Buyers back the gas-above-$4.00 contract at near-certainty

Name: Buyers back the gas-above-$4.00 contract at near-certainty
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-07-27T11:16:33+00:00
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

99% · $27K 24h

record: CMSIG20260727VS05 | category: volume-spike | target: CM-EVT-9BFFMNBK34 | published: 2026-07-27

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi prices average US gas above $4.00 at 99%, the round-number floor treated as no contest.
24h volume $27K is 33% of all-time; lower concentration suggests this contract has older, deeper liquidity.
The $4.00 level is the widest psychological threshold in the ladder and garners the most historical trading.
99% across $4.00, $4.02, and $4.04 strikes paints a consistent picture of elevated pump prices.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] volume_anomaly

liquidity kalshi_vol_24h: $26.8K

evaluation

The model, prompt version, and confidence behind this wire are published below — so you can see how it was judged, and re-check it yourself.

judge_engine: llm_judge_cm_signal_v1
judge_verdict: wire_eligible
judge_confidence: 0.81 / 1.00
prompt_template: volume_spike_v1 github · auditable

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/kxaaagasm-26jul31/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXAAAGASM-26JUL31-4.00

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/will-average-gas-prices-be-above-4-vol-26772/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/will-average-gas-prices-be-above-4-vol-26772.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("will-average-gas-prices-be-above-4-vol-26772")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
 {
  "$schema": "https://clearmarket.fyi/schema/signal/v1.json",
  "provenance_version": "0.2.0",
  "record_id": "CMSIG20260727VS05",
  "published_at": "2026-07-27T11:16:33+00:00",
  "detection": "volume_spike",
  "category_tag": "VOLUME_SPIKE",
  "secondary_tags": [],
  "pre_news_classification": "pre_news",
  "target_event_id": "CM-EVT-9BFFMNBK34",
  "target_event_slug": "kxaaagasm-26jul31",
  "event_question": "Average **gas prices**",
  "bullets": [
    "Kalshi prices average US gas above $4.00 at 99%, the round-number floor treated as no contest.",
    "24h volume $27K is 33% of all-time; lower concentration suggests this contract has older, deeper liquidity.",
    "The $4.00 level is the widest psychological threshold in the ladder and garners the most historical trading.",
    "99% across $4.00, $4.02, and $4.04 strikes paints a consistent picture of elevated pump prices."
  ],
  "atomic_claims": [
    {
      "type": "volume_anomaly",
      "provenance": "24h + cumulative volume direct from kalshi API; intensity = 24h/cumulative (derived)",
      "field_provenance": {
        "volume_24h_usd": {
          "tier": "direct",
          "method": "kalshi_api"
        },
        "intensity": {
          "tier": "derived",
          "method": "arithmetic",
          "inputs": [
            "volume_24h_usd",
            "volume_cumulative_usd"
          ]
        }
      },
      "liquidity_context": {
        "kalshi_vol_24h_usd": 26772
      }
    }
  ],
  "evaluation": {
    "judge_engine": "llm_judge_cm_signal_v1",
    "judge_verdict": "wire_eligible",
    "judge_confidence": 0.81,
    "prompt_template": "volume_spike_v1"
  },
  "citations": {
    "internal": {
      "cm_event": "/events/kxaaagasm-26jul31/",
      "related": []
    },
    "external": {
      "venue_a": "https://kalshi.com/markets/KXAAAGASM-26JUL31-4.00",
      "venue_b": null,
      "benchmark": null
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "ClearMarket market record: Average **gas prices**",
      "url": "https://clearmarket.fyi/events/kxaaagasm-26jul31",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-27T11:16:33+00:00"
    }
  ],
  "field_provenance": {
    "pm_data": "kalshi_api",
    "news_context": "retrieval_grounded",
    "editorial_judgment": "cm_signal_llm_judge"
  }
}
 
   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

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