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How to Use Polymarket

guides — polymarket, from start to first trade
How to use Polymarket
Five short guides that take you from no account to your first trade closed. Written in order, but each one stands on its own if you already know the earlier bits.
start at step 1 if you’ve never opened it ↓
1
Create your account

Two ways in: sign up with an email or social login and get a wallet made for you, or connect a wallet you already own. Which one suits you comes down to whether you’ve held crypto before.
2
Fund your account

Three ways to get money in. One of them costs nearly 4% and the screen won’t tell you, and one wrong dropdown can lose the whole transfer.
3
Read the screen

The biggest number on the page matters least. Read a market page in order of what can actually hurt you: the rules, the spread, then the order book.
4
Find a market worth trading

The front page sorts by attention, and attention is the thing that removes your edge. Four checks that tell a live market from a dead one.
5
Place and exit your first trade

The clicking takes ten seconds. What the round trip really costs once you count the fee nobody labels, and how to get back out before the market decides for you.

New to prediction markets in general? Start with What Is a Prediction Market? in the Academy. These guides assume you know what a price means and skip straight to the buttons.

Nothing here is financial advice. Prediction markets involve real risk, so never trade money you can’t afford to lose.