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Q stayed between 2% and 5% while uranium deal headlines moved the market.

The market traded $20.5 million and moved with each round of uranium deal news. Q’s forecasts stayed focused on the physical constraints and the May 31 deadline.

The call
Market priced
18%
Q forecast
4%
The edge
Every physical path to possession was too slow for the deadline.
Total return if held to resolution
+22.0%
First 7 days
−1.8%
$1,000 at signal
→ $1,220

At the April 13 signal price of 82¢, a $1,000 NO position was down 11.6% at its worst point, then settled at about $1,220 at resolution, before fees and slippage.

How the call developedQ’s forecastBefore signalPolymarket price

Probability the US obtains Iranian enriched uranium by May 31, %

050100Q’s call heldQ123Q begins watchingApr 1Signal publishedApr 13Last Q updateApr 23Resolved NOMay 31
1TIME · NPRApr 11–12
Iran rejects uranium handover

The 21-hour Islamabad session collapsed. Iran explicitly rejected the US demand to retrieve its enriched uranium.

2AxiosApr 13
Mediators rush to revive talks

Mediators insisted the door was not closed. Reports the US asked Iran to freeze enrichment for 20 years lifted the odds to their April 17 peak.

3ReutersApr 17
Iran denies a transfer deal

The Iranian Foreign Ministry explicitly denied any nuclear-transfer agreement, killing the rumor at the peak.

Sources reviewed

Reviewed 114 citations across 43 distinct sources.

Includes satellite-imagery assessment, arms-control analysis, and wire coverage.

IAEAArms Control AssociationCFRReutersNPRAxiosTIMEWaPoNBC

What Q saw

Q read the physical timeline. Iran sealed the tunnel entrances at Isfahan with soil and debris on March 18, so a forcible recovery meant a multi-week military excavation. Even an agreed transfer required weeks of logistics, and blockade pressure takes months to become coercive. Iran’s position was explicit refusal. The market kept pricing diplomatic headlines. The calendar could not clear.

How Q tested it

Q tracked every path that could put the uranium in US hands before the deadline. None of them could clear in time.

Break conditionWhy it matteredResult
Iran accepts a handover in negotiationsA diplomatic transfer agreement was the fastest path to YES before May 31.Rejected at Islamabad
The US seizes the stockpile by forceMilitary custody would satisfy the resolution criteria directly.Blockade chosen instead
A third party takes custodyUranium moved to Russia or the IAEA could arguably trigger possession.Trump rejected Putin’s offer
Signal recordPublished April 13, 2026. Full case: quotient.social/proof-of-edge/uranium

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