i showed Claude 5 GitHub repositories and said: turn this into a trading system
+$5,124 by sunrise. called my boss. i'm done
it merged everything into one pipeline and scanned 11,847 wallets. by morning it had 366 trades
most wallets were noise. Claude filtered for three things:
near-zero entries - contracts at 2-8 cents. weeks before resolution. $8 in, $200 out. over and over.
category edge - wallets that dominate one category but bleed in others. one had 98% wr on speed arb and 4% on sports. the bot copies only what works.
execution speed - 47 wallets that enter 3-8 seconds after Binance moves. Polymarket hasn't updated yet. they're not smarter. just faster.
8 wallets survived the filter. 366 trades copied. $25 seed.
conviction scores on each pattern:
> category - 48%
> speed_arb - 74%
> near_zero - 67%
> whale_trk - 89%
live right now:
> US rate decision ev 14.2%.
> BTC 100k Jun ev 18.1%.
> Starship land ev 15.7%.
> OpenAI ipo ev 9.1%.
best copy: +$481. worst: -$26. max drawdown $57.
the whole thing runs on 5 open source repos. no proprietary code. no API keys i didn't already have.
copytrade here: https://t.co/PTZuvewZE6
the system is still running. i'm not going back to work.
US equity market stress is rising beneath the surface:
The put-call skew in the Nasdaq 100 ETF, $QQQ, is up to 0.39, the highest since the April 2025 market sell-off.
The skew measures how much more investors are paying for downside protection using out-of-the-money puts versus upside exposure via calls.
The index is now in-line with levels seen during the 2022 bear market, signaling growing investor concerns about technology stocks.
Meanwhile, the average S&P 500 stock has moved 10.8% in absolute terms over the last month, despite the index itself remaining roughly unchanged.
This level of dispersion ranks in the 99th percentile over the last 30 years and is the highest since 2008.
Underlying stock market volatility has rarely been this high.
programmers are making $10k-200k monthly on polymarket
here's how they actually do it
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1. arbitrage bots
buy YES + NO when combined price < $1
example: YES at 48¢ + NO at 49¢ = 97¢ total
you lock $0.03 profit per $1 no matter who wins
trader "distinct-baguette" made $242k in 1.5 months doing this
targets 15-min crypto markets where prices move fast
python script polls API every 1-3 seconds, executes when sum < 99¢
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2. statistical arbitrage
find correlated markets that drift apart
"trump wins" vs "GOP senate control" should move together
when spread hits 4-7%, short expensive one, long cheap one
close when they converge
trader "sharky6999" made $480k scanning 100+ markets per minute
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3. AI probability models
train ML models to estimate real odds from news/social data
if your model says 60% YES but market at 50¢, buy
trader "ilovecircle" made $2.2M in 2 months with 74% accuracy
uses ensemble of 10 AI models, retrains weekly
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4. spread farming
buy at bid (5¢), sell at ask (6¢), repeat
or hedge across platforms (short polymarket, long binance)
trader "cry.eth2" made $194k with 1M trades
high-frequency loop via CLOB API
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5. copy-trading automation
mirror successful whale traders automatically
scan profiles, execute proportional trades
one bot made $80k in 2 weeks copying near-resolved markets
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tech stack:
python + requests library for API calls
web3-py for blockchain interactions deploy on VPS for 24/7 operation
polymarket has REST APIs for everything:
gamma markets API (prices/volumes)
CLOB API (place orders)
data API (track positions)
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starting point:
> build simple arbitrage bot first
> fund with $100-1k for testing target high-volume markets (politics/crypto)
> expect 50-70% win rate but focus on positive EV
MACHI BIG BROTHER IS GETTING LIQUIDATED ON $ETH
Machi Big Brother is currently long $79M of ETH and has just been liquidated twice, force closing $44.5M of ETH longs.
Machi Big Brother’s lifetime PnL on Hyperliquid went from +$44M to -$8M. Now, he is down to his last $2M of margin. Will he make it out?
If you want to know when equity markets will stop selling off and have the next leg higher (not just a bounce), keep an eye on this chart. If you want to know when bonds will REALLY sell-off, ALSO watch for the next big move on this chart.