PolymarketMacro / FedConfirmed moveUpdated 5m ago

Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the October 2026 meeting?

As of Oct 26, 2026, 4:38 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 7.5% (up from 5.5% 24 hours earlier). It had $1.6M traded in the past 24 hours, $742.3K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 1.0 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as strong.

Market probability
7.5%
+2 percentage points
over 24 hours5.5% → 7.5%
Resolving soon

Deep, easy-to-trade market — today's move came from a small group of accounts.

Price historyPolymarketKalshi

Source: Polymarket price history · Kalshi price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Strong

Consensus stability

Forming

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

$742.3K

Bid-ask spread

1.0 pts

24h volume

$1.6M

Total volume

$16.6M

It would take roughly $57.6K 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?

A few accounts
48%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

81

Trades

200

over 6h

Largest order

$11.9K

$43.8K traded across these 200 trades (last 6h).

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

Recent trade activity$43.8K traded

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

What this market actually measures

The FED interest rates are defined in this market by the upper bound of the target federal funds range. The decisions on the target federal funds range are made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings.

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

The FED interest rates are defined in this market by the upper bound of the target federal funds range. The decisions on the target federal funds range are made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings. This market will resolve to the amount of basis points the upper bound of the target federal funds rate is changed by versus the level it was prior to the Federal Reserve's October 2026 meeting. If the target federal funds rate is changed to a level not expressed in the displayed options, the change will be rounded up to the nearest 25 and will resolve to the relevant bracket. (e.g. if there's a cut/increase of 12.5 bps it will be considered to be 25 bps) The resolution source for this market is the FOMC’s statement after its meeting scheduled for October 27-28, 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. This market may resolve as soon as the FOMC’s statement for their October meeting with relevant data is issued. If no statement is released by the end date of the next scheduled meeting, this market will resolve to the "No change" bracket.

Resolution source: federalreserve.gov

What could move this market next?

  • The scheduled event takes placeOctober 28, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET

    The contract resolves on the event's outcome.

  • 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 26, 4:43 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 ±11 pts.

Trading normallyLegacy movement classifier: meaningful

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Trading normally

Liquid, two-sided, and calm. The current price reads as settled consensus — the latest print is a reasonable summary of what the market believes.

  • Liquid, two-sided, and calm — price behaving as settled consensus

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

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
43Medium
Where the price path tends to go next330 observed
  • Stable consensus95%
  • Trend continuation2%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting2%

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

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~11h
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)1H0.06H+2.024H+2.07D+2.0

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