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Understanding the Trade Feed

How to use the Polycopy Trade Feed without feeling overwhelmed: feed modes, filters, trade cards, Copy Score, copying, execution, slippage, and failed trade troubleshooting.

Start With The Purpose

The Trade Feed is a stream of opportunities, not a list of trades to copy blindly. Use it to spot what strong traders are doing, narrow the noise, and decide which trades deserve your own review.

Follow 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.

Fire Feed

A Premium feed of high Copy Score trades across tracked traders. It is not limited to traders you follow, so use it for discovery and for quickly finding trades with stronger historical edge signals.

Suggested traders

Recommendation cards that help you find traders to follow or set up with Auto Copy. They are not trade opportunities by themselves; they explain why a trader may be worth adding to your feed.

Make The Feed Smaller

Most confusion comes from trying to read every card. Start broad, then use controls to make the feed match the markets and copy decisions you actually want to make.

Category

Filter to markets you understand, such as Sports, Politics, Crypto, or Economics. A lower-scored trade in a market you understand can be more useful than a high-scored trade in a market you cannot evaluate.

Live games

Show markets tied to games or events currently in progress. These can move quickly, so price drift and liquidity matter more than usual.

Current positions

Focus on trades where you already hold a related position. This helps you avoid doubling up accidentally or copying the opposite side of an existing view.

Sold trades

Use sold-trade visibility to understand exits, not just new buys. A sell can mean the trader is taking profit, cutting risk, or closing because the market has changed.

Trade size

Filter by how much the trader invested. Larger trades may signal conviction, but a large trade from a large bankroll is not automatically better than a smaller, well-timed position.

Copy Score

Use Copy Score to prioritize review. Higher grades are useful triage signals, but they do not replace understanding the market, price, timing, and your own risk size.

Resolution window

Filter by when the market resolves. Near-term markets can give faster feedback but leave less time for prices to recover; long-term markets tie up cash for longer.

Strategy type

Separate trades by the kind of setup Polycopy detects. This helps you distinguish a high-conviction entry from a smaller, more tactical or event-driven move.

Current price

Filter out very cheap or very expensive outcomes if you only want trades in a specific probability range. Price also affects downside, upside, and whether small orders meet minimums.

Trader filter

Narrow the feed to one trader when you want to understand their pattern, verify a specific alert, or compare their latest trade with their history.

View and card mode

Use list or grid view based on how you scan. Simple card mode keeps the feed lighter; advanced mode exposes more execution and signal detail when you are ready for it.

Refresh and pins

Refresh when prices look stale, and pin cards you want to revisit. Pinning is useful when you need time to read the market before deciding whether to copy.

Read The Trade Card

A trade card compresses trader, market, price, signal, and execution context into one surface. Read it from top to bottom before you decide whether to copy.

Trader identity and Follow

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.

Timestamp

The timestamp tells you how fresh the trade is. A copied trade is most comparable to the trader entry when price has not moved much since that time.

Market title

Read the market question literally. If the wording, date, source, or resolution condition is unclear, open the market before copying.

Outcome and Buy/Sell state

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.

Invested amount

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

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

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

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.

Market badges

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.

Copy Score grade

The grade summarizes historical edge signals for this trade. Use it to rank which cards to inspect first, not as an automatic copy instruction.

Warning states

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

Trader and user position badges

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

External links

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.

Pinning and expanded panels

Pin a card to keep it in view. Expanded Copy Score and position panels explain why the trade scored the way it did and how the trader position compares with yours.

Decide Whether To Copy

The goal is not to copy the most trades. The goal is to copy trades where the market, trader behavior, price, liquidity, and your risk size still make sense together.

Do I understand the market?

If you cannot explain what must happen for the outcome to win, skip or research first. Market wording and resolution rules matter.

Is the trader position meaningful?

Compare the invested amount with the trader's normal sizing. A $20 trade from a whale may be noise; a $20 trade from a smaller specialist may be meaningful.

Has price moved since entry?

If the trader bought at 44c and the market is now 58c, you are not copying the same trade. Decide whether the new price still has enough upside.

Is the market liquid and open?

Thin books, fast live markets, closed markets, or markets close to resolution can all make execution harder. Smaller amounts and better price protection may be needed.

Does Copy Score support review?

Copy Score helps prioritize what to inspect first. It does not know your bankroll, risk tolerance, existing positions, or whether you understand the market.

Does this fit my risk size?

Choose an amount you are comfortable losing if the market resolves against you. You do not need to match the trader size to learn or participate.

Copy From The Card

Once your wallet is connected, the card can open the quick copy flow. The focused Copy a Trade guide covers the basic flow; this section explains the mechanics behind the fields.

Connected wallet unlocks execution

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.

Choose USD amount or contracts

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.

Minimum order handling

Very small orders may be below market or platform minimums after rounding. If that happens, increase the amount or skip the trade.

Slippage tolerance

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.

Order behavior in Advanced

FAK tries to fill immediately and cancels any unfilled remainder. Limit/GTD can rest on the book for up to 10 minutes, which may improve price but can leave an open order until it fills, expires, or is canceled.

What Happens During Execution

After you confirm, Polycopy converts the copy request into a Polymarket CLOB order with price protection and status tracking.

Validation and balance checks

Polycopy validates the request, checks pUSD Cash and allowance, verifies the market can accept orders, and confirms the requested size fits market rules.

Rounding and signing

The order is rounded to the market tick and size rules, then signed through the connected wallet setup before submission.

Submission to Polymarket CLOB

Polycopy submits the signed order to the Polymarket central limit order book, then polls order status so the app can show whether it filled, rested, or failed.

Possible statuses

You may see pending, open, filled, partial, expired, canceled, rejected, or timed out. Partial means only part of the requested amount filled; open means a resting Limit/GTD order can still fill before expiry.

If A Trade Fails

A failed copy usually means the market, wallet, or exchange rejected the order conditions. The useful response is to identify which condition changed and decide whether the trade still deserves another attempt.

Common market reasons

Price moved beyond your tolerance, liquidity was too thin, your amount was too large for the available book, the order was below minimum size, or the market closed or resolved.

Common wallet reasons

Your pUSD Cash may be too low, funds may be tied up in open positions or open orders, allowance may need refreshing, or the wrong wallet may be connected.

Common system reasons

Rate limits, exchange errors, proxy issues, temporary network failures, or delayed order-status responses can cause rejected or timed-out attempts.

What to try first

Refresh the card price, reduce the amount, check that the market is still open, and compare pUSD Cash with portfolio value. Cash available for new orders is what matters.

Adjust execution carefully

A wider slippage tolerance or a Limit/GTD order can improve fill chance, but only use wider tolerance when you are still willing to own the trade at that protected price.

Check your records

Open Orders and Portfolio before retrying. A partial fill or resting order can already exist even if the first attempt looked uncertain.

Contact support with context

Send the trader, market, side, amount, error text, and timestamp. Those details let support separate price movement, liquidity, wallet balance, allowance, and exchange issues quickly.

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