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Futures

Futures — what the money thinks happens next

internal · working name unratified · read-only instrument

Prediction-market prices on questions a Kansas Citian has a stake in, snapshotted over time: what is being priced, how the price moved through the cycle, what resolved, and how much money was behind it. A market price is a wager's implied probability — not a poll, not a forecast, not a fact. Every price on this page carries its liquidity tier; books with no live market never render as a percentage. Not a betting product: The Stare never operates, hosts, brokers, or solicits a wager. Contract: editorial/futures/SCHEMA.md · terms findings that gate any public surface: SOURCE-CENSUS.md §3 (live venue: Polymarket only — Kalshi is terms-blocked).

The KC board — civic markets

Movers

largest price change · thin and untraded books excluded by the floor

The cycle — price through time

every tracked observation, including venue history · KC time

Calibration — was the price any good?

resolved markets, kept forever · re-scored at certification

Scored against the real-world result, never against the venue's own settlement — the store already holds one venue mis-resolution (the KS Dem Senate duplicate that paid the runner-up). Full memo: editorial/futures/CALIBRATION-2026-08-04.md.

Coverage join — the market vs the Day Book

Sports markets — quarantined

gambling-adjacent · never blended with the civic board · rendering at all is open call B

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flat CSV, one row per market with latest observation