Marc Fordham

Dad, Husband, COACH

[Marc Fordham @MarcFordham]

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[Himanshu Kumar @codewithimanshu]

My girlfriend asked why I was smiling at 4 AM.

Showed her the terminal.

What are all those green numbers?

$1,129. Made while she slept.

Doing what?

Nothing. Claude scanned 14,000 wallets, found 47 that never lose, built a bot that copies them.

She watched for 10 seconds:

+$3.87 captured
+$6.42 captured
+$12.71 captured

It just keeps going?

Every few seconds. New line. New money.

How much did you start with?

$300. Now $1,429. Eleven hours. Asleep.

What does it do?

Buys at $0.48. Sells at $0.52. Pockets $0.04. Who wins doesn't matter.

That's legal?

Citadel does this on NYSE daily. 400 engineers. I have one screen.

She looked at the P&L curve. Never dips. Just climbs.

Can you make me one?

Setting hers up now.

She still doesn't get how it works.

The bot doesn't care.

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 @codewithimanshu (so i can DM you)

Save this post. Deploy the bot this weekend. Start with $300. Scale on evidence.

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[Himanshu Kumar @codewithimanshu]

A fired Goldman Sachs quant trader taught me everything in one conversation.

He said: We don't do predictions. We only buy contracts where the price deviation exceeds 6%.

That's it.

That's the desk operation for a $2M annual salary.

I fed his explanation and 5 GitHub libraries into Claude.

Claude built a scanner. Processing 400+ markets every hour.

The scanner finds contracts priced in the 7 to 19c range, with true probabilities between 60 to 90%.

At these entry points, you need a win rate of 1/4.

This bot's win rate is 81%.

Three months later:

$2,000 → $8,191
99 trades
Sharpe ratio 2.30

A few cases:

ETH Merge upgrade: market 72c, true probability 88%, +19c
SOL breaks $200: market 44c, true probability 81%, +15c
Florida hurricane cat3+: market 81c, true probability 92%, +7c
Wheat breaks $800: market 53c, true probability 68%, +20c

All found by the scanner. All profitable.

He looked at my terminal last week.

He said: This is what we do with $800M and a 47-person team.

My current setup costs $25 per month:

Claude: $20
VPS: $5
Libraries: free
API: free

Now there are 8 agents running 24/7:

velvet_void +$697
nano_alpha +$541
ratking_eth +$407
darkpool_7 +$356

His fund returned 19% last year.

My setup, three-month return: 409%.

The real edge was never secret. It was just always expensive.

Until now.

You only need: Claude + a device + 1 hour per day.

Giving this free for 24 hours.

To get it:

1. Comment "free"
2. Like and retweet this
3. Follow me @codewithimanshu so I can DM you

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I'm quitting my job to go full-in on Claude.

Just Asked it to:

Analyze mispriced Polymarket markets for arbitrage opportunities and find wallets using it to copy.

Turned $2K into $12K overnight.
Monitored 1,000+ wallets.

I realized something fast.

There are arbitrage bots I can't beat without code knowledge.

But I can find them. And copy them.

Claude built a monitoring terminal and connected it to a Telegram copytrading bot.

It's not a script. Not even a bot.

It's an AI agent that improves with every wallet it finds.

Fetches wallet behavior. How it trades. Arbitrage patterns. Position sizing. Timing.

70% win rate.
7 wallets copytrading right now from 500+ monitored.

Bot never pauses. Never gambles. Just math and profit.

You only need: Claude + a device + 1 hour per day.

Giving this free for 24 hours.

To get it:

1. Comment "cash"
2. Like and retweet this
3. Follow me @codewithimanshu so I can DM you

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@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
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