Step-by-step explainers for reading odds, choosing a platform and managing risk.
Election Day is November 3. Where to watch live election odds from Kalshi and Polymarket, what they say about the Senate, House and key races today, and how prices behave on election night.
Americans can use Polymarket legally through Polymarket US, a CFTC-regulated exchange that works in dollars. How to sign up, verify, deposit and trade, how it differs from the global site, and why a VPN is a bad idea.
Kalshi requires users to be 18 or older and to pass identity checks. Why it is 18 and not 21, how verification works, and the age rules on Polymarket, Robinhood, DraftKings and FanDuel.
Polymarket lists crypto markets from hourly “up or down” questions to year-end price targets. The main market types, how they resolve, what they cost, and how to sanity-check a price.
Polymarket blocks 7 sanctioned regions completely and makes more than 35 countries and provinces close-only, including the US, UK, France, Germany, Australia and parts of Canada. The full list, by region.
A 40¢ price means a 40% chance. How to turn Kalshi and Polymarket prices into American, decimal and fractional odds, why prices add up to more than 100%, and how fees change your break-even.
Legally, Kalshi is a federally regulated exchange, not a sportsbook. In practice, a contract on Sunday’s game feels a lot like a bet. Both sides of the question, side by side.
The Polymarket leaderboard ranks traders by profit and volume. What those numbers really say about skill, how to study a top trader’s profile, and the traps in copying them.
Which endpoints give you markets, prices, order books and price history on Kalshi and Polymarket, what needs an API key, and the gotchas we hit running both in production.
Every Polymarket trade is public, so you can track the biggest wallets. How to find and read a whale’s positions, why copy trading usually underperforms, and what Polymarket bots really do.
