📕 Chapter 7: Sports Trading

🎓 Lesson 1: Trading

🎯 Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to:

• Open the OddsFantasy Sports Trading workspace.
• Find a sport, event, market, and outcome to trade.
• Understand the main parts of the trade modal.
• Know when to use Market, Limit, and Quote orders.

🧭 Introduction

OddsFantasy is not just a bookmaker comparison tool. It also includes a full sports trading workflow where you can:

• Browse live and pre-match markets
• Open buy or sell positions
• Set take-profit and stop-loss levels
• Manage active trades from Positions and Orders

This chapter walks through that workflow from the first screen all the way to tracking what you placed.

🚪 How to Open Sports Trading

You can reach the trading workspace in two main ways:

1. Click Get Started from the home page.
2. Open Sports Trading from the main navigation.

This takes you to the main trading page at 🔗 Sports Trading.

🧱 Understanding the Trading Layout

The trading page is built around a few core areas.

Header

At the top of the page, you'll see:

• Trade: returns to the main trading workspace
• Positions: opens your active and closed trades
• Orders: opens your limit and time orders
• How to Trade: opens a short in-app guide
• Wallet: opens deposit and withdrawal actions
• Connect Wallet / Disconnect: connects the trading wallet

If this is your first time trading, connect your wallet first and fund it before submitting orders.

Sports Bar

The sports bar lets you switch between available trading categories such as:

• American Football
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Boxing
• Chess
• Cricket
• Esports
• Football
• Golf
• Ice Hockey
• MMA
• Motorsports
• Other
• Rugby
• Tennis

Selecting a sport updates the event list in the sidebar.

Sidebar

The left sidebar helps you find tradable events quickly. You can:

• Toggle between Pre-Match and Live
• Use Search Match to find a team or event
• Sort events by date, liquidity, or volume
• Apply Filters for date, liquidity, and volume

🎯 Understanding the Event View

Once you select an event, the center panel loads the event view.

Event Header

The header gives you the main context for the trade:

• Sport
• League
• Country or competition context
• Teams or competitors
• Event description
• Start time
• Total liquidity
• Total volume
• Relevant scoreboards

Scoreboards

Markets are grouped into scoreboard sections depending on the sport. Common examples include:

• Regular Time
• First Half
• Second Half
• Corners
• Player Props
• Team Props
• First Set
• Second Set

Markets and Outcomes

Inside each scoreboard, OddsFantasy lists the available markets, such as:

• Money Line
• Handicap
• Total
• Both Teams To Score
• Exact Score

Each market contains the tradeable outcomes. For example:

• Football moneyline may show Home / Draw / Away
• Basketball moneyline usually shows Home / Away

When you click the trade button on an outcome, OddsFantasy opens the trade modal.

📈 Understanding the Trade Modal

The trade modal has two working areas: a chart panel and a trade panel.

Chart Panel

The chart panel shows:

• The selected event, market, and outcome
• The scoreboard the market belongs to
• Candlestick or line chart views
• Time ranges such as 1 hour, 6 hours, 1 day, or max
• Market rules

This is where you read the recent odds movement before placing the trade.

Trade Panel

The trade panel shows the live pricing and lets you submit the order.

You will see:

• Buy and Sell quotes
• Available liquidity on each side
• The current spread
• Order inputs such as stake, odds, expiration, take-profit, and stop-loss

Inside OddsFantasy:

• A buy position means you expect the displayed market odds to increase
• A sell position means you expect the displayed market odds to decrease

The in-app How to Trade modal uses the same definitions, so keep your focus on the direction of the odds movement when choosing a side.

🧾 Order Types

OddsFantasy supports three main order types inside the trade modal.

1. Market Order

Use a Market order when you want to enter immediately at the current market odds.

Typical inputs:

• Stake
• Optional take-profit
• Optional stop-loss

This is the fastest way to enter a trade, but you are accepting the current spread.

2. Limit Order

Use a Limit order when you only want to enter at your chosen odds.

Typical inputs:

• Stake
• Limit odds
• Expiration time

The order stays open until it is matched, cancelled, or expires.

3. Quote Order

Use Quote when you want to place both sides of the trade and target spread profit.

Typical inputs:

• Capital
• Target profit percentage

OddsFantasy calculates the quote levels and stake split for you.

🚀 Your First Trading Workflow

Here is the simplest way to use the page:

1. Open 🔗 Sports Trading.
2. Connect your wallet and make sure it is funded.
3. Choose a sport from the sports bar.
4. Find an event from the sidebar.
5. Select a market such as Money Line, Handicap, or Total.
6. Click the trade button on the outcome you want.
7. Choose Buy or Sell.
8. Pick an order type: Market, Limit, or Quote.
9. Enter the required inputs and submit the trade.
10. Open Positions or Orders to manage what you placed.

💡 Helpful Reminder

OddsFantasy's in-app help notes that odds data and liquidity are provided by Polymarket. That matters because prices can move quickly, especially on live events and thin markets.

🔁 Recap

You now know how to:

• Open the sports trading workspace
• Use the header, sports bar, sidebar, and event view
• Read the main parts of the trade modal
• Choose between Market, Limit, and Quote orders

🔮 Next Lesson Preview

Once a trade is submitted, your next job is to manage it properly. In the next lesson, you'll learn how to use the Positions page to:

• Monitor open trades
• Close positions
• Redeem settled positions
• Merge hedged positions

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