Who Is This For?
The Trader Guide is designed for:- Institutional traders accessing markets directly
- Proprietary trading firms executing strategies programmatically
- Market makers providing liquidity
- Quantitative traders building automated trading systems
What You Can Do
With trading access, you can:Key Concepts
Environments
Polymarket Exchange provides multiple environments for testing and production:- Development - Internal testing environment
- Pre-production - UAT environment with test funds
- Production - Live trading environment
Environments
View API endpoints and configuration
Rate Limits
API requests are subject to rate limits to ensure fair usage:- REST API: Request-based limits per endpoint
- gRPC: Connection and message limits
Rate Limits
Understand rate limiting policies
Connection Options
Choose the right protocol for your use case:- REST API - Simple request/response for orders and queries
- gRPC - High-performance streaming for market data and order updates
- FIX - Industry-standard protocol for institutional trading
Connection Options
Compare connection protocols
Schema
Strongly-typed instrument fields for safely identifying sports markets without parsing symbols or slugs.Sports Schema
Identify markets via instrument metadata