BTC Candle Race

Candle Race is a short-format market where you bet on the shape of the next five 1-minute candles instead of a final price. Each round covers a 5-minute window on a single asset. You pick Green if you expect more green candles than red ones in that window, or Red if you expect the opposite. There is nothing to sell or re-price along the way — the bet is placed once and settled when the round ends.

At the end of the round each of the five 1-minute candles is scored: green when its close is greater than or equal to its open, red otherwise. The side with more candles wins, so a round always ends 3:2, 4:1 or 5:0 — a tie is impossible with an odd number of candles. The final score is shown on the round page once the backend has settled it.

Entry closes exactly one minute before the round opens. The countdown on the round page runs to the round's start, so the last minute of it is already closed for new bets — the bet form switches to “Entry for this round is closed” at that point. Once entry is closed you can no longer join this round or change your side, but the next round for the same asset is already open, and the “Play next round” button takes you straight to it.

Every round has a fixed win multiplier for each side, shown on the round page before you place the bet. If your side wins, your payout is your stake multiplied by that side's number; if it loses, you lose the stake you entered with. The two multipliers are set before entry opens, so they do not drift with how much has been staked on either side.