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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by vasco on Saturday April 16, 2022 @01:55AM (#31049904)
It means the market doesn't think it's likely but it doesn't mean it's 75%. To illustrate why that makes no sense, if Musk had offered $35 instead of $54, the buyout would be much less likely, since the price would be way lower and the board and shareholders less likely to accept it, yet under your model the likelihood would go up.

Estimating probability from price action is something you can do, but not like you did it.

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by IshKebab on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:38AM (#31050447)
Why would the likelihood go up under his model? If Musk had only offered $35 and people thought that was only 20% likely to happen (for the reasons you listed) then the market price would have only gone up to $31.
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by sahila on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:50AM (#31053268)
Say I offer to buy Apple for a penny/share. The price for their shares won’t move because of my offer but may move from normal market conditions. If the shares increased a dollar the day after my offer, would you say there’s a greater than 100% chance of my offer being accepted?
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by omegalulw on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:17PM (#31057568)
There of course the implicit assumption here that Musk's offer is causally related to Twitter's stock price. OPs comment make sense if you keep that in mind.