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Bid, ask, depth, last.

How a yes-or-no question trades like any other market on the tape.

An order book is just a list of who wants to buy and who wants to sell, and at what price. On an event contract that list is small and readable: buyers of yes on one side, sellers on the other, and a spread between them. Learn to read it and you can see conviction, not just a headline number.

The spread is the argument

The best bid and the best offer bracket the market's opinion. A tight spread means the two sides broadly agree on the odds; a wide one means the question is still being argued out in prices.

Depth is who means it

Behind the top of the ladder sits the depth — the stacked size at each price. Heavy size on the buy side says demand is real; a thin market warns that a single order can move the last price.

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Illustrative depth — not a live quote
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