Understanding the Trade Feed

Your personalized feed of trades from traders you follow. It is best when you have curated a small group of traders whose markets, sizing, and risk style you understand.

A Premium tab of recent trades from traders whose Copy Score says they are not hard to copy, in a category they already have a record in. Wallets carrying the harder-to-mirror flag are left out of it. It is not limited to traders you follow, so use it for discovery. It is a pre-filter, not a ranking — everything in it cleared the same bar, and newest is on top.

Cards that appear inside Follow Feed, not a tab of their own. They help you find traders to follow or set up with a Trader Bot. They are not trade opportunities by themselves; they explain why a trader may be worth adding to your feed.

The trader name, avatar, and wallet context tell you who made the trade. The Follow button adds that trader to your Follow Feed so future trades are easier to monitor.

The timestamp is how fresh the trade is; a copy is most comparable to the trader's entry when little time has passed. Read the market question literally — if the wording, date, source, or resolution condition is unclear, open the market before copying.

The outcome is the side the trader bought or sold, such as YES or NO. Buy means the trader added exposure; Sell means they reduced or closed exposure.

This is the trader notional shown on the card. Compare it with that trader's usual size; a meaningful allocation can signal more conviction than a tiny exploratory order.

Entry price is the price the trader paid or received. It is the anchor for judging whether the opportunity has drifted before you copy.

Current price is what the market shows now. If current price is much worse than entry, you may be copying late; if it is better, check whether new information caused the move.

ROI shows how the trader position is performing from entry. Positive ROI can mean the thesis is working, but it can also mean much of the edge is already gone.

Live, resolved, event, and timing badges help you understand market state. Do not copy resolved or closed markets, and treat live markets as faster-moving.

A signed whole number next to the trader name says what was left on their finished trades after copy costs. A dash means we have no verdict, and hovering it says why. Either way it is about the trader, not this trade.

Warnings call out issues such as stale pricing, unusual price movement, market restrictions, liquidity concerns, or execution risk. Read these before setting an amount.

Position badges show whether the trader still holds exposure and whether you already have a position. This prevents accidental duplicate, opposite, or stale copies.

Polymarket and ESPN links give outside context when available. Use them to inspect the order book, market rules, live score, or event state before placing money at risk.

If you cannot say what must occur for this outcome to win, skip it or read the market rules first. Wording, dates and resolution sources decide these markets, not vibes.

If the trader bought at 44¢ and the market is now 58¢, you are not copying the same trade. Decide whether the new price still has enough left in it — the entry price on the card is the anchor for that judgement, not the current one.

Thin books, fast live markets, and markets near resolution all make execution harder. A smaller amount and a tighter price limit are the two levers you have.

Choose an amount you can lose if the market resolves against you. You never need to match the trader's size, and Copy Score knows nothing about your bankroll, your existing positions, or whether you understand this market.

Browsing and following do not require a trading wallet, but quick copy does. Connect the Polymarket wallet that holds the pUSD Cash you want to trade with.

You can enter a dollar amount or a number of outcome contracts, depending on the copy panel. Polycopy estimates max cost and shows how your copy compares with the original trade size.

Every market carries its own minimum order, and the copy panel shows the exact figure for that market before you confirm. Very small orders can fall below it after rounding to the tick. If that happens, increase the amount or skip the trade.

Slippage is a limit-price buffer used for price protection. It is not a guarantee that you will get a worse fill; it defines the worst acceptable price before the order should stop filling.

Fill and Kill (FAK) trades against whatever is available at that instant and cancels the rest — on a fast market, most FAK orders never trade at all. Limit (GTD) rests on the book instead, for 4 minutes by default and anywhere in the range 4 to 60 minutes, which can improve your price but leaves an open order until it fills, expires, or you cancel it. Resting longer is not better: most resting orders that fill do so in the first minute, and the later ones tend to fill because the market moved against you.