PolymarketCryptoDevelopingUpdated 10m ago

Will the price of Bitcoin be above $86,000 on October 16?

As of Oct 14, 2026, 4:01 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 2.8% (little changed over 24 hours). It had $29K traded in the past 24 hours, $29.9K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 0.5 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
2.8%
Little changed over 24 hours
Resolving soon

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

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

$29.9K

Bid-ask spread

0.5 pts

24h volume

$29K

Total volume

$46K

It would take roughly $389.1 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
39%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

52

Trades

97

over 5 days

Largest order

$1.4K

$5.4K traded across these 97 trades (last 5 days).

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

Recent trade activity$5.4K 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 to "Yes" if the Binance 1 minute candle for BTC/USDT closing at 12:00 in the ET timezone (noon) on the date specified in the title has a final "Close" price higher than the price specified in the title. 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 the Binance 1 minute candle for BTC/USDT closing at 12:00 in the ET timezone (noon) on the date specified in the title has a final "Close" price higher than the price specified in the title. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No". The resolution source for this market is Binance, specifically the BTC/USDT "Close" prices currently available at https://www.binance.com/en/trade/BTC_USDT with "1m" and "Candles" selected on the top bar. Please note that this market is about the price according to Binance BTC/USDT, not according to other exchanges or trading pairs. Price precision is determined by the number of decimal places in the source.

Resolution source: binance.com

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesOctober 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET

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

  • Confirmation at the resolution source (binance.com)

    The rules name this source as the basis for settlement.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 14, 4:11 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 ±21 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
  • Deep, balanced resting book

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

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
30Low
Where the price path tends to go next1182 observed
  • Choppy / mean-reverting97%

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

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~3h
PredictabilityElevated irreducibility

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+0.16H+0.124H+0.17D+0.1

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