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Trade Polymarket for a week with no intervention from me

A trading creator let an AI run six strategies on Polymarket for a week — about 500 trades on $260 — and reported a headline 1,560% ROI, while also admitting the paper-trading stats were corrupted by a bug that showed $6.2 million in profit from $30 by ignoring fees and slippage. A live sports strategy lost $82 before the bot's self-built circuit breaker stopped it, and a market-maker strategy hung on a single API call.

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How it works

  1. Deploy the bot on a home Mac Mini
  2. Bot devises six strategies
  3. Run roughly 500 trades in a week with no intervention
  4. Bot builds an emergency stop after three losses
  5. Paper-trading bug inflates profits by ignoring fees and slippage
  6. Live sports strategy loses $82 before the circuit breaker halts it
  7. Market-maker strategy stalls on one API call

Why it’s worth knowing

The bot invented its own circuit breaker — and its own fantasy profit figure.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on youtubetotranscript.com. See the original ↗

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