Glossary

Quick reference for all metrics and terms used across Polyanna.

PnL (Profit and Loss)Learn more →: Total gains minus losses from all prediction market positions, including mark-to-market value of open positions at current mid-prices. Displayed in USD. Positive values indicate net profit; negative values indicate net loss.
Win RateLearn more →: Percentage of resolved positions that ended in profit. A win rate above 50% means the trader profits on more positions than they lose, though it does not account for the magnitude of wins vs. losses.
ROI (Return on Investment)Learn more →: PnL divided by total capital deployed (sum of all buy order costs). Expressed as a percentage. An ROI of +10% means the trader earned 10 cents for every dollar invested.
Sharpe RatioLearn more →: Risk-adjusted return metric. Measures excess return per unit of volatility in position outcomes. Higher values indicate better risk-adjusted performance. Values above 1.0 are generally considered good; above 2.0 is excellent.
Max DrawdownLearn more →: The largest peak-to-trough decline in a trader's cumulative PnL curve. Represents the worst losing streak in dollar terms. A smaller max drawdown indicates more consistent performance.
Bot ProbabilityLearn more →: Estimated likelihood (0–100%) that a wallet is operated by an automated trading bot, based on heuristic analysis of trading frequency, timing patterns, order size consistency, and market participation breadth.
Market SignalsLearn more →: A signal-level measure of trader performance relative to the profiled baseline universe. It combines official Polymarket context with inferred keywords and short phrases to show where a trader tends to outperform or underperform.
Market Signal ConfidenceLearn more →: A sample-size indicator attached to Market Signals rows. Higher confidence means the trader has enough qualifying history in that signal for the result to be more informative.
No Public Profile: This trader hasn't claimed a username on Polymarket. They can only be identified by their wallet address. Many active traders — especially bots — never set up a public profile, so this badge simply indicates the absence of a user-chosen display name, not any issue with the account.
Max Session BuyLearn more →: The largest single taker-side buy session for a trader. Sessions are 1-hour windows grouped by market and direction. A $50K session means the trader bought $50K of outcome tokens in a single market within one hour.
InvestedLearn more →: Total dollars spent buying positions. This is the cost basis used in the ROI leaderboard to show how much capital a trader put to work.
ReturnLearn more →: Invested capital plus PnL (including mark-to-market). In the ROI leaderboard, this shows the dollars that came back relative to the trader's cost basis.
Buy Ratio: Fraction of a trader's total USD volume that consists of buys (total bought / USD volume). A high buy ratio indicates a taker who primarily enters positions rather than providing liquidity as a market maker.
High Volume Market Ratio: Fraction of a trader's volume that occurs in markets in the top 10% by volume (90th percentile). A high ratio means the trader focuses on liquid, high-volume markets that are easier to enter and exit — important for copy-trading.
Copyable FreshnessLearn more →: The recency badge shown on Copyable leaderboard rows. It classifies a trader as 7d active, 30d active, 90d active, or Stale based on recent meaningful buy-side activity. Copyable still uses all-time quality filters, but freshness adjusts ranking so inactive accounts do not crowd out traders who are still active now.
Share Volume: Total number of outcome token contracts traded (buys and sells combined). This is the metric Polymarket uses for its own leaderboard rankings. Because token prices vary, share volume can diverge significantly from USD volume.
USD Volume: Total USD value of all filled orders (buys and sells combined). Raw on-chain amounts are converted from USDC units (divided by 10⁶). Represents actual cash flow rather than contract count.
Trades: Total number of filled orders across all markets. Each fill event (buy or sell execution) counts as one trade.
Markets: Number of distinct prediction markets in which the trader has at least one filled order. Higher market count indicates broader diversification.
Total Traders: Count of unique wallet addresses with at least one indexed filled order in the current dataset.
Orders Filled: Total number of on-chain fill events indexed across the current dataset.
Estimated BotsLearn more →: Number of wallets classified as likely bots by our heuristic detection system in the current dataset.
Markets Tracked: Total number of prediction markets with at least one indexed trade in the current dataset.
Trade AlertLearn more →: A real-time notification sent when a watchlisted trader executes a trade on Polymarket. Delivered via Telegram, email, or webhook within roughly 60 seconds of the on-chain fill event. Pro feature.
Batch AlertLearn more →: A summary notification sent when a watchlisted trader makes 5 or more trades in a short window. Instead of individual alerts, you receive one message with total trades, USD volume, net direction, and markets involved.
Daily DigestLearn more →: A once-a-day email summarizing all trade alerts from the past 24 hours, grouped by trader. Sent at a user-configured hour (UTC).
Data Cutoff: Timestamp of the most recent on-chain fill event included in the current dataset. A green dot means the data was updated today; a yellow dot means the latest data is from a previous day.

Glossary

Quick reference for all metrics and terms used across Polyanna.

PnL (Profit and Loss)Learn more →

Total gains minus losses from all prediction market positions, including mark-to-market value of open positions at current mid-prices. Displayed in USD. Positive values indicate net profit; negative values indicate net loss.

Win RateLearn more →

Percentage of resolved positions that ended in profit. A win rate above 50% means the trader profits on more positions than they lose, though it does not account for the magnitude of wins vs. losses.

ROI (Return on Investment)Learn more →

PnL divided by total capital deployed (sum of all buy order costs). Expressed as a percentage. An ROI of +10% means the trader earned 10 cents for every dollar invested.

Sharpe RatioLearn more →

Risk-adjusted return metric. Measures excess return per unit of volatility in position outcomes. Higher values indicate better risk-adjusted performance. Values above 1.0 are generally considered good; above 2.0 is excellent.

Max DrawdownLearn more →

The largest peak-to-trough decline in a trader's cumulative PnL curve. Represents the worst losing streak in dollar terms. A smaller max drawdown indicates more consistent performance.

Bot ProbabilityLearn more →

Estimated likelihood (0–100%) that a wallet is operated by an automated trading bot, based on heuristic analysis of trading frequency, timing patterns, order size consistency, and market participation breadth.

Market SignalsLearn more →

A signal-level measure of trader performance relative to the profiled baseline universe. It combines official Polymarket context with inferred keywords and short phrases to show where a trader tends to outperform or underperform.

Market Signal ConfidenceLearn more →

A sample-size indicator attached to Market Signals rows. Higher confidence means the trader has enough qualifying history in that signal for the result to be more informative.

No Public Profile

This trader hasn't claimed a username on Polymarket. They can only be identified by their wallet address. Many active traders — especially bots — never set up a public profile, so this badge simply indicates the absence of a user-chosen display name, not any issue with the account.

Max Session BuyLearn more →

The largest single taker-side buy session for a trader. Sessions are 1-hour windows grouped by market and direction. A $50K session means the trader bought $50K of outcome tokens in a single market within one hour.

InvestedLearn more →

Total dollars spent buying positions. This is the cost basis used in the ROI leaderboard to show how much capital a trader put to work.

ReturnLearn more →

Invested capital plus PnL (including mark-to-market). In the ROI leaderboard, this shows the dollars that came back relative to the trader's cost basis.

Buy Ratio

Fraction of a trader's total USD volume that consists of buys (total bought / USD volume). A high buy ratio indicates a taker who primarily enters positions rather than providing liquidity as a market maker.

High Volume Market Ratio

Fraction of a trader's volume that occurs in markets in the top 10% by volume (90th percentile). A high ratio means the trader focuses on liquid, high-volume markets that are easier to enter and exit — important for copy-trading.

Copyable FreshnessLearn more →

The recency badge shown on Copyable leaderboard rows. It classifies a trader as 7d active, 30d active, 90d active, or Stale based on recent meaningful buy-side activity. Copyable still uses all-time quality filters, but freshness adjusts ranking so inactive accounts do not crowd out traders who are still active now.

USD Volume

Total USD value of all filled orders (buys and sells combined). Raw on-chain amounts are converted from USDC units (divided by 10⁶). Represents actual cash flow rather than contract count.

Trades

Total number of filled orders across all markets. Each fill event (buy or sell execution) counts as one trade.

Markets

Number of distinct prediction markets in which the trader has at least one filled order. Higher market count indicates broader diversification.

Total Traders

Count of unique wallet addresses with at least one indexed filled order in the current dataset.

Orders Filled

Total number of on-chain fill events indexed across the current dataset.

Estimated BotsLearn more →

Number of wallets classified as likely bots by our heuristic detection system in the current dataset.

Markets Tracked

Total number of prediction markets with at least one indexed trade in the current dataset.

Trade AlertLearn more →

A real-time notification sent when a watchlisted trader executes a trade on Polymarket. Delivered via Telegram, email, or webhook within roughly 60 seconds of the on-chain fill event. Pro feature.

Batch AlertLearn more →

A summary notification sent when a watchlisted trader makes 5 or more trades in a short window. Instead of individual alerts, you receive one message with total trades, USD volume, net direction, and markets involved.

Daily DigestLearn more →

A once-a-day email summarizing all trade alerts from the past 24 hours, grouped by trader. Sent at a user-configured hour (UTC).

Data Cutoff

Timestamp of the most recent on-chain fill event included in the current dataset. A green dot means the data was updated today; a yellow dot means the latest data is from a previous day.