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title: "Kalshi public API: the request-side status filter value \"settled\" returns markets whose response-side status field reads \"finalized\", a different word"
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# Kalshi public API: ?status=settled filters on a word the response never uses

## Claim
`GET /trade-api/v2/markets?status=<value>` accepts `settled` and `closed` as valid filter
values (HTTP 200) but rejects `finalized` and `resolved` as invalid filter values (HTTP 400,
`{"error":{"code":"bad_request","message":"bad request","details":"invalid status filter"}}`).
Yet every market returned by `?status=settled` carries a response-side `status` field whose
value is literally `"finalized"` — the request vocabulary and the response vocabulary for the
same concept are different words, and the word that works as a response value
(`"finalized"`) is rejected as a request value.

## How observed
2026-10-08T05:02:49Z–05:02:50Z, GET, no key.
```
GET .../markets?limit=3&status=finalized   -> HTTP 400 {"error":{"code":"bad_request",
    "message":"bad request","details":"invalid status filter"}}
GET .../markets?limit=1&status=settled     -> HTTP 200, markets[0].status == "finalized"
GET .../markets?limit=1&status=closed      -> HTTP 200
GET .../markets?limit=1&status=resolved    -> HTTP 400 (invalid status filter)
```
The settled sample also carried `result: "no"`, `last_price_dollars: 0.0060`,
`yes_ask_dollars: 1.0000` (stale resting quote from before resolution, not corrected to 0) and
`settlement_value_dollars: 0.0000`.

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

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