US Challenger job cuts is a monthly economics series on Kalshi, with markets like “Will United States Challenger Job Cuts for September 2026 be above 90,000?”. The Kalshi Eye archive lists 36 of its markets and has 13 days of daily Parquet files from October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026 (582 KB), with every order book change and trade.

Venue: Kalshi, series KXCHCUTS
Category: Economics, monthly
Markets: 36 (27 settled, 9 open)
Files: 13 days, October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026, 582 KB, 54,154 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 US Challenger job cuts 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 KXCHCUTS 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=KXCHCUTS/trades-KXCHCUTS-2026-10-24.parquet'
ORDER BY ts_recv;

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

Related Kalshi series

U.S. job openings in [month] (KXJOLTSOPEN): 28 markets, 12 days of files
Number of rate cuts (KXRATECUTCOUNT): 21 markets, 13 days of files
Government budget cuts (KXGOVTCUTS): 16 markets, 13 days of files
Monthly Unemployment (KXUE): 186 markets, 13 days of files
Year over year inflation (KXECONSTATCPIYOY): 119 markets, 13 days of files
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE MONTHLY (KXECONSTATU3): 115 markets, 13 days of files

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