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Strategies

Expected value, position sizing and the mistakes to avoid.

Intermediate5 min

Explore contrarian trading strategies by identifying market overreactions and potential corrections. Learn to spot opportunities when markets become overly emotional.

Beginner5 min

Learn the essentials of bankroll management and position sizing to navigate prediction markets responsibly. Master risk management for sustainable trading.

Advanced5 min

Explore algorithmic trading, HFT, and trading bots on prediction markets. Learn how the Polymarket API facilitates automated strategies for advanced traders.

Intermediate4 min

Understand how time decay (theta decay) impacts your positions in prediction markets as the resolution date approaches, and how to adapt your strategies.

Intermediate4 min

Learn how news events, from political announcements to economic reports, can influence prediction market odds and how to incorporate them into your trading strategy.

Beginner5 min

Explore the key differences between speculation and hedging in prediction markets. Learn how to use these strategies for different financial goals.

Intermediate6 min

Explore the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and its implications for prediction markets. Learn how 'wisdom of crowds' applies and how to find your unique edge.

Advanced6 min

Discover how arbitrage opportunities arise between prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, and the strategies to consider.

Advanced5 min

Dive into market making in prediction markets. Learn how market makers provide liquidity, capture the bid-ask spread, and manage risks with advanced strategies.

Intermediate2 min

Can you invest in Polymarket or buy Polymarket stock? How people invest in prediction markets via stocks, private market valuations and trading.

Intermediate2 min

What Polymarket copy trading is, how people copy trades on Polymarket, tools like PolyCopy, and the risks of following other traders.

Intermediate2 min

Can you make money on Polymarket? Realistic Polymarket trading strategies for 2026 — research, market making, arbitrage and negative-risk markets — and the risks.

Advanced3 min

Understand the Kelly criterion for sizing prediction-market positions, why fractional Kelly is safer, with worked examples.

Intermediate3 min

Learn how to calculate expected value for a prediction-market share, with worked examples and links to calculators.

Beginner3 min

Avoid the most common mistakes beginners make trading prediction markets, from ignoring fees to overbetting.

Prediction market strategies

Strategy basics without profit promises: expected value, Kelly sizing, bankroll management, market making, arbitrage, news trading, algorithmic trading and the efficient market hypothesis. Speculation carries risk — always size positions you can afford to lose.