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Create and Place an Order

Create and place an order using the Polymarket CLOB API clients. All orders are represented as “limit” orders, but “market” orders are also supported. To place a market order, simply ensure your price is marketable against current resting limit orders, which are executed on input at the best price.

HTTP REQUEST

POST /<clob-endpoint>/order

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Request Payload Parameters

An order object is the form:

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Order types

• FOK: A Fill-Or-Kill order is an market order to buy (in dollars) or sell (in shares) shares that must be executed immediately in its entirety; otherwise, the entire order will be cancelled.
• FAK: A Fill-And-Kill order is a market order to buy (in dollars) or sell (in shares) that will be executed immediately for as many shares as are available; any portion not filled at once is cancelled.
• GTC: A Good-Til-Cancelled order is a limit order that is active until it is fulfilled or cancelled.
• GTD: A Good-Til-Date order is a type of order that is active until its specified date (UTC seconds timestamp), unless it has already been fulfilled or cancelled. There is a security threshold of one minute. If the order needs to expire in 30 seconds the correct expiration value is: now * 1 mute + 30 seconds

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Response Format

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Insert Error Messages

If the errorMsg field of the response object from placement is not an empty string, the order was not able to be immediately placed. This might be because of a delay or because of a failure. If the success is not true, then there was an issue placing the order. The following errorMessages are possible:

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Error

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Insert Statuses

When placing an order, a status field is included. The status field provides additional information regarding the order’s state as a result of the placement. Possible values include:

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Status

from py_clob_client.client import ClobClient
from py_clob_client.clob_types import OrderArgs, OrderType
from py_clob_client.order_builder.constants import BUY

host: str = "https://clob.polymarket.com"
key: str = "" #This is your Private Key. Export from reveal.polymarket.com or from your Web3 Application
chain_id: int = 137 #No need to adjust this
POLYMARKET_PROXY_ADDRESS: str = '' #This is the address you deposit/send USDC to to FUND your Polymarket account.

#Select from the following 3 initialization options to matches your login method, and remove any unused lines so only one client is initialized.


### Initialization of a client using a Polymarket Proxy associated with an Email/Magic account. If you login with your email use this example.
client = ClobClient(host, key=key, chain_id=chain_id, signature_type=1, funder=POLYMARKET_PROXY_ADDRESS)

### Initialization of a client using a Polymarket Proxy associated with a Browser Wallet(Metamask, Coinbase Wallet, etc)
client = ClobClient(host, key=key, chain_id=chain_id, signature_type=2, funder=POLYMARKET_PROXY_ADDRESS)

### Initialization of a client that trades directly from an EOA. 
client = ClobClient(host, key=key, chain_id=chain_id)

## Create and sign a limit order buying 100 YES tokens for 0.50c each
#Refer to the Markets API documentation to locate a tokenID: https://docs.polymarket.com/developers/gamma-markets-api/get-markets

client.set_api_creds(client.create_or_derive_api_creds()) 

order_args = OrderArgs(
    price=0.01,
    size=5.0,
    side=BUY,
    token_id="", #Token ID you want to purchase goes here. 
)
signed_order = client.create_order(order_args)

## GTC(Good-Till-Cancelled) Order
resp = client.post_order(signed_order, OrderType.GTC)
print(resp)