How to Read a Voided or Canceled Market on Polymarket (US 2026)

Official Prices & Market Data names five market states: Open (accepting orders), Pre-open (exists, trading has not started), Suspended (temporarily paused), Halted (trading stopped), and Expired (ended and settled). Those are the published retail lifecycle words. Official Browse Markets and Official Place a Trade do not reprint a tile, chip, or column labelled Voided, Void, or Canceled market on the swipe we checked. We will not invent that header.

Official Orders & Trading lifecycle: Pending, then Open, Partially filled, Filled, or Canceled / Expired / Rejected. That Canceled word is unfilled size leaving the book. Official Glossary: an open order is waiting to be filled; order status is open, filled, or partially filled. A canceled resting clip is not a voided ticket you already own. How to cancel or edit a Polymarket order is that red-x path. This page does not clone it.

Official Sports FAQs ask “What if a game is canceled and never replayed?” That sentence is about the underlying contest, not a home-screen badge. If the game is canceled and not rescheduled before the contract’s expiration date, those FAQs settle at last fair market prices as of the official cancellation announcement. Official Market Rules put a different teaching line in the rules: “If the game is canceled entirely with no make-up game, this market will settle 50-50.” Those are two published paths. The ticket in front of you picks one.

Hard rule: if official US help names the field, we name it. Those pages do not reprint Voided as a market state. If the live market page, Portfolio row, or History line prints Voided, Canceled, Void, Alternative settlement, or 50-50, follow that live label. If no such word is there, the action is: open the ticket, see whether the book is still Open, then read the rules / Settlement Description for how an already-filled position settles. Official Website vs App: US residents do that in the Polymarket US app.

A sportsbook void usually returns the stake and treats the slip as if it never existed. Official US consumer help does not reprint that product. Official Glossary: settlement is $1.00 for winning contracts and $0.00 for losing contracts. Official Market Settlement adds Alternative Settlement when a market’s Settlement Description says something else. Official Sports FAQs settle a canceled-and-not-replayed game at last fair market prices. None of those pages say “you get back exactly what you paid.” We will not invent that refund.

Official Market Rules: alternative settlement terms live in the resolution criteria, including situations where the market settles at 0.50. Their teaching example is a game canceled entirely with no make-up, settling 50-50. Official Market Settlement: when alternative settlement applies, Polymarket Clearing follows the Settlement Description on that market. We do not invent a 50-50 for a ticket that does not print one. If that line is on the ticket, Clearing is grading the position — it is not canceling your order, and it is not automatically your original fill price.

Official Sports FAQs: last fair market price (LFMP) is the prevailing fair market price on the Exchange at a specified moment — typically the official announcement (cancellation, walkover, or no-contest). It is not the last traded price at market close. Markets may stay open after that announcement; trades in that window are at the trader’s own risk; settlement still uses LFMP at the announcement, not later prints. If you bought at one price and LFMP is another, that gap is the grade. It can be more or less than your entry. We do not reprint a live LFMP.

Official Market Resolution: after a normal grade, winning shares settle at $1.00 and losing shares at $0.00; Portfolio updates when settlement completes. Official Get Market Settlement API names a settlement price field — that is an API fact, not a retail “Voided” chip we will paste onto the swipe. Official Monitor Your Positions and Official Glossary: a closed position is one you no longer hold because you sold it or the market resolved. Official Check Your Balance: proceeds from resolved markets return to cash automatically. That cash is not a bank deposit. How to cash out is the later off-ramp.

Official Orders & Trading: a limit sits until someone trades against it or you cancel it. Official Fee Schedule (on that other page): a canceled, expired, or rejected order is not charged because no trade executed. That click does not void a market other people are still holding, and it does not rewrite a fill you already own. How to cancel or edit a Polymarket order is that walkthrough. This page is what the exchange does to the market — or what the rules do when the event is canceled.

Official Market Clarification: when Additional context is posted, Polymarket US may cancel resting orders so they are not executed under clarified rules. That is an order-book clear, not a published “void the market and refund every fill.” Official copy: clarifications do not change the market question. Official “Can I sell early?” still applies while the market is open. Do not read a canceled resting clip as a canceled ticket.

A pending debit, ACH, or wire is money moving onto the US desk. Official consumer help does not name Cancel Deposit on those rails. That question lives on How to cancel a deposit. This page never walks that cashier path. A voided or canceled market does not stop a rail that already left your bank.