INDEPENDENT RESEARCH · OCTOBER 2026 · VERSION 2

Kalshi Trade-Tape Quoting Lab

Ingyu Koh · Applied statistics, microstructure and execution research

Real markets and trades. Hypothetical own fills. This replaces the original formula-generated fill experiment. It does not place orders or establish live profitability. Strict-through and touch-fill results depend on replay assumptions; neither is an observed record of our orders.

1 · Inspect data and frozen evaluation

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PolicyNet replay P&LFilled contractsDrawdownDay-block 95% interval

Inventory persists across quotes until real contract settlement. Volume caps partial fills. A 20-contract net position limit and inventory price skew apply. Hindsight selects the best fixed action for each market using future outcomes; it is unattainable and not a universal upper bound.

Fill-model comparison

These labels are inferred hypothetical fills from actual trades, not recorded own-order fills. Gradient boosting and logistic share the same inputs and chronological split. Quantity fraction and adverse selection are separately modeled.

2 · Test a held-out contract state

Choose an example and calculate.

Historical examples use an opening strike anchor between Binance and BRTI. It is not a measured contemporaneous index correction. Editing spot or strike switches to unadjusted custom inputs. Fair value is a spot-digital approximation; the actual settlement averages the final 60 seconds of BRTI. Predictions are not calibrated confidence.

3 · Failure cases and evidence

LinUCB is trained with delayed settlement rewards from replay and frozen before evaluation. It is not evidence of live randomized exploration or counterfactual reward identification.

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No credentials, client contracts, or live orders. Request bodies excluded from logs. Public bounded requests: 20/minute per runtime; not a distributed spending cap.