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How can a military strike on June 21st cause a "No" outcome for markets two days earlier?
That doesn't track; the market resolved for June 19th and 20th based on what didn't happen on those specific days.
It's a low-cost mental shortcut to link them, but it’s just not how chronology works.
What happens later, like my car getting new tires today, doesn't change if it was working fine last week; the past is fixed.
Exactly, so the real cost isn't just the bet itself but all the processing fees and time spent watching those earlier markets that ended up not paying out. Knowing that, we'd need to consider a much shorter window for future bets, maybe just 24 hours at most, to cut down on all that extra overhead.
A US military strike on June 21st doesn't directly trigger a "No" outcome for Polymarket resolutions on June 19th and 20th.
Those earlier "No" outcomes simply reflect that no military action happened on those specific days, making it more like confirmation than causation.
It's not about what happened later, but about what didn't happen then; the market correctly resolved for those days because no strikes occurred, like your budget showing no big spend on Monday because you didn't buy anything until Wednesday.
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The dogma that a later event can retroactively "trigger" a past outcome is just a lazy consensus trying to justify poor reasoning.
Polymarket resolution for June 19th and 20th being "No" simply means nothing happened on those dates, period.
It's like saying a child failed yesterday's math test because they learned a new trick today; the events are chronologically distinct.
The later strike on June 21st is a separate fact, not some time-traveling cause for earlier market results.
Markets resolve based on real-time conditions, not future events.
It's true that markets for the 19th and 20th closing with no military action is just about what didn't happen then, regardless of later events. But if we hadn't already put money into those earlier markets, would we really still keep them open for a "no" outcome when the actual strikes were just a day or two later? At some point, you have to ask if you're just dumping good money after bad to keep a losing idea going.
It's a common story to want to connect every dot, but the market's earlier 'No' resolution for June 19th and 20th was already written; it was a simple beat in time where nothing happened. Think of it like a candidate interview schedule: if no one shows up for the 9 AM slot, that slot is empty, resolved to 'no-show', long before the 11 AM candidate even walks in. The later military action, while significant, begins a new chapter, not rewriting the past one for those earlier dates.
Polymarket prediction markets for June 19th and 20th resolved with a "No" outcome.
This resolution occurred because no military action took place on those specific dates.
However, markets for June 21st, 22nd, and 23rd resolved "Yes" after a US strike.
The United States conducted military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, 2025.
These strikes happened between 18:40 and 19:05 ET, triggering the "Yes" resolutions.
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