# Polymarket Profits 2
Build 7 Trading Bots This Weekend

- Price: $12.99 (Kindle ebook)
- Level: Intermediate
- Pages: 293
- Best for: Advanced Polymarket bot builders
- You finish with: 7 automated strategies from arbitrage to Claude MCP agents
- Series: Polymarket Profits Trading Bot Series, book 2 of 2
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- Web page: https://youcanbuildthings.com/books/polymarket-profits-2

## What you get

Seven trading bots. Arbitrage scanner, resolution scanner, copy trader, Claude MCP agent, contrarian bot, and a multi-strategy portfolio manager. Working Python code, real fee math, and the position-sizing formula that turns a 68% win rate from a loss into a profit.

You built a bot. It wins 68% of the time. It still loses money. Chapter 10 is why. This playbook walks through the seven trading bots behind the $178K and $203K wallets posted on r/PolymarketProtestClub: arbitrage scanner, resolution scanner, copy trader, Claude MCP agent, contrarian bot, multi-strategy portfolio manager. You get working Python code and the fee math most tutorials skip.

## Chapters

1. The $178K Weekend: The Reddit wallet that turned $2,050 into $178K arbitraging 5-minute BTC markets, plus the four strategies behind it.
2. Polymarket Under the Hood: The real fee formula, CTF tokens, neg-risk markets, and the 4 APIs your bot needs.
3. Your First Bot in 3 Hours: A paper-trading bot on live market data. Zero dollars at risk.
4. The Arbitrage Scanner: Depth filter, slippage protection, partial-fill unwind. The fix that turned my scanner from -$180 to profitable.
5. Resolution Scanning: The $203K Strategy: Detect events before the price catches up. The 15-second staleness check that saved me $400.
6. Copy Trading Automation: Vet profitable wallets on-chain and copy their trades at scaled position sizes.
7. Claude MCP Trading Agents: An AI agent that reads order books, reasons about trades, and explains every decision in plain English.
8. Inverse and Contrarian Bots: Fair value estimation, engagement-weighted sentiment, and the insider filter that keeps you out of political markets.
9. Scaling to Six Figures: Portfolio manager, Sharpe-ratio allocation, correlation tracking, and VPS deployment.
10. Why Your Bot Loses Money: The 68% trap explained with the EV formula, plus quarter-Kelly sizing with fees and correlation discount.
11. The Scam Filter: Eight red flags for evaluating any trading claim in under 30 seconds.
12. Your Permanent Edge: Edge decay detection with 5 metrics and the platform-change monitor that catches fee changes before they show up in your P&L.

## Free guides from this book

- [Best Polymarket Trading Bot Books in 2027: The Shortlist](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/best-polymarket-trading-bot-books.md): We opened all 20 first-page Kindle results for Polymarket trading bots and ranked them on code, arbitrage, copy trading, AI agents, risk and live trading.
- [How to Build a Contrarian Bot for Polymarket](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/polymarket-contrarian-bot.md): A Polymarket contrarian bot that uses base rates, engagement-weighted sentiment, and a political-market insider filter. With Python code and examples.
- [How to Build a Polymarket Resolution Scanner](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/polymarket-resolution-scanning.md): A Polymarket resolution scanner that catches events before the price updates. Covers the 4 event types, 15-second staleness check, and edge calculation.
- [How to Detect Edge Decay in Your Trading Bot](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/trading-bot-edge-decay.md): Five metrics to detect edge decay in a Polymarket trading bot, plus the platform-change monitor that catches fee updates before they show up in your P&L.
- [Polymarket Position Sizing With Fee-Adjusted Kelly](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/polymarket-position-sizing.md): Quarter-Kelly position sizing for Polymarket with the real fee formula, correlation clusters, and why a 68% win rate still loses money. With Python code.
- [Polymarket Trading Fees: The Real Formula and Table](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/polymarket-trading-fees.md): The real Polymarket fee formula, taker rates per category from the official docs, and a worked example proving 5%+ effective fees kill most arbitrage bots.