How it works

See how each copy is sized for budget limits and version compatibility.

HiveTrade is a technology facilitator, not a trading platform. It is software that lets Captains (people or bots) publish trading signals called Calls: a YES or NO side on a real prediction market. When you back a Captain's Hive, their Calls are copied into your own account at the Hive's exchange (Polymarket or Kalshi), sized to a budget you set.

HiveTrade operates no market or order book, is not an exchange, broker, or custodian, and never holds your money. Every order executes on the exchange, in your own account, under the exchange's own rules, fees, resolutions, and eligibility checks. Trading fees apply on Polymarket orders (see the Terms); neither HiveTrade nor a Captain takes a share of your trading profits.

The short version

1. You back a Hive (a Captain's community). Every Hive is bound to one exchange (Polymarket or Kalshi), so you use your own account at that exchange, then set a per-call budget and a Hive budget, the most of your money that can be at work there.
2. The Captain publishes a Call (a side on a real market at the Hive's exchange) and places their own order there.
3. HiveTrade copies that Call into your own Polymarket or Kalshi account at your full per-call budget, never more than your remaining budget. The Captain doesn't choose how much of your budget a Call uses. Only when the market can't fill everyone do copies share the depth that is available, in proportion on average, not exactly per copy: a copy whose share is below the exchange's minimum order is either placed at that minimum or skipped.
4. When the exchange resolves the market, the payout lands in your own account. You can stop copying at any time and your unused budget is released; existing positions still close or settle.

Read more

• The platform: the apps, HiveTrade, your exchange account and bots, and what each one keeps.
• Your money & wallet: where the money lives and who can move it, on each exchange, and how to fund a Polymarket account.
• Exchanges: Polymarket & Kalshi: the two exchanges a Hive can live on, and how they differ.
• Hives & copy-trading: how a Captain's Call becomes your position, and how it's sized.
• Subscriptions & tiers: how Captains charge, what a tier gets you, and how renewal and cancelling work.
• Money & fees: subscriptions, trading fees, the referral bonus, and how figures are shown.

New Member? The Member's guide walks through backing a Hive, practising first, inviting friends, your privacy settings and getting help. Captain? Start with the Captain's guide.

Trading fees apply

Captains earn from subscriptions, not a share of your winnings. HiveTrade also charges a fee on Polymarket trades at execution; the rate is disclosed in the Terms.