Kalshi national book awards Historical Data
Every Kalshi “national book awards” contract of the day — every trade print and the complete Level-2 book, captured co-located with nanosecond venue and receive timestamps. 29 trading days as day bundles, €1 per day, bought as a guest with instant download.
national book awards on Kalshi — activity
Trades and USD turnover summed over every contract of the series across 20 captured days to 2026-10-12, from the recorded tick data — the per-day averages divide by the captured days. Buy share, quoted spread (in contract price cents, 0..1 = 100 ¢), best-bid/ask depth and Level-2 update counts are turnover-weighted over the same window.
One purchase, the whole series for a day
A series-day bundle contains every national book awards contract that was listed on Kalshi on that UTC day — traded or not — 55 contract files on the latest covered day. Each file carries the full raw feed: every trade print with price, size and side, plus Level-2 order-book updates, in the same zstd-compressed schema as our crypto venues. Event contracts quote 0..1; turnover is USD-normalized.
Coverage runs September 2026 – present — 29 trading days, 16.3 MB compressed in total. A day typically holds 55 contract files (up to 55 on the busiest day, 3.22 MB). Pick individual days in the shop calendar for €1 each; delivery is an instant per-file download or one archive for the whole day.
national book awards — development since capture
222 trades and $3.0K of USD turnover over 21 captured days since 2026-09-23 — record day 2026-09-23 with $1.7K, biggest single contract KXNATBOOKAWARDS-TLIT26-DISAPP (NATBOOKAWARDS · DISAPP) (2026-09-25, $265.25).
| Month | Days | Trades | Turnover (USD) | Avg / day | Contracts traded | L2 updates | vs previous month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 (month to date) | 13 | 86 | $176.32 | $13.56 | 44 | 140.3K | — |
| Sep 2026 | 8 | 136 | $2.8K | $355.11 | 69 | 225.3K | — |
Kalshi national book awards — trades and USD turnover summed per calendar month (UTC) over every contract, from our own daily statistics of the recorded tick data. Days = captured UTC days; a partial month shows no month-over-month change. Contracts traded and L2 (order-book) updates exist for days captured with the extended statistics.
national book awards — activity by weekday
Wednesdays carry the most turnover, about $557.64 per day.
| Weekday (UTC) | Avg turnover / day | USD | Avg trades | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | $2.81 | 1.33 | 3 | |
| Tuesday | $45.35 | 33.5 | 2 | |
| Wednesday | $557.64 | 13 | 3 | |
| Thursday | $13.22 | 3 | 3 | |
| Friday | $330.28 | 22.33 | 3 | |
| Saturday | $22.54 | 3.33 | 3 | |
| Sunday | $48.84 | 8.33 | 3 |
Kalshi national book awards — average USD turnover and trades per weekday over the captured days of the last 30, from our own daily statistics; weekdays without a captured day show —.
national book awards — last 29 days in the archive
Files, size, contracts traded, trades, USD turnover, buy share, quoted spread, top-of-book depth and order-book updates per UTC day, from the recorded tick data.
| UTC day | Files | Size | Traded | Trades | Turnover | Buy share | Avg spread | Top-1 depth | L2 updates | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | 55 | 254 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 3.7K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-20 | 55 | 231 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 3.8K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-19 | 55 | 231 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 3.7K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-18 | 55 | 241 KB | 1 | 1 | $9.94 | 100 % | 89.4 ¢ | $12.12 | 4.3K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-17 | 55 | 214 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 3.3K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-16 | 55 | 332 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 5.7K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-15 | 55 | 371 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 6.9K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-14 | 55 | 376 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 7.3K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-13 | 55 | 482 KB | 1 | 1 | $0.46 | 100 % | — | — | 11.6K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-12 | 55 | 298 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 5.2K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-11 | 55 | 251 KB | 1 | 2 | $0.19 | 53 % | 1.00 ¢ | $7.22 | 4.4K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-10 | 55 | 372 KB | 1 | 1 | $1.88 | 100 % | — | — | 7.0K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-09 | 55 | 433 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 9.3K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-08 | 55 | 264 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 4.5K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-07 | 55 | 271 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 4.6K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-06 | 55 | 550 KB | 31 | 66 | $89.89 | 1 % | 32.0 ¢ | $16 | 12.1K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-05 | 55 | 1.60 MB | 2 | 4 | $8.44 | 56 % | 5.62 ¢ | $3.76 | 48.6K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-04 | 55 | 579 KB | 2 | 3 | $28.94 | 100 % | 11.2 ¢ | $18.04 | 11.7K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-03 | 55 | 440 KB | 2 | 3 | $36.73 | 100 % | 14.9 ¢ | $3.78 | 8.0K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-02 | 55 | 435 KB | 2 | 3 | $7.22 | 100 % | 6.46 ¢ | $7.62 | 8.5K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-10-01 | 55 | 298 KB | 2 | 3 | $2.57 | 100 % | 11.9 ¢ | $3.85 | 4.9K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-09-30 | 55 | 253 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 4.2K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-09-29 | 55 | 214 KB | 1 | 1 | $0.8 | 100 % | 30.8 ¢ | $2.44 | 3.1K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-09-28 | 55 | 273 KB | 0 | 0 | $0 | — | — | — | 5.2K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-09-27 | 55 | 886 KB | 16 | 20 | $117.39 | 22 % | 37.7 ¢ | $137.73 | 25.8K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-09-26 | 55 | 1003 KB | 4 | 6 | $29 | 50 % | 6.63 ¢ | $662.88 | 23.8K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-09-25 | 55 | 1.13 MB | 24 | 64 | $983.63 | 32 % | 2.78 ¢ | $517.57 | 28.4K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-09-24 | 55 | 1.06 MB | 3 | 6 | $37.09 | 90 % | 1.04 ¢ | $962.92 | 25.9K | Buy day → | |
| 2026-09-23 | 55 | 3.22 MB | 21 | 39 | $1.7K | 1 % | 14.3 ¢ | $538.13 | 108.9K | Buy day → |
Traded = contracts with at least one trade that day. Buy share = taker-buy side of USD turnover. Avg spread = quoted bid-ask spread in contract price cents (0..1 = 100 ¢), weighted by turnover across the day’s contracts. Top-1 depth = mean of the best bid and best ask notional in USD, weighted by turnover. L2 updates = order-book level updates recorded across all contracts of the day. Days captured before the extended statistics show —.
Most traded national book awards contracts by day
The ten contracts with the most USD turnover per UTC day — open, high, low, close, VWAP and the outcome implied by the last print; the six previous days fold out below.
The 1 most traded national book awards contracts on 2026-10-18 — 0 closed Yes (≥ 0.97), 0 closed No (≤ 0.03), 1 still open at the last print: 1 trades, $9.94 USD turnover. The busiest contract was KXNATBOOKAWARDS-YPLIT26-THATWH with $9.94 turnover.
| Contract | Open | High | Low | Close | VWAP | Implied outcome | Trades | Turnover | Buy share | Spread | Top-1 depth | L2 updates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-YPLIT26-THATWH NATBOOKAWARDS · THATWH | 0.920 | 0.920 | 0.920 | 0.920 | 0.920 | open | 1 | $9.94 | 100 % | 89.4 ¢ | $12.12 | 20 | buy file → |
Prices quote 0..1 (probability of Yes). Open/high/low/close/VWAP are that UTC day’s trade prints per contract; the implied outcome reads the last print — ≥ 0.97 as Yes, ≤ 0.03 as No, anything between as still open — venues publish the official result. Buy share = taker-buy side of turnover; spread = the contract's turnover-weighted quoted bid-ask spread in cents, top-1 depth = mean best-bid/ask notional per side, L2 updates = order-book level updates recorded for the contract that day. “Settles” is the venue-listed close time of the contract where the venue publishes one (UTC).
2026-10-13 — 1 contract, 1 trades, $0.46 turnover
The 1 most traded national book awards contracts on 2026-10-13 — 0 closed Yes (≥ 0.97), 1 closed No (≤ 0.03): 1 trades, $0.46 USD turnover. The busiest contract was KXNATBOOKAWARDS-YPLIT26-TIE with $0.46 turnover.
| Contract | Open | High | Low | Close | VWAP | Implied outcome | Trades | Turnover | Buy share | Spread | Top-1 depth | L2 updates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-YPLIT26-TIE NATBOOKAWARDS · TIE | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.030 | No | 1 | $0.46 | 100 % | — | — | 65 | buy file → |
2026-10-11 — 1 contract, 2 trades, $0.19 turnover
The 1 most traded national book awards contracts on 2026-10-11 — 0 closed Yes (≥ 0.97), 0 closed No (≤ 0.03), 1 still open at the last print: 2 trades, $0.19 USD turnover. The busiest contract was KXNATBOOKAWARDS-TLIT26-PUREME with $0.19 turnover.
| Contract | Open | High | Low | Close | VWAP | Implied outcome | Trades | Turnover | Buy share | Spread | Top-1 depth | L2 updates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-TLIT26-PUREME NATBOOKAWARDS · PUREME | 0.100 | 0.100 | 0.090 | 0.090 | 0.095 | open | 2 | $0.19 | 53 % | 1.00 ¢ | $7.22 | 95 | buy file → |
2026-10-10 — 1 contract, 1 trades, $1.88 turnover
The 1 most traded national book awards contracts on 2026-10-10 — 0 closed Yes (≥ 0.97), 1 closed No (≤ 0.03): 1 trades, $1.88 USD turnover. The busiest contract was KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-DISAPP with $1.88 turnover.
| Contract | Open | High | Low | Close | VWAP | Implied outcome | Trades | Turnover | Buy share | Spread | Top-1 depth | L2 updates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-DISAPP NATBOOKAWARDS · DISAPP | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.010 | No | 1 | $1.88 | 100 % | — | — | 110 | buy file → |
2026-10-06 — 10 contracts, 37 trades, $64.69 turnover
The 10 most traded national book awards contracts on 2026-10-06 — 0 closed Yes (≥ 0.97), 10 closed No (≤ 0.03): 37 trades, $64.69 USD turnover. The busiest contract was KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-DISAPP with $13.99 turnover.
| Contract | Open | High | Low | Close | VWAP | Implied outcome | Trades | Turnover | Buy share | Spread | Top-1 depth | L2 updates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-DISAPP NATBOOKAWARDS · DISAPP | 0.110 | 0.110 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.031 | No | 5 | $13.99 | 0 % | 69.1 ¢ | $47.66 | 239 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-NONF26-DANGER NATBOOKAWARDS · DANGER | 0.320 | 0.320 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.032 | No | 7 | $12.66 | 3 % | 30.8 ¢ | $12.83 | 390 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-TLIT26-DISAPP NATBOOKAWARDS · DISAPP | 0.050 | 0.050 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.031 | No | 4 | $11.4 | 0 % | 15.7 ¢ | $5.56 | 236 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-NONF26-DEADWH NATBOOKAWARDS · DEADWH | 0.110 | 0.110 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.021 | No | 6 | $9.21 | 1 % | 21.8 ¢ | $7.75 | 393 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-PYTHON NATBOOKAWARDS · PYTHON | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.020 | No | 2 | $4 | 0 % | 37.2 ¢ | $16 | 226 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-POETRY26-HORSES NATBOOKAWARDS · HORSES | 0.020 | 0.020 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.015 | No | 2 | $3 | 0 % | 29.7 ¢ | $21.48 | 308 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-POETRY26-BRONZE NATBOOKAWARDS · BRONZE | 0.020 | 0.020 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.015 | No | 2 | $2.98 | 0 % | 26.9 ¢ | $17.29 | 320 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-REDANT NATBOOKAWARDS · REDANT | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.015 | No | 3 | $2.55 | 0 % | 20.4 ¢ | $4.32 | 280 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-NONF26-SEASON NATBOOKAWARDS · SEASON | 0.050 | 0.050 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.014 | No | 3 | $2.45 | 2 % | 2.33 ¢ | $3.84 | 373 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-NONF26-WARWIT NATBOOKAWARDS · WARWIT | 0.050 | 0.050 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.014 | No | 3 | $2.45 | 2 % | 2.55 ¢ | $3.01 | 355 | buy file → |
2026-10-05 — 2 contracts, 4 trades, $8.44 turnover
The 2 most traded national book awards contracts on 2026-10-05 — 0 closed Yes (≥ 0.97), 0 closed No (≤ 0.03), 2 still open at the last print: 4 trades, $8.44 USD turnover. The busiest contract was KXNATBOOKAWARDS-NONF26-DEADWH with $4.7 turnover.
| Contract | Open | High | Low | Close | VWAP | Implied outcome | Trades | Turnover | Buy share | Spread | Top-1 depth | L2 updates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-NONF26-DEADWH NATBOOKAWARDS · DEADWH | 0.080 | 0.120 | 0.080 | 0.120 | 0.114 | open | 3 | $4.7 | 100 % | 6.10 ¢ | $5.18 | 482 | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-NONF26-MOTHER NATBOOKAWARDS · MOTHER | 0.120 | 0.120 | 0.120 | 0.120 | 0.120 | open | 1 | $3.74 | 0 % | 5.02 ¢ | $1.96 | 554 | buy file → |
2026-10-04 — 2 contracts, 3 trades, $28.94 turnover
The 2 most traded national book awards contracts on 2026-10-04 — 0 closed Yes (≥ 0.97), 0 closed No (≤ 0.03), 2 still open at the last print: 3 trades, $28.94 USD turnover. The busiest contract was KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-DISAPP with $28 turnover.
| Contract | Open | High | Low | Close | VWAP | Implied outcome | Trades | Turnover | Buy share | Spread | Top-1 depth | L2 updates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-DISAPP NATBOOKAWARDS · DISAPP | 0.130 | 0.140 | 0.130 | 0.140 | 0.140 | open | 1 | $28 | 100 % | 11.3 ¢ | $18.41 | 1.1K | buy file → |
| KXNATBOOKAWARDS-FIC26-REDANT NATBOOKAWARDS · REDANT | 0.120 | 0.130 | 0.120 | 0.130 | 0.123 | open | 2 | $0.94 | 100 % | 8.39 ¢ | $7.21 | 279 | buy file → |
How a national book awards contract trades
On Kalshi, a national book awards contract trades until its event settles, is listed roughly 66 min before it opens, and quotes in 1 ¢ price steps (0..1). Measured on the 1 contracts captured on 2026-10-18.
Try a national book awards contract file for free
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KXNATBOOKAWARDS-YPLIT26-TIE minute by minute — 2026-10-13
One-minute open/high/low/close, trades, USD turnover, quoted spread and top-of-book depth of the sample contract — the same 1-minute statistics every instrument’s analytics page offers.
KXNATBOOKAWARDS-YPLIT26-TIE traded in 1 of the day’s minutes (02:03–02:03 UTC): 1 trades, $0.46 turnover, opening at 0.030, ranging 0.030–0.030 and closing at 0.030.
| Minute (UTC) | Open | High | Low | Close | Trades | Turnover | Spread | Top-1 bid / ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02:03 | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.030 | 0.030 | 1 | $0.46 | — | — |
1-minute statistics computed from the recorded ticks; minutes without a trade are omitted. Spread in contract price cents; top-1 depth = resting notional at the best bid / best ask. Every minute of every day is in the free analytics; the raw ticks are in the sample file above.
Build a national book awards model on this data
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Kalshi national book awards data — FAQ
What Kalshi national book awards data can I download?
Tick-by-tick trades and Level-2 order-book depth for every contract of the national book awards series on Kalshi (55 contract files on the latest day). One bundle = one UTC day of the whole series.
What is the Kalshi series ticker for national book awards?
KXNATBOOKAWARDS — every contract of the series carries this prefix in its ticker (followed by the event date and strike). Files in a day bundle are named by the full contract ticker, so a bundle holds every KXNATBOOKAWARDS-* contract listed that UTC day.
How far back does the national book awards data go?
Coverage runs September 2026 – present — 29 trading days in total.
What format are the Kalshi files in?
One zstd-compressed text file per contract per UTC day, in the same normalized schema as our crypto venues — see the market-data specification; free samples on the downloads page.
Can I get Kalshi national book awards data as CSV or Parquet?
Yes — trades export as gzipped CSV or Parquet at no extra cost, with integer microsecond UTC timestamps that load straight into pandas, polars or DuckDB. Kalshi records full order-book depth without a separate BBO stream, so book data ships in the native tick file — the free reader script converts it locally. See the formats overview.
How much does Kalshi national book awards historical data cost?
€1 per series-day bundle — every contract of the series for that day — no subscription, no minimum order; buy as a guest in the Data Shop and download immediately. Credit packs lower the effective price and never expire.
Do I need an account or a sales call?
No. Pick the national book awards series-days in the Data Shop, pay by card as a guest and download immediately — no subscription, no minimum order, no KYC, no enterprise contract, no sales call. Coding agents buy the same bundles through the MCP server.
How is the Kalshi national book awards data captured?
Co-located at the venue, message by message: every Level-2 update and every trade print carries the exchange timestamp and our receive timestamp in integer nanoseconds, an event-id chain makes any gap visible, and one normalized schema across 35+ venues means a parser written for Binance reads these files unchanged. It is the same capture our own high-frequency trading engine runs on — nothing sampled, no top-N cut.
How many national book awards contracts trade per day on Kalshi?
On average 6 national book awards contracts had at least one trade per UTC day over the last 20 captured days on Kalshi, with about 17.7K order-book level updates recorded per day. A day bundle contains every contract file of the series for that day.
How liquid are Kalshi national book awards contracts?
Over the last 20 captured days, the turnover-weighted quoted bid-ask spread was 11.7 ¢ (contracts quote 0..1 = 100 ¢), the mean best-bid/best-ask notional was about $491.79 per side, 16 % of USD turnover was taker-buy. These figures are computed from the recorded Level-2 order books and trade prints — the same data in the day bundles.
What was the most traded national book awards contract on 2026-10-18?
KXNATBOOKAWARDS-YPLIT26-THATWH (NATBOOKAWARDS · THATWH) — $9.94 USD turnover over 1 trades on Kalshi. The 1 most traded contracts of the series did 1 trades and $9.94 that UTC day. Open, high, low, close and VWAP per contract are listed on this page; the tick-level data is in the day bundle.
What was the busiest national book awards trading day on Kalshi?
2026-09-23, with $1.7K of USD turnover over 39 trades across every national book awards contract of the day; the busiest full month was Sep 2026 at $2.8K. Since our statistics began on 2026-09-23 the series has recorded 222 trades and $3.0K over 21 captured days; the single biggest contract was KXNATBOOKAWARDS-TLIT26-DISAPP (NATBOOKAWARDS · DISAPP) on 2026-09-25 with $265.25. Any of these days is a downloadable bundle.
Which weekday does Kalshi national book awards trade most?
Wednesdays — about $557.64 of USD turnover per Wednesday and 55 % of the series' turnover over the 20 captured days to 2026-10-12 on Kalshi, summed from every trade print of the series' contracts. The weekday profile on this page shows all seven days; the day bundles carry the full tape behind them.