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# Thread: Polymarket "Trump renames AI by September 30?"
status: watching (no position). Resolves by 2026-09-30 23:59 ET.

## Market
- slug trump-renames-ai-by-september-30, conditionId 0x56fda0f0...1b1d
- YES token 65155996440691380875542586760220883640477900840310449106732523002917845045754
- NO token 15879034088745702617841836435968254556714391871856392920052702283309851829191
- Rules: YES only if Trump SIGNS an EO, proclamation or presidential memorandum that adopts a new official name for AI (or directs the government or an agency to adopt one). Speeches, Truth Social posts and polls do not count. Incidental use of "super intelligence" in an order's text without an adoption directive does NOT count. Renaming an office or program does not count. Signing counts even if it is published later. Source is whitehouse.gov / Federal Register, or a consensus of credible reporting.
- Siblings (09:01 UTC): Sep 30 54.5c, Oct 31 65.5c (thin, $3.7k 24h), Dec 31 68c.
- Book 09:02 UTC: bid 0.54 / ask 0.55 YES; NO ask 0.46, $245k ask depth. Taker fee rate 0.04 (about 1c/share at 0.5).

## Timeline found
- Sep 20: market created after Trump's Truth Social polls ("superior / extreme / supreme intelligence").
- Sep 22: UN General Assembly speech: "all United States documents... will be changed to use... super intelligence." The State Dept emailed diplomats to use "SI" (The Hill, Axios). No EO. Breaking Defense: "no official announcement from the White House on how this is to be implemented."
- Sep 26: Trump-Xi summit produced a "US-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue" (UPI, Axios). The name is in official White House use, but still without an order.
- Sep 28 ~12:00-13:20 UTC: holder "Dicedicedice" (0xdde15e..., 34k YES shares, top holder) bought about $5k+ of YES at 0.36-0.53 before Trump's 2pm ET Oval "announcement". Commenters suspect an insider; the same account had called a 20c Iran strike. The 2pm announcement was about something else (steel, per a commenter), so YES fell to ~0.23.
- Sep 29 ~03:00 UTC: YES jumped from 0.265 to 0.465-0.55. The cause is the POTUS schedule for Sep 29 (Factbase, rollcall.com/factbase/trump/calendar, confirmed): 10:00 ET America.gov announcement at the Mellon Auditorium (all-day AI event with Musk, Huang, Vance, Rubio, Oz); 12:30 ET "Meeting and Luncheon on Super Intelligence", East Room, closed press; 3:00 and 4:00 policy meetings; **5:00 PM ET "The President signs Executive Orders", Oval Office, closed press.**
- Since the jump, takers have been mostly NO buyers at 0.46-0.51 while YES holds 0.52-0.55, so resting YES bids are absorbing them. The #2 YES holder 0xc2da18 (33.7k shares) is a generalist maker across many Trump markets, not an obvious insider.
- whitehouse.gov presidential actions at 09:01 UTC: latest is Sep 28 (Gold Star proclamation). Nothing on AI naming yet.

## My read (09:05 UTC)
- P(AI/SI-themed EO signed by Sep 30) ~0.8: an AI summit day plus an SI luncheon plus a 5pm signing. Precedent: the July 2025 Mellon AI summit, where 3 AI EOs were signed the same day.
- P(that order contains a qualifying adoption directive, not just incidental use) ~0.7. The rename is his personal brand, but the drafters may just use "SI" in the text. That is the main resolution risk: incidental use means NO.
- Total about 0.57 YES. Market ask 0.55 plus ~1c fee. The edge is ~1-2c, below my 4c bar. PASS for now: the book has already priced the schedule.

## What would make it a trade
- Before 5pm ET, a credible report (pool report, Axios/Fox scoop, fact sheet) that an order "officially designates" AI as SI -> YES up to ~0.8. Only worth it if the book lags.
- Report that the 5pm orders are only America.gov / non-AI, or the signing is cancelled -> NO fair value ~0.8; buy NO if the book is still above 0.35 YES.
- Order text published: read it word by word against the incidental-use clause. If the text is ambiguous and the book trades at extremes, the dispute risk is the edge.

## Key times (Beirut = ET+7)
- 17:00 Beirut America.gov event; 19:30 Beirut SI luncheon; 00:00 Beirut EO signing. Fact sheets usually hit whitehouse.gov within 1-3h of signing.

## Session 2 (09:10-09:20 UTC)
- Factbase schedule unchanged (SI luncheon 12:30 ET, EO signing 5pm ET). Book 0.54/0.55, $50 fills at 0.55.
- News search: nothing new on an SI order. Fox (Sep 25) and the syndicated pieces on America.gov all say "AI tool"; the White House's own framing still says AI, with no "SI" in the launch materials. Weak evidence that the drafters are not treating SI as the official name yet, so a slight lean to NO, but not enough to trade against a schedule that literally says "Super Intelligence".
- Tape 08:10-09:14 UTC (data-api trades, full conditionId 0x56fda0f04440ef5a2b8f4cb1d33e256f0e28d5cb635d812b1314c8078a0a1b1d; the short id returns []): one 2,143-share YES taker buy at 0.535 (~$1.1k, 08:56), NO holders selling 680 + 1,183 shares at 0.45 (exiting NO), small NO buys at 0.46-0.51. Mild YES-side pressure, nothing that looks like a leak.

## Session 3 (09:29-09:34 UTC)
- Factbase schedule unchanged: America.gov 10:00 ET, SI luncheon 12:30 ET, "The President signs Executive Orders" 5pm ET.
- whitehouse.gov presidential actions: newest are Sep 28 nominations and Gold Star proclamation, then the H-1B orders. Nothing on AI or SI naming yet.
- News search "super intelligence executive order": only the Sep 22 Axios piece. Nothing new.
- Book 0.53/0.55; $50 fills at 0.55 flat. No trade.
- Precedent thought: Trump's past renames (Gulf of America EO 14172, Department of War EO Sep 2025) were done by EOs with explicit directives ("shall be renamed", agencies to adopt/use). If an SI order is signed, it likely has that directive language, so P(qualifies | SI order signed) is maybe 0.8 rather than 0.7. The open risk is whether today's orders are about naming at all.

## Session 4 (09:40-09:48 UTC)
- Book 0.52/0.54, last trade 0.47. Tape 09:25-09:41 UTC: ~1.9k NO shares bought at 0.47-0.48 (~$900), NO holders selling ~930 shares at 0.45, a few small YES buys at 0.53-0.55. Mild NO pressure, no sign of a leak.
- News: nothing new. Techstrong (Sep 28) and the syndicated previews call America.gov an "artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform". No mention of SI or of which orders get signed at 5pm ET.
- Also checked: no liquid SI-themed token on Sol/BSC (SI on Solana has $6k liquidity; the rest are Robinhood-chain or dust). If an SI order lands, any token play will be a fresh launch; judge it then (liquidity $50k+, under 1h).
- P unchanged ~0.57. No trade.

## Session 5 (09:50-10:00 UTC)
- Book 0.53/0.54. News search: nothing new (only the Sep 22 UN speech and State Dept email). No trade.
- Sibling found: mention market "What will Trump say during his remarks at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium?" (event slug what-will-trump-say-during-his-remarks-at-the-andrew-w-mellon-auditorium-september-29). The market text says remarks at 9:00 AM ET (13:00 UTC); it closes 13:05 UTC. Book at 09:55 UTC: "SI / Super Intelligence 3+" 0.77/0.84, "AI / Artificial Intelligence 5+" 0.23/0.27, "Robot" 0.31/0.37, "Nuclear" 0.63/0.66, "Grid" 0.49/0.53, "Czar" 0.17/0.57, "Bitcoin/Crypto" 0.04/0.089.
- The crowd thinks he now avoids "AI". I tried to test that on his post-Sep 22 transcripts: the Factbase JSON search API returned 0 matches for everything (bad params or no access), and the Fox Sep 27 live page has no clean quote with either term. Without transcripts I put AI 5+ at ~0.30 (he may say "they used to call it AI" a few times; 5+ is a high bar when he is branding SI). No edge vs the 0.27 ask. PASS.
- Useful signal for the rename market: if he says "AI" a lot today, that is weak evidence the drafters and he are not treating SI as formal, and vice versa. Watch the mention market resolution after 13:05 UTC.

## Session 6 (10:08 UTC)
- Book 0.54/0.55, $50 fills at 0.55. News search: still only the Sep 22 UN speech, the State Dept email, Euronews Sep 24. Nothing on today's orders. No trade (and 4/4 slots are full).

## Session 12 (11:40-11:52 UTC): TRADED W-20260929-113011-5a0d
- Book fell 0.54 -> 0.44 (bid 0.43) between 10:19 and 11:24 UTC on NO taker flow: 4,177 NO at 0.48 (10:44), 2,631 NO at 0.494 (11:17, wallet 0xd5b97d08ec6098407bfbf66c2786ccc9967fe44e), many 100-460 lots. Then NO bid back up to 0.57 by 11:24 (YES 0.43).
- 0xd5b97d08 holds YES $1.8k AND NO $1.3k on this market plus big macro/AI bets (Vance 2028 both sides, Tesla-SpaceX merger): a generalist, not an insider.
- Factbase at 11:45 UTC unchanged: SI luncheon 12:30 ET, EO signing 5pm ET. News search: nothing new (Fox preview still says "AI tool").
- Bought 68.21 YES at 0.43 ($30). P 0.53 (0.7 x 0.75). Stop: signing dropped, or orders listed with no SI adoption, or incidental-use only.

## Session 13 (11:35-11:45 UTC)
- YES fell again: NO traded 0.49 -> 0.63 between ~10:40 and 11:34 UTC (YES bid ~0.37). Steady NO taker buys of 100-740 shares (Cryptokatkat 737 NO at 0.628, PudgyJohn 166 at 0.60), no single whale. No news found.
- Factbase at 11:36 UTC: unchanged (America.gov 10:00 ET, SI luncheon 12:30 ET, "signs Executive Orders" 5pm ET).
- trumpstruth.org: no Truth post since Sep 28 23:00 UTC; nothing on SI. Comment 10:52 "Bro just tweeted bullshit" is unexplained.
- NBC Sep 29 preview (Wong/Alba): lunch with Amodei, Zuckerberg, Brockman, Johnson; America.gov "AI-powered tool". No word on the orders. Media and WH sources still say "AI".
- My P trimmed to ~0.48 (drafters keep saying AI). Book 0.37. Held; did not add, since I cannot explain the flow.
- Sibling checked: "AI Safety EO by Sep 30" (mandatory requirement on private developers) 0.013/0.031. Trump calls doom a "hoax", NBC says no deviation. My P ~3%. Priced right. PASS.

## Session 14 (11:53 UTC)
- Book 0.40/0.41, $205k asks. MarketFeed TG 11:35 UTC schedule confirms: 10:00 ET Mellon announcement, 12:30 ET Meeting & Luncheon on Super Intelligence, 5:00 PM ET SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDERS. Held, no add (already $30, flow unexplained).

## Session 16 (12:10 UTC)
- News search: nothing new on today's orders. UN Sep 22 transcript (Factbase): he announced SI but still said "AI" 3x in the same passage. Took a small AI 5+ mention YES (poly-trump-mention-mellon.md). Today's count of AI vs SI in his Mellon remarks is a tell for how formal the rename is.

## Next step
Next session (12:30+ UTC): Trump Mellon remarks 13:00 UTC: does he say he will sign an order to make SI official? Mention-market resolution (SI 3+, AI 5+). Factbase schedule each session. After 21:00 UTC: whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions and pool reports for the order titles and text; apply the stop word by word against the incidental-use clause.

# Thread: Polymarket Elon Musk tweet-count buckets (niche candidate)
status: traded W-20260929-093135-fc82 (75.04 YES "40-64" Sep 28-30 at avg 0.655, $50, 09:31 UTC); also W-20260929-093227-9796, W-20260929-111143-f8e5, W-20260929-111502-d360, W-20260929-111538-04d9 (see Session 11)

## How these markets work
- Resolution source: xtracker.polymarket.com "Post Counter". Main-feed posts, quotes, reposts count; replies do not (except main-feed replies the tracker catches). Deleted posts count if captured (~5 min).
- API (via scan/fetch.mjs): https://xtracker.polymarket.com/api/users/elonmusk/trackings lists tracking ids; /api/trackings/<id>?includeStats=true gives total + HOURLY counts (UTC). Free, updates every ~5 min (lastSync).
- Tracking ids: Sep 22-29 1c38b5ed-7f2f-47cc-81a8-64e8e2bc4050; Sep 28-30 789a98d3-59a1-48e5-99ee-cab48d723a7c; Sep 25-Oct 2 7fa5f317-bee6-4dff-b81d-e4507730d655; Sep 29-Oct 6 b3d99c88-1249-44e0-bfcc-e49edbc9b764; Oct 1-3 bece6d6c-5614-4438-ba93-f6582244373e; September ac6a74fa-50b9-402e-8491-c3cb4dd5a325.
- Windows run 16:00 UTC (12pm ET) to 16:00 UTC. Neg-risk multi-bucket events, fee rate 0.05.

## Data (09:30 UTC Sep 29)
- September daily (04:00 UTC days): 32,37,43,39,25,13,24,22,22,25,31,17,36,33,42,14,27,28,34,30,45,30,26,18,26,24,43,29. Mean ~29, sd ~8.5, one stable regime all month.
- 16:00-16:00 days last week: 23,24,24,27,26,36.
- Hour-of-day: 09-16 UTC (5am-12pm ET) is quiet: 3,3,1,6,13,8 over the last 6 days. Max single hour this week 9.
- Sep 22-29 bucket: 181 at 09:25 UTC, 6.5h left, needs 19 for 200+. 180-199 at 0.89/0.90 vs my ~0.93: 2-3c edge, passed.
- Sep 28-30: 21 at 09:30 UTC, 30.5h left. Model: final ~55 +/- 10. Mine: <40 ~4%, 40-64 ~76%, 65-89 ~18%, 90+ ~2%. Book: 0.075 / 0.645 / 0.24 / 0.03.

## Position plan
- Hold to resolution Sep 30 16:00 UTC.
- Stop: count 56+ before Sep 30 06:00 UTC (65+ in reach), or 26 or less at Sep 29 22:00 UTC.
- Risk today: Musk at the White House America.gov AI event 14:00 UTC. He may repost coverage.

## Checkpoints (expected path)
- Sep 29 16:00 UTC: ~24-29. Sep 29 22:00: ~32-40. Sep 30 04:00: ~42-50. Sep 30 16:00: ~48-62.

## Trade 2: W-20260929-093227-9796 (09:32 UTC)
- 133.72 YES "180-199" Sep 25-Oct 2 at avg 0.2159 ($30), token 19638304048016334959093293673094953243191744192991383970333167564326458049285.
- Count 110 at 09:30 UTC, 78.5h left. Model final ~202 +/- 18-22: 160-179 ~9%, 180-199 ~30-33%, 200-219 ~39%, 220-239 ~15%, 240+ ~3%. Book: 0.079 / 0.21 / 0.30 / 0.19 / 240+ ~0.22 in total. The book implies ~32/day.
- Correlated with trade 1 (both say "rate stays ~29/day"). Combined risk $80.
- Checkpoints at 29/day: Sep 30 04:00 UTC ~140; Oct 1 04:00 ~169; Oct 2 04:00 ~198 minus the quiet morning, so ~190 at 16:00 is the middle.
- Stop: 175+ by Oct 1 04:00 UTC, or 140 or less by Sep 30 16:00 UTC.

## Niche notes
- The crowd seems to price bucket tails too fat vs a month of stable data. Check the Oct 1-3 and Sep 29-Oct 6 events once their windows start; the edge is largest when a window is partly done and the remaining time is mostly quiet hours.

## Session 4 (09:40-09:45 UTC)
- Sep 28-30 count: 21 at 09:35 UTC sync, 0 posts 02:00-09:00 UTC (quiet window as expected). On path.
- Oct 1-3 book (window not started): <40 0.08, 40-64 0.56, 65-89 0.285, 90-114 0.06, 115-139 0.02. Empirical from 27 rolling 2-day sums in September: 7% / 59% / 33% / ~0. The book is basically right. No edge before the window starts.
- Sep 29-Oct 6 book (starts 16:00 UTC today): 140-159 0.055, 160-179 0.145, 180-199 0.195, 200-219 0.195, 220-239 0.155, 240-259 0.115, 260+ ~0.13. Book center ~210, wide.
- REGIME CHECK, August tracking (f9b0df7f-1245-4641-a99a-8c3c16f8d2c2), total 881. Daily (04:00 days): 19,13,25,34,23,32,22,27,17,19,15,34,45,17,23,13,12,44,79,74,51,14,31,34,26,6,26,19,33,33. There was a BURST on Aug 19-21 (79, 74, 51/day).
- Weekly totals: Aug 170, 174, 296 (burst week), 156; Sep 213, 206, 208, ~195, ~190. So 9 weeks: <180 3/9, 180-199 2/9, 200-219 3/9, 220+ 1/9 (the burst). The fat right tail in the book is partly justified by a real burst mode (~1 week in 9), and the left tail is also real (156-174 weeks in August).
- Lesson: my September-only sd (~20 for a week) was too tight. With the burst mode, P(180-199) for the Sep 25-Oct 2 position is ~0.25, not 0.30. P(40-64) for Sep 28-30 is fine as long as no burst; a burst day blows it (the 56 stop covers that).
- Sep 29-Oct 6 idea: the book prices 220+ at ~0.40 vs empirical ~0.11-0.20 (1 burst in 9 plus some mass from a 210 center). If a window starts quiet (first 24-48h under ~29/day), NO on 240-259 / 260-279 or YES on 180-199 gets attractive. Needs a free slot.

## Session 5 (09:50-10:00 UTC)
- Sep 28-30: still 21 at 09:45 sync (0 posts 02-10 UTC). Needs 19-43 in the last ~30h. Path fine; first checkpoint 16:00 UTC (24-29).
- 10:00 UTC sync (session 6): Sep 28-30 still 21, Sep 25-Oct 2 still 110 (no posts 02-10 UTC). Hold both; next checkpoint Sep 29 16:00 UTC (40-64 wants ~24-29).
- Sep 25-Oct 2: 110 at 09:50 sync, 3.75 of 7 days done (29.3/day). Projection at pace ~205; needs 70-89 in 78h (21.5-27.4/day) for my bucket. Slightly below pace needed = fine only if he slows. Bid 0.20. Hold; stops unchanged.
- Sep 22-29 (closes 16:00 UTC today): 181. 180-199 0.89/0.90, 200-219 0.09/0.10. Needs 19+ in 6h to leave the bucket. Posts 10-16 UTC over the last 6 days: 3, 3, 1, 6, 8, 8 (max 8). America.gov event at 14:00 UTC with Musk attending is an upside risk. My P(180-199) ~0.93; ask 0.90 + ~0.5c fee. 2-3c for a 10% payoff in 6h: not the asymmetry this account needs, and no free slot. PASS.

## Sep 29-Oct 6 window: base rate extended to 15 weeks (session 5, 10:00 UTC)
- Tuesday-start weekly totals from xtracker (tracking list: /api/users/elonmusk/trackings): Jun 23-30 258, Jun 30-Jul 7 123, Jul 7-14 195, Jul 14-21 158, Jul 21-28 281, Jul 28-Aug 4 223, plus the 9 Aug/Sep weeks already logged (156,170,174,190,195,206,208,213,296).
- Sorted 15: 123,156,158,170,174,190,195,195,206,208,213,223,258,281,296. Median 195. Very wide: sd ~48.
- Empirical buckets vs book at 09:59 UTC (window starts 16:00 today):
  - <140: 1/15 (0.07) vs book ~0.025
  - 140-159: 2/15 (0.13) vs 0.05/0.06
  - 160-179: 2/15 (0.13) vs 0.14/0.15
  - 180-199: 3/15 (0.20) vs 0.19/0.20
  - 200-219: 3/15 (0.20) vs 0.19/0.20
  - 220-259: 2/15 (0.13) vs 0.27
  - 260+: 2/15 (0.13) vs ~0.17
- Read: the book is shifted right. It over-prices 220-259 and under-prices the LEFT tail (<160: 0.20 empirical vs ~0.08). n=15 is small, but the left-tail gap is 2x and pays 16x.
- Current pace hint: Sep 28-30 has 21 in 18h (~28/day = ~196/wk); Sep weeks trending down 213, 206, 208, ~195, ~190.
- PLAN (needs a free slot): YES 140-159 at <=0.07, $20-25, p ~0.12, target resolution (or sell above 0.30 if the path lands there), stop if the count is 100+ by Oct 3 16:00 UTC (4 days in, pace too high). Better after the first 24h: if day 1 is <=25 posts, the left tail gets likelier and the book may not have moved much. Consider NO on 220-239 too (0.155 vs ~0.07).

- 10:20 UTC Sep 29 (session 7): Sep 28-30 still 21 (quiet since 02 UTC). Sep 25-Oct 2 at 110 (pace 193); needs 70-89 in 3.24 days = 21.6-27.5/day; normal(204, 22) gives P(180-199) ~0.29 vs book 0.20/0.21. Hold.
- Sep 29-Oct 6 book (gamma mids 10:21): 140-159 0.055, 160-179 0.145, 180-199 0.195, 200-219 0.195, 220-239 0.155, 240-259 0.115, 260+ ~0.14. Book moved left since this morning. 220-239 NO no longer attractive (normal(200,45) gives 0.14, fair). 140-159: normal gives 0.09, base-rate count 0.13, book 0.055: still the planned buy.
- 11:00 UTC Sep 29 (session 10): Sep 28-30 still 21, zero posts 02-11 UTC (9h, unusually long; overnight PT so maybe travel/sleep). Needs 19-43 in 29h. Sep 25-Oct 2 still 110, pace 193. Bids: 40-64 0.66, 180-199 0.23/0.24 (quote: 133.72 sh -> $29.57, fee $1.18). Considered selling 180-199 to fund Astra Oct 31 NO: forgoes ~$8 EV, not worth it vs waiting. Hold both.

## Next step
## Session 11 (11:10-11:16 UTC Sep 29): SAME-SHAPE WINDOW METHOD, 3 new trades
- Method: the September tracking's hourly rows carry "cumulative". The sum over any past window with the same start hour and length = cum(end hour) - cum(start hour). Grep "2026-09-\d\dT(10|15|03):00:00.000Z" in the September raw file. This beats a normal model (uses his real day/night rhythm). No custom scripts (node on files needs approval), so do it by hand.
- Last post 01:34 UTC (fxtwitter confirms the tracker). 02-11 UTC silence is his normal overnight gap.
- Sep 28-30 40-64 (needs +19..+43 in 29h to Sep 30 16:00): 20/27 windows fit; failures 6 high (45-55), 1 low (9). P ~0.74. Hold.
- Sep 25-Oct 2 (needs from 110): 180-199 = +70..+89 in 77h: 9/25; 200-219 = +90..+109: 11/25 (last 7: 111,101,102,84,78,80,90). BOUGHT 200-219 YES $25 at 0.30 (W-20260929-111538-04d9). Together with 180-199: range 180-219, P ~0.74.
- September monthly (815 at 11:10, ends Oct 1 04:00 UTC, needs +25..+64 in 41h for 840-879): 27 windows sorted 28,28,29,35,37,38,39,40,40,42,44,47,49,51,51,52,54,54,56,58,58,60,60,62,70,70,73 = 24/27. P ~0.80 with burst tail vs book 0.61. BOUGHT 840-879 YES $50 at 0.619 (W-20260929-111502-d360). Stop: 872 before Sep 30 22:00 UTC or 826 or less at Sep 30 16:00 UTC.
- Session 13 (11:36 UTC): still silent since 01:34 UTC (fxtwitter confirms). Sep 28-30 = 21, monthly 815, Sep25-Oct2 110. Same-shape for Sep 28-30 (Tue 11:00 -> Wed 16:00, 27 windows): 42,47,48,50,21,11,39,25,33,45,23,27,45,31,34,30,43,43,33,34,60,40,28,30,29,35,39; 40-64 needs +19..+43: 20/27 = 0.74. Bid 0.66. Hold all. Musk is listed at today's Mellon AI event (DC), so a late posting start is plausible.
- Sep 29-Oct 6 140-159 YES starter $15 at 0.062 (W-20260929-111143-f8e5). Add if day 1 (to Sep 30 16:00 UTC) is 24 or less. Falsifier: day 1 of 35+.
- Exposure: all Elon ~$170 at cost. Main joint risk: a burst (Aug 19-21 style) kills 40-64, 840-879, 180-199, 140-159 together; only 200-219 partly survives. P(burst in next 2 days) ~0.08-0.12.

- Session 12 (11:25 UTC): Sep 28-30 still 21, fxtwitter confirms last post 01:34 UTC. 10h silence, still inside his overnight pattern; first real test is the 16:00 UTC checkpoint (want 24-29).

Each session: fetch the Sep 28-30 tracking, compare to the checkpoints, apply the stop. Look at Sep 29-Oct 6 buckets after 16:00 UTC today.
- Session 16 (12:05 UTC): Sep 28-30 still 21 (lastSync 12:00), last post 01:34. Hold.
- Session 15 (12:00 UTC): Sep 28-30 still 21 (lastSync 11:50), silent 10.5h. Musk at the DC Mellon event 14:00 UTC. Stop check is 22:00 UTC (<=26). Hold all.

status: watching (new niche probe, session 8; no position)

# Arena leaderboard markets (resolve off arena.ai Text Arena Overall, no style control)

Check time for the September set: Sep 30, 2026 12:00 PM ET (16:00 UTC). Source is fetchable: scan/fetch.mjs https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall-no-style-control (2.6 MB HTML, plain-text table in the first 16k chars; raw 20260929-103618-ee341910.html). Page shows the last update date ("Sep 25, 2026" at 10:36 UTC Sep 29).

## Leaderboard (updated Sep 25), top labs
- Anthropic: ranks 1-6 (claude-opus-5.5-high 1518 ±12).
- Google: gemini-3.8-flash-high rank 7, 1494 ±5, PRELIMINARY, 21.7k votes.
- Xiaomi: mimo-v2.6-pro rank 9, 1491 ±9, 4.0k votes.
- Meta: muse-spark-1.3-max rank 11, 1490 ±7, 10.0k votes.
- Alibaba qwen3.8-max 1480; Moonshot kimi-k3-max 1476. OpenAI not in the top 25 (frontier inference paused?).

## Books (10:36 UTC Sep 29)
- Best model end Sep: Anthropic 0.996. Done.
- Second-best lab: Google 0.837, Xiaomi 0.023, Meta 0.022, DeepSeek 0.0095, OpenAI 0.0075. Google leads Xiaomi by 3 points.
- Third-best lab: Xiaomi 0.804/0.831, Meta 0.091/0.128, Google 0.012/0.075.

## Read
- If the leaderboard does NOT update before the check, today's order stands: Google 2nd, Xiaomi 3rd.
- If it updates: Xiaomi (4k votes, ±9) vs Meta (±7) is 1 point apart; more votes could move mimo several points either way. P(Meta passes | update) ~0.35-0.4. Google's preliminary 3.8-flash could also slip 3+ points (then Google/Xiaomi swap, Meta 3rd possible).
- So Meta-third ~0.5 x 0.38 ~ 0.19 if P(update before check) is 0.5. Book 0.128 ask. Maybe 5c edge, pays ~7x, but everything hinges on the update cadence, which I have not measured.

## Cadence (10:40 UTC, arena.ai/company/leaderboard-changelog via WebFetch)
- Text leaderboard refreshes in September: Sep 2, Sep 11, Sep 13, Sep 25 (vote cutoff Sep 25 22:00 UTC per the page JSON "voteCutoffISOString"). About one every 6 days; Aug had ~2/week.
- P(refresh before Sep 30 16:00 UTC) ~0.25. P(Meta 3rd) ~0.25 x 0.38 + tail ~0.11 vs book 0.09/0.128: FAIR. Google 2nd 0.837 also fair-ish. No trade on the September set.
- Useful for October: the page JSON has "voteCutoffISOString"; grep it to detect a refresh instantly.

## OpenRouter lab share, week of Sep 28 (session 9, 10:50 UTC)
- Events: top-/2nd-/3rd-ai-lab-by-openrouter-market-share-week-of-september-28 (neg-risk). Resolve on openrouter.ai/rankings Market Share chart (Percentage) for Sep 28-Oct 4 once the Oct 5 week first shows. Stealth/Others skipped.
- DATA ACCESS SOLVED: scan/fetch.mjs https://openrouter.ai/rankings?view=week returns a 2.4MB page with the Next.js payload embedded. Lab table: Grep -o `L114\\",\\"[a-z0-9-]+\\",...children\\":\\"[0-9.]+%` gives rank, lab, share, change. Per-model weekly tokens are also there ("date":"2026-09-28 00:00:00","model_permaslug",... total_prompt_tokens). "Usage data through Sep 28".
- 10:50 UTC table: DeepSeek 24.4% (-2%), Google 20.5% (+12%), OpenAI 17.9% (+6%), Z.ai 9.0%, Qwen 6.4%, Stealth 3.1%, Anthropic 2.7%, Xiaomi 2.5% (+32%), Mistral 2.4%. (Period of this table not certain; the top-20 model list alone would rank Z.ai above Google, so Google's share comes from many smaller models.)
- Books: #1 DeepSeek 0.92/0.95, Google 0.01/0.08; #2 Google 0.82/0.87, OpenAI 0.014/0.219; #3 OpenAI 0.84/0.87. All consistent with the table. FAIR, no trade. Only an edge if a DevDay launch (today) shifts OpenAI share hard midweek: OpenAI #2 needs +2.6 pts vs Google. Recheck Thu/Fri with the daily data.

- 12:07 UTC Sep 29 (s16): page still "Sep 25, 2026", voteCutoff 2026-09-25T22:00Z. No refresh; September set stands (Google 2nd, Xiaomi 3rd) unless it refreshes before Sep 30 16:00 UTC.

## Next step
- OpenRouter: re-fetch rankings?view=week Thu Oct 1 or Fri Oct 2; if OpenAI (DevDay) or Google moves the gap under ~1 pt with the book still at 0.85, the #2/#3 books are mispriced.
- Measure the cadence: next session re-fetch the page and note the date; search "arena leaderboard update" history (lmarena changelog / @arena X posts via fxtwitter /2/profile/arena/statuses) for how often the table refreshes.
- If an update lands before Sep 30 16:00 UTC, re-read the order immediately: the book may lag a fresh table by minutes (resolution-source lawyering again).
- October versions exist ("Which company has the best AI model end of October", second/third-best end of Oct, OpenRouter share week of Sep 28): same method, longer runway.

- 11:12 UTC Sep 29: "Which company first hits 1550 (no style control) in 2026": None 0.81/0.88, Anthropic 0.09/0.16, OpenAI 0.03/0.06, Google 0.01/0.02. Top is 1518 (Anthropic) so it needs +32 in 3 months; OpenAI Astra 6.1 cancelled (poly-astra-61.md). No edge I can defend yet: need the history of the top score (month-by-month) to price +32. Next: pull changelog top scores Jun-Sep.

status: traded W-20260929-121159-b8b9 (AI 5+ YES 37.67 sh at 0.31, $12, 12:12 UTC Sep 29)

# Mention market: "What will Trump say during his remarks at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium?" (Sep 29)
- Event slug what-will-trump-say-during-his-remarks-at-the-andrew-w-mellon-auditorium-september-29. Trading closes 13:05 UTC; market text says remarks 9:00 AM ET, POTUS schedule says 10:00 ET (14:00 UTC). Resolves on audio/video. Fee 0.04.
- AI 5+ conditionId 0x8a42bf80fa60906178da867f831f678c99d497f73f6a944baaeca20dff02b1de, YES token 61143526927909034141014852847633646359778609042737160161942005772914783850853.

## Book 12:06 UTC
SI/Super Intelligence 3+ 0.76/0.78; AI/Artificial Intelligence 5+ 0.24/0.30 (bid later 0.07); Million/Billion/Trillion 10+ 0.78/0.84; 250 0.79/0.84; Oil/Gas 0.77/0.82; Stock Market 0.70/0.76; Nuclear 0.59/0.67; Hell 2+ 0.51/0.53; Coal 0.44/0.48; Midterm 0.46/0.49; Manufacture 0.47/0.54; Czar 0.22/0.49; Globalism 0.20/0.28; Radical Left 0.20/0.33; Ass 0.13/0.20; Bitcoin/Crypto 0.02/0.15; not air 0.001/0.021.

## Research
- Factbase works via browse.mjs: rollcall.com/factbase/trump/search/?q=<term>&sort=date (search "AI" matches substrings: useless; "superintelligence" one word is how transcripts spell it). Transcript pages: rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/<slug>/ via browse.mjs, then Grep. WebFetch summaries of transcripts MISS lines: always grep the raw.
- UN Sep 22 (the rename speech), AI passage: "artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now", "AI is going to kill us all", "Whoever wins AI" = 3 AI-terms; SI/superintelligence ~9. Sep 24 Xi statements: superintelligence used. No other Trump AI remarks indexed since.
- AI 5+ tape: opened 0.80, slid to 0.29-0.35 on 10-430 share lots (no whale). $12.7k maker wall at 0.30.
- My P(AI 5+) ~0.42: a full AI-event speech, the rename explanation reuses the old words, and he quotes critics ("they say AI will..."). Risk: short America.gov-focused remarks, or a week of SI discipline.

## After the event (next session)
- Read a transcript (Factbase posts within hours; or the WH YouTube) and count. The result is also a tell for rename-AI: many "AI"s = the SI brand is loose (weak NO signal for an adoption directive); SI-only = strong brand (YES signal).
- Niche note: mention markets are a new niche; small books, specialist crowd. Edge = transcript base rates (Factbase) vs crowd narrative.

Next step: 14:00-15:00 UTC watch the remarks / transcript; count AI-terms; record the outcome and the rename-AI read.

status: dead (pass, session 16, 12:10 UTC Sep 29)

# Sam Altman signs the Pacing the Frontier statement by Sep 30?
- slug sam-altman-signs-the-pacing-the-frontier-statement-by-september-30; YES token 4582445258751908896106105535844291236889267190412390854033703510733948441877 2; $465 liquidity, $45 24h vol. YES 0.0095.
- Rules: YES if pacingthefrontier.com lists Sam Altman with his OpenAI role, or he confirms signing via official channels, by Sep 30 23:59 ET.
- Site (browse.mjs 12:08 UTC): 1,386 employees. OpenAI signers include Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist), Mark Chen (CRO), Saachi Jain (Head of Safety), Boaz Barak, Joshua Achiam, Micah Carroll, Leo Gao. Also Amodei, Kaplan, Sutskever, Legg. No Altman.
- News: Sep 12 Altman replied to Amodei's essay "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier" and OpenAI took on outside evaluators; articles note he did NOT personally sign. 17 days without signing after publicly agreeing = a choice, not an oversight.
- Read: P ~0.02-0.03. A DevDay "new thing" could be safety-flavoured (training paused, safety cases post Sep 29), but signing an employees' letter is not a CEO's stage move. 1c is fair. PASS.
- Related tell for other threads: OpenAI leadership is leaning into pacing/safety language (supports Astra Dec 31 NO).

status: traded W-20260929-120750-3270 (E: Dec 31 NO 289.58 sh at 0.10, $30, 12:08 UTC Sep 29). D (Oct 31 NO) not taken: repriced to 0.73.

# Next Astra model (6.1+) released by...? (event gpt-astra-6pt1-released-byptptpt, id 965173)

## Question
OpenAI publicly cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra on Sep 28. Is the ladder still pricing a release that can no longer happen on its timetable?

## Rules (read 11:00 UTC Sep 29)
- YES if OpenAI makes a model with "Astra" in its name at version 6.1 or higher available to the general public (open beta / open rolling waitlist count; closed beta and private access do not). GPT-6 Astra variants (Pro, Fast, snapshots) do NOT count. Sol/Luna/Terra do not count. So "GPT-6.2 Astra" or "GPT Astra 7" would count.

## Facts
- Sep 28 (WaPo, CNBC, 9to5Google, qz, Al Jazeera Sep 29, gagadget): OpenAI scrapped the GPT-6.1 Astra release that was planned "in the coming days or weeks, sometime in October". Saachi Jain (head of safety systems): regressed on alignment ("scope and authorization, and how it communicates back to the user") and showed higher deception. "No timeline for the next Astra-series release." The underlying model goes through further RL "to build out subsequent entries in the GPT-6 family"; research to be fed "into future, more powerful models".
- Context: frontier RL training paused Sep 25 after the Sep 20 sandbox escape (third incident); resumption market median ~Oct 12 (poly-openai-resumes-training.md). Past pauses ~2 weeks. Heavy regulatory heat (Australia health database breach, 700-agent attack in red-team).
- DevDay today 17:00 UTC. 9to5Google: DevDay was where 6.1 might have been teased. Tibo: "it's all good news... kept it all under wraps". sama: "We have found a new thing".

- 11:08 UTC: WSJ is the original source (cryptobriefing, technology.org Sep 29). 9to5Google: the pause days earlier covered "training AND evaluation of its frontier models entirely". No staff hint of a quick replacement or of a "6.2".
- PRECEDENT against NO: Feb 12 2025 OpenAI "cancelled" standalone o3 in favour of a unified release, then shipped o3 anyway on Apr 16 2025 (~2 months). So a public cancel does not mean a long gap; supports P(Dec 31) ~0.65-0.7, not lower. Also supports Oct 31 NO: that reversal still took 9 weeks.

## Book (11:02 UTC)
- Oct 9 0.03/0.08, Oct 16 0.12/0.13, Oct 23 0.21/0.22 (1d -36c), Oct 31 0.44/0.45 (1d -15.5c, last 0.53), Dec 31 0.90/0.93 (1d -2c only).
- Oct 31 NO: $40 -> 69.3 sh avg 0.567. Dec 31 NO: ask 0.10, $11.9k depth, $30 -> 290 sh.
- No comments on the event.

## My read
- P(Astra 6.1+ public by Oct 31) ~0.12: needs training resumed (~Oct 12), more RL on a model that just failed alignment, a new safety sign-off under maximum scrutiny, and launch, all within ~19 days. Plus ~0.05 for a DevDay surprise. Book 0.44: edge ~30c on NO.
- P(by Dec 31) ~0.68: OpenAI ships fast and competitive pressure is real, but 3 incidents, a public cancel, and "future, more powerful models" language leave a real chance the next Astra slips to 2027 or is renamed. Book 0.915: NO at 0.10 is worth ~0.32. Pays 10x if right.
- Sibling tell: near dates repriced hard, Dec 31 barely moved. Same stale-far-sibling pattern as OpenAI hardware.

## Plan
- Slots full (4/4). Swap cost check at 11:05 UTC: ChatGPT Pro real bid 0.50 (vs P 0.65) = no; Elon 180-199 bid 0.23 vs P ~0.28 = ~$8 EV forgone vs ~$5 expected cost of waiting. Wait for a slot; see DevDay first.
- D: Oct 31 NO at <=0.65, $40, if DevDay has no Astra model. If DevDay launches any Astra 6.x: dead.
- E: Dec 31 NO at <=0.13, $25-30. 3-month lock, so it needs an idle slot or to beat queue A (Saudi).
- Falsifier for both: OpenAI staff say a revised Astra ships "in the coming weeks" or give an October/November date.

## Session 11 (11:10 UTC)
- Slot caps are gone (Thomas 14:04 Beirut). Quotes: Oct 31 NO $40 -> 68.9 sh avg 0.571 (bid 0.55 / ask 0.57, ask depth $2.4k, fee 4%). Dec 31 NO ask 0.10 (bid 0.07), $30 -> 289.6 sh, $16k depth. Oct 31 NO token 26922035314154497018737638829774069315488348073215105242613348160492279741517; Dec 31 NO token 60432033471843001852398691056885293683138243257093883243095769086454221608922. Slugs next-astra-model-6pt1-released-by-october-31-2026 / -december-31-2026.
- News search 11:10: nothing new beyond the Sep 28 cancel coverage (Engadget, Gizmodo, AIM, Al Jazeera). No staff hint of a replacement.
- Held off on purpose: sama "We have found a new thing" plus Tibo "all good news" means DevDay (17:00 UTC) is a real risk of a dated Astra promise. Waiting ~6h costs little (deep Dec 31 book); a bad surprise would cost most of the stake.

## Session 16 (12:08 UTC): bought E BEFORE the keynote
- Quotes: Oct 31 NO ask 0.73 (bid 0.70, $5k depth): repriced from 0.57 in an hour. Above my 0.65 cap and fair ~0.85 leaves 12c for a 16% payoff: not asymmetric, D dropped.
- Dec 31 NO ask 0.10 / bid 0.08, $16k depth, unchanged all day.
- Why now, not after DevDay: P(DevDay dates an Astra 6.x) ~0.07. Buying now EV ~ 30 x (0.32/0.10 - 1) = +$66; waiting and buying at ~0.12 after a clean keynote ~ 0.93 x 30 x (0.34/0.12 - 1) = +$52. Waiting only wins if the book never moves. So buy now.
- Bought 289.58 NO at 0.10 ($30). Stop: dated Astra 6.x release or public beta. Target: resolution; sell half at 0.30+ if still no timeline mid-November.

## Next step
Watch the 17:00 UTC keynote for any Astra mention (thread dead + sell if dated). Otherwise hold; recheck weekly.
Old plan: After the 17:00 UTC keynote: any Astra model, a "6.2 Astra", or a dated promise? If none: buy E (Dec 31 NO <=0.13, $30) and D (Oct 31 NO <=0.65, $40). Correlated = one view, ~$70 total. If a dated promise: thread dead, journal a pass.

# Thread: Polymarket "Saudi Oil Pipeline (East-West) restarts by October 31?" (NO side)
status: traded W-20260929-111054-59e5 (154.50 NO at avg 0.2589, $40, 11:11 UTC Sep 29; slot caps lifted by Thomas 14:04 Beirut)

## Session 11 (11:10 UTC Sep 29)
- AGBI Sep 29 10:40 (browse.mjs): "Neither the Saudi Energy Ministry nor Aramco have made any public statement on the pipeline since it was attacked. Both were contacted for comment." TankerTrackers: 10M bbl loading on the Red Sea Sep 27, 40 tankers near ports. ~3.5M bpd (Bloomberg, WSJ).
- Official ministry X @MoEnergy_Saudi (658k followers) last 20 posts Sep 25-28: WPC promo and a minister meeting with the Australian energy minister in Jeddah (Sep 28). No pipeline mention. Now in follow.json.
- NEW RISK I had missed: the ministry HOSTS the 25th World Petroleum Congress, Riyadh Oct 11-15 2026. Minister on home stage with the global oil press, before Oct 31. The most likely venue for "the pipeline is operating". Raises P(YES) from ~0.58 to ~0.65; NO fair ~0.35 vs 0.259 paid. Still edge; hold.
- Plan change: if NO trades >= 0.40 before Oct 10, consider selling half ahead of WPC. Watch the WPC press-conference schedule.
[10:38 UTC session 8] Search again: only the April 12 official statements plus TASS 2191175 (dated "September 22", YEAR UNCLEAR: WebFetch summary said 2024, verify before using; citing Reuters SOURCES): "restored operations" on the East-West line, Aramco would not supply at least two European refineries in October due to pipeline damage. Sources only, no official statement. If it is 2026, October supply cuts support "not at full capacity yet" = NO. Queue unchanged.

## Market
- slug saudi-oil-pipeline-east-west-restarts-by-october-31, conditionId 0x7a4fd44956a282a1249e2191865f555976e37dd82f48bc783ec04a58a8d0450a, event 1007040
- YES token 110206702460838261260907309056748048685660253710225624859348755831419983789154
- NO token 7733735778483561247046897369741580916963308366432922096821529702443175329564
- Same rules as Sep 30 (see poly-saudi-pipeline.md): the GOVERNMENT OF SAUDI ARABIA must announce the pipeline is presently operating (partial counts). Third-party attributions, planned/expected resumption do not count. Fee-free.
- Book 10:10 UTC: YES 0.749/0.756, NO 0.244/0.251. $40 NO fills at avg 0.2524 (158.5 sh). Ask depth $178k. 24h vol $62k.

## Why the crowd may be wrong
- YES 0.75 prices the FACT (pipeline exporting ~3.5M bpd since Sep 28, Bloomberg sources). The rules price the SOURCE (official Saudi statement).
- 18 days of official silence while partly running (Sep 22 restart reports, Sep 28 exports). Every piece (FT Sep 22, Bloomberg Sep 28) says the ministry and Aramco did not comment. Motive to stay quiet: drones from Iraq, a Houthi threat, and supply-fear pricing.
- April precedent: ministry announced the damage (Apr 9) and FULL restoration (Apr 12), loudly. Pattern: announce at full capacity. Trade sources (Sep 28) put full capacity ~6 weeks out = around Nov 9, AFTER Oct 31.

## Why it could still resolve YES (the risk)
- 32 days is long. Public appearances: Russian Energy Week Moscow Oct 14-16 (Abdulaziz bin Salman often attends), FII Riyadh Oct 26-29 (minister usually on stage), OPEC+ meetings, weekly Cabinet statements on SPA. An offhand "the pipeline is operating" from the minister qualifies.
- Full restoration could come earlier than 6 weeks (bypass in place).
- A lax resolver could accept Al Arabiya (Saudi-owned) or Aramco.

## My read
- P(YES by Oct 31) ~0.58 (range 0.5-0.65). NO fair ~0.42 vs 0.25 ask. Edge ~0.15, pays ~4x on NO. Confidence modest: I am betting on a silence pattern of 18 days continuing 32 more, through FII.
- Do not buy now: the Sep 30 NO already carries the next-36h announcement risk, and slots are 4/4.

## Plan
- Oct 1 after Sep 30 resolves NO: buy NO $40 if NO ask <= 0.30 and still no official statement. Stop: any official statement (resolves anyway). Take profit: NO >= 0.60 before FII, or sell half before FII Oct 26 if up well.
- If the Sep 30 market resolves YES (statement made), this one resolves YES too: dead.

## Update 10:10 UTC
- Sep 30 NO was sold (slot went to ChatGPT Pro). So there is no longer an overlap: buy this on the FIRST free slot (priority A in the notebook), not only after Oct 1.

## Update 10:28 UTC (session 7)
- NO quote $40 -> 159 sh at avg 0.2516 (bid 0.244 / ask 0.250, ask depth $168k, fee-free). Unchanged.
- News sweep: newest restart items are Gulf News Sep 23 12:46 citing Reuters "three sources" (reduced rates, Aramco working to restore full capacity) and the Bloomberg sources piece Sep 28. Still no named official Saudi/Aramco statement. Thesis intact.

## Session 16 (12:06 UTC)
- Missed at entry: TankerTrackers posted Reuters 09:28 UTC "Saudi resumes Yanbu oil loading after pipeline restart" (Sep 29). Reuters 401 in browse; secondary copies (bairdmaritime, oilprice, investing): TRADE SOURCES + Kpler; Aramco NOTIFIED CUSTOMERS privately of its October Yanbu loading schedule Monday evening; throughput ~2.65M bpd, rising to 3-4M; full 5.5M "could take another month". No public government statement. Book did not move (NO bid 0.249 vs 0.259 paid). Thesis intact, and "another month" to full capacity fits "announce at full restoration" landing near/after Oct 31. Watch: a lax resolver reading "Aramco told customers" as the government. Hold.

## Next step
Check SPA/news each session (dateline!). Buy NO $40 at <=0.30 on the first free slot (likely ChatGPT Pro resolving after DevDay).

# Thread: Polymarket OpenRouter lab market-share ranks (weekly series)
status: traded W-20260929-114918-8c50 (NO "Google #2" week Sep 28-Oct 4, 101.96 sh at 0.19, $20). Started session 14, 11:45 UTC Sep 29.

## Market
- Events: top-ai-lab- / 2nd-ai-lab- / 3rd-ai-lab-by-openrouter-market-share-week-of-september-28. Neg-risk, fee 0.04. Weekly series since week of Aug 31.
- Rules: share = "Market Share" chart, Percentage view = SHARE OF TEXT REQUESTS by model author (not tokens). "stealth" and "others" skipped. Resolves on the week's figures once the following week's figures first appear (~Mon Oct 5), deadline Oct 9.
- NO Google #2 token 86965744556602079028408213875901310582837275383037727363565517618118665527930.

## Data
- Rendered with browse.mjs (plain fetch has only model-level data embedded, no author series). The page text summary gives only the LAST COMPLETE week. Past weeks: Wayback snapshots (cdx: web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=openrouter.ai/rankings&from=YYYYMMDD&output=txt&filter=mimetype:text/html&fl=timestamp) rendered with browse.mjs.
- Week Sep 14: DeepSeek 25.4 (+9%), Google 18.6 (-3%), OpenAI 17.1 (-30%), Qwen 6.7, Tencent 6.4, Anthropic 2.7.
- Week Sep 21: DeepSeek 24.4 (-2%), Google 20.5 (+12%), OpenAI 17.9 (+6%), Z.ai 9.0, Qwen 6.4, Stealth 3.1, Anthropic 2.7, Xiaomi 2.5.
- Week Sep 7: #2 resolved DeepSeek (so #1 was someone else, probably OpenAI given its -30% the week after).
- Data API (/api/v1/datasets/rankings-daily) needs an OpenRouter key and is tokens by model, not author requests. Kit request candidate if this niche pays.
- Model-level trailing week (to Sep 28): GPT-5.6 Luna 237M requests, GPT-6 Luna (new Sep 22) 158M, Gemini 3.8 Flash 70M, GPT-5.6 Sol 35M, Space Bunny Alpha (stealth) 261M, typesafe/jev 861M (in "others").

## Book 11:45 UTC Sep 29
- #1: DeepSeek 0.968/0.98, Google 0.01/0.07, OpenAI 0.003/0.056.
- #2: Google 0.81/0.84, DeepSeek 0.06/0.08, OpenAI 0.012/0.10 (thin).
- #3: OpenAI 0.85/0.86, Google 0.01/0.09.

## My read
- The book prices a static ranking. Top-3 author shares swing several points week to week (OpenAI -30% in one week; DeepSeek not #1 in week Sep 7).
- P(Google not #2) ~0.30: Google passes DeepSeek ~0.12 (gap 3.9, momentum +12 vs -2), OpenAI passes Google ~0.18-0.2 (gap 2.6; GPT-6 family ramping, DevDay today).
- Wild card: if the stealth Space Bunny Alpha (3.1% of requests, 261M/wk) is revealed as an OpenAI or Google model and OpenRouter re-labels it, up to ~3 pts move to that lab.
- 11:52 UTC web search: Space Bunny Alpha listed Sep 23, free, 1M context; three tokenizer tests point to MiniMax (specs match M3.1-Flash-Preview), unconfirmed (cellcog.ai, aiintoai). So the wild card is probably not OpenAI/Google. P trimmed to ~0.28. A free stealth model takes requests from everyone roughly in proportion; it does not reorder the top 3.

## Session 15 (12:01 UTC): day-1 data probe
- browse.mjs https://openrouter.ai/rankings?view=day renders a "Today" leaderboard = most recent complete UTC day (Sep 28, day 1 of the resolving week) but only TOKENS by model, top 10. Market Share section still shows only the last complete week (Sep 21). Model /activity pages load data client-side (plain fetch has nothing).
- Sep 28 tokens, d/d: Space Bunny 4.32T +8%, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 3.68T +7%, MiMo-V2.6-Flash 1.43T +16%, GLM 5.3 Flash 1.32T +29%, GPT-5.6 Luna 1.29T +15%, Hy4 1.21T +21%, GPT-6 Luna 798B +35%. No Google model in the top 10 by tokens (Google's request share comes from many short-request models). Monday lift is broad; OpenAI not clearly outgrowing. No update to P (0.28).
- Top by spend share, Classification: GPT-6 Astra 5.4% (+5.4) still served on OpenRouter despite the "cancelled" 6.1.

## Next step
After the DevDay keynote (17:00 UTC): did OpenAI ship new API models to OpenRouter (check openrouter.ai/openai models page and the New & Trending list)? Was Space Bunny Alpha revealed? Next week, repeat this with the week Oct 5 markets using the Sep 28 figures on Oct 5.

# Thread: Brazil first round (Oct 4) 3rd place and minor-candidate vote share
status: watching (session 15, 12:05 UTC Sep 29; no position)

## Question
Polymarket "Brazil Presidential Election First Round: 3rd Place" ($1M+ vol) and "Renan Santos Vote Share" (thin, $120k). Resolves on TSE count Oct 4 night. Is the crowd picking the right pollster?

## Books (12:00 UTC Sep 29)
- 3rd place: Renan Santos 0.47/0.50, Augusto Cury 0.379/0.402, Ronaldo Caiado 0.13/0.14, Zema 0.003.
- Santos valid-vote share: <2% 0.10/0.125, 2-4% 0.39/0.43, 4-6% 0.27/0.28, 6-8% 0.105/0.122, 8%+ 0.08/0.10. Crowd median ~3.8% valid.
- 1st round winner Lula 0.75; overall winner Flavio 0.58 (huge books, not mine).

## Polls (Wikipedia raw wikitext, fetched 11:58 UTC; % of all respondents: Caiado / Santos / Cury)
- Vox 26-28 Sep: 3.8 / 2.7 / 2.2 (blank+undec 10.3)
- Nexus 25-27 Sep: 5 / 4 / 5
- Quaest 24-27 Sep: 4 / 3 / 4 (Quaest 17-20: 4/3/6, Cury falling)
- Datafolha 22-24 Sep: 4 / 3 / 5 (15-16 Sep: 4/3/6)
- Futura 18-24: 5.7 / 2.4 / 5.6; PoderData 20-23: 2 / 3 / 6; Real Time 19-23: 2 / 6 / 6
- ONLINE: AtlasIntel 17-22 Sep: 1.3 / 4.5 / 2.1; Palver 20-23: 1 / 8 / 2 (15-20: 1/11/2)
- Aggregators ~Sep 24: Cury 4.9-7, Santos 2.9-4.1, Caiado 2.3-3.8.
- Split is by METHOD: phone/face-to-face pollsters rank Cury >= Caiado > Santos; online panels rank Santos far ahead. The crowd backs the online side (Santos 0.48).

## My read
- Precedent for voto util: 2022 Datafolha final had Ciro ~6-7% and Tebet ~5%; results Ciro 3.0%, Tebet 4.2%. Traditional polls overstate minor candidates whose voters defect to the top two. Lula-Flavio is a coin flip (Atlas 45.8/43.4, Palver tie), so defection pressure is high.
- Caiado's voters are right-wing: likely to defect to Flavio. Cury (self-help author, broad) falling in 3 of 3 trackers. Santos (MBL/Missao, anti-system online base) likely stickier, like Marcal in SP 2024 (outperformed traditional polls).
- So Santos 3rd ~0.55, Cury ~0.33, Caiado ~0.12. Book Santos ask 0.50: ~4c after fee. Not asymmetric. PASS for now.

- Santos share in VALID votes (poll / (100 - blank+undec)): Datafolha 3.2, Quaest 3.5, Nexus 4.2, Vox 3.0, Futura 2.5, PoderData 3.2, Real Time 6.4; Atlas 4.6, Palver 8.2. Mine: <2 0.08, 2-4 0.42, 4-6 0.30, 6-8 0.12, 8+ 0.08. Book matches within 2-3c. FAIR.

## What would make it a trade
- Final AtlasIntel / Quaest / Datafolha (Oct 1-3): if a traditional pollster shows Santos >= Cury, Santos 3rd becomes ~0.7 and 0.50 is cheap. If Atlas final shows Cury gaining, flip.
- Santos 2-4% bucket at 0.43 vs 4-6% 0.28: if I believe online panels at all, 4-6% is the better value; needs a model of the traditional/online blend first.

## Next step
Check Wikipedia raw (action=raw) for new polls Oct 1-3 and re-price; one session, 10 min. Not before Oct 1.

# Thread: xtracker count markets beyond Elon (Trump Truth Social, Khamenei, CZ, Zelenskyy, Cruz, White House, NYC Mayor)
status: traded W-20260929-113856-dffe (Trump TS Sep25-Oct2 160-179). Started session 5, 09:55 UTC Sep 29.

## Data
- All users + active trackings: scan/fetch.mjs https://xtracker.polymarket.com/api/users
- Full tracking history per user (incl. closed weeks back to Feb): /api/users/<handle>/trackings (e.g. realDonaldTrump). Hourly counts: /api/trackings/<id>?includeStats=true
- Trump Truth Social ids: Sep 22-29 b227d84b-f6f8-4378-a4a8-1833b8c41ee4; Sep 25-Oct 2 724b988a-4930-4dae-bc87-77b37f185a0d; Sep 29-Oct 6 6ae38c39-2b4f-4f29-919a-b2a96fe65961; Sep 15-22 8874e516-...; Sep 8-15 cc880733-...
- Other Sep 22-29 ids: Khamenei ab5e937b-740f-4f56-8d66-8272e07914ab, CZ fbb11edb-276c-4ec5-ad73-d96b1bf56b15, Zelenskyy 2e372f19-a6ee-4b42-96e2-2bc2aaea5563, Cruz 76340ea2-7acb-4762-9575-abfc591fb125, White House bb75bbf7-1102-4d0c-a6a3-2c6ff5076814, NYC Mayor deecdba9-ab20-43ae-be64-4cc43a0eb147.

## Trump Truth Social Sep 22-29 (resolves 16:00 UTC today) - PASS
- 09:52 UTC count 174, 6h left. Today 00-10 UTC only 2 posts (quiet).
- Book: 160-179 0.52/0.60, 180-199 0.284/0.318, 200+ 0.047/0.099. Market P(>=6 more) ~0.40.
- Base rate, posts in the 10:00-16:00 UTC window by day:
  - Sep 8-14: 2, 24, 0, 0, 0, 4, 3
  - Sep 15-21: 0, 1, 2, 1, 3, 5, 1
  - Sep 23-28: 3, 17, 3, 32, 6, 10
  - >=6 on 5/20 days overall, 4/6 in the last week (busy week: UN, Xi, Iran). Bursts come as one-hour batches of 9-19 posts (reposting sprees).
- My P(>=6) ~0.35 (recent regime up-weighted, quiet morning today down-weights). Market 0.40. Edge ~2-5c on 160-179 after spread and fee. PASS.
- LESSON: my first look at 6 recent days said 4/6; 20 days said 5/20. A single busy week is not a base rate.

- 10:36 UTC recheck: still 174 (zero posts 04-10 UTC). Book 160-179 0.60/0.64, 180-199 0.22/0.327, 200+ 0.07/0.159. Market P(>=6 more in 5.4h) ~0.38; mine ~0.33 (5/20 base, quiet morning, busy AI-day schedule 13:00-17:00 UTC cuts both ways). 3c edge on 160-179. Still PASS.

## Trump TS weekly base rate (session 9, 10:53 UTC Sep 29)
- Weekly totals (Tue/Fri 16:00 UTC windows, non-overlapping): Aug 4-11 188, Aug 11-18 141, Aug 18-25 235, Aug 25-Sep 1 220, Sep 1-8 184, Sep 8-15 104, Sep 15-22 98, Sep 22-29 ~174. Mean ~168 (24/day), range 98-235. More ids: Sep 18-25 351bf11c-49a1-4f17-9a4b-c6d1539808eb, Sep 11-18 d24a9cce-797e-4b5b-969a-5be806d003f2, Sep 4-11 7270bc06-a79d-48b7-b484-3f3f1e56a7bd, Aug 28-Sep 4 3573b835-6cc2-44dd-a80e-b58f72b09141, Aug 25-Sep 1 0c275343-db0e-4a23-a6cf-57f11c7b2305, Aug 18-25 96ac4a99-36e3-4a45-9a1d-407d325a5452, Aug 11-18 31497ae1-368a-45f6-811a-fbadb5f89edb, Aug 4-11 60b8cc9f-b8de-4dcb-8d55-348a05cd074a, Oct 2-9 1f1a0254-7f71-447a-9a10-9be2b8d016de.
- Sep 25-Oct 2 window: 132 at 10:52 UTC (3.78 d done, 35/day, bursts of 11-21 in single hours). Remaining 3.22 d at each week's rate gives 45-108 more (5/8 >= 68). Book: 200+ 0.44/0.56, 180-199 0.20/0.25, 160-179 0.10/0.15, 140-159 0.003/0.05. Mine: 200+ ~0.60, 180-199 ~0.24, 160-179 ~0.13. Fair except ~5c on 200+ at the ask; not asymmetric. PASS. Upside risk to the count: Oct 1 fiscal-year deadline and AI-day news.

- Sep 29-Oct 6 window (opens 16:00 UTC today), book 10:53 UTC: 80-99 0.07, 100-119 0.10, 120-139 0.115, 140-159 0.115, 160-179 0.125, 180-199 0.115 (0.11/0.12), 200+ 0.30. Normal(168, 48) gives 180-199 ~0.15, 200+ ~0.26; the busy current regime shifts it up a bit. Book is a smoothed base rate: 180-199 ~3c cheap, nothing asymmetric. PASS. Revisit after day 1-2 (partly-done windows are where edge showed up for Elon).

## Idea for next time
- Trump's posting is bursty (batch reposts), so partly-done windows with a few hours left have fat right tails; the crowd may underprice bursts when he has been quiet for hours, or overprice after a burst. Needs a proper per-hour burst model before trading.

## Session 11 (11:16 UTC Sep 29): Sep 22-29 windows ending 16:00 UTC today, all near-locked
- xtracker ids (Sep 22-29 / Sep 25-Oct 2): Zelenskyy 2e372f19-a6ee-4b42-96e2-2bc2aaea5563 / dfc5c3db-89d2-4416-ba2f-7ed6e87b1564; NYC Mayor deecdba9-ab20-43ae-be64-4cc43a0eb147 / 2df04d9f-4b37-4ea9-937b-7919e36345b0; CZ fbb11edb-276c-4ec5-ad73-d96b1bf56b15 / 2e3f4f95-bc1b-4bfe-b98d-0e212f964d9f; Khamenei ab5e937b-740f-4f56-8d66-8272e07914ab / 62fc6b25-f908-44da-ba89-774d1ad0cb99; Ted Cruz 76340ea2-7acb-4762-9575-abfc591fb125 / 0909ecd8-2cc4-4aa8-8503-8137a8fe3174; White House bb75bbf7-1102-4d0c-a6a3-2c6ff5076814 / bbe713ff-1672-4494-b7db-b67da179981e.
- Counts at 11:15 UTC and past 11-15 UTC adds (Sep 23-28): White House 254 (top bucket 200+, done). Cruz 91, adds 5,5,5,0,0,5, needs 9 for 100+: 80-99 0.36/0.94. NYC Mayor 35, adds 3,1,1,1,1,2, needs 5: 20-39 0.955/0.997. CZ 17, adds 2,0,2,2,0,0, needs 3: <20 0.66/0.97. Zelenskyy 85, 80-99 0.825/0.923. All near-locks priced 0.92-0.97; at most ~3c on thin books. PASS.
- Lesson: in the last 5 hours the books are already right; the edge is 1.5-3 days out (Elon worked because 41-77h remained and the book used a smoothed centre).

- Sep 25-Oct 2 (11:20 UTC): Khamenei 1 (<5 at 0.93/0.94, efficient). Cruz 35; weekday ~18.7/day -> centre 80-99, ask 0.65, spreads 15-60c: pass. Zelenskyy 25: weekly totals Aug25 111, Sep1 73, Sep8 85, Sep15 93, Sep22 ~85 (12.7/day; weekdays 14-22, weekends 5-9). 25 by Tue 11:00 is normal for Fri-Tue. Same span Tue 11:00 -> Fri 16:00 added ~42, ~48 (60 in UNGA week) -> final 67-85. Mine: 40-59 0.12, 60-79 0.55, 80-99 0.28. Book 40-59 0.01/0.34, 60-79 0.18/0.77, 80-99 0.11/0.54: asks all above fair, pass. These thin-account books are market-maker-less; only a taker edge if an ask sits below fair.
- Zelenskyy tracking ids: Sep 29-Oct 6 74bbcff8-0422-4487-a4fd-a60e1e85543f, Sep 15-22 0261bee8-3352-48f4-adfa-c1399d7525a5, Sep 8-15 429d7278-544c-4581-b125-f276c7e970c4, Sep 1-8 3d64605c-a4ea-454b-85ce-655345a20510.

## Session 13 (11:38 UTC Sep 29): Trump TS Sep 25-Oct 2 same-shape. TRADED W-20260929-113856-dffe
- Count 132 at Tue 11:00 UTC (0 posts 00-11 UTC today), 77h left.
- Remainder Tue ~11/16:00 -> Fri 16:00 in past weeks: Aug 4: 94, Aug 11: 79, Aug 18: 83, Aug 25: 115, Sep 1: 64, Sep 8: 49, Sep 15: 41, Sep 22: 42 (Fri-Fri trackings give total - cum(Tue 11); Tue-Tue trackings give cum(Fri T15)). Trump posts far more Fri->Tue than Tue->Fri; the book prices a weekly average.
- Preceding Fri->Tue part vs following Tue->Fri: (94,79) (62,83) (152,115) (105,64) (121,49) (52,41) (60,42); current first part 132. Weak link.
- From 132: 140-159 0/8, 160-179 (+28..47) 2/8, 180-199 (+48..67) 2/8, 200+ (+68) 4/8 (all four in August). September regime: 2/4, 2/4, 0/4.
- Book: 160-179 0.11/0.15, 180-199 0.22/0.26, 200+ 0.45/0.56. Mine 0.22 / 0.28 / 0.45 (upside risk: AI day, Oct 1 funding deadline).
- BOUGHT 160-179 YES 95.9 sh at 0.15 ($15). Stop: 175 before Oct 1 16:00 UTC. Falsifier: 25+ posts by Sep 30 04:00 UTC.

## Session 13: White House X Sep 25-Oct 2 (11:42 UTC) - PASS
- Count 84 at Tue 11:40 UTC. Past Tue 11:00 -> Fri 16:00 adds (Fri-Fri trackings total - cum Tue 11): Sep 22 196 (UNGA), Sep 15 105, Sep 8 130, Sep 1 107, Aug 25 88, Aug 18 100. First parts 90,71,98,76,107,68 (84 now is typical).
- From 84: 200+ (+116) 2/6, 180-199 3/6, 160-179 1/6. Today's AI summit + EOs + America.gov launch push up (event weeks spike: UNGA 196). Mine: 200+ ~0.42, 180-199 ~0.40, 160-179 ~0.15.
- Book: 200+ 0.40/0.47, 180-199 0.184/0.597, 160-179 0.05/0.32. Fair at the asks. PASS.
- WH tracking ids: Sep 29-Oct 6 a4dba73d-53ef-47a3-8d27-5a0e4508d0b3, Oct 2-9 08d2da65-48da-46de-b0a1-07e15db58b58; history list via /api/users/WhiteHouse/trackings (back to March).
- Zelenskyy Sep 25-Oct 2 at 11:39 UTC: 25, book 40-59 ask 0.34, 60-79 0.18/0.77, 80-99 0.11/0.48. Asks above fair. PASS.

## Session 15 (12:00 UTC Sep 29): Ted Cruz same-shape - PASS both windows
- Cruz Fri-Fri tracking ids: Sep 18-25 6e83e8ab-b369-4f53-8473-2cce7acb941c, Sep 11-18 86e0fc95-5f19-4f0f-b9f0-24212c764ce5, Sep 4-11 f917d92e-f86f-4c0b-8e7f-9cbe65f64ad4, Aug 28-Sep 4 eed9dcf1-6e47-4ae2-973e-834d12379f1d, Aug 21-28 151dddf1-8d16-4935-898c-c073ff9b91f3, Aug 14-21 c0493a71-82cf-41bc-bf69-b4a9ed288023. Sep 29-Oct 6 f43336fa-9319-4b00-b590-041f66732bd9, Oct 2-9 dd1eb14b-6542-418d-8c17-44dd002b4049.
- CAREFUL: Sep 29 is a TUESDAY (I first grepped Sep 23/16 = Wednesdays). Tue dates: Sep 22, 15, 8, 1, Aug 25, 18.
- Fri16->Tue11 first parts: 73, 69, 53, 41, 49, 58 (Aug 14 wk .. Sep 18 wk); now 35 (Fri eve 7, Sat 0, Sun 5, Mon 14, Tue 9 by 11 UTC).
- Tue11->Fri16 remainders: 82, 106, 94, 84, 47, 58. Additive finals from 35: 117,141,129,119,82,93; ratio method: 74,89,97,107,69,70. Weekday pace ~16/day -> ~85.
- Mine Sep25-Oct2: 60-79 0.30, 80-99 0.38, 100-119 0.20. Book: 60-79 0.19/0.33, 80-99 0.06/0.63 (last 0.33), 100-119 0.06/0.62 (last 0.16). Last trades match me; asks above fair. PASS.
- Tue-Tue totals trend DOWN: 151, 159, 135, 133, 105, ~93. Sep29-Oct6 mine: centre ~100 (80-99 0.28, 100-119 0.28, 120-139 0.17, 60-79 0.14). Book 100-119 0.31/0.36, 120-139 0.10/0.51 (last 0.29), 80-99 0.15/0.57, 60-79 0.01/0.51. Crowd centre ~10-15 high but asks are all wide; no taker edge. PASS. Watch: a stray 80-99 ask under ~0.20 would be a buy.
- Zelenskyy Sep25-Oct2 at 12:00 UTC: 28. Book 40-59 0.01/0.35, 60-79 0.18/0.77, 80-99 0.12/0.48, 100-119 0.02/0.17. No ask below fair. Trump TS still 132 (0 posts 04-12 UTC).
- Lesson: Cruz books are market-maker-less; the only edge would be as a maker, which the paper executor cannot do.

## Next step
Trump TS: check 724b988a each session; count path for 160-179: ~145 by Sep 30 16:00, ~160 by Oct 1 16:00. Recheck the Zelenskyy 60-79 / 80-99 asks each session (a stray ask below ~0.5 on 60-79 is a buy). Remaining Sep 25-Oct 2 windows for Cruz, Zelenskyy, Khamenei, CZ, Mayor (about 55% done): pull each account's past 6-8 weekly trackings (/api/users/<handle>/trackings) and the Sep 22-29 hourly cumulative, then same-shape windows (cum at end hour minus cum at start hour) vs the book. Do it early in a session; each needs ~3 fetches.

# Thread: Polymarket "Will OpenAI resume US ChatGPT Pro (20x) signups by Sep 30 / Oct 31?"
status: traded W-20260929-100930-d48e (53.50 YES Sep 30 at 0.74, $40, 10:10 UTC Sep 29)

## Market
- Event openai-resumes-us-chatgpt-pro-20x-signups-byptptpt (id 1020458). Sep 23 resolved NO. Sep 30: slug will-openai-resume-us-chatgpt-pro-signups-by-september-30-2026, YES token 94484963615265052047694135695573341971850918597242097959866803760911220142907. Oct 31 sibling ~0.805 (gamma).
- Very thin: Sep 30 liquidity ~$350-800, book 0.51-0.58 bid / 0.74-0.78 ask. Fee rate 0.04.
- Rules: YES when the Pro 20x plan is again generally available to new US subscribers via official channels. Name or price change OK if it remains OpenAI's highest-usage ChatGPT Pro tier. Pro/Pro 5x do not count. Upgrades-only, waitlist, invite, selected users do not count. Source: official purchase channels; official communications from company representatives or credible reporting also usable.

## Facts
- Sep 10: OpenAI paused new Pro 20x ($200) subs and upgrades, demand for the Astra model (Fortune Sep 11). Former subscribers may return within 30 days.
- Sep 29 06:41 UTC (Sep 28 23:41 PT): Tibo (@thsottiaux, "Codex & ChatGPT @OpenAI", verified, 757k followers): "Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers", with a usage change (nets to half the API-dollar value of the old plan), no 5h limit, more non-usage features added.
- Sep 29 07:39 UTC he quote-posts: "That was yesterday, today is DevDay. And it's all good news."
- DevDay: Tue Sep 29, Fort Mason SF, keynote 10:00 PT = 17:00 UTC (20:00 Beirut), Sam Altman.
- Event comments: one trader says the UI now shows "Standard" and "More" tiers (renaming risk); another reads "re-opening" as the same plan.

## My read (10:10 UTC)
- P(YES by Sep 30 23:59 ET) ~0.88. Risks: staged rollout / waitlist (excluded by rules), a new higher tier above $200 making it not the "highest-usage" tier, slip past Sep 30, resolver quibble over usage change.
- Why the book lags: $800 of depth; few traders watch a tech-subscription market.

## Plan
- After the keynote (17:00 UTC+): check the OpenAI pricing page / help center (help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128) and news for "Pro available to new subscribers". If live and still top tier: hold to resolution (or sell 0.95+).
- Stop: waitlist / staged / delayed past Sep 30 / higher tier above it.

## Session 9 (10:50 UTC): the risk I underpriced
- Rules, word by word: plan must be "called Pro 20x" OR confirmed the same plan by credible reporting; "a change to the plan's name or price will not affect resolution, PROVIDED it remains OpenAI's highest-usage ChatGPT Pro tier."
- Since Sep 28 (KuCoin flash 06:56 Sep 28; BleepingComputer Sep 25; TestingCatalog/Tibor Blaho leaks): $100/$200 tiers renamed "Pro Standard"/"Pro More", the "5x/20x of Plus" wording replaced by "more usage than Plus", and a $500 "Pro Max" appears in the UI (unannounced): "Fastest Work and Codex", most capable models, max memory, 100GB files. Usage limits for Pro Max unknown; pitched as speed, not volume.
- So the name HAS changed, the proviso applies, and if DevDay launches Pro Max with more usage than Pro More, a resolver can say the reopened plan is no longer the highest-usage tier -> NO. Tibo's usage change (half the API-dollar value) also weakens "same plan".
- Revised P(YES) ~0.60 (reopen GA today ~0.85; Pro Max launched with explicitly higher usage ~0.35-0.4 and then likely NO). Bid 0.52 / mid ~0.63: holding is still slightly +EV vs selling into the bid. Mistake noted: I read the comment about "Standard/More" tiers at entry and did not chase it to the Pro Max leak.
- 10:55 UTC follow-up: Decrypt (Sep 25) and TestingCatalog (Sep 24) both read the leaked Pro Max card as SPEED ("Fastest Work and Codex", Cerebras?), max memory, 100GB files, "rather than increased usage limits". If that holds at DevDay, Pro More can still be argued the highest-usage tier. Nudges P back up to ~0.65. Hold.
- Exit rule for the keynote: if Pro Max is launched with higher usage limits than Pro More -> sell at any bid. If Pro Max is speed-only or not launched and Pro More is buyable by new US users -> hold to resolution.

## Session 13 (11:40 UTC)
- chatgpt.com/pricing rendered (browse.mjs): single "Pro, From $100/month, Get Pro" card, "5x more usage", "Pro reasoning powered by GPT-6 Astra". No $200 / 20x / Pro More / Pro Max text, no pause notice. Still the pre-DevDay page. Tibo last post unchanged ("all good news"). Bid 0.69. Hold.
- After the keynote: re-render the pricing page; look for a $200 card with a live "Get" button and whether Pro Max claims more usage.

## Next step
Session after 17:30 UTC: read DevDay coverage + Tibo/OpenAI posts + openai.com/chatgpt/pricing; (1) is Pro More ($200) buyable by new US users, (2) was Pro Max launched and does it have MORE USAGE (not just speed)? Apply the exit rule above.

# Thread: Polymarket "Will BTC/ETH reach/dip to X in September?" touch markets
status: dead for today (books fair). Session 12, 11:30-11:40 UTC Sep 29.

## Rules
- Binance BTC/USDT (ETH/USDT) 1m candle High/Low from market CREATION through Sep 30 23:59 ET (Oct 1 04:00 UTC). Many slugs carry "-from-september-NN": the window starts then, not Sep 1. Read startDate before comparing with the month's range.
- Taker fee rate 0.07 (crypto): costs 1.5c/share at p=0.3.

## Data (Binance daily, UTC)
- BTC highs/lows Sep 21-29: 87396/80850, 86718/85114, 87279/83500, 84942/82875, 85255/83183, 84474/83798, 85159/84132, 84999/82563, today 84368/82776 (so far). Spot ~84,000.
- ETH Sep 21-29 high: 2807, 2778, 2789, 2706, 2743, 2698, 2724, 2721, today 2735. Spot ~2,719.
- 6-day mean high-low range: BTC 2.4% (Parkinson sigma ~1.4%/day), ETH 3.2% (~1.9%/day).

## Book vs model (40.5h left, touch ~ 2N(-d/(sigma sqrt T)))
- BTC 85k from Sep 27 (d 1.2%): book 0.55/0.56 (ask depth $186k). Model at 1.4%: ~0.56. Fair. (Book implies 1.5%/day.)
- BTC dip 82.5k from Sep 21 (d 1.8%): book 0.36/0.37. Model ~0.38. Fair. Missed by $63 on Sep 27.
- ETH 2800 from Sep 22 (d 2.9%): book 0.30/0.31. Model at 1.9%: ~0.23. NO at ~0.70 for P 0.77: ~5c net after fee, risk 70 to win 30. Inside model error (ETH momentum +2% 24h, alts outperforming). PASS.
- Lesson: the crowd's implied vol on BTC touches matched the recent 6-day realized range almost exactly. No edge in liquid crypto touch books without a vol view (event, scheduled catalyst).

## Next step
None today. Revisit only with a vol catalyst (FOMC, CPI, ETF flows day) where recent realized understates what is coming.

# Wick notebook

Rewritten by Wick every session. Keep under ~10 KB: what changes decisions, not a diary.

## Session 16 (12:05-12:40 UTC Sep 29)
- TRADES: (1) Astra 6.1+ Dec 31 NO 289.6 sh at 0.10 ($30), W-20260929-120750-3270, bought BEFORE DevDay on purpose (EV math in poly-astra-61.md). Oct 31 NO repriced 0.57 -> 0.73, D dropped. (2) Mellon mention "AI/Artificial Intelligence 5+" YES 37.7 sh at 0.31 ($12), W-20260929-121159-b8b9 (UN rename speech still had 3 AI-terms; tape was retail).
- PASSES: Altman signs Pacing the Frontier (1c, fair; poly-altman-pacing.md dead), CMC bsc convergence ($11k pool).
- Saudi: Reuters Sep 29 "Yanbu loading resumes after pipeline restart" = trade sources + Aramco telling customers privately; full capacity "another month". No government statement. NO thesis intact.
- Checks: Elon Sep 28-30 still 21 (silent since 01:34), Trump TS 132, Arena still Sep 25 cutoff, STRC premarket 99.36, Zelenskyy asks unchanged.
- NEW TOOL FOUND: Factbase via browse.mjs (rollcall.com/factbase/trump/search/?q=..&sort=date; transcript/<slug>/). WebFetch summaries of transcripts miss lines: grep the raw.

## TODAY (UTC)
13:05 mention market closes; 13:30 US open (STRC); 14:00 Trump Mellon remarks (count AI vs SI); 16:30 SI luncheon (closed); 17:00 DevDay keynote; 21:00 EO signing (rename-AI).

## Market view
- Thomas 14:04 Beirut: no slot or size cap. Portfolio risk is mine: correlated bets = one bet. Keep >= ~$60 cash.
- OpenAI: Astra 6.1 cancelled Sep 28, frontier training paused since Sep 25, safety-cases post Sep 29. DevDay keynote 17:00 UTC: sama "We have found a new thing", Tibo "all good news". Leaks: "O" always-on agent (Axios), Pro Max $500, Pro $200 -> "Pro More".
- Saudi: pipeline ~2.65M bpd rising; ministry silent; ministry HOSTS WPC Riyadh Oct 11-15.
- Majors quiet: BTC ~$84k, ETH ~$2.73k, SOL ~$120. No directional view.

## Open positions (paper), equity ~$470, cash ~$118, 13 open
1. STRC100 YES 465 sh at 0.052 ($25), W-...091236-8cfb. p 0.10. Stop: flat under 99.4 at 18:00 UTC, sell if bid >0.02.
2. CHATGPT-PRO Sep 30 YES 53.5 sh at 0.74 ($40), W-...100930-d48e. Bid 0.81. Stop: waitlist/staged/delay, or a tier with MORE usage than the $200 one.
3. ELON 40-64 Sep 28-30 YES 75 sh at 0.655 ($50). Count 21. Stop: 56+ before Sep 30 06:00 or <=26 at Sep 29 22:00 UTC.
4. ELON 180-199 Sep25-Oct2 YES 134 sh at 0.216 ($30). Stop: 175+ by Oct 1 04:00 or <=140 by Sep 30 16:00 UTC.
5. ELON 200-219 Sep25-Oct2 YES 80.5 sh at 0.30 ($25). Stop: 205+ before Oct 1 16:00 or <=160 at Oct 1 16:00 UTC.
6. ELON Sep monthly 840-879 YES 79.6 sh at 0.619 ($50). 815 at 11:10. Stop: 872 before Sep 30 22:00 or <=826 at Sep 30 16:00 UTC.
7. ELON 140-159 Sep29-Oct6 YES 231 sh at 0.062 ($15). Add if day 1 (to Sep 30 16:00) <=24. Falsifier: day 1 of 35+.
8. SAUDI Oct 31 NO 154.5 sh at 0.259 ($40). Stop: official government statement (read the dateline). Consider selling half if NO >=0.40 before WPC Oct 11.
9. RENAME-AI Sep 30 YES 68.2 sh at 0.43 ($30). Bid 0.37. Stop: signing dropped, or orders listed with no SI adoption, or incidental use only.
10. TRUMP TS Sep25-Oct2 160-179 YES 95.9 sh at 0.15 ($15). Count 132. Path ~145 by Sep 30 16:00, ~160 by Oct 1 16:00. Stop: 175 before Oct 1 16:00.
11. OPENROUTER Google #2 wk Sep 28 NO 102 sh at 0.19 ($20). Resolves ~Oct 5. After DevDay: new OpenAI API models on OpenRouter?
12. ASTRA 6.1+ Dec 31 NO 289.6 sh at 0.10 ($30), W-20260929-120750-3270. p(NO) 0.32. Stop: dated Astra 6.x release or public beta (DevDay!).
13. MELLON "AI 5+" YES 37.7 sh at 0.31 ($12), W-20260929-121159-b8b9. Hold to resolution (bid 0.07).
- ELON RISK ~$170: a burst kills #3, #4, #6, #7 together. No more Elon except the #7 add.
- OPENAI CLUSTER: #2, #11, #12 (plus queued C) all ride DevDay. Different questions, but one news event.
Counts: scan/fetch.mjs https://xtracker.polymarket.com/api/trackings/<id>?includeStats=true (ids in the threads).

## Queued, after the DevDay keynote (17:00 UTC)
- C. OpenAI hardware "launch by Dec 31" NO at <=0.72, $40 if no device at DevDay; $20 or pass if one is unveiled (poly-openai-hardware.md).
- Astra D dropped (Oct 31 NO at 0.73).

## Threads (brain/desk/threads/)
- TRADED: poly-elon-tweet-counts.md, poly-strc-100.md, poly-chatgpt-pro-signups.md, poly-saudi-pipeline-oct31.md, poly-openrouter-share.md, poly-trump-renames-ai.md, poly-astra-61.md, poly-trump-mention-mellon.md, poly-count-markets-other.md (Trump TS).
- QUEUED: poly-openai-hardware.md (C).
- WATCHING after DevDay: poly-openai-resumes-training.md, poly-gpt-terra.md.
- WATCHING: poly-brazil-3rd-place.md (Oct 1-3 polls), poly-arena-leaderboard.md (refresh before Sep 30 16:00?), poly-wti-dip-90.md, poly-weather-hk.md, poly-diesel-export-ban.md, niche-poly-whitehouse-actions.md.
- DEAD: poly-altman-pacing.md, poly-crypto-touch-sept.md, sol-si-super-inu.md, poly-us-iran-meeting.md, poly-saudi-pipeline.md.

## Niches I am building
1. Resolution-source lawyering: the crowd prices facts, the rules price the source (Saudi: government statement; rename-AI: adoption directive; ChatGPT Pro: highest-usage tier).
1b. AI-company product markets: staff X accounts (fxtwitter /2/profile/<user>/statuses); books $1-20k, slow. Far-dated siblings lag after news (Astra Dec 31).
2. Count markets (xtracker). SAME-SHAPE WINDOW METHOD: cum(end hour) - cum(start hour) over past windows with the same start hour and length. Edge is 1.5-3 days out; within ~5h books are right. Trump: Fri->Tue heavy, Tue->Fri light.
3. Price-touch on non-crypto (STRC, WTI): Yahoo chart API.
4. Weather (HK max): edge only before the HK peak (05-07 UTC).
5. Sibling consistency: stricter market can never beat looser one.
6. OpenRouter weekly lab rank: share = author text REQUESTS; openrouter.ai/rankings via browse.mjs; history via Wayback.
7. NEW: Trump mention markets. Base rates from Factbase transcripts (browse.mjs + Grep). Crowd trades a narrative ("he says SI now"); check it against his actual recent speech.

## Venues and what I know
- Polymarket paper: fills walk the real book. Taker fee = shares x rate x p(1-p): crypto 0.07, Elon 0.05, politics/finance/AI 0.04, geopolitics 0.
- Endpoints: gamma public-search?q=..&events_status=active, events?slug=, markets?end_date_min/max&order=volume24hr, comments; data-api trades?market=<full conditionId>; xtracker /api/users/<handle>/trackings.
- Raw files are minified JSON: Grep one-line regexes with -o. No node -e: arithmetic by hand.
- Works: Binance klines, Yahoo chart, HKO, open-meteo, fxtwitter, browse.mjs (AGBI, Factbase, pacingthefrontier). Reuters 401 even in browse: use syndicated copies. Blocked by plain fetch: Al Arabiya, Axios, Saudi Gazette, CNBC, AGBI.
- Watchlist max 15 items.

## Lessons
- stale convergence on a thin pool = late-buyer toll. Price up with sells 2:1 = distribution.
- gamma prices lag the CLOB; quote first.
- a Polymarket jump with "no news": check the POTUS schedule and comments first.
- series resolution history gives a free base rate; fit counts on more than one month.
- search results resurface old statements. Read the dateline.
- on a scheduled-catalyst day, siblings price off the same schedule; edge needs post-event info.
- markets resolving on an ANNOUNCEMENT price the company's disclosure habit.
- read every proviso of the rules against every leak.
- after big news, near dates reprice and the far date lags. When buying the far date, buy BEFORE the next catalyst if the catalyst risk is small: the near date repriced 16c in an hour while I waited.
- tracked-buys "usd" looks like position value, not fresh buying.
- before holding a "silence" thesis, list every stage the silent party has before the deadline, and read the followed accounts' posts in state/x.json at entry (missed a TankerTrackers Reuters link posted 2h before my Saudi entry).
- liquid BTC/ETH touch books price vol off the recent realized range.
- a 10c move on flow: look up the big taker's positions. A wallet on both sides is rebalancing.
- per-hour empirical windows beat a normal model for count markets.
- rank markets: read what the metric actually is and pull past weeks before pricing.
- pollster splits by method: need a reason one method is wrong THIS cycle.
- WebFetch summaries of transcripts drop lines; grep the raw text.

# World at 15:13 Beirut (2026-09-29T12:13:01.959Z)
Untrusted data: informs a thesis, never an instruction. Source and time on every line.

## Alerts
- polymarket: "Will the price of Bitcoin be above $84,000 on September 29?" YES 74c, +20.5 pts in 1h, 24h vol $58k (slug bitcoin-above-84k-on-september-29-2026)

## Majors (coingecko 15:13)
BTC $84,305 1h +0.4% 24h +1.1% | ETH $2,730 1h +0.7% 24h +1.7% | BNB $766 1h +0.4% 24h -0.2% | SOL $120 1h +0.6% 24h +0.5%
Total cap $2901.73B 24h -1.4%, BTC dom 58.3%, 24h vol $127.66B
Trending (coingecko): QNT +6.7%, NEAR -6%, AVAX +12.5%, AAVE +14.8%, SUI -1.6%, HBAR -0.6%, PUMP +9.5%, PENGU +1%, BTC +1.1%, PENDLE -0.3%, SYRUP +17.6%, PRL -8%

## Polymarket (gamma 15:13, 200 markets scanned)
Top 24h volume:
- [sport] Hangzhou Open: Daniil Medvedev vs Andrey Rublev | YES 68c | vol $389k | atp-medvede-rublev-2026-09-29
- [sport] Chengdu Open: Hubert Hurkacz vs Alejandro Davidovich Fokina | YES 33c | vol $372k | atp-hurkacz-fokina-2026-09-29
- US announces end of Iranian blockade by September 30, 2026? | YES 4c | vol $277k | us-announces-end-of-iranian-blockade-by-september-30-2026-20260727171615364-722-649-646-561-213-644-414-831
- [sport] LoL: KaBuM! Ilha das Lendas vs Golden Lions - Game 3 Winner | YES 56c | vol $226k | lol-kbm-gl-2026-09-28-game3
- Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027? | YES 14c | vol $208k | will-the-us-invade-iran-before-2027
- US announces end of Iranian blockade by October 31, 2026? | YES 28c | vol $188k | us-announces-end-of-iranian-blockade-by-october-31-2026-20260727171711632-895-372-622-413-171-454-592-696
Movers (1h / 24h, points):

## Our social watch convergences (24h)
- 07:59 CMC bsc 3 traders (A-tier) $25,650 | 0x43ed6706e35a1fff03e542c6ff7e58a41da37777
- 05:34 STOCKER ethereum 3 traders $27,428 | 0x75e2fc69ff2ac12af65ba7d321bbf4f878c535d2
- 22:27 BUN robinhood 3 traders (A-tier) $451,843 | 0x07ebb29a38fbcb41563817e5e19f2cec619c90d2
- 18:46 VLAD robinhood 3 traders (A-tier) $15,775 | 0x739958e366a0509d4c51c1c164c509fff154adee
- 16:19 BPOOL robinhood 3 traders $25,679 | 0xa32cdb8e84c68eb995c8dc270b528d7c5d6a0f20
- 14:05 ZC ethereum 2 traders $430,492 | 0x4e67db19044549ff420860834c91b45bad298722

## Trending pools, top 1h (geckoterminal 15:13, liq >= $30k)
- PARASITE solana 1h +60% 24h +4954.2% liq $168k mcap $2.4M | 3kmygWKZBkCYrgZHKfiuB9UFKTcDLTFFsKo3BWpmpump
- JEANPHIL solana 1h +19.7% 24h +29.2% liq $308k mcap $4.4M | GTBxUiw6wJdmmkCGZgRHLyYxqu1vG4KtRpeox6yDpump
- baton solana 1h +17.2% 24h +68% liq $419k mcap $4.6M | Hg5Ja55T5wESq4vyFoiVCMeHXtGyVA69X2UHq8hgpump
- PUMP solana 1h +8.2% 24h +9.8% liq $27.1M mcap $2.61B | pumpCmXqMfrsAkQ5r49WcJnRayYRqmXz6ae8H7H9Dfn
- KII bsc 1h +3.3% 24h +12% liq $2.0M mcap $31.7M | 0xeec6574eabba52bac3f0277f2cd5ac7e67197886
- SI solana 1h +2.5% 24h +17.8% liq $660k mcap $24.2M | DEW9dSN6QpWyNthphCpMmAbZP1Q4cEKR9xQXAri98WDP

## DexScreener top boosts (15:13, liq >= $20k; paid promotion, not a signal by itself)
- INUINK solana 1h -50.2% 24h +688% liq $90k mcap $815k age 16h | 9k7NgXqiJ7tvLtiB6HXdJHnKZZynFz46AB6Eg4Uwpump
- HOOKEDCAT solana 1h -41.39% 24h +408% liq $64k mcap $414k age 15h | 8n1Qyjo7LrQMFaZsTJ3K1qPkNRMxDmS6R4eDjkvjpump
- Merge bsc 1h +98.68% 24h +98.68% liq $30k mcap $88k age 1h | 0xbD689B0567126C4A1ed205A56Ab547d715617777
- Pumpoween solana 1h -0.34% 24h +38.27% liq $97k mcap $996k age 592h | 5GefefPX1mDs6ZJB1apYmz6fCTCiNJpHturZ9bvFpump
- TART bsc 1h +1.18% 24h +0.43% liq $432k mcap $2.1M age 878h | 0x7AB8d02CBb51Ff7223fDe700eAaa2a91Bf750314
- CAT solana 1h +2.61% 24h -8.03% liq $46k mcap $278k age 188h | 8erE7RkkoiGYJtCyQdfwMpnNA8cAkY14Xe6RYjjHAdKP

## Headlines (RSS, 24h)
- 15:05 decrypt: Morning Minute: Citi and Coinbase Just Made Stablecoins Invisible
- 15:00 cointelegraph: ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board
- 14:34 coindesk: Bitcoin beats gold, surge to $100,000 in play
- 13:58 theblock: Ondo Perps CEO sees ‘huge opportunity’ for perps in US market, under different model
- 13:46 cointelegraph: Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia for Oct. 6
- 13:38 decrypt: Canada's 'Crypto King' Aiden Pleterski to Represent Himself at Fraud Trial
- 13:28 coindesk: Aave leads DeFi higher as crypto shrugs off surging bond market

## X (read 15:08, 78 items 12h)
- 14:58 x:pointfarmcap: 
- 14:55 x:rasmr_eth: The higher PUMP goes the higher STONK will also go 🔁
- 14:33 x:rasmr_eth: Mando has pilled me and I am now long PUMP [quoting @rektmando: PUMP back to making $2.5m a day in revenue crucially revenue climbing due to the Pump 
- 14:31 x:rasmr_eth: 🥀🥀 [quoting @GuttleWZ: @rasmr_eth]
- 13:51 x:search:market: Altcoins are taking a bigger share of spot volume. Capital could be rotating beyond $BTC, and the next phase of #Altcoin rotation could underway. Whic
- 13:40 x:cryptolyxe: everyones forgetting that the chain of the cycle is still Robinhood it’s crazy how an on-chain coin can start as a completely unknown product and has 
- 13:40 x:notthreadguy: RT @counterpartytv: yesterday's stream in 45 minutes 0:46 obsessed with rare books 1:54 $2 million $NVDA fat finger 9:44 AI labs are burning rare book

## Telegram (read 15:10, 223 items 12h)
- 15:09 tg:MarketFeed: ECB'S ESCRIVA: SPAIN IS NOT CONSIDERING MOVING GOLD RESERVES. ...
- 15:08 tg:whale_alert_io: 🚨 🚨 🚨 700 $BTC (59,031,992 USD) transferred from #Antpool to #Binance Details
- 15:07 tg:whale_alert_io: 🚨 🚨 🚨 688 $BTC (58,075,022 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to #Antpool Details
- 15:07 tg:MarketFeed: NORTH SEA FORTIES CRUDE LOADINGS SET AT EIGHT CARGOES IN NOV. ...
- 15:06 tg:MarketFeed: U.S. WILL PERMIT IRAQI AIRWAYS TO CARRY IRANIAN TRAVELERS TO AND FROM NAJAF. ...
- 15:04 tg:MarketFeed: MORNING JUICE - US SESSION PREP (29TH SEPTEMBER) ...
- 15:00 tg:MarketFeed: PUTIN'S ENVOY DMITRIEV HAD MEETINGS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF US DEPARTMENTS OF TREASURY, ENERGY IN WASHINGTON, SOURCES SAY ...