Polymarket guides, copy trading strategies, and expert insights to help you trade smarter.

Polymarket exposes four APIs — Gamma, CLOB, Data and the leaderboard — across REST and WebSockets. A practical map of what each one does, the gotchas nobody documents, and when to aggregate instead of build.

Polymarket is sold as a crystal ball — and one study scores it 90%+ accurate. Other research scoring the 2024 election put it well behind Kalshi and PredictIt. The honest answer depends on how, and when, you measure.

A standard sportsbook bet hands the house a 4.76% edge before the game starts. Polymarket charges a fraction of that. The real cost comparison — with 2026 odds, fees, and where the math breaks down.

Polymarket doesn't send you a tax form. That doesn't mean the IRS isn't expecting one. How prediction-market gains are taxed in 2026 — and how to reconstruct the records nobody hands you.

Polymarket, Kalshi, Hyperliquid and Predict.fun each win at something different — liquidity, regulation, on-chain settlement, or new markets. A practical comparison of where to trade events in 2026, and why aggregation beats picking just one.
The 2026 World Cup is the most open in a generation — and the largest prediction market ever built. Polymarket has $2.1B riding on it, with Spain and France splitting favoritism, the defending champion an afterthought, and real money pricing every nation. A complete breakdown.

DEXTools — the crypto analytics platform used by millions of traders — now ships a native Predictions tab powered by FrenFlow, aggregating four prediction-market sources into one live, tradable feed.

maskache2 — the Polymarket wallet 0x1f66796b45581868376365aef54b51eb84184c8d, renamed to ShyGuy1 on May 31, 2026 — has made roughly +$50K with a 22% win rate by hunting mispriced city-temperature markets. Here's how losing 4 out of 5 trades still ends in profit.

stingo43 (0x0006af12cd4dacc450836a0e1ec6ce47365d8c63) has made roughly +$388K on Polymarket trading SOL, ETH, BTC and XRP 'Up or Down' candles. The PnL is real and verified on-chain — but the edge is latency and inventory no follower can replicate. Here's the breakdown.

Copy trading automatically mirrors another trader's positions in your own account. It started in forex and eToro, but prediction markets are an unusually good fit — because every trade settles on-chain, so the track record you're copying is verifiable, not self-reported.

How to use Polymarket from zero to your first trade: create an account, fund it, understand that price equals probability, buy and sell shares, and redeem winnings. Includes which Polymarket you can actually use depending on where you live.

Yes — Polymarket is legal for US residents through Polymarket US, a CFTC-regulated Designated Contract Market that launched in December 2025. But the detail matters: there's a separate global venue you can't use, and several states are pushing back.

Yes, you can make money on Polymarket — but most traders lose because they trade without an edge. Here are the six strategies that actually work, with verified on-chain examples and the honest math behind each one.

ohanism (0x89b5cdaaa4866c1e738406712012a630b4078beb) has made roughly $539K on Polymarket — with a largest single win of just $2,000. That gap explains everything about how the bot works, and why copying it is impossible. Here's the on-chain breakdown.

The wallet 0xde17f7144fbd0eddb2679132c10ff5e74b120988 has no username — just an address people keep googling. It made roughly $727K on Polymarket's Bitcoin price-threshold markets in about two months, then went dark. Here's the on-chain story.