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Every market is a live debate with a few outcomes, and each outcome has its own live price. That price moves for one simple reason: people buying and selling. More buying lifts a price; selling lowers it. There’s no judge setting it — it’s just where the money is going right now.

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What moves a price

Buying lifts it

When people buy into an outcome, its price climbs. The more interest an outcome attracts, the higher it goes.

Selling lowers it

When people cash out of an outcome, its price falls. You can add to or sell out of your position at any time.

Early money moves more

A market starts out small, so early trades nudge a price further than the same money does later, once lots of people are involved. Backing an outcome before the crowd catches on goes a long way.

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Two ways to read the chart

The market chart shows you the same debate from two angles. You can flip between them.

Market share

The share of all the money behind each outcome, smoothed over time. This is the big-picture view of who’s leading — and because it’s smoothed, it moves slowly. One big trade can’t force a result.

Live prices

Each outcome’s price, updating with every single trade. This is the fast, moment-to-moment view of where the action is right now.
Live prices feed into market share, but market share deliberately moves more slowly — it smooths out short-term spikes so a single big trade can’t jolt an outcome to an instant lead.

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A worked example

Mia is in a “Best F1 driver of the year” market and backs Verstappen. At first only a handful of people are trading, so her early buy nudges his price up noticeably. As the season heats up and more people pile onto his side, his live price keeps climbing with every buy — and his market share steadily grows too, just more smoothly. When a rival wins a race and a wave of money rushes to that outcome, its price spikes on the live view, but the market-share view absorbs the jump and barely flinches. The lead has to be real and held, not bought in a single moment.
Prices move freely in both directions and can fall as well as rise. A rising price reflects demand right now — not a promise of where things end up.

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Where this leads

Resolution

How a market decides who won — with no referee.

Prize pool & claims

How the pool fills and how the winning side claims its share.