What Happens When You Stop a Copy
Stop and sell all ends a Real Trading bot and attempts to sell its open positions. Pause prevents new copies and keeps existing positions.
Last updated September 11, 2026
For a Real Trading Trader Bot or Strategy Bot, Stop and sell all ends the bot and attempts to sell its open positions. If you only want to prevent new copies while keeping your positions, use Pause.
Pause is temporary
A paused bot places no new copies and sells nothing. Your open positions stay exactly where they are, and you can press Resume whenever you want copying to continue. Trades the trader made while you were paused are not copied retroactively; the bot picks up from the next eligible trade. Pause is the right control for a weekend, a volatile stretch, or "I have changed my mind about copying but not about these positions".
Stop ends the bot and attempts sales
A stopped bot cannot be resumed. Sales are attempted at available market prices, so the amount received depends on the fills.
What is left afterwards
Check the result to see which positions sold. Some may remain because of market conditions, minimum sizes or failed orders. Review those positions in your Polymarket wallet.
Paper bots are different
Stopping a Paper Trading bot ends the run and nothing else, because there was never a real position to sell. The simulated record stays available to review.
| Pause | Stop | |
|---|---|---|
New copies | None while paused | Never again for this bot |
Open positions | Untouched | Sold at market, best-effort |
Reversible | Yes, press Resume | No — neither the bot nor the sells |
Status word on /bots | Paused by you | Stopped |
When to use | A break, or you want the positions to run | You want out of the trades as well |
If a stop did not do what you expected
If a position remains, check the stop result and your Polymarket portfolio. Contact support with the bot name, time and affected markets if the result is unclear.