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How to get pinged when a Polymarket market suddenly heats up

Volume acceleration — a market trading far above its own weekly pace — often precedes the price move. Automate spotting it.

Steps

  1. In the screener click the "Heating up" preset: it keeps markets whose 24h volume is at least 3× their own daily average of the past week. (Shortcut: the ⊞ Library's "Heating up, with depth" lens is this preset plus a $25k volume floor, ready to save.)
  2. Add any scoping you want on top — a category, min liquidity, a price band.
  3. Click "Save as lens": the panel shows the chip "preset: Heating up", meaning the acceleration formula itself is stored in the lens.
  4. Expand the "🔔 Alerts" row (collapsed by default), pick the lens, choose "Enters lens", click "Add alert".
  5. The bot now messages you the moment any market newly satisfies both your filters and the acceleration formula.

Why this works

Presets are saved into lenses and evaluated server-side by the bot with formula parity to the dashboard — what you see in the table is exactly what triggers the alert.

FAQ

What counts as "heating up" exactly?

24h volume ≥ 3× the market's own average daily volume over the past week, with a $100/day floor on the average so dead markets can't fake acceleration.

Can I use other presets in alerts?

Yes — every preset (Clock tension, Waking up, Thin & moving, and the rest) is saved into lenses and enforced by the bot the same way.

Try it in the screener →