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Crowd–Market Gap Tracker

The live venue feed is unavailable, so this board demonstrates the crowd–market gap workflow with explicitly illustrative fallback values. No row is a current market observation.

Illustrative fallback

The live market feed is unavailable. Both market probability and crowd sentiment are deterministic examples; no row is a current market observation or trade signal.

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Fed cuts rates at the next meeting?

13 pts
Sample crowd
51%Sample market
38%

120 sample votes · leans over

S&P 500 sets a record high this quarter?

13 pts
Sample crowd
75%Sample market
62%

110 sample votes · leans over

NYC hits 100°F this summer?

10 pts
Sample crowd
34%Sample market
44%

40 sample votes · leans under

Government shutdown this quarter?

9 pts
Sample crowd
18%Sample market
27%

266 sample votes · leans under

A new frontier AI model ships this year?

8 pts
Sample crowd
79%Sample market
71%

433 sample votes · leans over

Approval rating above 45% at quarter end?

7 pts
Sample crowd
56%Sample market
49%

386 sample votes · leans over

Oil above $90 this month?

6 pts
Sample crowd
39%Sample market
33%

189 sample votes · leans under

Bitcoin above $100,000 at year end?

5 pts
Sample crowd
62%Sample market
57%

457 sample votes · leans over

Widest illustrative gap on the board: 13 pts. This is a sentiment comparison, not venue divergence or a trade signal.

The gap is information, not a signal

Prediction markets aggregate money; crowds aggregate opinion. Most of the time they agree — and when they don’t, it’s worth asking why. Sometimes the crowd is anchored on a narrative the market has already moved past; sometimes thin liquidity leaves a market lagging what everyone can see. Read the gap, then check the live market on the predictions desk or test manually entered YES and NO asks with the YES/NO pair calculator.

Frequently asked questions

What is the crowd–market gap?

It is crowd sentiment minus a market’s implied probability. W.E.T. labels the metric crowd_gap so it cannot be confused with cross-venue divergence. The crowd side is illustrative today, and the result is context rather than a trade signal.

How is this different from the YES/NO pair calculator?

The calculator compares user-entered executable YES and NO asks and reports theoretical gross and after-fee margin. The Crowd–Market Gap Tracker compares market probability with sentiment. Neither executes trades or establishes a guaranteed return.

Is the crowd sentiment real?

Crowd sentiment is an illustrative sample until the W.E.T. Crowd Index is connected. When a live venue feed is available, the market side is labeled live; if it is unavailable, the board labels both sides as illustrative fallback data. Sentiment is not a market price or trade signal.

Does a wide gap mean easy money?

No. A gap is information, not an edge. Crowds are often wrong, markets are often right, and vice versa — the point is to notice disagreement and ask why, not to trade it blindly.

Educational tool, not advice. Sentiment is community opinion, not a market price. Prediction market trading involves risk of loss; venues may be restricted in your jurisdiction. 18+.