The WickTape guide
Everything you need to understand Polymarket US's Up or Down markets and what WickTape shows you, in plain English. Start at the top, or jump to what you need.
Up or Down markets, explainedA plain-English guide to Polymarket US Up or Down markets: the price to beat, how a round runs, buying Up or Down, what a share pays, selling early, and a worked example.How settlement worksExactly how Polymarket US decides who won an Up or Down round: the CF Benchmarks 60-second average for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP, and the Chainlink spot price for gold and silver.Polymarket US fees, with real numbersHow the Polymarket US taker fee works on Up or Down markets: the formula, a table of what you pay per 100 shares at every price, and the win rate you need to break even.How WickTape's bots decideHow WickTape's 16 paper-trading bots work: the model's chance of Up, edge over Polymarket's price, bet sizing, when they sell early, when they sit out, and how they learn from their own results.Gold and silver Up or DownPolymarket US's gold and silver Up or Down markets: 15-minute and hourly rounds, Chainlink XAU/USD and XAG/USD settlement, trading hours, and how they differ from crypto.Reading the WickTape dashboardWhat every number on WickTape means: price to beat, Polymarket price, chance of Up, the bot's status, and the track record's win rate, held win rate and average price.
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WickTape is for information and entertainment. Its bots trade paper money only. Nothing here is financial advice, and prediction markets can lose you everything you put in.