Guides
Guides that take you from opening an account to reading any screen in the product — what each one measures, what it refuses to guess, and which plan serves it.
- Guides
- 4
- Words
- 3,747
- Reading time
- 18 min
Word counts and reading times are computed from the text of the guides when the site is built, at 220 words a minute. They measure the writing, not its audience: we do not publish reader counts, because we do not measure them.
What these are
These are product guides, not market lessons. Each one opens a screen, says what it measures, and shows how to read it — including how it tells you when it has nothing to serve.
If you want the mechanics underneath the numbers — how an order book resolves, why funding is a price and not a forecast — that is the Learn section, and each guide links to it where it helps.
Guides or Learn?
A guide answers “how do I use this screen”. A Learn article answers “why does this number behave like that”.
They point at each other. A guide sends you to Learn when a reading only makes sense once you know the mechanics behind it; a Learn article sends you back to the screen where you can watch it happen.
By where you are
The guides are ordered. Read them in sequence for a first session, or jump straight to the screen you already have open.
Start here
1 guide
Open an account and learn the two reading conventions every screen follows.
Getting started
What the product measures, how to open an account, and how to read any screen in it.
5-minute read
Polymarket
2 guides
Read the operators board, and find the market behind a position.
Reading the operators board
Who has actually made money on Polymarket, over which dates, and what the ranking refuses to say.
4-minute read
Finding a market
Where size and pace are landing right now, the directory behind them, and one market read up close.
4-minute read
Your account
1 guide
Set up what reaches you, and where.
Setting up alerts
Where alerts are delivered, what decides that a trade is worth one, and the order that stops you getting silence.
5-minute read
Where to go next
What each plan serves
Three plans. One free and permanent, two paid. Every guide says which plan serves the screen it describes.
Open an account
An email address and a password. No wallet to connect, and no third-party sign-in.