Orders & Execution

Manual Trading (Markets)

You can trade any market by hand — no subscription required. Open a market from /markets to see its live order book and trade ticket.

• Buying — Size is in dollars — on a BUY, the "Size (USD)" field is how many dollars you want to spend, not a number of shares. Enter $20 and the ticket buys $20 worth of shares at the price you set.
• Selling — Size is in shares — on a SELL, size is the number of shares of a position you already hold. Quick-fill buttons let you sell 25%, 50%, or all of your holding.
• Minimum order — Polymarket requires at least 5 shares per order. The ticket shows this as an approximate dollar amount (e.g. "≈ $1.20") based on the current price.
• Max price — sets the worst price you'll accept: AntFlow won't buy above it or sell below it. Leave it tracking the live book for a fill at the best available price ("buy now"), or set a tighter price so the order rests until the market reaches it (a limit order).

Order Lifecycle

Every trade intent that passes risk checks becomes a CLOB order — this applies to automated strategies (CPA/FHM) and to manual trades placed from Markets:

Orders can also be cancelled or fail at any stage.

Order States

Badges

• SIM — This order was simulated (dry-run mode). No real CLOB order was placed.
• STALE — This order has been open for more than 1 hour without filling. The engine will eventually cancel stale orders automatically. You can also cancel them manually.

Reading the Orders Table

• ID — Order identifier with SIM/STALE badges
• Market — Market question with a TGT (target) or CVR (cover) badge and a link to Polymarket.
• Side — BUY or SELL
• Type — Order time-in-force, shown with a tooltip: GTC (Good-Til-Cancelled — stays open until filled or manually cancelled), FOK (Fill-Or-Kill — must fill entirely or cancel immediately), or IOC (Immediate-Or-Cancel — fills what's available now, cancels the rest)
• Intended — The price you intended to place at
• Avg Fill — Actual average fill price (may differ due to slippage)
• Size — Order size in tokens
• Filled — How many tokens have been filled so far
• Placed — When the order was placed on the CLOB.
• Status — Current order state
• Retries — How many times this order has been retried after failure
• Error — Error message if the order failed
• Action — Cancel button for open/partial/pending orders

Fills Tab

The Fills tab shows individual fill events — each time part of an order gets matched:

• Order — Which order this fill belongs to
• Market — Market question with TGT/CVR badge and Polymarket link.
• Side — BUY or SELL
• Price — Fill price
• Size — Number of tokens filled
• Total — Total USDC value of the fill (price × size).
• Fee — CLOB fee charged on this fill
• Filled At — When the fill occurred

Retries and Failures

When an order fails (network error, CLOB rejection), the engine can retry it:

• Failed orders show an error message in the Error column
• The Retries column shows how many attempts have been made
• The engine creates a new order on retry; the old one is marked cancelled
• If retries are exhausted, the intent is marked as failed

Stale Orders

Cancelling Orders

You can cancel any order in open, partial, or pending state:

• Click the Cancel button in the Actions column
• Or use Cancel / Cancel All on the Orders page
• Cancelled orders free up exposure for new trades