GeopoliticsExpires Jul 25, 2021Closed
Creator

Will the Ever Given exit the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal by July 25?

Probability

100¢

1h

+0.0pp

24h

+0.0pp

24h Vol

$0.00

Liquidity

$0.00

Historical archiveResolved YES

Orrery restored this market from Polymarket's closed-market records. Treat the numbers below as last-known market context, then verify the resolution source before citing the outcome.

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Research loop

Inspect detail

Read the move, holders, recent trades, source, and resolution risk before saving anything.

Canonical status

confidence: medium

Source status (Polymarket)

active · closed

Derived status (Orrery)

RESOLVED YES

Reason

Upstream marked the market closed/settled with YES price dominant.

Resolution & Risk

LOW risk
End date
Jul 25, 2021
UMA status
n/a
Resolution source
Primary
vesselfinder.com
Type
Source not classified
Market type
Binary
  • Wide spread (100.0¢) — liquidity risk on entry/exit.

Probability (last 7 days)

+0.0pp 7d
No price history available
updated 16:42:02 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·snap:snap_2026-06-05T16-42Z

Why did it move?

Structured · 2 factors
  • 01
    Active signal

    Resolution-risk observation firing

    Market has reached expiry. Watch the UMA dispute window.

  • 02
    Spread cost

    Wide spread — 100.0¢

    Bid-ask spread is wide enough that intraday moves overstate any tradeable advantage. Most of the headline pp move would be eaten by spread on a market order.

What to track next

  • Verify the resolution source on this page — exchange feed, official release, news consensus — before treating any move as new information.

Verification actions only — never trade recommendations.

Each factor is grounded in a single named metric you can verify on this page — probability, volume, liquidity, signal, resolution state. No predictions, no prose hallucinations.

Verification Brief

A guided checklist for what must be proven before this market is treated as reliable context.

officially resolved
Trust transition

The market appears resolved. The useful check is whether the source and final oracle state match the displayed outcome.

Create trust-state alert

Verification goal

Map resolution-relevant sources to the exact criteria needed to avoid misreading price as settlement.

What needs proof

Primary source

required

Confirm the primary source and whether it directly answers the market's resolution question.

Current evidence: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/EVER-GIVEN-IMO-9811000-MMSI-353136000

Contract wording

required

Extract the exact condition that makes YES resolve true and note any exclusions, time zone, deadline, or fallback rule.

Telegram verification task

Orrery verification task Will the Ever Given exit the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal by July 25? State: Resolved YES — officially resolved Need sources for: 1. Primary source: Confirm the primary source and whether it directly answers the market's resolution question. 2. Contract wording: Extract the exact condition that makes YES resolve true and note any exclusions, time zone, deadline, or fallback rule. 3. Liquidity context: Check whether the move is supported by enough liquidity and volume to treat it as meaningful context. Drop only durable links that map to one criterion. Research only. Not trade advice.

X verification thread

Orrery verification brief Will the Ever Given exit the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal by July 25? State: officially resolved Verify: Primary source + Contract wording Price is not settlement. Research only. Not trade advice.

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Guided source review

A controlled loop for durable sources. Every source must answer one criterion from this Verification Brief.

Sources

0

Criteria covered

0

Reviewed

0

Awaiting review

0

Submit a source mapped to a criterion

Confirm the primary source and whether it directly answers the market's resolution question.

Research only · no price-only screenshots · no profit claims

Recent source checks

Pilot audit summary

Research only · Not trade advice · Every source maps to one criterion

Timeline

critical · price · trade flow

Critical

  • 16:42Signal

    Resolution risk

    Market has reached expiry. Watch the UMA dispute window.

    LOW

Price movement

+0.0pp over the last 24h, now 100¢.

updated 16:42:02 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·Polymarket Data

Active signals

Recent Trades

No recent trades visible from the Data API for this market. That usually means liquidity is thin or this market is between event windows.

updated 16:42:02 UTC·src:Polymarket Data

Market Description

This is a market on whether the Ever Given container ship (IMO: 9811000, MMSI 353136000) will be allowed to exit the Great Bitter Lake area, where it is currently being held by Egyptian authorities in the Suez Canal, by July 25, 2021, 12:00 PM ET, the resolution date. For the purpose of this market, exiting the Great Bitter Lake area will mean that the Ever Given has a latitude higher than 30.43000 N (i.e. about a mile north of the northern tip of Great Bitter Lake) or lower than 30.15000 N (i.e. about a mile south of the southern tip of the Little Bitter Lake), by the resolution date. The resolution source for this for this market will be the Ever Given's latitude and longitude coordinates, as tracked by Vessel Finder and displayed in their “Position & Voyage Data” table (https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/EVER-GIVEN-IMO-9811000-MMSI-353136000).

Why this category?

confidence: medium

Category

Geopolitics

Source

Keyword rule

Matched term

suez canal

Reason

Question text contains "suez canal" — matched the Geopolitics keyword rule.

Categories come from a deterministic engine: manual overrides (highest priority) → sports hard markers → event-tag rules → keyword rules → Gamma category hint → default. The engine is versioned in category-overrides.ts; methodology lives at /methodology.

FAQ — questions readers actually ask

What is the current Polymarket probability for "Will the Ever Given exit the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal by July 25?"?

As of Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:42:02 GMT, YES is priced at 100% implied probability on Polymarket. The price changed +0.0pp in the last 24 hours, +0.0pp in the last hour, and +0.0pp in the last 7 days.

When does this market resolve?

This market resolves by Jul 25, 2021 (2021-07-25T00:00:00.000Z). Resolution is determined from https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/EVER-GIVEN-IMO-9811000-MMSI-353136000.

What source determines the outcome?

Resolution is sourced from https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/EVER-GIVEN-IMO-9811000-MMSI-353136000. Polymarket's UMA optimistic oracle is the final settlement layer; if the published source is ambiguous, UMA tokenholders adjudicate. Source-extraction confidence is shown in the Resolution & Risk block above.

How much is being traded on this market?

$0.00 of trading volume in the last 24 hours. Lifetime volume on Polymarket: $48.1K. Open liquidity in the YES/NO orderbooks: $0.00. Spread between best bid and best ask: 100.0¢.

Is this a trade recommendation?

No. Orrery describes — never predicts. Every signal on this market carries explicit Evidence, Backtest, and Action tiers. The Action is always one of: Watch only, Inspect timeline, Create alert, Verify source, or Ignore — never Buy or Sell. The probability above is the market's collective implied probability, not a forecast Orrery is publishing.

How fresh is this data and where does it come from?

This page revalidates from the public Polymarket APIs every 30 seconds. Probability and 24h-change come from Gamma; the chart series comes from the CLOB orderbook history; trade and holder data come from the Data API. The fetched-at timestamp on each block tells you exactly how old the underlying upstream pull was.

Alerts

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