Guides
Polymarket 5-minute markets, explained with real data
Practical guides for traders and researchers working with Polymarket's 5-minute crypto Up or Down markets. Every figure is checked against our own recordings.
How Polymarket 5-minute crypto markets settle
Price to beat, Chainlink TWAP, ties and how one window hands its final price to the next: settlement for Polymarket's 5-minute Up or Down markets, checked against real data.
Read guide →How to backtest Polymarket 5-minute strategies
A step-by-step Python and DuckDB walkthrough for backtesting Polymarket 5-minute Up or Down strategies on real tick-level order book data, fees included.
Read guide →Polymarket 5-minute market fees explained
How taker fees work on Polymarket's 5-minute crypto markets, the 7% x p x (1 - p) formula, worked examples at different prices, and what it means for a strategy's edge.
Read guide →The Polymarket order book in a 5-minute window
How the Up and Down books mirror each other, what tick size and minimum order mean, how liquidity changes through a 5-minute window, and how to read it from the data.
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