What Alchemy does with your words
- It reads the event and states it back in the first step, for example “Understood: Fed cuts rates in December”. If you named a focus, such as “impact on tech”, it adds that too.
- It searches Polymarket with several short queries built from your words.
- It picks a headline market, favoring markets that share your names and key words, that are still live, and that have real volume.
Five rules
Each rule below follows from how that search works.1
One outcome per run
Ask about one thing that either happens or does not. Two events in one question get one muddled market.
2
Give it a date
“Before year end”, “in December”, “in 2027”. Polymarket markets resolve on a date, and a dated event matches a dated market.
3
Use names
People, companies, countries and tickers are the strongest signal for finding the market. “Nvidia” beats “a big chipmaker”.
4
Make it measurable
Prefer outcomes someone could settle: a rate cut, an election win, a price level, an earnings beat. “Markets get scary” cannot resolve.
5
Add a focus only if you want one
End with “impact on tech” or “impact on energy” to put that angle first in the trades. Leave it out to see the whole map.
Good vs weak
Here is what the rules do to some real questions.Events by theme
Copy one into the event box. Alchemy may not find a market for every event; when it does not, it says so on the summary card.Macro and rates
Politics and geopolitics
Tech and AI
Crypto
Weather, energy and security
Sports
Questions that work less well
Some questions are better asked somewhere else, or split up first.- Open questions. “What should I buy?” has no outcome to price. Use Chat for that.
- Single-asset orders. “Long ETH 3x” is a trade, not an event. Chat or the Hyperliquid tools place it directly.
- Long lists. “Fed, oil, gold and the election” will pick one and drop the rest.
- Side questions you did not mean. Wording such as “by more than 10 points” or “how many seats” points Alchemy at a bracket market rather than the main one. Use it only when that is what you want.
Before you send
- Is it one outcome?
- Is there a date?
- Is there a name?
- Could someone settle it as Yes or No?
Next
Your first run
Try a free sample first.
Reading a result
Check what Alchemy matched your event to.

