Backtesting simulator for Polymarket trading strategies. Crawls historical trade data from Polymarket APIs and evaluates strategies over configurable date ranges.
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .python -m polymarket_bot --start 2024-06-01 --end 2024-12-31 --verbose| Flag | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
--start |
(required) | Start date YYYY-MM-DD |
--end |
(required) | End date YYYY-MM-DD |
--bet |
10 | Bet amount in USD |
--min-volume |
1000 | Minimum market volume filter |
--strategy |
low_odds_contra |
Strategy to run |
--verbose |
off | Per-market progress + trade log |
# Quick test — narrow window
python -m polymarket_bot --start 2024-11-01 --end 2024-12-31 --verbose
# Wider range, larger bets, higher volume filter
python -m polymarket_bot --start 2024-01-01 --end 2024-12-31 --bet 25 --min-volume 5000 --verboseBuys "No" shares when a market's "Yes" price is between 10–15%. Rationale: events with low implied probability usually resolve "No", yielding small but frequent profits.
- Entry: first time Yes price is in [0.10, 0.15] within the backtest window
- Position:
$bet / no_priceshares (e.g. $10 / $0.87 = 11.49 shares) - If No wins: profit = shares × $1 − $bet
- If Yes wins: loss = −$bet
- One trade per market max