Prediction markets · settlement rules
There is no Robinhood house rule to quote. Settlement terms are written per contract and genuinely differ between contracts listed in the same week.
| Retirement | Disqualification | Walkover |
|---|---|---|
| varies by contract | pays the advancing player | $0.50 on some contracts |
Their published rule does not name disqualification. The answer above is how they settle one in practice, from our own trading experience rather than a clause we can quote.
Read and verified on Robinhood’s own published rules, 2026-10-05. Operators change these without notice, so we re-read them each time this page is updated.
Tennis contracts are listed through KalshiEX, so games-count and set markets fall under Kalshi's contract terms rather than anything Robinhood publishes.
Of three match-winner contracts read the same day, two carried the clause above and a $0.50 non-start rule; a third carried neither, resolving a non-start to "a fair price in accordance with the rules". So check the contract in front of you. They never say "disqualification" either - the wording is "withdraws or forfeits" - but a defaulted player resolves to No.
There isn't one. Settlement is written into each contract and the wording varies between contracts offered at the same time - some say a player withdrawing after the start resolves to No, others are silent.
On some contracts. Those carrying the clause resolve all markets to $0.50 when the match never starts. Others resolve to "a fair price in accordance with the rules", which is not a fixed number.
The player who advances is paid and the disqualified player resolves to No. Their contracts never use the word - they say "withdraws or forfeits" - so this is practice rather than a clause we can quote.