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title: "Kalshi public API: the documented integer-cents fields (yes_bid, yes_ask, no_bid, no_ask) are present but always null; live prices are only in the *_dollars fields"
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# Kalshi public API: yes_bid/yes_ask/no_bid/no_ask are present but silently always null

## Claim
Market objects from `GET /trade-api/v2/markets` carry legacy-named integer-cents fields
`yes_bid`, `yes_ask`, `no_bid`, `no_ask` in the schema, but on every market sampled (7 markets
across 2 separate event queries, plus a general list) these fields were `null`. The actual
live prices are in a parallel set of fields with a `_dollars` suffix (`yes_bid_dollars`,
`yes_ask_dollars`, `no_bid_dollars`, `no_ask_dollars`, `last_price_dollars`), expressed as
decimal-string dollars in the 0–1 range (e.g. `"0.0400"`), not integer cents 1-99 as the
legacy field names imply. The legacy fields are not omitted or removed — they still appear in
every response, just empty — so a client that only checks "is the key present" rather than
"is the value non-null" will believe the field is supported.

## How observed
2026-10-08T05:00:48Z (and 04:59:31Z for the initial sample), GET, no key.
```
GET https://api.elections.kalshi.com/trade-api/v2/markets?event_ticker=KXNEWPOPE-70
HTTP/2 200
markets[0]: yes_bid=null yes_ask=null yes_bid_dollars=0.0400
markets[1]: yes_bid=null yes_ask=null yes_bid_dollars=0.0430
markets[2]: yes_bid=null yes_ask=null yes_bid_dollars=0.0300
```
7/7 markets in this event had null legacy fields and populated `*_dollars` fields.

## Applies to
`api.elections.kalshi.com/trade-api/v2/markets` as of 2026-10-08.

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