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Thursday Night Forecast: Week 4 NFL Markets, Weather and Matchups
Kevin Roth and Brian Hartman break down Week 4 NFL prediction markets, the weather that moves them, and the matchups worth a position. Watch live....


Kalshi and Polymarket Fantasy Finish Markets: Week 4
Note: This article is first published on Thursdays with updates included Friday morning to account for the latest injury news, projections, and the re...

Week 3 Market Movers: Gibbs Pulls Away, and a Rookie Takes Over
It’s a wrap for Week 3. A week I am dubbing “the week of true colors” as we can no longer use arguments of rust to make excuses for player or team per...

Three Week 4 NFL Prediction Markets Where Our Model Sees a Different Price
The Football Gold model is designed to create an independent price for every NFL game. It combines our own power ratings (25%), a situational model ac...

El Niño Is Strengthening: What Could It Mean for Weather Markets?
El Niño could reshape U.S. weather this winter, shifting storm tracks and increasing the importance of clouds, rain, and forecast uncertainty in weath...

How a Top Prediction Market Trader Finds an Edge: Inside Domer's Process
Domer, one of the top prediction market traders, on pricing events that have never happened, Kelly sizing, his six-figure James Bond position, the fiv...

Thursday Night Forecast: Week 3 NFL Markets, Weather and Matchups
Kevin Roth and Brian Hartman break down Week 3 NFL prediction markets, the weather that moves them, and the matchups worth a position. Watch live....

Analyzing Kalshi and Polymarket Weekly Fantasy Football Markets
If you have ever built a DFS lineup, you have already done the hard part of this trade. Whether you built Monte Carlo sims or cooked up a lineup on yo...

Week 2 Market Movers: 2 Carts and a Josh Allen
Week 2 did not ease anyone in. It took out two young Quarterbacks, gave us multiple shocking upsets that clogged up a coaching market, and Josh Allen ...

From Fantasy Football to Prediction Markets: How Justin Herzig Finds an Edge
PredictQ co-founder Justin Herzig on groupthink, pricing, market making in thin fantasy markets, the in-game mistake that cost him edge, and how he'd ...

When Should You Trade Tomorrow's High Temperature?
When should you trade tomorrow’s high-temperature market? This article compares market open, overnight model updates, morning observations, and late-m...

What's Hot - The PredictQ Culture Radar
Week of September 21,2026 It’s VMA week: Madonna’s performing at the show for the first time in over two decades and Taylor Swift is in range of a rec...

High vs. Low Temperature Markets: Why They Behave Differently
High and low temperature markets may look similar, but the weather processes behind them are very different. Using roughly 160 days of forecast data f...

Thursday Night Forecast: Week 2 NFL Markets, Weather and Matchups
Kevin Roth and Brian Hartman break down Week 2 NFL prediction markets, the weather that moves them, and the matchups worth a position. Watch live....

Splash Survivor Week 1: The Chargers Massacre, Why Splitting the Book Worked, and a Sharper Field Than You Think
If you were among the roughly three-quarters of the field that survived the biggest Week 1 upset since 2018, congratulations. The Chargers went into S...

Market Movers: The MVP Race, the Super Bowl Board, and Everything Week 1 Repriced
How the markets reacted to Week 1 results...

Novig Just Crossed $1 Billion in Trading Volume
Novig's CEO says the platform passed $1 billion in trading volume weeks after launching its prediction market. What's actually driving it, what the Sy...

What Circa's Week 1 Ownership Tells Us About the Splash Field
Circa posts its survivor ownership every Saturday night. Week 1 shows how closely it maps to the Splash field, where the two diverge most, and what we...

Risk Management: Understanding Kelly Criterion for Kalshi Climate Markets
Risk Management: Understanding Kelly Criterion for Kalshi Climate Markets By Peter Nickerson, Climate & Weather Analyst — September 11, 2026 Winning t...

Thursday Night Forecast: Week 1 NFL Markets, Weather and Matchups
Kevin Roth and Brian Hartman break down Week 1 NFL prediction markets, the weather that moves them, and the matchups worth a position. Watch the full ...

NFL Survivor Strategy: A Survival Guide to Large Field Contests.
How to actually win large-field survivor contests....

How a Prediction Market Trader Finds an Edge: Brett Hartfiel Interview
How a Prediction Market Trader Finds an Edge: Brett Hartfiel Interview A Q&A with Brett Hartfiel The Prediction Market Show, Episode 1 · PredictQ Sour...

Forecast Biases in Models and Cities
Understanding biases in temperature forecasts can allow traders to make more informed decisions about which cities are more consistent or more volatil...

EXCLUSIVE: Buy 10, Get 1 Free On Splash Sports Survivor Contests
Code PREDICTQ adds a free 11th entry for every 10 you buy into either Splash Sports NFL Survivor contest, the $21M World Championship or the $3M Big S...

Why I’m Trading Prediction Markets in 2026
Last August I wrote a column for 4for4 called “Why I’m Playing Daily Fantasy Sports in 2025. And Why You Should Too.” Somewhere in the second paragrap...

Survivor Freeroll Official Rules
Every rule for the SplashSports x Polymarket x PredictQ Survivor Freeroll: who can enter, what you owe us each day, how scoring works, how the winner ...

FREEROLL ALERT: We're Giving Away a $1,000 Seat in the $21M Survivor Pool
PredictQ is running a free 7-day Survivor contest on Polymarket. Win it and you get a $1,000 entry into the $21M guaranteed Splash Sports x Polymarket...

You’ve Been Paying a Tax on Every Bet You’ve Ever Made. Here’s How Much.
There’s a number sitting somewhere in your betting history that nobody has ever shown you....

The QB Tax and Three Other Things You Need to Know Before Buying an NFL Futures Position
We are just four weeks out from the regular season, so let's talk strategy when it comes to buying Futures contracts for the upcoming NFL season....

What’s Hot – The PredictQ Culture Radar: Big Brother, GTA VI and Taylor Swift
Big Brother and GTA VI are the headliners for the second week in a row....

Who Plays NFL Week 1? Using Underdog Predict's Markets
As we approach the kickoff to the NFL season, and the fantasy football world is in the midst of drafting, on top of minds is who will or won't be read...

What’s Hot – The PredictQ Culture Radar
Week of August 17, 2026. Big Brother and GTA VI are the headliners. Every Monday, we run hundreds of topics across thousands of active Kalshi Entertai...

An Open Letter to the Company Acquiring Underdog Fantasy
My fear, which I know from talking to other badge-wearers is widely shared: What happens to the app I love?...
How to Trade Politics on Kalshi and Polymarket
Take the ask on a coin-flip political market and you’re paying about what a sportsbook charges. The advantage is real, it just lives somewhere specifi...
The Kalshi Midterms Hub, Reviewed
Kalshi’s hub is a run at the job Cook Political Report has held for forty years, and it mostly works. What each piece is for, the 27 point parlay hidi...

Prediction Markets 101: The Questions You're Too Embarrassed to Ask
What a prediction market is A prediction market is an exchange where you buy and sell contracts tied to whether a specific event happens. Every contra...

Why I’m Forever Done with Futures Bets on Sportsbooks
Last year I placed a $100 bet on Drake Maye to win MVP at +6600 odds during the preseason. By late December, after Maye torched the Jets with five tou...

Best Prediction Markets in 2026: Complete Comparison of All 10 Major Platforms
June 2026 was the single busiest month in the history of this industry. Robinhood’s exchange venture Rothera went live June 4....

5 Ways to Make Money in Prediction Markets
The #1 question I get from people new to prediction markets is what should I be doing to make money. That’s no surprise given the way these platforms ...

Polymarket vs ProphetX: Broad CFTC Exchange or Sports-Native Peer-to-Peer Exchange?
ProphetX pulled it off. On June 11, 2026 the CFTC approved it as both a designated contract market and a clearinghouse, the first sports-native exchan...

Polymarket vs Underdog Predict: Broad Markets or DFS Integration?
Underdog Predict exists for one type of person: someone who already has the Underdog Fantasy app open. It lives as a tab inside the same app as pick’e...

Polymarket vs OG.com: Two Crypto-Adjacent Prediction Markets Compared
Crypto.com wants a piece of prediction markets badly enough that it built a whole separate brand for it. OG.com launched February 3, 2026, powered and...

Polymarket vs Novig: Established CFTC Exchange or Peer-to-Peer Sports Upstart?
The upstart shipped. Novig’s regulated exchange is live, the sweepstakes app is retired, and the CFTC designation behind it (Ludlow Exchange LLC, appr...

Polymarket vs Coinbase Predict: Two Crypto-Native Approaches Compared
Two platforms courting the same crypto-native trader, built on opposite architectures. Polymarket owns its exchange: it bought QCEX, a CFTC-licensed e...

Polymarket vs FanDuel Predicts: Political Markets or Sportsbook Brand?
FanDuel Predicts killed its best feature. Through early June 2026, its $25 welcome bonus required no deposit at all; you verified your identity and go...

Polymarket vs DraftKings Predictions: Crypto-Native Exchange or Sportsbook-Style Prediction Markets?
DraftKings Predictions will not sell you a sports contract if you live in a state where DraftKings Sportsbook operates. Read that again, because it de...

Polymarket vs Robinhood: Crypto-Native Exchange or Brokerage Integration?
By June 2026, Polymarket’s regulated U.S. platform was clearing over $200 million in daily volume and passed a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate....

Kalshi vs ProphetX: CFTC Exchange or Sports-Native Peer-to-Peer?
ProphetX pulled it off. On June 11, 2026, the CFTC approved it as both a designated contract market and a clearinghouse, the first sports-native excha...

Kalshi vs Underdog Predict: Broad Categories or DFS Integration?
Underdog Predict lives inside the Underdog Fantasy app, one tab over from the pick’em contests and best ball drafts that built one of the biggest DFS ...

Kalshi vs OG.com: Established Exchange or Crypto.com-Powered Brokerage?
OG.com is Crypto.com’s swing at prediction markets, launched February 3, 2026 and powered by Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA), a CFTC-reg...

Kalshi vs Novig: Broad Event Exchange or Sports-Native No-Vig Exchange?
Novig’s regulated exchange is live. The CFTC designated its Ludlow Exchange LLC as a contract market on June 16, 2026, roughly five months after filin...

Kalshi vs Coinbase Predict: Direct Access or Crypto Integration?
Every trade you place on Coinbase Predict executes on Kalshi’s order book. That single fact frames this whole comparison. Coinbase Financial Markets i...

Kalshi vs FanDuel Predicts: Which Prediction Market Fits Your Strategy?
FanDuel Predicts is what happens when the biggest US sportsbook partners with the biggest US derivatives exchange. It’s a joint venture between FanDue...

Kalshi vs DraftKings Predictions: Which Sports Prediction Market Wins?
Start with the fact that decides this comparison for most readers: DraftKings Predictions only offers sports contracts in 18 states, and they’re exact...

Kalshi vs Robinhood: Direct Exchange or Brokerage Routing?
For a year, “Kalshi vs Robinhood” was a trick question. Robinhood routed every event contract to Kalshi’s order book, so you were comparing Kalshi to ...

Kalshi vs Polymarket: Which Prediction Market Is Right for You?
A year ago this was the coin-flip comparison in prediction markets. It isn’t anymore. In May 2026, Kalshi did $17.9 billion in monthly turnover to Pol...

How Does OG.com Work? A Complete Guide for New Traders
OG.com is Crypto.com’s standalone prediction market platform, live since February 3, 2026. Five months in, it has carved out a specific identity: spor...

How to Withdraw from OG.com: A Complete Guide
OG.com charges nothing to withdraw. Bank transfers land in 1-3 business days, debit card withdrawals often arrive within hours, and crypto withdrawals...

OG.com Fees: A Complete Breakdown for 2026
OG.com’s entire fee schedule fits in one sentence: $0.02 per contract to open, $0.02 per contract to close early, and $0 at settlement, win or lose. N...

Is OG.com Legal? The Complete 2026 Breakdown
OG.com is legal in 48 states plus Washington, D.C. It operates under federal CFTC regulation through Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA), th...