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What Polycopy Is, and What It Isn't

Polycopy mirrors a trader you choose into your own Polymarket account, at a budget you set. What that means in practice, what you control, and the six things Polycopy is not.

Last updated August 22, 2026

Polycopy is a tool for copying Polymarket traders. You pick a trader, you set a budget and some rules, and when that trader makes a qualifying trade we place the matching order in your own Polymarket account. That is the whole product. Everything else is detail about how you control it.

What actually happens when you copy

1

You choose a trader

From Discover, or from a trade you saw in your feed. Their Copy Score tells you whether following them has been worth what following them costs, which is a different question from whether they made money.

2

You set the money and the rules

A budget the bot may use, a size per copy, and how selective it should be. Auto Copy bot orders carry a $5 minimum, and a bot needs $50 of capital to start.

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 the traders you chose

Which traders you copy

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 behaviour

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

Nobody at Polycopy decides what you should own. The traders you copy are not our employees, do not know you are copying them, and owe you nothing.

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

A bot only spends the budget you gave it, only at the size you set, only inside your slippage tolerance. You can pause or stop it at any time, and stopping sells nothing.

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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