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title: "LA Election Prediction Markets"
description: "Effort thoroughly investigated the backgrounds and trading behavior of the most profitable 30 accounts and their related crypto addresses in the LA Election Polymarket. We found no evidence of insider trading or other advance knowledge of LA Election results. The majority of the most successful accounts were known Polymarket traders successful across numerous markets, some of whom documented their reasoning for their trades."
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# LA Election Prediction Markets

> Effort thoroughly investigated the backgrounds and trading behavior of the most profitable 30 accounts and their related crypto addresses in the LA Election Polymarket. We found no evidence of insider trading or other advance knowledge of LA Election results. The majority of the most successful accounts were known Polymarket traders successful across numerous markets, some of whom documented their reasoning for their trades.

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## Claim — Effort thoroughly investigated the backgrounds and trading behavior of the most profitable 30 accounts and their related crypto addresses in the LA Election Polymarket. We found no evidence of insider trading or other advance knowledge of LA Election results. The majority of the most successful accounts were known Polymarket traders successful across numerous markets, some of whom documented their reasoning for their trades.

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> Effort thoroughly investigated the backgrounds and trading behavior of the most profitable 30 accounts and their related crypto addresses in the LA Election Polymarket. We found no evidence of insider trading or other advance knowledge of LA Election results. The majority of the most successful accounts were known Polymarket traders successful across numerous markets, some of whom documented their reasoning for their trades.

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Effort thoroughly investigated the backgrounds and trading behavior of the most profitable 30 accounts and their related crypto addresses in the LA Election Polymarket. We found no evidence of insider trading or other advance knowledge of LA Election results. The majority of the most successful accounts were known Polymarket traders successful across numerous markets, some of whom documented their reasoning for their trades.

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