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What Polycopy Is, and What It Isn't

Copy individual Polymarket trades, choose a Trader Bot, or start a Strategy Bot. Learn what Polycopy does and what you control.

Last updated September 11, 2026

Polycopy lets you copy Polymarket trades into your own wallet. Copy individual trades, choose one trader for a Trader Bot, or choose a Strategy Bot that follows a strategy’s current trader list. You decide whether to start and how much capital to use.

What actually happens when you copy

1

Choose a trader or strategy

Browse traders on Discover or strategies on Bots. A Trader Bot copies one trader you choose. A Strategy Bot copies eligible trades from its current list.

2

You set the money and the rules

Review the budget and available settings before starting. Trader Bots start at $100; Strategy Bots start at $100.

3

The trader trades

We watch their wallet on-chain. When they open a position that passes your rules, that becomes a candidate copy.

4

We place your order

In your Polymarket account, signed with your own wallet, at your size and inside your slippage tolerance. If the price has already run beyond that tolerance, the copy is skipped rather than filled badly.

5

The position is yours

It sits in your Polymarket account. You can sell it, hold it, or let it resolve, regardless of what the bot or the trader does next.

Who does what
Polycopy doesYou controlPolymarket does

Watches eligible traders

Your trader or strategy

Holds your funds

Decides which of their trades qualify under your rules

The budget and the size per copy

Runs the order book and matches your order

Places the order in your account at your size

Slippage tolerance and order behavior

Sets its own fees on markets that have them

Tracks your positions and P&L

When to pause, stop, or sell

Resolves the market

Charges one flat 0.5% per executed trade

Whether to be in a market at all

Credits your balance at resolution

What Polycopy is not

Six things it is not

These are the misreadings that cost people money, so they are worth being blunt about.

Not a fund

You are not buying units in anything. There is no pooled money and no shared position. Every copy is an order in your own account, in your own name.

Not managed money

You choose the trader or strategy. Polycopy maintains the Strategy rules and refreshes the trader list. The traders are independent and have no obligation to you.

Not a guarantee

Copying a profitable trader is not the same as being profitable. Your fills land later than theirs, your size is different, and the costs of copying come out of your side. A trader can be up while their copiers are down.

Not custody of your funds

Your money stays in your Polymarket account. Polycopy never holds it, never moves it off Polymarket, and cannot withdraw it.

Not automation without limits

Bots apply their budget, Winnings setting and trading limits. Pause prevents new copies. Stop and sell all ends a Real Trading bot and attempts to sell its positions.

Not investment advice

Copy Score measures what has already happened. It is not a recommendation and not a forecast.

Why that distinction matters

A trader's own record is measured on their fills, their timing, and their size. A copier gets none of those exactly. You arrive seconds later, into a book their trade has already moved, paying a fee they may not pay, at a size that changes how the order behaves. Copy Score exists because that gap is real and measurable. It looks at a trader's finished trades, subtracts the worse fills and the fees a copier actually absorbs, and reports what was left as a signed whole number. It is about the trader, not about any single trade, and a dash means we have no verdict rather than a middling one.

Does Polycopy hold my money?

No. Your funds stay in your Polymarket account. Polycopy places orders in that account with your permission, and cannot withdraw or move your balance.

Does the trader I copy know about it, or get paid?

No on both counts. Copying reads their public on-chain activity. They are not notified, they receive nothing from your trades, and they have no obligation to you.

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