Polymarket Market Watchlist Template

A Polymarket watchlist should not be a hype list. It should be a clean research queue: what is the market, how does it resolve, what changed, is there enough liquidity to treat the displayed price as useful, and what would make you stop paying attention?

This template is for educational research, journaling, and process control. It does not recommend any market.

Key concepts in plain English

• ▸Watchlist: a short list of markets you are studying, not necessarily acting on.
• ▸Rule snapshot: a saved copy of the question, description, source, and deadline.
• ▸Review trigger: a condition that tells you to re-check the market, such as source update, spread change, or deadline approaching.
• ▸Depth note: a quick read of whether the order book has meaningful size near the current price.
• ▸Post-resolution review: the lesson you write after the market resolves.

What current active markets suggest

Public Gamma API samples this run surfaced high-volume sports futures, political nominee/winner events, F1 season markets, geopolitics events, and short-dated app-ranking markets. That is a wide range of timing and source risk. A single watchlist format should be flexible enough for all of them.

Copy this watchlist template

Market:
URL / slug:
Category:
Question text:
Outcome type: binary / multi-outcome / range
Current Yes/No price:
Volume:
Liquidity:
Spread note:
Depth note:
Resolution source:
Deadline / window:
Rule edge cases:
Last source check:
Why this market is on the list:
Probability model notes:
Research blockers:
Review trigger:
Next review time:
Decision state: observe / research more / blocked / archived
Post-resolution lesson:

How to use the template

1. Add markets for a reason

Do not add a market just because it is moving. Add it because the category is active, the source is testable, the rules are interesting, or the market teaches something about crowd probability.

2. Snapshot rules first

Before watching price changes, copy the rules. Polymarket docs and API references make market and event metadata discoverable, but the market page text is still the first thing to preserve for a specific market.

3. Separate attention from liquidity

Volume tells you attention has existed. Spread and depth tell you whether the current displayed price is easier or harder to interpret.

4. Use review triggers

Examples:

• ▸Deadline is within 24 hours.
• ▸Source published a new official update.
• ▸Spread widened beyond your research threshold.
• ▸Market rules or description changed.
• ▸Related markets moved but this one did not.

5. Archive aggressively

If the source is vague, liquidity disappears, the deadline passes, or the market no longer teaches anything, archive it. Watchlists get worse when they become junk drawers.

Bucko workflow

Bucko can store watchlist cards with rule snapshots, source links, spread/depth notes, alert thresholds, user-defined guardrails, and post-resolution reviews. The goal is not automation for its own sake. The goal is repeatable research.

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Internal links

• ▸Alerts: Polymarket spread and depth alerts guide
• ▸Category research: Polymarket category volume research guide
• ▸Price history: Polymarket price history guide

Sources and last-verified notes

Last verified: 2026-07-09 PDT.

Sources reviewed: Polymarket docs llms.txt and llms-full.txt; public Gamma API active events and markets on 2026-07-09 PDT; docs references for order book, spread, prices, market data, resolution, and referral-code application. Offer wording remains user-provided unless current app terms are separately captured.