> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.calibri.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Recurring markets and windows

> Series, windows, and price-feed markets — how a market that asks the same question every five minutes works, what the price line means, and what actually settles it.

Some questions don't happen once. *"Will Bitcoin close higher than it opened?"*
is worth asking every five minutes, forever. On Calibri those are **recurring
series**, and each round is a **window**.

## Series and windows

A **series** is a feed of markets generated from one question on a fixed
cadence — every five minutes, hourly, daily. Each **window** is one round of it:
its own market, its own order book, its own settlement.

Because a five-minute feed produces 288 markets a day, the browse page shows the
whole series as **one card**, not 288 — the card is the **window open right
now**, and once it closes the next one takes its place. Filtering the browse page
to a series shows that same live window on its own. Open it and you get the window
strip: recent windows as a row you can step back through, the live one pulsing, a
countdown to close, and the windows listed ahead.

<Note>
  Not every daily feed collapses. A tennis tour publishes a different fixture each day — those are genuinely different questions and each is listed in full. Only feeds that ask the *same* question each round collapse behind one card.
</Note>

## Series vs tags

Two different ways markets are grouped, and they are not interchangeable:

* A **series** is where an event came from — the feed that generated it. At most one per event, and most events have none at all.
* A **tag** is where an event is *shelved* — what puts it on a hub page. An event can carry several. One "Wimbledon" tag can collect the winner race and every individual match, which come from completely different places.

## Price-feed markets

A recurring crypto window is a **price-feed market**: instead of plotting the
market's own probability, the chart plots the **underlying asset's price** with
the level to beat drawn across it.

You get three views of a window:

* **Odds** — the probability chart every market on the site has. This is what you are actually trading.
* **Price line** — the asset's price through the window, live.
* **Candles** — hours of context around the window, scrollable into the past.

The live price comes from Calibri's own feed, which is republished from **the
same venue the market settles against**. That is deliberate: a chart fed from one
source and a settlement taken from another disagree eventually, and every
disagreement is somebody watching one number and being paid on another.

## What settles a window

A candle-direction window resolves on one question: **did the candle close at or
above its own open?**

* The **open** is fixed the moment the window starts. It is shown from the exchange's own candle, not from the first price the chart happened to see — so arriving mid-window still shows you the real level to beat.
* The **close** moves until the window ends, and it is the same number the resolution source compares against.
* **A tie resolves up.** `close == open` exactly is a real outcome on a quiet five-minute market, not a rounding artefact, and the rule is stated rather than left to chance.

<Note>
  There is a short gap between a window closing *by the clock* and the final candle being confirmed. During it the displayed close is still forming. The app distinguishes the two states so you are never shown a "final" price that then moves.
</Note>

Once settled, the window keeps the two numbers that decided it — the deciding
candle's open and close — so you can always see what happened, even months
later. They are reproducible: anyone can re-request that candle and get the same
values.

<Warning>
  Settlement is **final**. If the exchange later restates its data, or there was an outage or an unusual print during the window, the market stays settled on what was published at the time. See [How markets are resolved](/concepts/resolution-sources).
</Warning>

## Old windows still work

A window that closed three months ago renders exactly like a live one — its
chart, its result, and its settlement figures. Bookmarks and shared links to old
windows resolve.

## Related

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Core concepts" href="/concepts/core-concepts">
    Binary markets, prices as probabilities, settlement.
  </Card>

  <Card title="How markets are resolved" href="/concepts/resolution-sources">
    The exact Coinbase data a window settles on, and why it is never revised.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Market resolution" href="/non-custodial/resolution">
    The on-chain escalation ladder and the deadman switch.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fees" href="/concepts/fees">
    The single taker fee.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API Reference" href="/api-reference/introduction">
    Series, tags, and the underlying-asset price endpoints.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


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