Prediction markets called the midterms. Now they face the winners
Kalshi and Polymarket priced in Democratic gains early. Politico reports the result may bring closer oversight of both platforms.
Spread covers newer markets and how trading works: prediction markets, stablecoins and crypto rules, prop trading firms, and the mechanics every trader should know.
What Spread watches
- Kalshi, Polymarket and CFTC announcements
- State and federal action on event contracts
- Stablecoin and crypto rules from the SEC, CFTC and Congress
- Exchange, broker and prop firm rule changes
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How prediction market prices work
A contract trading at 62 cents implies roughly a 62% chance. Here is where that number comes from and what it leaves out.
How an order book works: bids, asks and the spread
Every market price is the meeting point of two lists of orders. Reading those lists shows what a trade will cost before you place it.
Position sizing: the math of risking 1%
How much you buy matters more than what you buy. One formula turns a risk limit into a share count, and the numbers show why small is durable.
Prop firm evaluations explained: targets, drawdowns and the fine print
Pay a fee, pass a trading test, trade the firm's money. The rules decide whether that is a fair shot, so here is how they work.
Trailing versus static drawdown: the rule that ends most funded accounts
Two accounts with the same $2,500 loss limit can be very different to trade. The difference is whether the floor moves.
July 2026: campaign staffers kept trying to bet on their own races
Kalshi said it had blocked dozens of trades by people working on campaigns. An NPR investigation found the screening had gaps.
Super Bowl LX was the day prediction markets became a sports business
Kalshi handled hundreds of millions of dollars in trades on one game in February 2026, and state gambling regulators took notice.
The NYSE's owner put up to $2 billion into Polymarket
Intercontinental Exchange's October 2025 investment valued the prediction market at about $8 billion and treated its prices as data worth selling.
Circle's IPO: the day a stablecoin company rose 168%
The issuer of USDC priced its shares at $31 in June 2025 and closed its first day at $83.23, the biggest debut of its size on record.
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