BULL$0.698+2.2¢ BEAR$0.302−2.2¢ CRASH PRESSURE23.6/100CALM SOURCEPOLYMARKET · CBOE · YAHOO
Prediction-market index · The AI cycle

Every turn in the cycle sends omens first.

OMEN bundles Polymarket's AI markets into two indexes. Hold Bull when you expect the acceleration to continue, Bear when it breaks – whether the music stops or Washington moves first. Then read the crash-pressure gauge to see how much stress the wider market is pricing.

SNAPSHOT · 2026-07-11
Daily reading
Today the AI trade reads Calm.
CRASH-PRESSURE GAUGE  ·  23.6 / 100  ·  FIVE SIGNAL FAMILIES
Deep calmCalmElevatedStressedCrisis
◀ CalmYesterday ┆ · Today ▎Crisis ▶
SOXX 25Δ risk reversal – 9.2 vol pts of downside skew
Highest-pressure family · Options skew 32 / 100 · Puts over calls on the semis complex · As of 2026-07-10
The indexes

Two sides of the cycle.

Twenty live Polymarket markets, sorted into the two stories the market tells about AI. Each side is priced as its share of the pair, so BULL + BEAR always sums to 1. Open a panel to see what's inside.

The gauge

How much crash risk
is priced in.

Five signal families, each normalized 0–100 against calm→stress reference levels. Three are leading (prediction markets, options skew, credit – priced before the fact) and two are confirming (volatility, equity drawdown – they rise while a crash happens, not before). Only the leading side can warn; a high confirming score means the damage is already on the tape.

Crash pressure
0/100
Regime · Calm
Stressed ≥ 55 · Elevated ≥ 35
Snapshot 2026-07-10 20:22 UTC
How it works

A managed basket of
prediction-market positions.

i.

Market discovery

The index tracks a curated set of 20 Polymarket AI markets across three themes. Constituent ids, weights, and methodology are public.

See the allocations →
ii.

Deadline-aware pricing

One-time catalysts are annualized with a constant-hazard model so a December deadline and a July deadline compare fairly. Structural questions (†) are left raw.

Trace the math →
iii.

Chain-linked history

The composite line is composition-neutral: a market entering or leaving the set never creates an artificial step. The trend stays whole.

Read methodology →
Results

The market is pricing the cycle.

20/20
Markets live

Constituents currently trading on Polymarket across the two indexes.

$4.2M
Volume tracked

Lifetime traded volume across the indexed prediction markets.

3+2
Signal families

Three leading (prediction markets, options skew, credit) and two confirming (volatility, equity drawdown).

23.6
Crash pressure

Equal-weighted gauge reading, 0–100. Today's regime: Calm.

Methodology

How the index is built.

i.

Curation

Twenty Polymarket markets – 11 Bull, 9 Bear (3 MKT, 6 GOV) – screened for theme relevance and tradability. Closed or resolved markets drop out of the live index automatically.

ii.

Pricing

Each index is 100 × Σ(wᵢ·pᵢ) / Σwᵢ over the constituents live at each timestamp, where pᵢ is the YES midpoint. Weights are equal or lifetime-volume. Deadline-adjusted basis annualizes event markets via 1−(1−p)^(365/days); structural markets (†) stay raw.

iii.

The gauge

Equal-weighted mean of five families, each scored 0–100 against fixed calm→stress reference ranges. Families – not raw signals – are equally weighted, so no family dominates just by having more sub-signals.

iv.

Honesty

The lead-lag study finds no statistically significant lead of the bear index (MKT sleeve) over NVDA/SOXX (right sign, p ≈ 0.14–0.19). The bubble-burst market is partly reflexive – it resolves on the very drawdowns it prices. Treat OMEN as a market-pricing monitor, not a validated forecast.

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Scope

“Popping” and “bubble” are different questions. OMEN’s markets and gauges answer how much stress is priced — they cannot say the market is wrong, which is what “bubble” means. For that the monitor carries two non-sentiment anchors: audited capex vs operating cash flow for the AI-capex filers (SEC XBRL), and LEAPS-implied 1-year tail odds from the far deeper options market as a cross-check on thin prediction books. Everything else here can be collectively euphoric or collectively scared at the same time.

REFERENCE RANGES (CALM → STRESS) – prediction markets: bubble-burst 0–40% · NVDA deep tail 0–25% · H100<$2 0–30%  /  options skew: NVDA 25Δ RR 1–10 pt · SOXX 4–15 pt  /  volatility: VIX/VIX3M 0.82–1.05 · VXN 18–40 · SKEW 115–160 · VVIX 90–130  /  credit: HYG drawdown 0 to −8% · HY/IG 0 to −6%  /  equity: NVDA 0 → −50% · SOXX 0 → −40%
Run it yourself

Pick the cycle you see coming.

Bull or Bear. The full monitor runs locally – one HTML file, one Python script, no dependencies.

# pull the equity / vol / skew / credit feeds, then serve
$ python3 update-market-data.py --watch 600 --snapshot
$ python3 -m http.server 8742
→ http://localhost:8742/polymarket-ai-index.html
Open the monitor → Explore the markets