A repeatable sports-trading rule set can be difficult to execute consistently when match times, order-book conditions, and exit decisions all compete for attention. This walkthrough shows the exact Home Favorite demonstration configuration from the authorized OddsFantasy tutorial: choose the match market type, set entry filters, attach a risk-control exit, preview eligible markets, and run the schedule around kickoff. It is a product-setup guide, not a recommendation to trade a particular team, sport, price, or outcome.

Every threshold below is a tutorial example rather than trading advice or evidence of an edge. Automation can evaluate rules, but it cannot guarantee a fill, a price, an exit, or a profit. The order book can change after a rule is evaluated and before an order reaches the market.

What this setup does before you begin

The workflow is designed for a trader who already has a repeatable entry idea and wants to apply it without maintaining custom code. In the demonstration, the strategy looks for a home-side Money Line outcome within a defined odds range, with minimum activity and a controlled spread. It then connects a separate exit preset that can respond to a defined drawdown condition when the exit market is sufficiently tight.

This is narrower than a general strategy-design discussion. If you need help translating a trading thesis into entry, timing, and execution rules before configuring it, see the no-code, rule-based Polymarket sports trading workflow. Once your rules are clear, open the OddsFantasy trading terminal and use this guide alongside the 3-minute, 18-second authorized OddsFantasy walkthrough.

Have these decisions ready

• The sport and matches you want the workflow to assess.
• A market definition: in this example, Scoreboard Regular Time, Money Line, Home, and Yes.
• Entry bounds for odds, spread, volume, liquidity, and stake.
• An exit rule and execution instruction that you understand, including what can happen if only part of an order fills.
• A schedule that stops the entry process at kickoff.
• A separate bankroll limit for the workflow. A $5 per-market demonstration stake is not a suitable stake for every account or market; use a sizing approach you can support, such as the principles in bankroll management.

Use an account and connection that are permitted for your location and intended activity. Prediction markets may be subject to market-specific and jurisdiction-specific rules. The CFTC has also issued an advisory on prediction markets and applicable obligations for designated contract markets; review the primary notice at CFTC Staff Issues Prediction Markets Advisory where relevant to your circumstances.

Step 1: Select the sports market definition

In the terminal’s sports-match selection flow, select the market path used in the tutorial: Scoreboard Regular Time, then Money Line, then Home, then Yes. This specifies the type of outcome the entry preset will evaluate: the Yes side associated with the home selection in a regular-time money-line market.

1. Open the market-selection area in the trading terminal.
2. Choose Scoreboard Regular Time.
3. Choose Money Line.
4. Choose Home.
5. Choose Yes.
6. Review the chosen path before proceeding to the entry preset.

The labels matter. “Home” is not a general instruction to buy every favored team, and “Yes” is not interchangeable with another token or outcome label. The purpose of the selection is to make the automation assess the precise market structure used in the demonstration. Confirm the displayed match and outcome in the preview later in the process rather than assuming a familiar team name means the market is the one you intended.

Step 2: Create the Home Favorite entry preset

Create an entry preset and name it Home Favorite, as shown in the tutorial. A preset groups the market definition, filters, and order-size instruction so the same configuration can be reviewed and scheduled as one workflow. Naming is operational hygiene: a descriptive name reduces the chance that you later attach the wrong exit or schedule the wrong configuration.

1. Create the entry preset and enter the name Home Favorite.
2. Keep the selected market path as Scoreboard Regular Time > Money Line > Home > Yes.
3. Set the minimum entry odds to 1.25.
4. Set the maximum entry odds to 1.8.
5. Set the maximum spread to 0.05.
6. Set minimum volume to 1,000.
7. Set minimum liquidity to 100.

1. Set the stake to $5 per market.
2. Save or continue through the preset flow so the terminal can evaluate the complete rule set.

These figures are demonstration values only. They do not show a profitable range, a recommended risk level, or a prediction about any market. Their practical role is to illustrate how multiple conditions can narrow a candidate list. A market must meet the configured conditions at the time it is checked; meeting them earlier does not mean it will still meet them when an order is submitted.

What each entry control is doing

• Odds 1.25 to 1.8: confines the demonstration to outcomes inside that decimal-odds interval. It is a filter, not a statement that those prices are favorable.
• Maximum spread 0.05: rejects a candidate when the observed gap between the relevant bid and ask exceeds 0.05.
• Minimum volume 1,000: requires the configured volume measure to meet the threshold used by the terminal.
• Minimum liquidity 100: requires the configured liquidity measure to meet its threshold.
• Stake $5 per market: assigns the demonstration order size to each qualifying market. It does not cap total exposure if several markets qualify, so review the number of possible simultaneous entries and your broader bankroll limits.

The spread filter deserves special attention. Polymarket operates a central limit order book, and its documentation describes the spread as the gap between the highest bid and lowest ask. A tighter spread generally signals more liquid trading conditions, but it does not ensure enough depth for your size or protect you from a moving price. See Polymarket’s Prices & Orderbook documentation for the underlying bid, ask, depth, and partial-fill concepts.

Step 3: Link the demonstration exit preset

Next, attach the exit preset demonstrated in the video to Home Favorite. Separating entry from exit is useful because an entry rule answers “when may this market be opened?” while an exit rule answers “under what conditions should the position be closed?” Check the linked preset carefully before scheduling: an exit that is not linked cannot provide the intended automated response.

1. Open the linked exit-preset option for the Home Favorite entry preset.
2. Enable close at maximum drawdown.
3. Set the maximum drawdown threshold to 50 percent.
4. Set the maximum spread for the exit to 0.01.
5. Set the confirmation window to 10 seconds.

1. Choose Market (FAK) as the exit execution instruction.
2. Enable merging hedged positions after kickoff.

1. Confirm that this exit preset is linked to Home Favorite.

The 50 percent drawdown threshold, 0.01 spread limit, 10-second confirmation, and Market (FAK) choice are all tutorial settings, not a universal stop-loss template. In particular, a drawdown setting is not a promise that an exit will occur at the displayed threshold. The exit also depends on the configured spread condition, available liquidity, order-book movement, and whether the submitted instruction can fill.

How to read the drawdown, spread, and confirmation controls

Conceptually, a percentage drawdown compares a current value with a reference value. A simple educational representation is shown below. The terminal’s own valuation and trigger behavior should be confirmed in the preset preview and the official product walkthrough; do not substitute a hand calculation for the terminal’s actual rule evaluation.

The exit maximum spread of 0.01 is more restrictive than the entry maximum of 0.05 in this demonstration. That distinction is intentional in the example: the workflow is configured to seek a tighter quoted condition before sending the exit instruction. A tight spread can still disappear, and displayed liquidity can be consumed before the order reaches the book.

The 10-second confirmation window is a persistence check. Rather than treating a momentary condition as automatically sufficient, the demonstration asks for the configured condition to remain confirmed for that period. It may reduce reactions to brief changes, but it can also delay action while prices move. The setting does not remove execution risk.

Market (FAK) versus Limit (GTC)

The demonstration selects Market (FAK) for the linked exit. Under Polymarket’s order documentation, Fill and Kill (FAK) immediately fills against available liquidity and cancels any remainder that is not filled. This prioritizes immediate interaction with currently available orders, but it can produce a partial fill when available liquidity is insufficient.

Good Till Cancelled (GTC), by contrast, is a limit order that remains active until it is filled or cancelled. A GTC order gives the trader control over the stated limit price, but it may sit unfilled while the market moves or until someone trades against it. Read the precise order behavior, including partial fills, in Polymarket’s Place Orders documentation.

• Use Market (FAK) in this tutorial configuration when the intended instruction is to seek immediate available liquidity, while accepting that an unfilled remainder is cancelled.
• Use Limit (GTC) when controlling the limit price and allowing the order to remain active is more important than immediate execution.
• Do not treat either choice as inherently safer. The relevant choice depends on the rule, current depth, exposure, and what you will do after a partial or unfilled order.

The “merge hedged positions after kickoff” setting is also enabled in the demonstration. Confirm its status before you run the schedule, particularly if your workflow can create offsetting exposure. Understand the resulting position treatment in the terminal rather than assuming that a hedge will behave like a completed exit in every situation. For a deeper discussion of spread-aware drawdown exits and failed-fill risk, consult the Polymarket stop-loss bot guide.

Step 4: Preview matching markets before scheduling

Use the preview stage shown in the tutorial to inspect which markets currently match the Home Favorite conditions. This is the practical checkpoint between designing a rule and allowing it to run. Review the selected event, the outcome side, the visible odds, spread, volume, liquidity, intended stake, and the linked exit preset.

• Does every previewed market use Scoreboard Regular Time, Money Line, Home, and Yes?
• Are the observed values currently within the demonstration ranges, without assuming they will remain there?
• Is the planned $5 stake appropriate for the number of markets that might qualify at once?
• Is the correct drawdown exit preset attached, with the 0.01 spread and 10-second confirmation settings?
• Would a partial Market (FAK) exit require manual review under your own process?

A preview is not a reservation of price or liquidity. It reflects the conditions available when you inspect it. Re-check it whenever you materially change a filter, stake, exit preset, or schedule. If the candidates are not the markets you intended, stop and correct the configuration before activation.

Step 5: Schedule the entry preset around kickoff

The tutorial schedule begins one hour before kickoff, stops at kickoff, and refreshes every two minutes. Configure those three timing values for the Home Favorite entry preset: start one hour before the match begins, end the entry process at kickoff, and set the refresh interval to two minutes. Then review the schedule confirmation screen before enabling the workflow.

1. Choose the Home Favorite entry preset with its linked exit preset.
2. Set the schedule to start one hour before kickoff.
3. Set it to stop at kickoff.
4. Set the refresh cadence to every two minutes.
5. Review the schedule confirmation and the markets or matches it will assess.

1. Activate only after completing the pre-live checklist below.

The stop-at-kickoff setting applies to the demonstrated entry schedule; it should not be confused with a guarantee that all open exposure disappears at kickoff. The linked exit logic and any remaining position state still deserve monitoring according to your plan. Likewise, refreshing every two minutes means the workflow evaluates at that cadence in this demonstration. A qualifying market can change between refreshes or between detection and order submission.

Pre-live checklist

• Confirm the exact market path: Scoreboard Regular Time > Money Line > Home > Yes.
• Confirm the Home Favorite entry filters: 1.25 minimum odds, 1.8 maximum odds, 0.05 maximum spread, 1,000 minimum volume, 100 minimum liquidity, and $5 per market. Treat each as a demonstration setting.
• Confirm the linked exit: maximum drawdown enabled at 50 percent, maximum spread 0.01, confirmation for 10 seconds, Market (FAK), and merge hedged positions after kickoff enabled.
• Check potential aggregate exposure if more than one market qualifies. Revisit your bankroll allocation and loss tolerance before activation.
• Review previewed markets for the correct event and outcome, not just familiar participant names.
• Confirm the one-hour pre-kickoff start, kickoff stop, and two-minute refresh cadence.
• Plan how you will monitor partial fills, cancelled FAK remainders, changed order-book conditions, and positions that remain open.
• Keep all credentials and automation keys private. Do not copy, share, publish, or include an automation key in screenshots or recordings.
• Verify that you understand the applicable platform terms and local regulatory considerations.

Run the workflow with monitoring, not assumptions

After activation, treat automation as a rules-execution aid rather than a hands-off guarantee. Markets can become less liquid, spreads can widen, orders can partially fill, and a matching condition can disappear before submission. Maintain a process for checking active positions, reviewing exceptions, and disabling or amending a preset when the assumptions behind it no longer hold.

When you are ready to reproduce the illustrated flow, open the OddsFantasy trading terminal, keep the authorized video walkthrough available for the current interface sequence, and verify every setting on the final confirmation screen. The demonstration is valuable as a configuration pattern; its numbers should be tested against your own risk limits and operating process, not copied as a claim of expected performance.