Latest market development: Prediction markets could soon be available in your retirement account.
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- Soon, investors may be able to wager on who wins control of the Senate in their brokerage accounts
- Bitwise, Roundhill and GraniteShares have filed applications with the SEC to offer event contracts as exchange-traded funds which would then be available, for instance, within a self-directed IRA
- “An ETF issuer’s job is to give investors access to investments they want and we see a lot of interest in prediction markets,” said William Rhind, founder and CEO of GraniteShares ETFs
- The companies want to offer a Democrat president ETF or Republican president ETF, essentially an investment in who wins the White House in the election November 7, 2028
- Similar ETFs are proposed for the outcome of which party takes control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in this year’s midterm elections
- The ETFs would roughly track the changes in probability of the prediction markets, which offer a payout on a winning bet and nothing on a losing bet
- Source: Prediction markets could soon be available in your retirement account
Market Analysis
This development warrants attention from traders and investors across asset classes.
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Published by Reviewforexbroker on April 26, 2026. Source: Prediction markets could soon be available in your retiremen