary order can't move this price much.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Broad participation
16%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

63

Trades

200

over 2h

Largest order

$974.7

$7.4K traded across these 200 trades (last 2h).

Many independent accounts traded — the price reflects a crowd, not one trader.

Recent trade activity$7.4K 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 according to the winner of the 2026 Ballon d’Or. If no 2026 Ballon d’Or winner is declared by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve to "Other".

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 according to the winner of the 2026 Ballon d’Or. If no 2026 Ballon d’Or winner is declared by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve to "Other". The primary resolution source for this market is official information from France Football (https://www.francefootball.fr/).

Resolution source: francefootball.fr

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesOctober 26, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET

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

  • Confirmation at the resolution source (francefootball.fr)

    The rules name this source as the basis for settlement.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 24, 6:48 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: high · expected error ±15 pts.

TrendingLegacy movement classifier: meaningful

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Trending

A sustained one-directional drift. This can be a genuine trend or crowd herding; watch whether liquidity and breadth confirm the move.

  • Directional drift sustained across 1h / 6h / 24h windows

The latest price is a usable but caveated read — weigh it with the market state.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
48Medium
Where the price path tends to go next298 observed
  • Stable consensus95%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting3%
  • Trend continuation1%

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

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~2h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Resolving soon.

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-2.46H-2.324H-2.37D-2.3

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