How to Read Available Cash on Polymarket (US 2026)

Official Place a Trade: open the Portfolio tab to track your position and market value. Official Monitor Your Positions: that screen shows cash balance, open positions, and total account value. Official Check Your Balance and Official Monitor Your Positions both call cash funds available to trade or withdraw. That cash row is the published US door for the number this page is after. Official Website vs App: US residents sign in and trade in the Polymarket US app, not on polymarket.com. If the live US app already says Cash, Available, Wallet, or Profile for the same figure, use that live word.

Official Place a Trade: enter the dollar amount you want to trade, or tap Max to use your available balance. That is the only official US retail page we checked that prints the words available balance as a control. Max fills the size field with what the desk will still let you put on that Yes or No. It is not a withdraw button, and it is not a second Portfolio tab. If the live ticket already prints Available, Use max, or another spend chip, follow that live label. We will not invent a header those pages do not print.

Official Check Your Balance teaches available funds. Official Place a Trade names available balance on Max. Official Glossary names cash balance and buying power. Official Monitor Your Positions, Official Place a Trade, and Official Glossary do not reprint a retail column literally labelled Available cash. We will not invent one. The action is: open Portfolio, read the cash row, then — if you are sizing a ticket — confirm Max’s available balance. If the live Portfolio already prints Available or Available cash, use that live word. If it only prints cash, that cash row is still the figure.

Official Get Account Balances names currentBalance as fiat not including security values, buyingPower as unencumbered capital available for trading after security valuations and open orders, and assetAvailable as available collateral on securities. It also names openOrders and unsettledFunds. Official Place a Trade and Official Monitor Your Positions do not reprint those strings as a retail Available cash or Buying Power tab. We will not paste an API field onto the US swipe. If the live row already prints Buying power, follow that live text.

Official Glossary: cash balance is funds in your account not tied to open positions. Official Check Your Balance: that cash is the money you can trade or withdraw back to the original deposit source. Deposits appear as cash. Sale proceeds and resolved-market proceeds return to cash automatically. Official Monitor Your Positions repeats the same cash row next to open positions and total value. This page is how to find that row. How to tell cash from buying power is the later split. We do not reprint a live dollar.

Official Glossary: buying power is cash available to open new positions after margin is applied. Official Orders & Trading: buying power is the cash you have available to open new positions; it falls when you buy contracts and rises when you sell or a market settles in your favor. Official Place a Trade’s Max available balance is the published retail action that reads that spendable figure onto a ticket. Official retail Portfolio pages we checked do not reprint Buying power as a column header. If the live app prints it, follow the live label. If it does not, read cash on Portfolio and available balance on Max — do not invent a third number.

Official Glossary: instant buying power is the part of a deposit that becomes available to trade immediately. Official Fund Your Account and Official Debit Card: debit and ACH may credit that instant slice while the deposit is still processing. Official “Why can’t I withdraw my funds?”: you cannot withdraw the original deposit or proceeds tied to that buying power until the funds fully clear. This page names that label so you do not read a just-funded screen as bank-ready cash. How to deposit and How to withdraw are those cashiers. We do not walk them here, and we do not reprint a live instant figure.

Official Glossary: an open position is the contracts you currently hold. Official Monitor Your Positions: that row shows contracts held, average entry price, current market price, and potential payout. Official Check Your Balance: cash is the money not tied to any of those rows. Position value is a mark. Potential payout is what that side pays if it grades yes. None of that is the available-cash figure. How to read your portfolio is that filled list. This page does not clone it.

Official Monitor Your Positions: total value is the combined value of cash and positions. Official Glossary names position value as the real-time dollar value of open positions. Adding those together is a snapshot of the whole book, not the cash you can still put on Max and not the cash you can send off the desk. If the live header already says Total, Equity, or Account value, read it as that sum — then drop back to the cash row for the number this page is after.

Official Glossary: an open order is an order waiting on the book to be filled. Official Orders & Trading: unfilled size is still Open or Partially filled. Official Get Account Balances folds open orders into the buyingPower math. That reserved clip can make Max’s available balance smaller than the cash row. Canceling the remainder is a different how-to. It does not print a second Available cash column, and it does not send money to a debit card.

Official Place a Trade is tap a market, pick Yes or No, enter a dollar amount or Max, then swipe. Starring or saving that card — How to favorite a market — does not change cash. Official “Why can’t I withdraw my promotional credit?”: promo credits are trading credits, not cash, and cannot be withdrawn. Do not add a starred ticket or a promo chip onto the cash row as if Check Your Balance printed them there.