BTC 5- & 15-minute Polymarket bots
9 bots that trade Polymarket's recurring "BTC up or down" windows — the 5-minute and 15-minute Bitcoin markets and their ETH and hourly cousins — split into the bots built for nothing else and the multi-market platforms that bolt a minute-market module on. Compare by window, execution style and what record the author actually publishes.
Built for the up/down windows
6Bots whose whole job is the 5-minute, 15-minute or hourly BTC/ETH markets: momentum, spot-lead and maker strategies on a market that repeats hundreds of times a day. The markets line on each card names the exact series.
PolymTradeBot
Automated Python bot for Polymarket's 5- and 15-minute Bitcoin & Ethereum up/down markets. Trades live or in paper mode with configurable risk controls, self-hosted from full source.
Uruguabot
Self-hosted Python bot for Polymarket's 5-minute BTC and ETH up/down markets, sold with its complete live trading record — losses included. A free GitHub repo publishes every fill from two generations of testing plus a 1,934-window study in which every automated signal scored roughly coin-flip against the human's 59%; the published numbers reproduce exactly from the raw CSVs, though the logs omit market ids, so the record is self-attested rather than on-chain verifiable. Both generations together lost about $270 — mostly execution and a since-fixed ghost-fill bug — while the configuration that ships as default closed its live run at +7.3% ROI on a 40% win rate over a small 25-trade sample: momentum entries, stop re-anchored to execution price minus 10¢, winners held to binary resolution. Dry-run is the default, with fills simulated from slippage measured on real trades; live mode takes two explicit flags and a dedicated wallet.
PolySigma
Crypto MarketsPremium strategy course and live signals terminal for Polymarket's BTC 15-minute markets. A 13-module playbook covers market structure, indicators (RSI, MACD, VWAP, EMA), position sizing, exit ladders and trading psychology; graduates unlock the Prediction Terminal — a live quantitative system that surfaces edge in real time.
PolySnipe
SnipingAutomated, self-hosted sniper bot for Polymarket's BTC 5- and 15-minute up/down markets. Scans in real time and enters in milliseconds the moment multiple independent signals align. Ships 8 configurable strategies, a setup wizard, backtesting and a full trade journal — full source code, one-time $49.
Bobot
Crypto MarketsPolymarket trading bot focused on signal quality. Validates trading signals, filters out noise and explains why each alert fires — so you act on context rather than blindly following pings. Community top-voted among Polymarket bots.
BTC 15-Min Bot
Crypto MarketsOpen-source Python bot for Polymarket's 15-minute Bitcoin up/down markets. A 7-phase engine fuses spike detection, Fear & Greed sentiment and cross-exchange divergence via weighted voting. Runs live or in paper mode with Grafana dashboards.
Multi-market platforms with a 5m/15m module
3Copy-trading terminals and agent platforms that cover the whole of Polymarket and add a crypto-window strategy on top — the right pick if you want the rest of the platform, not only the windows.
PolyWin
Telegram bot that puts the whole Polymarket workflow in one chat: copy trading, two snipers, backtests and AI trader discovery. Copy Trade mirrors — or counter-trades — any wallet you pick, sized as a fixed USD amount, a percentage of the leader’s stake, or portfolio-weighted so your allocation matches theirs with a 0.01–10× multiplier, under category, price-range, market-volume and daily-spend limits with take-profit and stop-loss on every copied fill. Final Snipe fires a market order the second your entry conditions pass; Reversal Snipe ladders limit orders into an overreaction and cancels unfilled rungs about five seconds before resolution — both across BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, DOGE and HYPE on 5m, 15m, 1h and 4h. Every snipe strategy can be backtested against a pre-computed pool of parameter combinations first, returning Most Profitable, Fast and Safest variants. AI Picks re-scores Polymarket traders every six hours, discarding wallets that show wash trading or leaderboard farming. Non-custodial: a Polygon wallet is deployed on first start, keys are encrypted per wallet and exportable, and TOTP 2FA gates withdrawals and key exports. No KYC, and deposits from ten chains auto-bridge to USDC.
Virae AI
Platforms & ToolsAI trading terminal for Polymarket, in private beta: market discovery with live trending topics and order-book prices, a whale leaderboard ranking tracked wallets by PnL, volume, win rate and Sharpe with one-click copy tasks, and seven trading Agents across four strategy types — end-of-round BTC/ETH price-distance, pre-market maker ladders, weather-model probabilities and Musk tweet counts. Agents watch every eligible round and only place orders when sizing, liquidity and entry rules all pass; each ships with recorded paper performance clearly labelled as simulation, and the strategy-evaluation core is open source on GitHub. Turnkey-backed non-custodial wallets, web app plus Telegram bots, and a separate Solana memecoin terminal.
PolymarketAlpha
Crypto MarketsAutonomous AI agents that scan, analyze and execute on Polymarket across sports, crypto (5m, 15m, 1h) and weather markets — no manual intervention. Backed by a custom-built desk that also ships professional on-chain Solana bots (MEV, arbitrage, sniping and market making).
What the 5- and 15-minute BTC markets are
Polymarket runs recurring "Bitcoin Up or Down" markets: a fresh binary market opens every five minutes, every fifteen minutes and every hour, asking whether BTC — and on some series ETH, SOL and the other majors — will finish the window above or below its opening reference price. A window resolves the moment it ends, the next one is already trading, and the cycle repeats around the clock.
That rhythm is why the windows are the most bot-traded books on Polymarket. Hundreds of identical markets a day mean a strategy can be backtested and paper-traded at a scale no election or sports market allows, and the edge — where one exists — lives in speed and in fees: spot on the exchanges leads the Polymarket book by seconds, and makers earn rebates on the very markets where takers pay the platform's highest fee.
Every bot on this page names the windows it trades on its listing. The dedicated bots come first; the platforms that add a minute-market module to a copy-trading terminal or an agent framework are grouped second, because you buy those for the platform and get the windows as one feature among many.
How to pick a minute-market bot
Start with the window and the asset. A 15-minute-only bot cannot trade the 5-minute series, a BTC-only bot ignores ETH, and the hourly windows behave differently again — slower, thinner, less crowded. The markets line on each card says exactly which series a bot covers.
Ask whether it takes or makes. Crypto windows carry Polymarket's highest taker fee — about 1.75% of notional per fill at a 50-cent price — so a bot that crosses the spread needs a large edge on every trade, while a bot that quotes pays nothing and earns rebates. The strategy line tells you which side of the book it lives on; the minute-markets guide below has the full fee math.
Insist on a paper mode and a record you can check. This is the one corner of Polymarket where performance is cheap to prove — thousands of comparable windows a month — so an author with no paper mode and no published fills is telling you something. Run the paper mode through a few hundred windows before funding it, and size each window as a small fraction of the bankroll: losing streaks here arrive in clusters.
Read before you fund one
All guidesPolymarket's 5- and 15-minute Bitcoin markets: how the bots trade them, and the fee that decides everything
The 'BTC up or down in the next five minutes' markets repeat hundreds of times a day, which is why they are the most bot-traded books on Polymarket. How the momentum, spot-lead and maker bots work, why the 1.75% taker fee at 50 cents is the whole story, what the published records actually show, and what to check in a minute-market bot.
4 minAug 21, 2026Backtesting a Polymarket strategy: where the data is, and why most backtests lie
What you need to test a Polymarket strategy honestly — market metadata, price history, order-book depth you must record yourself, your own fills — and the seven ways backtests lie: last-price fills, no fees, no spread, look-ahead, survivorship, overfitting on minute markets, and regime change. A process that survives contact with the book.
4 minAug 21, 2026Market making on Polymarket: spreads, rebates, liquidity rewards and the inventory risk nobody mentions
How a market-making bot quotes both sides of a Polymarket book and gets paid three ways — the spread, maker rebates on takers' fees, and the liquidity rewards program — and the inventory risk that eats all three: adverse selection, resolution, and the trader who knows more than your bot.
4 minAug 21, 2026Frequently asked questions
- Is there a free or open-source Polymarket 15-minute bot?
- Yes. BTC 15-Min Bot is an open-source repository you clone and run on your own machine, and it ships a paper mode. PolymTradeBot, Uruguabot, PolySnipe and PolySigma are sold once with the full source included, so you can read the code before funding them. The open-source collection lists every repository in the catalog.
- Which bots trade the 5-minute market, not only the 15-minute one?
- PolymTradeBot and Uruguabot cover both the 5- and 15-minute series on BTC and ETH, PolySnipe covers both on BTC, and PolyWin and PolymarketAlpha cover the 5-minute, 15-minute and hourly windows as one module of a wider platform. PolySigma and BTC 15-Min Bot trade the 15-minute series only.
- Do these bots trade only Bitcoin?
- Bitcoin is the deepest series and every bot here trades it. PolymTradeBot and Uruguabot add ETH, and PolyWin's crypto module lists BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, DOGE and HYPE. Check the markets line on the listing — a bot marked "BTC up/down · 15m" is exactly that and nothing else.
- Are the 5- and 15-minute markets the same as "Bitcoin Up or Down" in the Polymarket app?
- Yes — that is Polymarket's own name for the series. Each market asks whether the price at the end of the window is above the price at its start and resolves automatically against the reference price the market lists. The windows run back to back, so a bot moves from one to the next without waiting.
- How much capital does a minute-market bot need?
- Less than most strategies — every position resolves within minutes, so there is no lockup — but the taker fee is a fixed cost on every fill and losing streaks of ten windows are normal. Size each window at a small fraction of the bankroll, keep the daily-loss kill switch on, and treat the first weeks as paid data collection rather than income.