Well, technically it was 999.79% in one day.
That is what last night turned into, live from Terry Black’s Barbecue in Dallas with Kalshi and Politicon. Texas runoff. Paxton over Cornyn. I told you for days I had a strong position. Here is the chain.
What I called, and when I called it
A dab on Paxton around 60 cents, before there was any certainty President Trump was actually going to weigh in. Before that, in the first round, I had been on Cornyn. Not out of loyalty. Loyalty in prediction markets usually gets expensive. I was on Cornyn because he was undervalued to make the runoff while Paxton was overpriced going into it. That is how these markets work. You take the value where you find it, not where your emotions want it to be.
When the rumor mill started screaming that Trump was about to endorse Cornyn, that position ripped up to about 91 cents. I sold there. Clean exit. Locked the gain.
Then it was right back to Paxton. Once the endorsement was real, I kept packing in. 85. 86. 88. 90. 92. 94. The highest fill I took was around 96. By then, the straight-up winner market was basically cooked. The value had moved to the margin markets.
The buy of the night was Ken Paxton plus 20%. Average entry, 8.82 cents. It closed for a full payout. Final return: 999.79%, which I rounded to 1000% on the stream because at that point I felt like I had earned the rounding rights.
The Thesis
This was not a hunch. It is an active thesis I have been riding for six elections straight: when Donald Trump issues a feasible endorsement in a Republican primary, he wins.
Feasible meaning not a moonshot against a heavy favorite, but a real candidate in a real race where the endorsement tips the scale. Paxton was already winning. Texas voters were already looking for permission to leave Cornyn behind. The endorsement was the permission. Three forces lined up. I pressed.
And honestly, the framework itself is the asset. That thesis stays loaded through the midterms until the market proves otherwise. When it breaks, you’ll hear me say it first.
Free Lotto Tickets
“I like to get free lotto tickets. I don’t like paying for my lotto tickets.”
This is the part to commit to memory.
The plus-20% margin position on Paxton was, by itself, a long shot. I thought it was possible. I did not think it was the most likely outcome. The most likely outcome was probably a solid but more normal win in the 10-point range, which would have killed the trade.
So I did not pay for it directly. I funded the long shot using a smaller win on the No position in the 0-5% margin market, a trade I felt extremely confident about. That higher-confidence position generated enough profit to effectively cover the entire +20% buy.
That is the framework. If the long shot misses, the safer wins keep me whole. If the long shot hits, the multiplier comes from house money. That is what I mean by a free lotto ticket. I do not like paying for my lotto tickets.
We Also Hit
It was not just one trade. The whole board moved our way.
Vickie Goodwin in the Democratic lieutenant governor primary, 68-31.
Menifee over Al Green, 69-31.
Colin Allred in Texas 33.
Mayes Middleton in the AG race, which we still had marked to hit at stream’s end.
The Talarico vs Cornyn matchup-No, which paid out the moment Paxton closed it.
A clean night.
What’s Next
Texas was the warm-up. Next up is the California governor primary and the LA mayoral race. After that, the midterm primary calendar starts getting aggressive and the bankroll we are building together actually gets put to work. That is the difference between being in the live stream and catching the recap the next morning. The live audience was holding positions while the prices were still cheap. The recap audience is reading about positions after the markets already settled and the value disappeared.
One group got the opportunity. The other group got the story afterward.
▶ Watch the full live stream
Two hours, live from Terry Black’s Barbecue. The trades as they cleared, the chat reactions, the on-the-fly market analysis, and the moment the plus-20% position closed for a 1000% day. Everything that does not translate to written form is in the video.
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