Ben Johnson

Retired Federal Law Enforcement

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@Lyrdane_Z @TheJoeySwoll Thank you very much!!!

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@ZayvenKnox Claude

[ZAYVEN KNOX @ZayvenKnox]

An Anthropic engineer paid for my espresso at Sightglass when he saw my screen

I was running my Polymarket bot from the counter. He was next in line. Looked over my shoulder. Stopped scrolling.

"That's not a normal trading app. What's it actually running on"

I told him. Claude Code. Four repos. $25 a month.

He sat down without asking.

"I'm on the agent team. We stress test Claude for exactly this. You're letting it find its own edges"

Not just edges. Wallets.

86 million trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit.

"You're feeding Claude raw wallet data and letting it identify who consistently wins. Then cloning them"

He said it slowly. Like he was writing the threat model in his head.

One prompt. Find every wallet with 100 plus trades and win rate above 70%. Rank by profit. Export top 50.

Claude scanned 14,000 wallets in 4 minutes. Returned 47.

The top 20 made more than the bottom 13,000 combined.

"That's not a stat. That's a hit list"

Exactly.

"And you didn't write the scoring function"

Claude did. I just wired it into an if-statement.

Then I showed him the second repo.

Official Rust CLI. No API key for reads. 500 markets, Claude scores them in minutes.

Gap. Depth. Resolution window.

487 markets become 35 before a dollar moves.

93% killed before I even see them.

A green fill landed on the screen. +$84.

He watched it hit.

"How does it decide to actually enter"

Three agents. Shared wallet. No shared memory. Arbitrage, convergence, whale copy. 2 agree, full size. 1 alone, half. Disagree, no trade.

Consensus filter alone killed 40% of losing trades.

"And the exits?"

The 47 whales never hold to settlement. 91% exit early. 73% of max profit captured. Redeploy immediately.

My bot cuts at 85% of expected move or on a 3x volume spike.

"You built a whale copy bot that exits before the whales"

Yeah.

He put his espresso down.

"How often does it trade"

10 a day on average. Most of them skipped before I look up from my coffee.

My setup:
Claude API - $20/mo
VPS in Germany - $5/mo
poly_data - free
polymarket-cli - free
Polymarket/agents - free

$200 seed. 27 days ago. $14,300 now.

Copytrade here: https://t.co/zDXGamMWw0…

271 trades. 74% win rate. Sharpe 2.47.

I haven't touched it in 27 days.

He stared at the screen for a long time.

"This is literally what our red team simulates. Except you actually shipped it"

He emailed me the next morning.

"Any chance you'd take a call with our policy lead"

I told him the article is the call. Read it twice.

Too late to gatekeep.

You only need Claude + laptop + 1 hour/day.

Giving This Free for 24 hours. To get it:

1. Comment the word 'Claude'
2. Like and Retweet this post
3. Follow me
@ZayvenKnox

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@MarciSilfrain That’s pretty cool!

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@MarciSilfrain Um…. Yeah. ….

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@LloydLegalist 😂😂. That’s funny

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@stepfanie 100%. I don’t know if your from Vegas, but they fire bombed a Tesla car lot out here. You bring up Elon Musk out here to some people they just go nuts.

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@stepfanie You must live in Vegas. I borrowed my friends Tesla for 2 hours and got harassed twice. To the store/gym and back. Laughing as these lunatics are screaming about Trump. Over a car.

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

Total fucking bullshit. My aunt and uncle swerved a “mission” working a church farm, where they donated food, canned food, etc to the needy. Saw it myself. As a probation officer a pastor of another faith needed help with feeding his congregation, and they stepped up to help them with food. Do better man. Was a big fan.

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@salmaogs That was super cool. And really admirable. Particularly, as a retired guy.

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@TheJoeySwoll That post was friggin awesome. Made my day!!

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@fundstrat @HardikaInvests - Congratulations on being sworn in as a US citizen. It was my favorite thing to see in my 30 years in Federal Law enforcement. And Thank you for the insights everyday on the market!!

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@JustJenRX That was awesome!

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@RealSarahIdan @readwiseio

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@CherylWroteIt Your posts are killing me!!!! 😂😂😂

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@CherylWroteIt That was funny!!!

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

I typically don't respond to anything, I just follow people I learn from and kinda move on. However, as I read this, I can really relate. I was in federal law enforcement for 30 years, had to retire. Before, my retirement my son committed suicide. It was a brutal process, but in short, it took a lot of time to myself to reflect on everything. In the end, it was not only helpful, but gives one a new perspective on everything.

So thank you again for all the information you have given on this forum. Hope to see you back soon. And best of luck on your journey.

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@DefiantLs Boy, that aged well...

[Ben Johnson @JustinSane222]

@King_of_Trades4 @TedHZhang @AGPamBondi @FBIDirectorKash @TheJusticeDept @FBI Yeah, I don't know what the answer is brother...