On Nimb, the market panel opens when you click a circle on the map. Most of it is analysis: the reading, the price chart, money flow, "Before you trade" checks, the largest holders and related markets. The order ticket sits below it, so you read the market before you trade it.
The panel is the main tool for market reading on Nimb: it puts what the price, the flow and the holders say on one scrollable page. This guide walks through it from top to bottom, in the order it appears. For the general method, start with how to read a market.
Why is the order ticket only a quarter of the panel?
Reading comes before execution, by design. About three quarters of the panel is the analysis, which scrolls; the last quarter is the order ticket, which stays in place. A "Scroll to read more" button shows when there is more below. Nimb is built to educate, and a ticket that fills the screen invites you to trade before you have read anything. On a phone, the panel opens from the bottom with the same order.
What is "the reading"?
Nimb's reading of a market is its one-sentence summary: "Traders see a 41% chance…, down 4 points this week." It sits under the headline price and gives the current chance and how far it moved over the timeframe you chose on the map. It takes three forms:
- A single Yes/No market: "The market puts this at 41%, down 4.0 points over the past week."
- A market with many outcomes: "Traders give 'Candidate A' a 27% chance, up 2.5 points over the past month."
- A deadline market: "Traders see a 63% chance that it happens by December 31, unchanged over the past day."
The reading is the crowd's estimate, not a forecast by Nimb. The header above shows the category, theme and resolution date; multi-outcome markets list every outcome, and you can click one to read and trade it.
What do the chart and money flow show?
The price chart shows the chance of the selected outcome over time; hover over it to see the price at any hour. How to read its shape is covered in price charts.
The money flow section, labelled "Money flow · Yes buying minus No buying, per hour", shows which side traders were paying up for. Its sentence gives the dollar volume over the timeframe and how much more Yes than No (or No than Yes) was bought by traders who crossed the spread. A second block, "Data from Polymarket", shows the same market's flow over the past three days from Polymarket's own trade feed. Flow tells you about pressure, not about who is right; see money flow.
What is in "Before you trade"?
"Before you trade" is a short list of checks, each written as one sentence. The ones that need attention are highlighted:
| Check | Highlighted when |
|---|---|
| 24-hour move compared with a typical day for this market | The move is at least 2× the market's usual daily move |
| Money in the order book | Less than $5,000, so a large order will get a worse price |
| Concentration among top holders | One wallet holds more than 35% of the top holders' value |
| Time to resolution | The market resolves within 7 days |
| Break-even chance, fees included | Always shown, never highlighted |
The last line gives the chance above which buying at the current price pays off once fees are counted, and asks whether you know something the market does not. Each check is explained in before you trade checks.
What does "Who is positioned" show?
"Who is positioned" lists the largest public holders of the market. A bar splits their value between Yes (green) and No (red), with the number of wallets and dollars on each side. One sentence gives the share of the largest holder ("The largest holder has 22% of the value held by these top holders. Positions that hold both sides are netted."), and a table lists up to 8 wallets with their side, position value and unrealised P&L. Wallets flagged "mm" behave like market makers. How to read this block without overreading it is on top holders and wallet lines.
What is "Positioning, last 72H"?
In the Portfolio view, the panel for one of your own positions shows "Positioning, last 72H": an hourly chart and table of net Yes-minus-No buying in that market over the past three days. It answers one question about a position you hold: has the flow been with you or against you? "Open on market map →" leads to the full panel.
What does "How it connects" mean?
"How it connects" places the market among others. If the market belongs to a theme, it says so ("Part of Bitcoin & ETH, a group of 10 markets on the same topic. Dashed lines on the map join them."); otherwise it says "This market is not part of a theme yet." On the 30D timeframe it also lists up to four markets that "Moved together · 30D" and four that "Moved opposite · 30D", if any pass Nimb's statistical checks. See themes and factors and moved together, moved opposite.
What is in the order ticket?
In the order ticket you choose Yes or No at live prices, type one amount in dollars, and read one sentence with your shares, your payout if right, your loss otherwise and your break-even chance with fees. The amount is all-in: fees, including a small builder fee, are included in the price you see. The ticket's details are on the order ticket page. Trading is not available in every country; see eligibility and restricted countries, and read the risks of prediction markets before you trade.
How do I see the same market on Polymarket, or share it?
The last block lists volume over the timeframe and over 30 days, the money resting in the order book, and the link "See this market on Polymarket ↗", which opens the same event on polymarket.com in a new tab. Nimb is not affiliated with Polymarket; it reads Polymarket's public data and sends your orders to Polymarket.
To share a market, share its map link: nimb.markets/#m=<slug> opens the map with that market's panel open. Every market also has a plain page under /markets with the same reading, holders and an "Open on the map" link.
What can the panel not tell you?
The panel shows what traders have priced, traded and hold; it does not say whether they are right or why they moved. Holders are pseudonymous wallets, the flow is backward-looking, and a passed check does not make a market safe. Read the rules on Polymarket before you trade, and see known limitations for what Nimb's data gets wrong.
From reading to execution
The panel is built so that the analysis comes first and the ticket last, in one place. How to move from one to the other, and when not to, is in read and execute.
Last reviewed 2026-11-07 · Data from Polymarket · Not financial advice · Nimb is not affiliated with Polymarket.