PolymarketMacro / FedDevelopingUpdated 13m ago

Will no Fed rate cuts happen in 2026?

As of Oct 28, 2026, 3:57 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 96.5% (up from 96.0% 24 hours earlier). It had $49.6K traded in the past 24 hours, $206K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 0.2 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
96.5%
+0.5 percentage points
over 24 hours96.0% → 96.5%

Thin market where small orders can move the price — though most recent trading came from one account.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Stable

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

$206K

Bid-ask spread

0.2 pts

24h volume

$49.6K

Total volume

$9.2M

The visible order book runs out before the price would rise 5 pts — little resting money above the current price.

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?

One account dominates
62%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

81

Trades

200

over 29h

Largest order

$33.4K

$53.9K traded across these 200 trades (last 29h).

One account did most of the recent trading — the price reflects that account's view more than a crowd's.

Recent trade activity$53.9K 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 exact amount of cuts of 25 basis points in 2026 by the Fed (including any cuts made during the December meeting). Emergency rate cuts outside of scheduled FOMC meetings will also count toward the total number of cuts in 2026.

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 exact amount of cuts of 25 basis points in 2026 by the Fed (including any cuts made during the December meeting). Emergency rate cuts outside of scheduled FOMC meetings will also count toward the total number of cuts in 2026. This market will remain open until December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET, to account for any such emergency actions. For example, if the Fed cuts rates by 50 bps after a meeting, it would be considered 2 cuts (of 25 bps each). This market will resolve early to "No" if the specified number of cuts becomes impossible — i.e., if more cuts have already occurred than the strike in question. Note that cuts between 1–24 bps (inclusive) will also be considered 1 rate cut. The resolution source for this market will be FOMC statements after meetings scheduled in 2026 according to the official calendar: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm. The level and change of the target federal funds rate is also published at the official website of the Federal Reserve at https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/openmarket.htm.

Resolution source: federalreserve.gov

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET

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

  • Confirmation at the resolution source (federalreserve.gov)

    The rules name this source as the basis for settlement.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 28, 4:10 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 ±12 pts.

Quote-drivenLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium 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

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

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
40Medium
Where the price path tends to go next1363 observed
  • Choppy / mean-reverting97%
  • Thin-liquidity spike1%
  • Stable consensus1%

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

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~44h
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-0.26H+0.524H+0.57D+0.5

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