Failure-pattern registry · version 1.0.0

No halt or suspension criteria

PMI-WP-006NoteTrack: Market integrityRevised

Definition

Written to be quoted. This is the sentence to cite when a counterparty disagrees, not the sentence the tool shows you.

The text states no basis for halting or suspending trading if the underlying event becomes contested or the resolution source stops publishing mid-market. Silence here is common and is not always a defect — venue policy may already cover it.

Remedy

Confirm the venue policy that applies, or state the halt criteria in the contract.

Severity

Note — worth confirming

Where it comes from

Which manipulations are structural?

Thin-book distortion, resolution-source attack, wash and cross patterns, and information advantage — separated into what surveillance can catch and what only design can prevent.

The standing agenda

Cite this

The identifier names the pattern for good. The version names the exact wording of the definition above, which is what an argument about a contract actually turns on.

Prediction Markets Institute, “No halt or suspension criteria” (PMI-WP-006), wording failure-pattern registry v1.0.0, https://www.predictionmarketadvisors.com/patterns/PMI-WP-006

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