ZCL Bot
Self-hosted TypeScript bot for Polymarket's 5-minute crypto Up or Down markets on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, sold on Gumroad as full source for $99 once. It watches Binance's 5-minute candles and, after a run of same-direction candles, buys the opposite side of the next window. A losing bet is followed by a bigger one on a martingale ladder until a set number of losses stops the chain, with a price cap for each step, cancelling of unfilled orders near the close and automatic redemption of winnings. Backtest, paper and live modes are built in, and live orders need two separate switches turned on. The name, 斩长龙, is Chinese for “slaying the long dragon”: betting against a streak.
About ZCL Bot
Self-hosted TypeScript bot for Polymarket's 5-minute crypto Up or Down markets on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, sold on Gumroad as full source for $99 once. It watches Binance's 5-minute candles and, after a run of same-direction candles, buys the opposite side of the next window. A losing bet is followed by a bigger one on a martingale ladder until a set number of losses stops the chain, with a price cap for each step, cancelling of unfilled orders near the close and automatic redemption of winnings. Backtest, paper and live modes are built in, and live orders need two separate switches turned on. The name, 斩长龙, is Chinese for “slaying the long dragon”: betting against a streak.
ZCL Bot at a glance
What stands out
- Self-hosted: your keys stay on your own machine
- Full source code ships with the purchase
- One-time price with no subscription
Check before you start
- No public wallet: any performance figure comes from the author alone
- Listed as a high-risk strategy
How ZCL Bot works
- There is no record to check. The seller, “kai xie” on Gumroad, has no other products, no reviews, no stated sales count, no website and no Polymarket account or wallet linked to the bot, so the strategy has to be judged on its own. In the category where live results are the easiest to show, that is a gap.
- The signal is thin. We pulled 90 days of Binance 5-minute candles, Aug 14 to Nov 12, 2026, and counted how often the next candle reversed a run. After three to five candles the same way it reversed 51–56% of the time across the three coins: a slight lean toward reversal, not a strong one, and it did not grow steadily with longer runs. Polymarket's crypto taker fee at 50¢ is 3.5% of the money spent, so a buy at 50¢ needs a 51.75% hit rate to break even before the spread. The edge, if there is one, is about the size of the fee. Polymarket also settles these markets on Chainlink's price, not Binance's candle, so the two do not always agree.
- The martingale does not change that arithmetic; it changes the shape of the losses. Doubling from a $1 stake, a chain stopped after six losses costs $63 plus fees to win back $1, and long runs come in clusters on 5-minute candles. The seller says this plainly: the page gives the maximum loss of a chain as base stake × (factor^n − 1)/(factor − 1) plus fees, calls these markets close to coin flips and promises no return. Use the backtest and paper modes with Polymarket's current fee before funding a wallet, and size the base stake from the chain's maximum loss, not from the hoped-for win.
- As software it is cheap and complete on paper: $99 for full source with three modes and a two-key live switch is less than the $399–$499 short-window bots in this catalog, which come with public accounts. We read the Gumroad page and the seller's storefront and ran our own candle count; we did not buy the bot, so the code, the backtest and the documentation are untested by us.
Markets ZCL Bot trades
- BTC up/down · 5m
- ETH up/down · 5m
- SOL up/down · 5m
$99 once on Gumroad for a 480 KB ZIP: the TypeScript source, a compiled build, a README and .env template with parameter notes in Chinese, a research note on short-window market structure and Windows setup and run scripts. Delivered as a download straight after payment. Support is by replying to the receipt email; there is no installation service. The page mentions a refund policy but shows none. A computer or VPS, USDC.e on Polygon and Polymarket's taker fees are on you.
Get ZCL Bot- Full TypeScript source and a compiled build; runs on Node 18+ on Windows, macOS or Linux, with the wallet key kept on your machine
- Signal: N same-direction Binance 5-minute candles in a row, then a buy on the opposite side of the next window
- Martingale ladder: each loss multiplies the next stake by a set factor, up to a maximum number of steps, then the chain stops
- Maximum buy price for each step of the ladder
- Cancels orders still unfilled near the end of a window
- Can buy early when the order book has already locked in the price
- Switch between settling against the spot candle or Polymarket's own market data
- Backtest on history, paper mode on live order book prices, and live mode that needs both a setting and a launch flag
- Automatic redemption of winning shares; probes common local proxy ports when Polymarket is blocked
- Author
- kai xie
- Category
- Crypto Markets
- Risk level
- High risk
- Added
- Nov 12, 2026
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ZCL Bot FAQ
- What is ZCL Bot?
- ZCL Bot is a Polymarket crypto markets bot listed on POLBOTS since Nov 12, 2026. Self-hosted TypeScript bot for Polymarket's 5-minute crypto Up or Down markets on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, sold on Gumroad as full source for $99 once. It watches Binance's 5-minute candles and, after a run of same-direction candles, buys the opposite side of the next window. A losing bet is followed by a bigger one on a martingale ladder until a set number of losses stops the chain, with a price cap for each step, cancelling of unfilled orders near the close and automatic redemption of winnings. Backtest, paper and live modes are built in, and live orders need two separate switches turned on. The name, 斩长龙, is Chinese for “slaying the long dragon”: betting against a streak.
- How much does ZCL Bot cost?
- ZCL Bot costs $99 one-time. $99 once on Gumroad for a 480 KB ZIP: the TypeScript source, a compiled build, a README and .env template with parameter notes in Chinese, a research note on short-window market structure and Windows setup and run scripts. Delivered as a download straight after payment. Support is by replying to the receipt email; there is no installation service. The page mentions a refund policy but shows none. A computer or VPS, USDC.e on Polygon and Polymarket's taker fees are on you.
- Does ZCL Bot hold my keys or funds?
- No. ZCL Bot is self-hosted: you run the code yourself, so your wallet key and API credentials stay on your own machine.
- Which markets does ZCL Bot trade?
- ZCL Bot trades: BTC up/down · 5m, ETH up/down · 5m and SOL up/down · 5m.
- Can I verify ZCL Bot's trading results?
- Not on-chain. ZCL Bot hasn't published a Polymarket wallet, so any performance figures come from the author alone. Start in paper mode or with a small balance until you have seen its results yourself.
- Is ZCL Bot open source?
- Not publicly, but the full source code ships with the purchase, so you can read and change everything you run.
- What are the best ZCL Bot alternatives?
- The closest listings on POLBOTS by category, markets and pricing are GoodFallen, norm1e69 and PolymTradeBot. All ZCL Bot alternatives
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