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Strategies

Can You Bet on Bitcoin? How Bitcoin Markets Work (2026)

How Bitcoin event contracts work, what to verify about venue eligibility, and how to paper-test an automated rule.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 9 min read
Strategies Market Teardowns

Trading Economic Indicators on Kalshi (2026)

How to trade Kalshi economic markets — CPI, jobs reports, GDP, and Fed rate decisions. Nowcasting models, timing strategies, and the data that matters.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 3 min read
Getting Started

Kalshi for Sports Bettors: A Better Alternative

Sports bettors are switching to Kalshi for better odds, no vig, and API access for bots. Here's why — and how to make the transition.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 6 min read
Strategies Rule Clinics

Kelly Criterion for Kalshi: Optimal Position Sizing

How to use the Kelly criterion to size your Kalshi trades: the math behind position sizing, practical adjustments, and why most should use half-Kelly.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 3 min read
Strategies Rule Clinics

Kalshi Arbitrage: What's Real and What's a Myth

We built real Kalshi arbitrage scanners with the production fee formula: the single-market myth, the one real edge, and why there's no free money.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 8 min read
Strategies Rule Clinics

Kalshi Market Making: A Liquidity Provider's Guide

How to run a market making strategy on Kalshi — posting two-sided quotes, managing inventory risk, and earning the spread in prediction markets.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 3 min read
Trading Bots Operator Notes

Why Your Kalshi Bot's P&L Is Probably Wrong

Legacy Kalshi order responses can omit a usable fill price. Reconcile current count_fp and yes_price_dollars fill records to keep bot P&L accurate.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 6 min read
Strategies What Broke

Why Most Kalshi Signals Are Noise: An Order-Book Check

We scanned Kalshi's live order book: most markets are too wide and thin to trade, single-market arbitrage is impossible, and the list is auto-generated.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 7 min read
Trading Bots

Kalshi Copy Trading in 2026: What Actually Works

Can you copy trade on Kalshi in 2026? An honest guide to what the services actually do — and the rules-based approach that works instead.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 15 min read
AI & Automation Operator Notes

Are Bots Taking Over Kalshi? What We Can Measure

Kalshi does not publish an automated-volume share. Here is what the official API proves, what public data cannot identify, and what automation changes.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 3 min read
Trading Bots

The Open-Source Kalshi Bot Ecosystem: 30+ Projects (2026)

A dated catalog of Kalshi bot projects: AI agents, market makers, arbitrage and weather bots — with honest notes on what each does well.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 27 min read
Trading Bots What Broke

369 Paper Entries: 361 Closed, 8 Open, $0 Realized

A 369-entry Kalshi paper test ended with 361 positions closed at the simulated entry price, 8 open, and $0 realized paper P&L.

BK Bot for Kalshi Team · 5 min read