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The Wire, April 21, 2026: 15 Biggest Moves + 5 Wire Signal Divergences

The Wire Brief · April 21, 2026

What Polymarket moved on today

Top 15 24-hour movers and the 5 markets where our calibrated read disagrees most with the price. Scanned 40 of the largest active contracts — 7 landed in a strong-signal zone. Biggest move: -17.8pp on US x Iran permanent peace deal by April 22, 2026?.

What is this?
A once-a-day scan of Polymarket — what moved, and where Wire’s read disagrees most with the price. The same code generates every brief. No cherry-picking.

Read the tables
Each market gets a Wire Signal pill (0–100): 0–35 NO VALUE, 45–55 CALIBRATED, 65–100 YES VALUE. The grade (A is strongest, D is noisiest) tells you how much weight to put on it.

Use it how?
Green and red rows are where Wire thinks there’s edge. Click any market to open the Polymarket page. For the live board across all markets, see /signals/. Not trading advice — never bet more than you can afford to lose.

24-hour movers

Biggest price moves on Polymarket today

Ranked by absolute change in the yes-price over the last 24 hours. Each mover gets the current Wire Signal and grade so you can tell whether the move has pushed the price closer to — or further from — calibrated fair value.

# Market Yesterday Today Δ 24h Wire Signal Grade
1 US x Iran permanent peace deal by April 22, 2026? 18.5% 17.5% ▼ 17.8pp 70YES VALUE C
2 Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by end of April? 28.5% 28.5% ▼ 17.0pp 63LEAN YES C
3 Kharg Island no longer under Iranian control by April 30? 10.2% 5.9% ▼ 3.6pp 56LEAN YES B
4 Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027? 30.5% 30.5% ▼ 3.0pp 63LEAN YES C
5 Will the San Antonio Spurs win the 2026 NBA Finals? 14.8% 14.8% ▼ 2.2pp 54CALIBRATED B
6 Will the US confirm that aliens exist before 2027? 21.5% 21.5% ▼ 1.0pp 56LEAN YES C
7 Russia x Ukraine ceasefire by end of 2026? 26.5% 29.5% ▼ 1.0pp 65LEAN YES C
8 Will the Iranian regime fall before 2027? 19.5% 20.5% ▲ 1.0pp 74YES VALUE C
9 Will Tucker Carlson win the 2028 Republican presidential nomination? 4.2% 4.2% ▲ 0.6pp 48CALIBRATED A
10 Will China invade Taiwan by end of 2026? 7.6% 8.7% ▼ 0.4pp 63LEAN YES B
11 Will Trump acquire Greenland before 2027? 7.3% 7.3% ▼ 0.3pp 54CALIBRATED A
12 Will Lens win the 2025–26 French Ligue 1? 5.5% 5.5% ▲ 0.3pp 58LEAN YES A
13 Will JD Vance win the 2028 US Presidential Election? 19.1% 19.1% ▼ 0.3pp 75YES VALUE C
14 Will Atletico Madrid win the 2025–26 Champions League? 11.8% 11.8% ▼ 0.2pp 50CALIBRATED B
15 Will Spain win the 2026 FIFA World Cup? 16.1% 16.1% ▲ 0.2pp 59LEAN YES B
Sharpest divergences

Where Wire disagrees most with the price

Ranked by the size of the gap between the calibrated Wire point and the market price. Green rows mean Wire thinks YES is cheap; red rows mean Wire thinks YES is expensive (NO is the value side). Pair the diff with the grade — a 10-point disagreement in an A-grade market is worth more than a 20-point gap in a D.

Market Wire Signal Market price Wire point Diff Grade
Will the Colorado Avalanche win the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup? 75YES VALUE 25.5% 44.5% +19.0pp C
Will Gavin Newsom win the 2028 US Presidential Election? 75YES VALUE 18.0% 34.1% +16.1pp C
Will JD Vance win the 2028 US Presidential Election? 75YES VALUE 19.1% 34.1% +15.0pp C
Will the Iranian regime fall before 2027? 74YES VALUE 20.5% 34.9% +14.4pp C
US x Iran permanent peace deal by April 22, 2026? 70YES VALUE 17.5% 29.5% +12.0pp C
About this brief

Same template, every day

Every edition of The Wire Brief is generated by the same script using the Polymarket gamma-api for the active-markets snapshot, the CLOB prices-history endpoint for 24-hour movement, and Wire Score v2.1 for per-category calibration. Wire Signal (v2.2) derives from the Wire Score and scales amplitude by confidence grade: 50 + clamp(diff/0.15, ±1) × 50 × conf(grade), where conf is 1.00 for A, 0.75 for B, 0.50 for C, and 0.25 for D. No cherry-picking, no hand-picked movers.

About this page. Written and reviewed by The PredictWire Research Team under our Editorial Standards. Market data from Polymarket’s public gamma-api and CLOB endpoints. Wire Scores computed by wire_score.py v2.1 (per-category calibration). Published April 21, 2026. Corrections: corrections@predictwire.io.