PolymTradeBot vs StepAhead

What StepAhead does

Self-hosted Python bot for Polymarket's 5- and 15-minute crypto Up or Down windows, sold as full source for $399 once, or for $899 with installation on your server and a private monitoring dashboard. It runs the same rules on every window: when Up and Down together cost less than $1 it buys both and keeps the difference at settlement, and when the order book leans one way it backs that side and holds a small position on the other. It never sells; positions are held to settlement and redeemed. The seller runs it on a public Polymarket account, @stepahead, which today trades almost only Bitcoin's 5-minute windows. Practice mode on live markets, a daily loss cap, an exposure cap and Telegram reports are built in.

• Full Python source, run on your own VPS; orders are signed on that machine and the wallet key stays there
• Buys Up and Down together when the pair costs under $1, and otherwise backs the side the book leans to with a small position on the other
• Never sells: positions are held to settlement and redeemed automatically, up to 100 per run
• Practice mode with play money on live order books, with fills that wait in a realistic queue; going live is one setting
• Daily loss cap that cancels every order, stops trading and survives a restart, plus an exposure cap that pauses new buys

• The account is real, and the site's window holds. @stepahead is Polymarket wallet 0xe290…a33f. Polymarket's own P&L feed, which counts fees and the daily rebates, has it gaining $88,800 from Jul 1 to Oct 22, 2026, against $92,173 on the site; roughly $32,000 of that came from rebates rather than from trading. The month bars match too: +$43.2K in July, a pause from late July to Sep 20, +$8.7K in September.
• The window is chosen. The wallet's first fill was on Mar 28, 2026, not in July, and on Jul 1 it stood at about −$25,100 after a losing spring. Counted from the first trade it is up about $71,500, and Polymarket's all-time leaderboard, which counts fees but not rebates, credits it with $12,348 — so rebates are more than four-fifths of what the account has kept overall. The site's changelog lists versions back to Jan 22, 2026, two months before that first fill.
• The record covers less than the bot is sold for. The site names Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP on both window lengths; in samples we took on seven days between July and October the account traded only Bitcoin, the 15-minute windows made up about a fifth of its fills in July and none since September, and every fill was a buy. The other markets have no public record here.