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Every screen in the bot is reachable from the main menu, but each one also has a command. Type / in the chat and Telegram lists them.

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/start

The command to start with. Any command registers you — send /positions first and a Ballista user and signing wallet are created for you all the same — but only /start finishes the job by provisioning the Polymarket account behind it: the deposit wallet and your deposit addresses. Until that has run once, the other screens have nothing to read and will tell you your account is not set up. Provisioning takes a few seconds, so /start posts a ⏳ Loading… placeholder and replaces it with the menu when it is ready. The placeholder appears every time you send the command, not just the first. See Create your account. Afterwards /start is simply “go home”: it reopens the main menu with your current balance.
/start is also the target of referral links: opening a t.me referral link sends it for you and credits the referrer — but only if you are a brand new user. Clicking someone’s link later has no effect. See Referrals.

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/buy

Asks you to reply with a Polymarket link, then loads that market and shows the buy buttons. The link has to be on polymarket.com or one of its subdomains; everything else is turned away. Full walkthrough in Buying.

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/positions

Lists everything you currently hold. See Positions.

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/wallet

Your deposit addresses for every supported chain, links to your Polymarket profile, and the Export Keys button. See Wallet and deposits.

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/copytrade

Opens the list of your copy trades, where you can create a new one or open an existing one to edit. See Copy trades.

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/referrals

Your referral code, link and stats. See Referrals.
If you send the bot a plain message when it is not waiting for anything, it replies with a nudge to send /start or /buy. Text only matters when the bot has just asked you a question — a limit price, a copy-trade value, a referral code.