A Practical Guide to Courto

This guide shows the order to use it. Follow the steps once, slowly. If you have questions while using Courto, you can also reach us in the Discord community.

Sign Up and Stay in Sim First

Step 1: Create your account. Start on the product site. During MVP, Courto is designed to be easy to try, with a free entry path and no credit card required.

Step 2: Go to the sim cabin. Start in simulation before thinking about real trading. Courto gives users credits for live-style practice, so you can learn the product without making the first session feel like a test.

Step 3: Treat simulation as training, not play money. Use the sim cabin to practice the same actions you would need in a real prediction market: Enter, Watch, Exit, and Review. Treat each sim action as a decision you will later review, not as play money.

Read the Prediction Baseline

Step 1: Open one basketball market. Choose one live or upcoming game. Do not open five tabs at once. One market is enough for a first session.

Step 2: Find the prediction baseline. The baseline is Courto's working read of how the game and market state are evolving. Do not treat it as a final answer. Treat it as a path.

Step 3: Compare the baseline with the live market price. Ask one simple question: is the market ahead of the game, behind the game, or about right?

If you stare at one number, it is easy to trade emotion. If you follow the path, you start learning how to trade updates.

Find the Evidences

Step 1: Click on the evidence dots on the graph. This is where you check the reasoning behind the baseline.

Step 2: Look for three things: what is driving the view, how strong is the confidence, and what could make the view wrong?

Pressure Test with Q&A

Step 1: Ask what changed. If the price moved, ask why. Was it game flow, lineup change, matchup, injury news, or market reaction?

Step 2: Ask what could break the view. A good question is not only 'Why is this right?' It is also 'What would make this wrong?'

Step 3: Ask whether the market already priced it in. Sometimes the evidence is real, but the price has already moved. Q&A helps you slow down and check whether there is still a decision to make.

Step 4: Save the answer for review. The questions you ask make your reasoning visible, which helps you compare later decisions against the same standard.

Use Enter - Watch - Exit as the Workflow

Step 1: Enter only when the gap is clear. Enter when you see a gap between the game state and the market price, and the Evidence Card still supports the view.

Step 2: Hold while the reason still holds. Do not hold just because you already entered. Hold because the baseline, evidence, and game context still support the thesis.

Step 3: Exit when the setup changes. Exit when the risk-reward changes, even if you still want one more possession. A good exit is part of the process, not a failure.

Step 4: Review the decision after settlement. The goal is not to be perfect. The goal is to build a repeatable loop you can review and improve.

Check the Public Record

Step 1: Look at settled examples. Before trusting any tool, check how it keeps score. Courto's settled examples are designed to show confidence, market reaction, result, and timing.

Step 2: Check the trust markers. Look for records that are timestamped, version-locked, and publicly settled. These markers matter because prediction should be judged by what was known before the result, not by explanations written afterward.

Step 3: Apply the same standard to yourself. Do not only ask, 'Did I win?' Ask: was my reason clear, did I follow the evidence, did I exit for the right reason, and what would I do differently next time?

A Simple First Session

For your first session, use this checklist: sign up and open the sim cabin; pick one live or upcoming basketball market; read the prediction baseline; compare it with the live market price; read the evidences; ask questions in Q&A; place one sim trade; decide in advance what would make you exit; and after settlement, review timing, confidence, price movement, and outcome.

One complete loop teaches more than ten half-finished tabs.

Key Takeaway

Using Courto well is not about collecting more predictions. It is about following a clear decision loop: read the baseline, check the evidence, pressure-test the view, enter, hold, or exit, then review the result.

Courto helps make that loop clearer. Your notes, questions, and sim trades also create a record you can learn from over time.

Risk Reminder

All trading and investment activity carries risk. Event contracts can lose money. A clear workflow, simulation practice, personalized support, and strong basketball context do not guarantee profit.

Fees, liquidity, settlement rules, and local access still matter.

Courto is designed to support better process: readable baselines, inspectable evidence, Q&A, and room to practice. That is a product advantage, not a promise that every call wins.

Compared with traditional sports lottery, prediction markets can offer a more structured experience for people who care about process. Users can work with transparent prices, update as information changes, and review decisions over time.

More structured does not mean risk-free.

Not financial advice. Event contracts can lose money. Access depends on where you live and which platform you use.