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SIMULATOR Will Graham Platner win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination?
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A live, interactive instrument for dissecting a single binary position. Sweep the inputs and watch every indicator recompute — payoff geometry, Kelly growth, Bayesian posterior, KL divergence, cost waterfall, Monte-Carlo equity fan, forecast calibration. Companion to the live /feed/pm-will-graham-platner-win-the-2028-democratic-presidential-nomination page.
▲ YES EDGE · +0.014 · f★ 1.4% · deploy 0.7% · net 0.60pp
§1 · Position economics
YES · Expected P/L per share +0.0135@ model P(YES) = 0.020
P/L per sharemarket pricemodel Pprofit zoneloss zone
Profit is linear in the eventual settlement price.
f★ = 1.36% · g(f★) = 0.907%deploy 0.68% · g = 0.756%
g(f)f★ optimumdeployed fgrowth zone
Underbet leaves growth on the table; overbet destroys capital. The interior maximum is f★.
§2 · The trade ticket
YES @ 0.006 · EV +$353stake $170 · 0.68% of bankroll
Deployed stakestake
$170
0.68% of bankroll
Sharesunits
26,131
each pays $1 if YES
Max payoutwin
$26,131
gross, if win
Max profitwin
+$25,962
net of cost
Max losslose
-$170
binary settles to $0
Payout multiple×
×153.85
$1 → $153.85
Risk:RewardR:R
152.85 : 1
win $152.85 per $1
Expected P/LE[P/L]
+$353
probability-weighted
| Outcome | P(model) | P/L | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resolves YES (win) | 2.0% | +$25,962 | +$519 |
| Resolves against (lose) | 98.0% | -$170 | -$166 |
| Expected value | 100.0% | — | +$353 |
What you actually win and lose. The bottom table tabulates probability-weighted P/L by outcome.
§3 · Break-even & cushion
Cushion +1.4 pprelative edge +207.7%
Required win ratebreak-even
0.7%
price = implied probability
Model win rateP(win)
2.0%
what you forecast
Cushionedge
+1.4 pp
margin of safety
Fair pricemodel
0.020
where you think it should trade
The market price equals the win rate you must beat to make money.
§4 · Odds conversion
Implied probabilityP
0.7%
= price
Decimal oddsEU
153.846
total return per $1
AmericanUS
+15285
$100 wins $15285
FractionalUK
152.85 / 1
profit per $1 risked
Profit per $100stake
+$15284.62
clean dollar framing
underdog (+)favorite (-)your price
Five views of the same number.
§4b · Time & annualized return
APR 3610% · APY 30474182057%ROI 207.7% over 21d · 17.4 turns/yr
Time to resolvehorizon
21.0 d
504h capital lockup
Raw ROIper resolve
+207.7%
APR (simple)scaled
+3610%
ROI × 365/days
APY (compounded)if redeployed
+30474182057%
(1+ROI)^(365/d) − 1
Daily expectedper day
+5.50%
geometric, per day held
Capital turns/yrvelocity
×17.4
how often this slot recycles
simple APRcompounded APYyour horizon
Rank positions by APR, not raw ROI. A thin edge tomorrow beats a fat edge next year.
§5 · Costs & net edge
Net edge +0.60 pperosion 56% · break-even w/ fees 1.4%
gross edgefrictionnet edgefee 0 bps · spread 1.50¢
The number that decides whether to trade.
§6 · Sizing menu
Full Kellyf★
$340
1.36% · g = 0.907%
Half Kelly½ f★
$170
0.68% · g = 0.756%
Quarter Kelly¼ f★
$85
0.34% · g = 0.503%
Flat 1%1%
$250
1.00% · g = 0.870%
Flat 2%2%
$500
2.00% · g = 0.821%
Flat 5%5%
$1,250
5.00% · g = -0.713%
Recommended¼ f★
$85
survives model error
Quarter-Kelly is the industry default — survives model error far better than full Kelly.
§7 · Information theory
Market entropyH(p)
0.057 bit
max 1.0 at p = 0.5
Your entropyH(q)
0.141 bit
Δ +0.085 bit vs market
Surprise · YES−log₂ p
7.27 bit
self-information
Surprise · NO−log₂(1−p)
0.01 bit
self-information
H(p) peaks at p = 0.5 (one bit of irreducible doubt).
NOISE · D_KL(q ‖ p) = 0.0091 nat (0.0131 bit)belief ≈ market — stand down
YES contributionNO contributionbelief ‖ marketnoise
Zero KL ⇒ you know nothing the crowd doesn't.
§8 · Bayesian inference
MARKET PRICE INSIDE 95% CIposterior μ 0.020 · CI [0.00, 0.30] · κ 4.4
Posterior meanE[θ]
0.020
Beta(0.1, 4.4)
95% credible intervalHDI
[0.00, 0.30]
price INSIDE → weak edge
Concentrationκ
4.4
pseudo-obs behind belief
Disagreementvs crowd
+0.0 pp
posterior − price
market prior (dashed)model posterior95% credible bandmarket price
When the market price falls outside the 95% credible interval, your disagreement is statistically meaningful.
§9 · Tail risk · Monte-Carlo (mode A · single position to resolution)
E[P/L] +284.6% · P(YES) 2.5% · VaR₉₅ 100.0%400 paths · 504 bars to resolution
Expected P/Lper $1
+284.62%
P(YES) empiricalq
2.5%
Best pathmax
+15284.6%
Worst pathmin
-100.0%
VaR 95%5%
100.0%
CVaR 95%ES
100.0%
median path25/75 + 5/95 bandsentry pricemodel q
Logit-space mean-reverting walk + terminal flip with probability q. Answers: 'what happens to THIS one position'. Distinct from the repeated-edge fan below.
§9b · Tail risk · Monte-Carlo (mode B · repeated independent edges)
Median CAGR/bet 2.34% · ruin rate 1.5%400 paths × 120 bets · f deploy 0.68%
Sharpe / betμ/σ
0.171
μ 3.51% · σ 20.5%
Sortino / betμ/σ↓
5.170
downside-only denominator
VaR 95%5%
-0.7%
per-bet worst-case
CVaR 95%ES
-0.7%
mean tail loss
Max drawdownMDD
-16.8%
Calmar 0.14
Ruin rate≤50%
1.5%
P(equity ever ≤ 50%)
median25/75 band5/95 bandruin line
Answers a different question: 'if I could find this exact edge forever, what is the bankroll trajectory'. Compounds 120 sequential resolutions which is NOT what happens to a single position.
§10 · Base-rate & macro context
ANCHORED · supported by convictionanchor gap -43.4pp · crowd gap -44.8pp
Anchor gapmodel − base
-43.4 pp
Crowd gapprice − base
-44.8 pp
Verdictdiscipline
ANCHORED
Reference-class anchoring prevents narrative-driven blowups.
§11 · Forecast quality (synthetic ledger)
SKILL POSITIVE · in-sample BSS 18.1% · AUC 0.757out-of-sample BSS (5-fold) 18.2% ± 1.9% · Brier 0.2044 · log-loss 0.6099 · n 1600✓ n = 1600
BrierBS
0.2044
lower = better · ō 0.48
BSSvs base
18.1%
improvement over base rate
ReliabilityREL
0.0046
miscalibration · want ↓
ResolutionRES
0.0501
decisiveness · want ↑
Log lossLL
0.6099
cross-entropy
AUCROC
0.757
0.5 coin · 1.0 oracle
calibration curveROCUNC (irreducible)RES (skill, ↑)REL (miscalib, ↓)
Computed on a seeded synthetic forecast ledger. Reseed (⟳) to redraw.
§12 · Journal vitals (synthetic ledger)
PROFITABLE · PF 1.15 · expectancy +0.068R180 trades · win 55.0% · Sharpe 0.063
Total P/Lnet
+$3,077
on $45,000 cycled
Win ratehit %
55.0%
99 W / 81 L
Profit factorPF
1.15
$ won / $ lost
Expectancyper trade
+$17.10
avg $ per position
R-expectancyper risk
+0.068R
in units of risk taken
Avg win / losspayoff
$235.63 / -$250.00
ratio 0.94 : 1
Sharpe / traderisk-adj
0.063
μR / σR
Closing line valueCLV
+2.53 pp
avg edge vs close
cumulative P/Lprofitable zonered zonesynthetic · seeded from asset
The scorecard every trader checks. Synthetic ledger seeded from the asset slug — recomputes against your real fill history once wired.