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Polymarket leaderboards explained

Profit leaderboards, volume leaderboards and edge leaderboards measure different things. Here is how to read each one.

How Polymarket markets resolve

What happens between a market closing and a trade being graded, and why some flags stay pending for a while.

Reading sharp Polymarket odds moves

What a 10-point swing in 24 hours can mean, and how to filter out the noise.

How to track Polymarket whales

A practical guide to finding and following large Polymarket trades, and how to tell a big trade from a good one.

What is price-adjusted edge?

Why win rate is misleading for prediction-market traders, and how WhaleGrader scores whales against the price they paid.

Fresh wallets and 'insider' signals on Polymarket

What a large bet from a brand-new wallet can and cannot tell you.

Does copying Polymarket whales work?

We re-priced thousands of graded whale bets as if you copied them 1 minute to 24 hours late. Being late barely matters. Picking the wallet is everything.

Fresh Polymarket wallets: insiders or noise?

New wallets making big bets get shared as insider signals. Here's what thousands of graded bets say about wallet age.

Polymarket whale alerts that don't waste your time

Most whale alerts fire on every big trade. Here's how to filter for the ones with a track record behind them.

Pulling Polymarket whale trades with the Data API

How to get every $10k+ Polymarket trade from the public Data API v2, and the traps to avoid.

Polymarket sports whales: what big bets on games tell you

Sports is most of Polymarket's whale volume. Here's why sports bets are hard to grade fairly and hard to copy.

How to read a Polymarket wallet's track record

Win rate, profit and edge each tell you something different. Here's how to judge a wallet in under a minute.