Traffic through the Bab al-Mandab Strait is a weekly politics series on Kalshi, with markets like “Will there be more than 220 transit calls through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Oct 19, 2026 to Oct 25, 2026?”. The Kalshi Eye archive lists 86 of its markets and has 13 days of daily Parquet files from October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026 (55 MB), with every order book change and trade.

Venue: Kalshi, series KXBABELMANDEBWEEKLY
Category: Politics, weekly
Markets: 86 (64 settled, 22 open)
Files: 13 days, October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026, 55 MB, 3,568,102 rows
Datasets: Order book (L2, incremental), Order book snapshots (top 10, 1 second), Top of book (every change), Top of book (1-minute bars), Trades

Open Traffic through the Bab al-Mandab Strait in Markets to see every day and market, then export the days you need. Free sample files of each dataset are on the Kalshi data page.

Reading the files

Every KXBABELMANDEBWEEKLY trade on October 24, 2026, in DuckDB:

SELECT ts_recv, ticker, yes_price, size, taker_side
FROM 'kalshieye-data/trades/date=2026-10-24/series=KXBABELMANDEBWEEKLY/trades-KXBABELMANDEBWEEKLY-2026-10-24.parquet'
ORDER BY ts_recv;

To test a strategy on this series, see How to backtest Kalshi markets.

Related Kalshi series

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz (KXHORMUZWEEKLY): 122 markets, 13 days of files
Maximum traffic through the Strait of Hormuz? (KXHORMUZMAX): 105 markets, 13 days of files
Traffic through the Suez Canal (KXSUEZWEEKLY): 76 markets, 13 days of files
Traffic through the Panama Canal (KXPANAMAWEEKLY): 72 markets, 13 days of files
Maximum daily count of ships through the Strait of Hormuz? (KXMAXSHIPSHORMUZ): 31 markets, 13 days of files
When will traffic at the Strait of Hormuz return to normal? (KXHORMUZNORM): 21 markets, 13 days of files

Figures through October 24, 2026. All Kalshi series with pages are listed on Kalshi series.