What are ForecastEx Forecast Contracts?

IBKR Prediction Markets offers exchange-listed event contracts that allow you to trade on yes-or-no outcomes across categories such as politics (including eligible U.S. elections), economics, finance, and climate indicators. At expiration, these contracts either settle at $0 or $1, depending on the outcome…

Economic prediction markets are markets where participants trade yes/no event contracts on measurable economic outcomes such as inflation thresholds, rate decisions, or recession timing. IBKR Prediction Markets examples include questions tied to CPI and the Fed Funds Target Rate…

CME Event contracts let investors trade on their knowledge or opinion about a specific question with a “yes or no” outcome.

They are daily expiring, cash settled, European style options on futures contracts, offering short-term trading opportunities for persons seeking to take a position on daily price moves on futures using smaller value contracts…

What is an event contract?

An event contract is a standardized, exchange-listed contract that lets you take a Yes/No position on the outcome of a specific, measurable event. For example, you can trade on whether a particular asset's price will be above a certain level at a set time. Each contract settles at a fixed value if the event happens ("Yes") and at zero if it does not ("No"). You can trade event contracts on Interactive Brokers through the Prediction Markets platform…