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Guides to prediction-market trading bots, strategies, risk controls and keeping custody of your funds. No hype and no performance promises.
A fair October 2026 roundup of Polymarket copy-trading bots, terminals, Telegram bots, self-custody runners, analytics and developer tools, with pricing, custody model and per-trade fees from each vendor's own pages.
A clear guide to Polymarket resolution in 2026: market rules, the UMA optimistic oracle, the 2-hour challenge window, disputes and DVM votes, 50/50 outcomes, clarifications, Chainlink-resolved up/down markets, and what bots should automate.
An honest guide to making money on Polymarket: the base rates (most wallets lose after fees), the strategies that can survive costs, worked break-even numbers, non-trading income and where automation actually helps.
A neutral, sourced guide to where Polymarket can and can't be used in 2026: the blocked and close-only country lists, what changed in the US with Polymarket US, VPN rules, and what it means for trading bots.
An October 2026 comparison of Kalshi, Polymarket's international exchange and Polymarket US: who can use each, fee formulas with worked examples, settlement, custody, APIs and what each means for trading bots and copy trading.
How to size Polymarket bets with the Kelly criterion: the binary-contract formula, adjusting for Polymarket's taker fee, why fractional Kelly wins in practice (with a simulation), correlated markets, caps and a Python function.
A current, tested Python tutorial for the Polymarket API: the three API hosts, the unified polymarket-client SDK, reading markets and order books, streaming prices, placing orders safely, and what changed from py-clob-client.
How Polymarket arbitrage really works now that taker fees exist: complement (YES+NO) sets, negative-risk multi-outcome events, Kalshi–Polymarket gaps and logical mispricings, with fee math and the risks most guides skip.
Real 2026 incidents (key-stealing GitHub bots, fake npm packages, a $230K custodial bot loss) and a practical checklist for running any Polymarket trading bot safely: custody models, dedicated wallets, session keys and code review.
A complete, sourced guide to Polymarket copy trading: how copy bots detect and mirror trades, why most wallets aren't worth copying, the fee and latency math, sizing and exits, and how the main tools compare.
How Polymarket's Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana 'Up or Down' markets work: windows, Chainlink TWAP vs Binance resolution, the 0.07 taker fee, the 250 ms taker delay, and what that means for latency bots.
Every Polymarket fee in one place: the taker fee formula and category rates, why makers pay nothing, maker and taker rebate programs, builder fees added by bots and apps, deposits, and the break-even edge a bot needs.
How a Polymarket bot really works in 2026: APIs, the unified SDK, pUSD, taker fees, strategies, costs and a custody checklist, plus how to choose between building, a Telegram bot or a self-custody runner.
How to track Polymarket whales and top wallets, why the leaderboard misleads (with our own data on the top 100), and an 8-point vetting checklist with Python code using Polymarket's public data.
A plain-English guide to Polymarket trading bots: what they do, the common strategies, how they place orders, the risks, and what to check before you run one.