Polymarket smart-money tracking: FAQ
How the board is built, what the numbers mean, and what they do not mean.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the Polygon blockchain. We ingest the exchange fills plus the splits, merges, redemptions and resolutions that determine what a position was worth, and recompute the leaderboard from that ledger. Nothing is taken from a third-party API and nothing is curated by hand.
Why does the leaderboard cover a window instead of all time?
An all-time number mixes a trader's best month into this week and cannot tell you who is trading well now. Every run scores a fixed block window, and the window is shown on the page so you always know what the figure refers to.
Do published figures change later?
No. The board is forward-only: a run scores its window and is never rewritten. Later runs add new windows. If a wallet ranked well on Tuesday, the Tuesday run still says so, which is what makes it usable as a track record rather than as hindsight.
Why are several addresses shown as one entity?
On Polymarket a trader usually signs from one address and holds positions through a proxy. Ranked separately they appear as two half-wallets, and the one holding the position looks like an address that only ever receives. We cluster addresses that demonstrably trade as one and score the cluster.
What is realised versus unrealised PnL?
Realised PnL comes from markets that had resolved by the end of the window, valued at resolution. Unrealised is the mark on positions still open. They are reported separately and never added together in the ranking, because an unrealised figure is a guess about a price and a track record should not contain one.
Are fees included?
Yes, and as the cash fee the contracts actually charged, read from the chain, rather than from a published fee schedule.
Why show a confidence interval on the win rate?
Because a 70% win rate over 20 markets and over 500 markets are not the same claim. Showing both as '70%' hides the only thing that tells you whether the number is likely to survive contact with the future.
How fast is the fill feed?
Fills for entities you subscribe to are pushed over WebSocket, typically within a second of the block. The measured p50 and p95 from block to push are published on the latency page rather than asserted here.
What can I see without paying?
Without an account, the top of the board. A free account (Google sign-in) opens the whole ranking with every figure, each entity under a random handle. What is paid is the wallet address behind a handle — a one-off unlock of $0.50–$2.00, free when the wallet made nothing without its best market, or from a plan's daily allowance — and the real-time fill feed.
How is it billed?
Two ways. Monthly plans by card — Base $4.99, Pro $14.99, Max $39.99 — include address unlocks every day, the fill feed for 10, 30 or 100 wallets, and the browser extension; Base can be tried free for 7 days, no card needed. Or pay as you go from a prepaid balance (card or USDT/USDC): unlocks, the fill feed at $0.01 per wallet per hour, and trade-history exports from $2.10. An hourly subscription pauses when the balance runs out instead of running up a debt.
How is PMWallets different from other Polymarket copy-trading tools?
Many copy-trading tools are hosted bots: you give them trading access to your account and pay a flat monthly fee. PMWallets is the data side. It scores traders from its own Polygon ledger — wallets clustered into the trader behind them, win rates with their confidence interval, profit without the single best market, published records never rewritten — and pushes their fills within about a second. Orders are placed by you, or by our open-source bot running on your own machine, so no third party holds trading access to your account.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Base free for 7 days, no card needed, one per account — nothing is charged when it ends. Without any plan you can see the top of the board signed out, and the whole ranking with a free account.
Is there a browser extension?
Yes, open source and included in every plan. Open any profile on polymarket.com and a card shows that wallet's trading style, pace, main categories, profit and volume over 7 or 30 days, and tags such as a high win rate. It is installed in developer mode from pmwallets.com or GitHub Releases; the Chrome Web Store does not list it.
Is this trading advice?
No. It is data. A wallet that made money over a window may have been lucky, may have known something you do not, and may be about to stop. Past results are not a guarantee of anything.
More on the method in how we measure, and how this differs from the alternatives in the comparison。