# Copy trading whales on Polymarket

**The leaderboard, the filters, the follow modes, and the sanity ceilings.**

Section: Trading · Last updated: 2026-07-28

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## The leaderboard

We fetch the top 35 markets by 24h volume on Polymarket, pull top 15 holders of each, then enrich every wallet with rolling 30-trade P&L, position count, portfolio value, dominant vertical, trader-type label, and the 5 most recent trades. The resulting top 120 by cash P&L is what you see in the Copy Trading tab. Cache: 1 hour.

## Filters

  - **Vertical** — crypto / politics / sports / geopolitics / macro / culture / tech. A wallet matches if it has ≥20% exposure to that vertical, so diversified traders show up under multiple filters.
  - **Trader type** — scalper (many small trades/day), swing (a few daily), holder (rare large positions), specialist (60%+ in one vertical), diversifier (25+ open across verticals).
  - **Activity** — recent-trade cutoff (1h / 24h / 7d).

## Follow modes

  - **Read-only** — Telegram / email / webhook when the whale opens a position. You decide whether to mirror.
  - **Autopilot (Pro)** — proportional mirror based on your % allocation. Per-whale allowlist so you can follow "only crypto trades from wallet X".

## Sanity ceilings

Even in autopilot, hard caps: per-trade ≤ dailyLossLimit / 5, per-whale monthly cap, minimum ticket size (skips their sub-$10 dust trades). No autopilot copies more than your risk gate allows.