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# Kalshi public API: three ID levels (series, event, market), but a market only names its event

## Claim
Kalshi's hierarchy is series -> events -> markets, with ticker-prefix naming (e.g. series
`KXNEWPOPE`, event `KXNEWPOPE-70`, market `KXNEWPOPE-70-PPAR`). A market object returned by
`GET /markets` carries `event_ticker` directly but has **no `series_ticker` field at all** —
confirmed absent from the full key list of a sampled market. The event object (from `GET
/events`) does carry `series_ticker` directly. So mapping a market to its series requires an
extra hop: `GET /events/{event_ticker}` to read `series_ticker`, then optionally `GET
/series/{series_ticker}` for series-level metadata (e.g. settlement-source rules) — the ticker
prefix is a convention, not a documented contract, so parsing it by string-splitting is not
guaranteed stable. A request for an unknown market ticker returns a clean
`GET /markets/{ticker}` -> HTTP 404 `{"error":{"code":"not_found","message":"not found"}}`.

## How observed
2026-10-08T05:00:47Z-05:00:48Z and 2026-10-08T05:02:47Z, GET, no key.
```
GET .../markets?event_ticker=KXNEWPOPE-70
-> markets[0] keys include event_ticker, NOT series_ticker (36 keys checked)

GET .../events?limit=3&status=open
-> events[].series_ticker present directly: KXELONMARS, KXNEXTNATOSECGEN, KXNEWPOPE

GET .../markets/NOTAREALTICKER-XX
HTTP/2 404
{"error":{"code":"not_found","message":"not found"}}
```

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

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