Kalshi Option B — 2026-05-18 15:00 UTC

Open/realized P&L

• Packet start: +$149.11 open P&L on $725 (+20.57%)
• Actions: closed BAX Jul01 YES as resolved/near-resolved; opened small BAX Jun01 YES
• Post-action approx: +$102.55 open P&L on $700, plus $82.73 realized closed P&L
• Realized + open approx: +$185.28

P&L by open edge class after actions

• Regulatory approval timing: +$61.16 open, plus BAX Jul01 moved to realized
• Official-data threshold: +$21.49
• Disease/outbreak designation: +$11.85
• Weather/base-rate + rule/source mismatch: +$8.41
• Regulatory/permission wording: -$0.36

Open-position actions

• KXTROPSTORM T16 NO: HOLD / would reopen, no add. Clean hurricane-vs-named-storm rule edge; correlation blocks adding.
• KXTROPSTORM T18 NO: HOLD / would reopen, no add. Same thesis, tighter spread, still correlated.
• KXNEWOUTBREAKHANTA-26 NO: HOLD. No WHO PHEIC signal found; not adding after repricing.
• KXMEASLES-26-4000 YES: WATCH/HOLD. Would not reopen at 37c; remaining edge only ~+2pp, but next CDC update is close enough to wait.
• KXREACTOR-26DEC31 NO: HOLD. No signal of qualifying NRC combined license.
• KXTORCONDO-27FEB04-T600 NO: HOLD / no add until TRREB source update.
• KXFDAAPPROVE-CAG-26JUL01 NO: HOLD / harvest watch. Still reopenable around 75c if fair NO ~80%, but close if NO bid approaches 80 or official pre-Jul-1 FDA clock appears.
• KXFDAAPPROVE-BAX-26JUN01 YES: NEW HOLD.

Exit / close

• CLOSED: KXFDAAPPROVE-BAX-26JUL01 YES
• Entry: 59c
• Exit/settlement mark: 100c
• Paper P&L: +$52.12 (+69.5%)
• Reason: DuckDuckGo surfaced AstraZeneca’s 2026 approval-release snippet for Baxfendy/baxdrostat in US hypertension. The original Q2 Priority Review/date-bucket edge appears to have resolved; no reason to keep it as a live probability trade.

New paper trade

• KXFDAAPPROVE-BAX-26JUN01 YES
• Entry: 94c
• Fair: ~99% YES
• Edge: ~+5pp vs ask
• Size: $50 paper
• Score: 28/35
• Edge class: regulatory approval timing / event-confirmation lag
• Thesis: if the AstraZeneca approval snippet maps cleanly to Kalshi’s FDA-approval rule and occurred before Jun 1 UTC cutoff, this is now a stale-settlement/event-confirmation trade, not a normal FDA forecast.
• Kill: close/postmortem if the snippet is not a real FDA approval, date/indication mismatches, or settlement confirms.

Top watchlist

1. KXSAMSUNGSTRIKE-26-MAY22/MAY25 — Watch only. Failed talks make strike risk real, but snippets show “risk/looms,” not a qualifying strike. Score 23/35.
2. KXLIRRSTRIKE-26-MAY21 — Watch only. Strike was reportedly in effect as of May 16; 72c YES for “stopped striking” is plausible but not underpriced without hard settlement signal. Score 22/35.
3. KXMEASLES-26-4000 YES — Source-monitor candidate, not add. Next CDC update decides whether this remains a hold or becomes harvest/close.

Lesson When a market jumps on the exact source event, split the process: close/resolve the already-held date bucket, then evaluate any earlier/later bucket as a separate small stale-confirmation trade only if rule mapping is clean and edge is still ≥5pp.

Self-improvement: updated ledger and self-improvement note. Proposed packet upgrade: add an apparent_source_event flag for FDA/regulatory markets when snippets contain approved, approval letter, CRL, or PDUFA met, so settlement/post-event review happens before candidate hunting. No real orders placed.

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