Presets

A preset is a saved order template: a side, an order type, a size, and — for limit orders — a price. It carries no market. You point it at whatever market you are looking at and it fires an order with those settings, so the order you place most often becomes a single click.

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What a preset holds

Sizing is decided by the side, exactly as it is when you place an order by hand: a BUY preset holds a dollar amount and a SELL preset holds a share count, for market and limit presets alike. Limit presets carry a price; market presets do not. The size box in the preset form is labelled for the side you picked and clears when you switch sides, so a “50” you meant as fifty dollars cannot quietly become fifty shares. A preset fires the same order whichever surface you use it from.

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Where you create them

• Web terminal — Settings lists your presets and lets you create and delete them.
• Chrome extension — the popup’s Presets tab does the same, and is the only place you can edit one.

Presets are stored on your account, not on a device, so the list is the same in both places. One created in the extension shows up in the terminal’s Settings immediately.

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Where you use them

• Web terminal — the trade panel on a market shows your presets and fires the matching order against that market’s selected outcome.
• Chrome extension — the panel Ballista injects into Polymarket lists your presets next to the market you are reading, so you can act without leaving the page.

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The six-per-slot cap

You can hold 6 presets per combination of order type and side. That is six market buys, six market sells, six limit buys and six limit sells. Hit the cap and creating another is refused; delete one you are not using to make room. The cap is per slot, not overall, so running out of market buys does not stop you saving another limit sell.

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