since i changed my trading routines and built agents that help me separate resolution criteria per category, the trades started landing. this whole game is left curve. you don't need to be fast or best informed (unless you're an insider).

trading headlines like we've been doing for months now, you don't want to see a market, articulate a thesis, place orders, hold to resolution. you get a wild ride.
watch similar markets. extended ceasefire. hormuz april, then may. then the obvious peace deal.
binary YES/NO carries different weights. something can happen, something supposed to happen, something that would be beneficial. each one different.
some announcement or BIG D words make wild moves. your job: figure out if it's just a headline or if something shifted.
does a US announcement get hormuz open with >60MA ships moving in 7 days? resolver is strict. you need more than 420 ships day by day to push it to YES. yeah there's some instant-flush probability, thousands of ships parked waiting to leave hormuz. but will they sail the moment trump posts? do they drift between mines? what about insurance companies?
resolver = strict.
now peace deal reads: "Both the governments of the United States and Iran provide clear public confirmation that a qualifying agreement has been definitively established."
still, they need to make a deal. but a US announcement plus iran confirmation solves it as YES. no ships that need time, money and insurance to sail.
and then extended ceasefire, where resolution comes down to a BIG D tweet..
any one of these qualifies. on its own:
"- President Trump announcing that 'the ceasefire has been extended for another 60 days.'
- President Trump's April 21, 2026 announcement extending the ceasefire 'until the Iranian negotiators could reach a unified proposal.'"
bullet two already happened. that's the precedent.
and if permanent peace closes YES, extended pays too. permanent requires bilateral confirmation plus "lasting end to hostilities". that language keeps a ceasefire going. so permanent YES drags extended YES with it. doesn't go the other way though. extended can hit YES on a temporary MoU while permanent stays NO.
same cluster. three markets. one needs hundreds of ships sailing. one needs both governments on record. one needs trump to post.
retail FOMOs into strict-resolver markets. they buy YES on "iran reopens hormuz with >60MA in 7 days" because the headline reads bullish. i sit there adding NO.
then i flip to YES where the resolver favors a YES print. one tweet, one announcement, one government statement. cheap optionality.
been profitable enough so far.