How Polymarket Prediction Markets Work
Polymarket is a prediction market where each outcome trades as a share priced between $0.00 and $1.00. A share priced at $0.43 means the market puts roughly a 43% chance on that outcome. If it happens, the share settles at $1.00; if it doesn't, it settles at $0.00. Because traders are risking real money, those prices tend to be a sharper forecast than polls or pundits, and unlike a poll, they update continuously.
That makes the order flow worth reading on its own. A market can sit at the same price for a week while the wallets behind it turn over completely. Polymarket Analytics exists to show you that layer: who is buying, how large, how early, and what their record looks like.
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Polymarket Data, Updated Regularly
We index markets and traders on Polymarket live, covering prices, volume, open interest and positions so you can research outcomes and follow wallets over time.
- Markets: live odds, price history, volume and open interest on events
- Traders: P&L, win rate, position history and holdings across wallets
- Events: grouped outcomes with implied probability for multi-candidate markets
- History: resolved markets kept available so you can study how the crowd priced outcomes that already happened