PolyConsensus

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Changes to PolyConsensus that you can see, newest first. How the numbers are worked out, and what our research found, is on the methodology page.

Last change October 27, 2026. Follow it in a feed reader: Atom feed.

Week of October 26, 2026

  • New

    Site status page and data freshness

    A public status page shows whether the site, the market data, the background updates and the bot API are working, with 90 days of uptime checked from outside our own server. Every page now shows how fresh the market data is, next to Search.

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  • Improved

    Research figures brought up to date

    The research page now leads with the full-year results without hindsight, and the grade explanations, filter notes and quality chip quote them too. The research grade's "Research candidate" rules looked good in a short backtest but did not hold up over the year, and the texts now say so.

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  • New

    Methodology page and this changelog

    One page now explains how the consensus is counted, where the data comes from, how fresh it is and what our research found, with a version history. This changelog lists what changed for visitors, with an Atom feed.

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  • New

    Full-year research without hindsight

    We replayed the site's own rule over a year of every Polymarket trade, with the tracked wallets rebuilt day by day as the site would have seen them. Following the consensus lost about 3% a trade after costs in the test half of the year, and none of 86 narrower ideas held up.

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  • Fixed

    "Ending soon" shows the right markets

    Markets that had already ended could stay on the list for 40 minutes or more, and the current 5- and 15-minute crypto markets were missing because their end times were read as midnight. Both are fixed.

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  • New

    Copy-trader figures on the full history

    Trader pages and the copy-trader research now default to "Full history, every trade, no hindsight": 27,345 wallets that were ever in the tracked set, with every fill they made from December 2022 to October 25, 2026.

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  • New

    Weekly report of your bots

    Accounts that run bots through the Bot API get a Weekly report tab on the dashboard: each bot's profit for the week and since it started, its trades and win rate, and whether there are enough trades yet to tell an edge from luck.

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  • Improved

    Followed traders in your watchlist

    Traders you follow now appear in the dashboard's Watchlist tab, marked "Following", and a trader's page has a single Follow button.

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  • New

    Copy bots

    A self-hosted bot can read the traders your account follows and copy each one on paper. The dashboard's Copy bots tab shows each copy's return next to the trader's own.

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  • Improved

    "If you had copied this trader" counts their sells

    The copy-trader figure now mirrors every buy and every sell, after the spread and fees on both, instead of only the positions a trader still held at the end. The old figure stays as a second row.

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Week of October 19, 2026

  • New

    Research section with a live signal ledger

    Every consensus signal is now frozen when it forms and settled when Polymarket resolves the market, after the spread and fees. The research page shows that live record next to the backtests.

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  • New

    Research lab, library and signal explorer

    Test your own rule (who to follow, topic, price, money, timing, exit) on past data with the same costs and checks as our backtests, browse everyone's runs, and see eight pre-registered ideas tested.

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  • New

    Copy-trader research and conviction bets

    What copying each tracked trader would have returned after costs, at their price and an hour later, and a chip on market cards when tracked traders bet far above their usual size.

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  • New

    Markets like this one, and a market timeline

    Open market pages show how similar past signals turned out and when the consensus formed, flipped or lost its holders, from a replay of the site's rule.

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  • Improved

    A research grade replaces Strong, Medium and Weak

    Each open market gets Research candidate, Neutral or Avoid, computed from the market as it is now, with the evidence behind each rule. New filters: Quality 3+, Favourites, Big money, Tennis tour and Forming, plus a trading-cost chip.

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  • New

    Follow traders and set alert rules

    Signed-in accounts can follow traders and set alert rules for new or flipped consensus markets and for followed traders' trades, with limits so nothing floods.

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  • New

    Topic pages and trader comparison

    Browse the consensus by topic (elections, geopolitics, tennis, esports and more), see each trader's specialties, and compare traders side by side.

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  • New

    How unusual bets turned out

    The insiders page now keeps a record of the unusual bets it flagged and shows how they settled, by score band.

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  • Improved

    A faster, clearer homepage

    The view you pick lives in the address, so it can be shared and Back returns to the same place. One Sort menu with filter chips, live scores on match cards, site search (press / or Ctrl+K), and the list updates without reloading.

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  • Improved

    Market and trader pages

    Market pages arrive with their content already in place, show a quality chip and each holder's record, and keep a trade bar at the bottom on phones. The traders list sorts and pages on the server, with labelled ranks and every win rate shown with its count.

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  • Improved

    Site updates without downtime

    New versions of the site now go live without taking it down, so updates no longer interrupt visitors.

  • Improved

    Simpler top bar

    The top bar keeps Markets, Traders, Insiders, Alerts, Elections, Topics and Search; everything else is in the menu.

  • New

    A match's markets on one page

    Sports market pages list every market of the same match with its consensus, and a probability chart with ranges from one hour to all time marks the tracked traders' trades.

  • New

    Live match scores

    Sports market pages show the live score, period and sets the way Polymarket does.

  • New

    2026 midterm elections page

    Every midterm market with a smart-money consensus in one place, ahead of the November 3 election.

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  • Fixed

    Honest win rates and expected values

    The resolved-markets win rate no longer leaves out losses where most holders were on the losing side. The expected-value calculator now includes the spread and Polymarket's fee, and no longer prefills the head count as a probability.

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  • Improved

    Safer trading

    Market orders show their average price, price impact and fee before you sign, re-check the order book first and ask twice when the impact is large. New: claim winnings, close a position, an orders card with cancel-all, and withdraw to your own wallet.

  • Fixed

    Prices just under a dollar

    Buttons show 99.6¢ instead of rounding to 100¢, and orders use the market's current tick size.

  • Improved

    Better categories and topics

    Sports sub-markets (spreads, totals, exact scores) are no longer filed under Other, and a finer topic is shown on each market.

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  • Improved

    An "updating" page instead of an error

    While the site restarts, visitors see a short updating page instead of a bare error.

  • Fixed

    Markets resolved 50-50

    Markets Polymarket refunds at 50-50 (cancelled matches, ties, walkovers) now show "Resolved 50-50 (void)", are valued at 50¢ a share, and never count as a win or a loss.

  • New

    Order book on market pages

    A Polymarket-style order book with your own open orders and a cancel button. Click a price to start a limit order there.

  • Fixed

    Finished markets leave the list within a minute

    A market that closes or resolves now leaves the live list about a minute after Polymarket closes it, instead of at the next hourly refresh.

  • Fixed

    Exact trade times

    Trade times now come from the block each trade was made in. Some trades read back from the chain had been dated too early.

  • Improved

    Consensus changes reach bots within a second

    The Bot API's live stream now sends a change in a market's consensus within about a second of the trades behind it.

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  • Improved

    Near-real-time holders and consensus

    Holders and the consensus of listed markets are re-counted every 30 seconds and within seconds of new trades, instead of once an hour.

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  • Fixed

    Every trade counted

    When one transaction filled several orders, only the first fill was kept, so many positions were undercounted. Every fill is now stored, and the earlier history was read again from the chain.

  • Fixed

    Exits stay gone, and dust no longer counts

    A trader who sold out no longer reappears as a holder after the hourly refresh, and a leftover of less than one share no longer counts as holding a market.

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  • Fixed

    Open markets no longer end on their end date

    Markets that Polymarket still had open (an election with a possible second round, a postponed game) were shown as ended once their end date passed. They stay open until Polymarket closes them, and missing winners were filled in.

  • Improved

    No more hourly slowdowns

    The site no longer freezes for a few minutes once an hour, and the largest traders' pages no longer slow everything else down.

  • Fixed

    All tracked traders on the traders list

    The traders list stopped at 500; it now pages through all of the roughly 2,400 tracked traders. Trade lists show real times instead of "just now".

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  • Fixed

    Complete trader records

    Many traders' closed positions had never been fully read, so their records were missing and the win-rate check skipped them. The copy now finishes, and the large-trades page no longer stalls on a hung request.

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  • Fixed

    Game markets are Sports

    Polymarket's game markets were filed under Other; they are Sports now. Month labels also round the way Polymarket's do.

  • Fixed

    Trader pages match Polymarket

    A trader holding both sides of a market shows both, positions from splits appear, and the total P/L is now the figure on the trader's Polymarket profile.

  • Fixed

    Game markets named and counted

    Many sports and esports game markets do not appear in Polymarket's main market listing, so their trades went unnamed and uncounted. They are now read from Polymarket's events and counted like any other market.

  • New

    More in the Bot API

    Every market in the Bot API now carries its category, a trader-quality summary and the holders' records, plus the hand-picked wallets' view and a list of forming markets.

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Week of October 12, 2026

  • Fixed

    Splits, merges and redemptions read from the chain

    The outside data source for position changes made off the order book had stopped in April. They are now read directly from the Polygon chain.

  • Improved

    Cleaner charts

    Every chart now shares one look that follows the light or dark theme, and the third-party chart logo is gone.

Week of October 5, 2026

  • Improved

    Analytics loads faster

    The analytics page is now prepared in the background, so it opens at once instead of computing on each visit.

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  • New

    Trade with the MetaMask app on phones

    On a phone you can sign in and trade through the MetaMask app from any browser.

  • New

    Trade on Polymarket from market pages

    Buy and sell on Polymarket without leaving the market page: market and limit orders, plus split and merge. The site adds no fee of its own.

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  • New

    Sign in with your wallet

    Accounts now sign in with a crypto wallet; usernames, passwords and email addresses are no longer used.

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  • New

    Dashboard with your positions against the consensus

    A live watchlist, your Polymarket positions next to the smart-money consensus, what changed for you, and a profit chart that matches your Polymarket profile.

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  • New

    Live chat

    One site-wide chat room, built into the page.

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  • New

    Bot API for self-hosted trading bots

    A documented API for bots you run yourself: the consensus markets, their holders and changes, with optional API keys.

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  • New

    Light theme, app install and share images

    A light theme, the option to install the site as an app, share images for pages, an Ending Today view and an Edge vs Crowd sort.

  • New

    Smart-money scoreboard and market history

    A scoreboard of how the smart money's sides did at resolution, a history chart on market pages and a last-24-hours card on trader pages.

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  • Fixed

    No sideways scrolling on phones

    Market and trader pages no longer scroll sideways on phones, and long trader names are shortened.

Week of September 28, 2026

  • Improved

    The market list stays fresh between refreshes

    The full recount now runs every hour instead of once a day; in between, resolved markets drop off and a market that gains 5 tracked holders appears within about two minutes.

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  • New

    Biggest exits and smart-money entry price

    "What changed today" also lists the biggest sells, and market cards show the average price the consensus holders paid against the price now.

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  • New

    What changed today

    A strip on the homepage with the markets that reached a consensus in the last 24 hours, the consensus flips and the biggest buys.

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  • New

    New entrants and source badges

    A page of the wallets that just entered Polymarket's top 1,000 and what they traded; each trader carries a badge (Top 1000 with its rank, or Hand-picked), and the traders list can filter on it.

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  • New

    Category chips

    Filter the homepage by Politics, Sports, Crypto, Finance, Entertainment, Tech or Other.

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  • Improved

    Polymarket's top 1,000 traders, with a win-rate check

    The tracked set is now Polymarket's monthly top 1,000 by profit, re-read every hour, plus about 460 hand-picked wallets. Since October 3, a top-1,000 wallet with 10 or more settled markets in 90 days must have won at least 55% of them to count.

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  • Improved

    Pages load faster

    A round of work on the database and background jobs removed the site's regular freezes, and homepage prices now update live.

Week of September 14, 2026

  • Improved

    Faster trader pages

    A trader page that took up to 40 seconds to open the first time now loads quickly, and the browser tab shows the trader's real name.

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  • Fixed

    Trade times corrected

    Recent trades were dated more than a month off, because block times were estimated with a drift. Times are now calibrated against the chain.

  • Fixed

    No 100% win rate when a trader has losses

    A win rate like 2,602 wins and 10 losses was rounded up to 100%; it now shows at most 99% whenever there is a loss.

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Changes to the Bot API and its fields are listed for developers on the API page. Nothing on this site is financial advice.