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Releases, research, and what's coming next from the engine team.

01 LAUNCH
June 16, 2026

Two New Ways to Play the Sky: Storm Spin and Storm Bet Are Live

NEW LAUNCH · STORM GAMES Two New Ways to Play the Sky: Storm Spin and Storm Bet Are Live June 16, 2026 This is a big one for the Field Notes. StormBot has always pointed its instruments at one thing — reading the atmosphere better than the market and trading that edge for you. To…

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02 UPGRADE
June 3, 2026

The Hong Kong Lock: We Stopped Forecasting the City and Started Reading It

ENGINE UPGRADE · HONG KONG The Hong Kong Lock: We Stopped Forecasting the City and Started Reading It June 3, 2026 Polymarket settles every Hong Kong temperature market on a single number — the official daily maximum logged by the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). For one city, that t…

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03 NUMBERS
May 23, 2026

StormBot by the Numbers: 9,592 Traders, $2.87M in Member Profit, and Exactly What It Costs to Run

We keep these Field Notes on one rule: show the readings, not just the story. When the weather turns we publish the gauge, not a vibe — and the same goes for the platform itself. As of May 23, 2026, StormBot serves 9,592 registered traders across 94 countries, who have realized a…

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04 ENFORCEMENT
May 22, 2026

We Banned 213 Accounts for Engine Abuse — Here Is Exactly What Happened, and Why

ENGINE ABUSE · TRANSPARENCY REPORT We Banned 213 Accounts for Engine Abuse — Here Is Exactly What Happened, and Why May 22, 2026 Over a 30-day audit window ending May 22, 2026, StormBot identified and removed 213 user accounts for sustained abuse of our AI Engine. Roughly 85% of …

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05 MODE
May 18, 2026

A Closer Look at Magic15 — the Set-and-Forget Workflow

SET-AND-FORGET A Closer Look at Magic15 — the Set-and-Forget Workflow May 18, 2026 We have already laid out how StormBot's two modes differ. This post is narrower and more practical: it is about actually living with the set-and-forget mode. Magic15 is the one we point new traders…

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06 RELIABILITY
May 18, 2026

Position Memory: StormBot Now Remembers What It Holds Across Restarts

RELIABILITY · SHIPPED · PROTECTS YOUR BANKROLL Position Memory: StormBot Now Remembers What It Holds Across Restarts May 18, 2026 This is a Field Note about one of the most important reliability fixes in StormBot's history. It is not a flashy new feature — it is a bankroll-protec…

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07 SECURITY
April 28, 2026

Beware of Copycats — fake sites are impersonating StormBot

SECURITY ALERT · IMPORTANT · READ THIS Beware of Copycats — fake sites are impersonating StormBot April 28, 2026 Sites pretending to be StormBot are real, and they are dangerous. They copy our look, lift our branding, and wire their "connect wallet" screen to steal your keys. We …

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08 ALPHA
April 21, 2026

Wiring WeatherNext 2 Into the Engine

IN DEVELOPMENT · ALPHA Wiring WeatherNext 2 Into the Engine April 21, 2026 We've started on what is, by some distance, the biggest forecast-accuracy upgrade we've ever attempted: folding Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 2 into the StormBot probability core. If we land it cleanly, it…

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09 NEW
April 14, 2026

Engine v2 Shipped — Faster Streams, Wider Books, Tighter AI

MAJOR RELEASE Engine v2 Shipped — Faster Streams, Wider Books, Tighter AI April 14, 2026 Engine v2 is live. This was not a UI patch or a feature tweak — it is a ground-up rebuild. New infrastructure, a new trading core, a new dashboard and a noticeably different experience for ev…

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10 HOT
March 29, 2026

When StormBot Might Close Its Doors — A Plain Update

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT When StormBot Might Close Its Doors — A Plain Update March 29, 2026 It's time for a candid conversation with the community about where StormBot goes from here. The growth we've seen over the last several months has been off-the-charts — and it has forced us…

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11 NEW
March 26, 2026

Gemini, TensorFlow & Our Own Weather Station — What Comes Next

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT Gemini, TensorFlow & Our Own Weather Station — What Comes Next March 26, 2026 We're putting together something that, as far as we can tell, no prediction-market trader has done before: owning the data pipeline end to end. Most bots in this space stop at public …

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12 AI
March 26, 2026

The Self-Improving Loop — Every Closed Trade Teaches the Engine

NEW FEATURE The Self-Improving Loop — Every Closed Trade Teaches the Engine March 26, 2026 Most trading bots are frozen in time. The logic they run today is the logic they ran on day one. If they made a bad trade once, they will happily make the same bad trade tomorrow. We decide…

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13 DEV
March 26, 2026

What's On The Build List Right Now

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP What's On The Build List Right Now March 26, 2026 The team is operating round the clock to push StormBot further than any other prediction-market trading stack in production. This is not a side project. It is a full-time operation that consumes a meaningful ch…

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14 ENG
March 26, 2026

The Browser Heartbeat That Conserves Claude Credits

ENGINEERING UPDATE The Browser Heartbeat That Conserves Claude Credits March 26, 2026 Some honesty up front: running this engine is expensive on the AI side. Every five minutes, Claude reviews fifteen books — fifteen separate API calls, each carrying a fully briefed meteorologica…

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15 UPD
March 2026 · Updated May 18, 2026 to match the live engine

The Two Modes: Continuous and Magic15

STRATEGY UPDATE ★ MAGIC15 RECOMMENDED The Two Modes: Continuous and Magic15 March 2026 · Updated May 18, 2026 to match the live engine StormBot keeps it deliberately simple. There are exactly two run modes, and they share the same brain — the same four-model forecast, the same ed…

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16 GUIDE
A six-stage walkthrough of the full pipeline

How the Engine Finds the Edge

GUIDE How the Engine Finds the Edge A six-stage walkthrough of the full pipeline 01 Locate weather books The discovery layer queries Polymarket's Gamma API filtered by the weather tag, surfacing somewhere between 200 and 1,200 active books at any given moment. Each book carries m…

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