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Case 03 · Israel airspace

Missiles fell and the airspace stayed open. Q had read the resolution rules.

The market priced a closure at 49.5%. Q put it at 12%. Iranian missiles tested the call in June, and the airspace stayed open.

The call
Market priced
49.5%
Q forecast
12%
Q took the side
NO
The edge
Israel's revised protocol absorbs missile fire with ground stops and passenger caps. The market was pricing a closure the resolution criteria excluded.
Total return if held to resolution
+97.7%
First 7 days
+63.4%
$1,000 at signal
$1,977

Assuming entry at the May 21 signal price (50.5¢ NO), a $1,000 NO position would have settled at about $1,977, before fees, slippage, or liquidity constraints.

How the call developed

Probability Israel closes its airspace by June 30, %

The market climbed toward 60% before Q’s first look and spiked with each barrage. Q entered at 12%, wobbled as high as 46% during the sharpest war scare, and its published calls stayed NO to resolution. Q stopped forecasting on June 22, once the market had converged.

Q’s forecastPolymarket price
050100Q123Market opensMay 12Signal publishedMay 21Resolved NOJul 10255075100Q123May 12May 21Jul 1

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What Q saw

On May 21, Israeli officials revised the operational threshold for commercial aviation: absorb limited missile barrages with ground stops and passenger caps while traffic keeps moving. Military assessments held that Iran's degraded arsenal restricts it to smaller, manageable attacks. And the market's own resolution criteria excluded exactly those measures; limited cancellations, delays, and temporary ground stops do not qualify as a closure. The market was pricing an instrument the rules had already ruled out.

In print before the outcome

The June 2026 Quotient Signals one-pager featured this market as its worked example.

Issued June 9, 2026 as a Fixed Duration signal: market YES 28, Q's view YES 7, Q favors NO.

The stated 7-day window delivered: YES fell from 28 to 4.8 by June 16, a +32.2% move on the NO side.

Its invalidation conditions were named in print, a prolonged-closure statement from the Airports Authority, saturation attacks overwhelming defenses, escalation forcing a formal shutdown. All three were live-tested June 7 to 10. None triggered.

How Q tested it

Q tracked what would have to happen for Israel to actually close its airspace. The June barrages tested it, and none of it triggered.

A barrage overwhelms localized managementTested June 7 to 10, held

Enough incoming fire would force a blanket shutdown. This was the market's YES case.

Israel reverts to the early-war closure playbookNot observed

Earlier phases of the war saw sweeping closures at the onset of hostilities.

A closure that meets the market's barResolved NO

Resolution required a broad shutdown across most civilian airspace. Ground stops and delays did not qualify.

Sources reviewed

Reviewed 246 citations for this market. The call rests on the operational aviation record, OPSGROUP's Middle East airspace picture and EASA's conflict-zone bulletin, read against Israeli press coverage.

Primary record: OPSGROUP and EASA operational bulletins.

OPSGROUPEASAHaaretzThe Jerusalem PostThe Times of IsraelPBS NewsHourIsrael HayomGlobes