Your First Copy, Step by Step

Sign up with email or Google. It is free and takes a minute, and nothing about this step touches money.

Polycopy places orders into your Polymarket account, so you need one and it needs money in it. Sign up on Polymarket, deposit, and make sure you have converted your USDC balance to pUSD. Polymarket prompts you for that conversion in the app. Nothing can trade until the balance is in pUSD.

In Settings, connect your Polymarket wallet. This is what lets Polycopy sign orders in your account. It does not let Polycopy withdraw your funds, which stay on Polymarket the whole time.

Open Discover and work through the board. Do not stop at the largest P&L. A big number usually means a big account rather than an edge you can copy.

Copy Score answers one question: after the worse fills and the fees a copier actually pays, was following this trader worth it? It is about the trader across their finished record, not about any single trade. A dash means there is no verdict yet, which is not the same as a middling one. Open the profile and check the record behind the score too: how many trades, over how long, and in which categories.

Paper Trading is free and places no real orders. It runs your exact setup against real trades with simulated costs, so you can see how a bot behaves before it spends anything. If you are unsure, run one and check back in a week.

Give the bot a budget it is allowed to use. That is the most you are putting at risk with this trader. A bot needs at least $50 to start, and each order it places has a $5 minimum. Start with an amount that would not bother you if it were gone.

Pick how selective the bot should be. The options are Selective, Balanced, Broad, ranging from only backing records that clear what copying them costs, through to almost anyone. Balanced is preselected.

Size per copy decides how much goes into each trade. Slippage tolerance decides the worst price you will accept relative to the trader's, and the default is 7%. Custom slippage is a Premium control. Wider is not better: it authorises worse fills rather than finding better ones.

Before you activate, the review screen shows the budget, the size per copy, the rules, and the fee. Every individual order also shows "Est Total (Incl. Fee)" before it confirms, so the full cost is always in front of you.

Turn the bot on. It starts watching from that moment and does not go back for trades the trader made before you activated.