KALSHI PREDICTION MARKET ANALYSIS
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Economics · GDP — July 22, 2026, 6:44pm ET
US GDP growth in Q2 2026?

Q2 GDP: traders see Above 1.5% as likely, Above 2% as a coin flip

ABOVE 2.0% 51% · 2.0xat publish

Kalshi’s Q2 2026 U.S. GDP growth ladder prices Above 1.0% at 91% and Above 1.5% at 84%, with Above 2.0% near 51% — separate Yes/No bets on the same BEA growth figure.

Snapshot

SNAPSHOTAbove 1.0% 91%Above 1.5% 84%

How this market pays

You’re betting on U.S. real GDP growth for second-quarter 2026. Each “Above X%” line is its own Yes/No bet on the same BEA print — if growth is 1.8%, Above 1.5% and Above 1.0% can both pay Yes.

Your betChanceWins if…$100 bet pays
Above 0.0%100%Above 0.0%
Above 0.5%99%Above 0.5%~$101
Above 1.0%91%Q2 GDP growth is above 1.0%~$109
Above 1.5%84%Q2 GDP growth is above 1.5%~$118
Above 2.0%51%Q2 GDP growth is above 2.0%~$190
Above 2.5%23%Above 2.5%~$413

Lower strikes near certainty remain on Kalshi; Above 2.0% is the clearer debate further down.

How to look at each side

The case for Above 1.0%. Above 1.0% sits at 91% because traders mostly expect second-quarter growth to clear a 1% annualized line when BEA prints the figure. BEA’s GDP pages describe this as the headline measure of U.S. output growth; the ladder is not picking one winner among teams — it is stacking thresholds on one number. That is the Above 1.0% case at 91%: Q2 growth finishes north of 1%.

The case for Above 1.5%. Why Above 1.5% still sits at 84%: it is only seven points behind Above 1.0%, so traders see a modest step up as likely even while Above 2.0% collapses toward a coin flip near 51%. The −5.0 percentage-point day move on Above 1.5% shows the board cooling on a hotter print without abandoning the mid-1% band. That is the Above 1.5% case at 84%: Q2 growth clears 1.5%, even if 2% remains contested.

What the odds are saying

Above 1.0% at 91% and Above 1.5% at 84% means the mid-1% band is favored; Above 2.0% near 51% is where disagreement concentrates.

2 reasons these strikes can still move:

  1. Revisions and source data land before the print. Inventory and trade updates can shove growth across 1.5% or 2.0%.
  2. Nested thresholds move together. A hotter print lifts several Above lines at once — watch the cliff at 2.0%.

The market has soft growth floors mostly locked and the 2% line as the live debate.

What to watch

BEA’s Q2 2026 GDP release (Kalshi’s July 30 event window).

Sources