A practical guide to a current Polymarket decision journal in TEMIRIN using configured records, explicit market identity, current controls, and human review.
July 4, 2026 · 4 min read
A useful Polymarket journal records what was knowable when a decision was made. Start each entry with the explicit market and outcome identifiers, exact resolution wording, review time, trigger price, current observed price, and evidence references opened by the reviewer. Include rejected and unresolved records as well as approved ones. If the journal contains only attractive paper outcomes, it cannot show whether the research process was consistent or merely selected after the fact.
Separate the review state from any later market result. The initial note should explain the thesis, key uncertainty, disconfirming condition, and why the current price mattered. Later observations belong in dated additions rather than edits that overwrite the original reasoning. TEMIRIN's authenticated decision and audit records make the actor and time inspectable, while the venue remains authoritative for market wording, settlement, and every real transaction.
Cite the canonical source record, publisher or provider, publication time when supplied, workspace observation time, and collection status. If an RSS item was deduplicated, a feed failed, or a Telegram or X provider reference lacked context, note that operational fact. The journal should show what evidence was actually available, not reconstruct an ideal source set after resolution. Open primary documents and the venue rules before treating a short alert as sufficient support.
Price notes need timestamps and labels. Preserve the first trigger observation, the later review price, and available bid, ask, spread, or visible depth as separate public-data observations. A midpoint or stale quote is not a venue fill. When price data is unavailable, keep the gap visible. This makes later comparison honest and prevents the journal from manufacturing precision that the workspace or public market data never supplied.
A paper order begins only when the user enters a simulated side, price, and notional. It should reference the relevant review without becoming part of the evidence itself. Implemented checks cover the per-order limit, rolling twenty-four-hour paper total, per-market exposure, and portfolio concentration. Save the policy result and requested values so a later reviewer can reproduce why the paper request was accepted or blocked. A successful check does not imply suitability or available venue liquidity.
Mark the paper record with later public observations according to a documented method and retain valuation gaps. Do not describe the paper price as an executed fill, and do not combine it with observed public-wallet positions. The journal can compare trigger, review, and later mark states to teach process discipline. Real fees, queue position, wallet balances, and transaction results exist only in the user's external venue records and should not be inferred from the simulation.
Review the journal on a fixed schedule and define the sample before looking at results. Group entries by category, source, disposition, price freshness, and whether a paper record exists. Inspect a handful of decisions deeply: reopen the original evidence, confirm the market identity, compare the saved note with the audit trail, and identify where uncertainty was handled well or poorly. Small samples support process questions; they do not establish a durable trading edge.
End each review with one specific operating change, such as repairing a failed source, simplifying a watchlist, clarifying note fields, or tightening access to exports. Preserve the date, reviewer, method, and excluded records. TEMIRIN analytics and exports can help organize this material, but interpretation remains the user's responsibility. The most valuable journal is one another reviewer can reconstruct without guessing which evidence, price, policy state, or decision existed at the time. Record who owns the follow-up and when the next defined sample will be reviewed so the change remains testable.
Save the exact market, outcome side, thesis, uncertainty, conviction, invalidation condition, linked evidence, trigger price, policy context, disposition, and review date as attributable workspace records.
Keep the first trigger observation unchanged and add current prices with their own timestamps. This preserves what the reviewer saw initially while allowing later notes to describe how the market record changed.
They remain separately labelled records. Public-wallet data supplies read-only snapshots, while paper orders store user-entered simulations and check results; the journal can reference both without combining their histories.
