PolymarketGeopoliticsLikely noiseUpdated 11m ago

Will the Bank of Russia make no change to the key rate after the October Meeting?

As of Oct 22, 2026, 8:23 AM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 84.0% (up from 80.5% 24 hours earlier). It had $52.4K traded in the past 24 hours, $9.6K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 2.0 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as weak.

Market probability
84.0%
+3.5 percentage points
over 24 hours80.5% → 84.0%
Moving fastBig move, weak backingResolving soon

Thin market where small orders can move the price — today's move came from 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

$9.6K

Bid-ask spread

2.0 pts

24h volume

$52.4K

Total volume

$102.2K

It would take roughly $1.1K 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
31%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

60

Trades

200

over 7h

Largest order

$1.6K

$14.4K traded across these 200 trades (last 7h).

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

Recent trade activity$14.4K 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 change in the key rate resulting from the Bank of Russia’s October meeting, relative to the level it was prior to this meeting. The resolution source for this market is information released by the Bank of Russia after its October 23, 2026 meeting as listed on the official Bank of Russia calendar: https://www.cbr.ru/eng/dkp/cal_mp/#t13 This market may resolve as soon as the Ba…

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 change in the key rate resulting from the Bank of Russia’s October meeting, relative to the level it was prior to this meeting. The resolution source for this market is information released by the Bank of Russia after its October 23, 2026 meeting as listed on the official Bank of Russia calendar: https://www.cbr.ru/eng/dkp/cal_mp/#t13 This market may resolve as soon as the Bank of Russia’s press release for their October 2026 meeting with relevant data is issued. If no decision on the key rate is issued by the end date of the next scheduled meeting, this market will resolve to the "No Change" bracket.

Resolution source: cbr.ru

Why the odds moved

The probability rose 3.5 percentage points over the last 24 hours (80.5% → 84.0%).

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 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET

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

  • Confirmation at the resolution source (cbr.ru)

    The rules name this source as the basis for settlement.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 22, 8:34 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 ±27 pts.

TrendingLegacy movement classifier: noisy

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

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

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
32Low
Where the price path tends to go next1421 observed
  • Choppy / mean-reverting96%
  • Stable consensus2%

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+3.06H+3.524H+3.57D+3.5

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