PolyTraderBot

Overview

Six self-hosted Polymarket bots from one developer, sold separately at $10 a month each and delivered as full source with a browser dashboard, tests and a Docker setup for your own PC or VPS. CopyBot follows wallets you choose, or candidates it ranks from Polymarket's public leaderboard, with fixed, proportional or Kelly-fraction sizing, ten-plus individually switchable guards and exits that follow the leader out. Crypto5min and Crypto15min trade the 5- and 15-minute up/down windows on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB and HYPE from tree-based models retrained every 60 or 90 minutes. ARB scans the order books for binary YES and NO asks that sum to less than $1 after fees. WeatherBot prices temperature buckets from a weighted blend of Open-Meteo models, NWS, NOAA and Met.no forecasts and compares the result with the live asks. PolyLiq rests two-sided quotes in the markets that pay Polymarket's liquidity rewards, or takes over the resting orders you placed yourself. Every bot starts with real orders switched off, keeps the wallet key in a local env file and, from the current releases, updates itself from its own dashboard. The vendor advertises no returns; a free Polymarket terminal from the same developer is in beta on the same domain.

How it works

• Six products, not one suite: each bot is its own subscription, its own download and its own dashboard. What $10 buys is a Source Access licence — read the code and modify it privately, run it on two machines, no redistribution — tied to a licence key in a local file. The bot checks that key against PolyTraderBot's entitlement service, sending the product, the key, its version and a one-way hash of a machine fingerprint, and runs on signed leases with a limited offline window. When a subscription lapses the bot stops opening new or larger positions but, by the licence's own wording, can still cancel orders, close or reduce positions, redeem settled markets and withdraw, and the vendor undertakes not to delete your files remotely.
• “Paper mode by default” holds for five of the six. Crypto5min, Crypto15min, WeatherBot and PolyLiq start in paper mode and ARB in the dry-run it uses for paper trading; CopyBot starts with live buying switched off and paper trading as a separate toggle, and in that state it may still cash out winners and redeem resolved positions already in the wallet. The wallet key sits in an env file on your machine, and the privacy policy says the bots send no keys, trades or telemetry to the vendor — a statement we could not test without the source. Two cautions come from the vendor's own guides. The dashboard updater needs the Docker socket mounted, so anyone who reaches a dashboard can control Docker on that machine: WeatherBot and PolyLiq bind to localhost by default, while CopyBot and ARB listen on every interface unless told otherwise. And the AI Setup Assistant guide suggests pointing a coding assistant at the bot folder to read the env file — with a cloud assistant that passes the wallet key to the assistant's provider, whatever the prompt says about redacting it; the same guide's local-model route avoids that.
• Where the landing pages and the guides disagree, the guides are the more careful document. The ARB page sells complement and negative-risk baskets, while its guide says customer releases ship with negative-risk execution locked off behind an explicit experimental acknowledgement, leaving binary complement arb as the live default. The Crypto5min page leads with a CNN-LSTM network; the guide says the default is a lighter LightGBM and CatBoost stack and calls the CNN-LSTM an older backend kept for testing. The Crypto15min page's comparison table marks its delta-first mode as the default, while that page's own FAQ and the guide both have it off. The late-window entry mode the same page labels “Higher hit-rate” is, in the guides, off by default and assumes no fixed win rate, and the delta-first variant built on it “is not treated as validated until your own settled results show positive net performance”.
• One question to settle before using the crypto bots' late-window modes. Since Aug 7, 2026 Polymarket's 5- and 15-minute crypto windows resolve on Chainlink's TWAP data streams — the rules link the 60-second ones — rather than on the price at the closing moment. The guides describe those modes as comparing a live Chainlink price with the window's opening price, call that feed “the exact same Chainlink BTC/USD oracle Polymarket uses to resolve 5-minute markets” and mention no averaging anywhere. The vendor's newer terminal does label the settlement source as Chainlink TWAP, so the change is known to the developer; which stream the bots read is not stated. Ask before switching those modes on.
• No performance is claimed, and this listing carries none. The public results page has been retired — it now redirects to the product tour, though one product page and the referral page still send readers to it — but the vendor's API still serves the summaries of its own dry-run runners, which trade paper money on the current releases. When we read it on Sep 30, 2026, over windows the feed dates from Sep 20 to 23: CopyBot was down 9.0% on a $10,000 paper bankroll after 2,143 simulated trades of up to $25; Crypto15min down 1.6% after 597 trades, 279 of them wins; Crypto5min down 0.7% after 48 trades, none since Sep 26; WeatherBot down 0.2% after 69; ARB up 0.3% on five dry-run baskets, all of the negative-risk kind. PolyLiq's paper runner reports only a modelled reward estimate, which its own note says excludes fills, losses and costs and “is not earned profit”. These are the vendor's own simulated figures over about ten days — evidence that the bots run against live markets, not a forecast in either direction. Three 15-minute outcomes the feed reported matched Polymarket's own resolutions when we checked.
• Behind it is a named individual rather than a company. The site's buyer's guide is signed by Kurt Landman, “founder and developer of PolyTraderBot”, a developer in Perth, Australia whose GitHub account dates to 2019 and who publishes smart-contract audit-contest results under the handle Tradi3 — Sherlock's profile for that handle lists four paid contests in 2026 — and who is also lead developer of Svarog Launcher, a Solana token-launch bundler. The Terms name no legal entity (the seller is “the original creator and distributor”), set no governing law beyond “applicable law” and send unresolved disputes to arbitration. The domain dates to Feb 17, 2026 and the Discord, about 920 members, to the same week. In mid-April the bots were compiled builds at $89 to $100 a month or $890 to $1,000 outright, by archived copies of the site; the Source Access Licence that replaced that model is dated Aug 12, 2026, and earlier outright buyers keep perpetual licences and can move to the source edition at no charge.
• What we ran, and what we did not. We did not run the bots: each sits behind its own $10 subscription, which we did not buy, so everything above about their behaviour comes from the vendor's guides, its licence and policy texts and its public dry-run feed. What we exercised ourselves is the free terminal at terminal.polytraderbot.com: its order books matched Polymarket's own to the share on nine of nine markets, and a $25 order preview reproduced exactly from Polymarket's fee schedule plus the terminal's planned 0.10% taker fee. It is a beta with order placement switched off — its status endpoint reports execution disabled, “Release verification in progress” — and it is not what the $10 buys. PolyTortoise, the same developer's hosted Telegram copier with a 1% fee on live copy buys, is a separate service outside this listing. And despite the near-identical name, PolyTraderBot has nothing to do with PolymTradeBot, which is listed here separately.

Supported markets

• Any Polymarket market a followed wallet trades — short crypto windows skipped by default (CopyBot)
• Crypto up/down · 5m and 15m — BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, HYPE
• Binary YES/NO pairs across the order book; multi-outcome baskets only behind an experimental switch (ARB)
• Daily temperature buckets, and rainfall, snowfall and wind thresholds when the contract parses cleanly (WeatherBot)
• Markets in Polymarket's liquidity-rewards programme (PolyLiq)