56% — What price will Bitcoin hit in May?: ↓ 70,000
Leader: ↓ 72,500 at 56% · Polymarket 56% · 4 contracts · $535K volume · medium confidence
Updated 2026-05-28 22:18:27 UTC

Tracks the leading outcome in a winner-take-all prediction market set with 4 outcomes.

Why this matters:
The market assigns a 45% probability that Bitcoin will close May 2026 below $72,500, based on aggregated trading activity across multiple prediction contracts. This reflects moderate uncertainty about near-term price movement, with roughly equal odds that Bitcoin either consolidates below this level or sustains higher prices. The probability is driven by current market volatility, macroeconomic conditions affecting risk assets, and technical resistance levels around $70,000–$72,500. Bitcoin's actual close on the final day of May will definitively resolve this question. Traders are actively positioning based on expectations around regulatory announcements, broader equity market correlation, and on-chain activity metrics that historically influence short-term price direction.

Key factors:
- Bitcoin's price action in the final week of May will determine the outcome; the contract resolves based on May 31 closing price
- Trading volume concentration on the $72,500 contract (72¢) versus the $70,000 contract (19¢) suggests market participants expect Bitcoin to remain above $70,000 but see material risk of the $72,500 level holding as resistance
- Macroeconomic data releases in late May (inflation reports, Fed communications, employment figures) could trigger volatility that shifts probabilities meaningfully
- Current 45% probability implies markets see this outcome as slightly less likely than Bitcoin staying above $72,500, not a toss-up
- The lower trading volume on the $77,500 upside contract (10¢) indicates less conviction around sustained rallies above current consolidation levels

Contracts:
- What price will Bitcoin hit in May?: ↓ 72,500 — 56¢ Polymarket $118K (weight 22%)
- What price will Bitcoin hit in May?: ↑ 75,000 — 52¢ Polymarket $3K (weight 1%)
- What price will Bitcoin hit in May?: ↓ 70,000 — 12¢ Polymarket $372K (weight 69%)
- What price will Bitcoin hit in May?: ↑ 77,500 — 8¢ Polymarket $42K (weight 8%)

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## Methodology

SimpleFunctions aggregates live YES-side prices from Kalshi and Polymarket contracts bound to this question. For binary topics the headline is the liquidity-weighted mid-price (weight = log(1 + 24h volume) × freshness, where freshness is 1.0 if updated <24h, 0.7 if <7d, 0.4 otherwise). For multi-outcome (winner-take-all) topics the headline is the current leader's price — disjoint outcomes are never arithmetically averaged. Snapshots refresh every 5 minutes during market hours.

## SF Signal

- SF Index, regime, and 30d Brier calibration are computed separately and surfaced at https://simplefunctions.dev/admin/calibration.
- No SimpleFunctions index / regime / calibration signal is bound to this topic yet — the headline above is market-derived only.

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*Last verified: 2026-05-28T21:20:07.515Z*

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