# PolyCop

Telegram copy-trading bot for Polymarket that holds your key and charges on every fill.

*https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polycop · Trading Clients, SDKs & Bots*

## Facts

### At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | PolyCop |
| Category | Trading Clients, SDKs & Bots |
| Job | automation |
| Website | https://polycop.ai |
| Pricing model | commission |
| Free tier | true |
| Open source | false |
| Licence | none |
| Self-hosted | false |
| Tested hands-on | false |
| Last updated | 2026-10-01 |

### Pricing

| Tier | USD | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bot, leaderboard and wallet analysis | 0 USD | — |

### Availability

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Jurisdictions | asia, latam |
| Open to US persons | false |
| KYC required | false |

### Markets

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Subjects | politics, sports, macro, crypto, culture, business |
| Settlement | crypto |
| Resolved by | none |

### Economics

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Taker fee | 0.25 |
| Maker fee | 0.25 |
| Liquidity model | clob |
| Platforms | web |
| AI features | research |

### Interfaces

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| API | false |
| WebSocket | false |
| Scripting | none |
| Python | false |
| MCP server | false |
| Export | xlsx |

### Capabilities

Yes: order_book, backtesting, automation, live_trading, portfolio_tracking, alerts

No: charting, screening, paper_trading, calibration_scoring, cross_venue, news, tax_reporting

*Verified: pricing 2026-09-30; availability 2026-09-30; capabilities 2026-09-30.*

## What it is

A Telegram bot that trades on [Polymarket](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polymarket) for you, in three modes: copying
another wallet's trades as they happen, running rule-based strategies unattended, and ordinary
manual orders against a live order book inside the chat. It is published by ApexLabs Group Inc, a
Seychelles company, and there is a web dashboard beside the bot with a wallet leaderboard and a copy
backtester. The job is automation: you are buying something that places orders while you are not
watching.

**Copy trading is most of the product.** You paste a target address, pick market or limit orders,
and size each copy as a fixed amount or proportionally to the target's position. Limit copies take a
price offset from the target's price and an expiry. Caps apply per trade, per market, per Yes/No side
and in total, plus a ceiling on how many different markets you can hold at once. A copy smaller than
Polymarket's minimum order ($1 for a market order, 5 shares for a limit) is either skipped or rounded
up to the minimum, and you choose which. A sub-wallet option creates a fresh wallet for each target,
so one leader's losses cannot drain the balance another leader is using.

The speed claim is specific, which is rare, and nobody outside the vendor has checked it: 30% of
copies in the same Polygon block as the leader's fill and the other 70% one block later.

**AFK Auto Trade is the second engine**, and it is two different things under one name. On
Polymarket's short-horizon crypto markets (BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP, from 5 minutes to 4 hours) it acts
on price conditions, with optional MACD, KDJ and ATR filters. On everything else (sports, politics,
weather, esports, culture, tech, finance) it scans every five minutes. Each outcome is filtered on
price, spread, book depth, volume and time to close, checked against price-history conditions over a
lookback window, and bought when every condition holds. Exits are take-profit, stop-loss or a
maximum holding time, whichever fires first. Each strategy buys a given outcome only once. The
preset templates are named after price patterns and fill in those parameters for you.

## Availability

**PolyCop's own terms exclude almost nobody; the venue does the excluding.** The eligibility clause
asks that you be 18 and legally allowed to use crypto-asset trading services where you are, and it
prohibits circumventing any geographic or eligibility restriction. Every order goes to Polymarket's
international order book on Polygon, not to the CFTC-regulated US venue, so Polymarket's own list of
blocked countries is the one that binds. That list includes the United States, the United Kingdom
and most of western Europe. The jurisdictions above are the venue's reach, not the bot's.

**There is no identity check.** You sign in with a Telegram account, the bot creates a wallet on
first use, and nothing asks for a document. The only KYC in the documented flow belongs to MoonPay,
a third party, if you buy stablecoins by card through it.

**The contract is Seychelles law.** The terms, last updated July 2026, are governed by the laws of
Seychelles, with disputes going to arbitration seated there. The one contact address given is a
Gmail account.

Terms of Service read on 30 September 2026.

## Pricing

**0.5% of every executed trade, on top of Polymarket.** The fee page calls it a flat transaction
fee "deducted directly from your transaction". It applies to copy, automated and manual orders
alike, and nothing is charged for an order that does not fill. Polymarket's own fee on the same fill
is separate and still applies.

**Why the fee fields above read 0.25% and not 0.5%.** This catalogue records every fee as a share
of the $1 a contract pays out, at a price of 50 cents. PolyCop's 0.5% is charged on the cash value
of the trade, so a 50-cent contract costs a quarter of a cent in PolyCop fees, which is 0.25% of its
payout. At other prices the gap is different. At 90 cents the fee is 0.45% of the payout, and at 10
cents it is 0.05%.

**What is free.** Redemptions, with PolyCop paying the gas. Withdrawals. Deposits sent directly on
Polygon to the trading address, from $5. The fee page names USDC.e (bridged USDC) for that free
route; the deposit guide also accepts native USDC, USDT and pUSD on Polygon, and the funds end up
as pUSD, the collateral every Polymarket trade has used since the CLOB V2 upgrade. Cross-chain deposits from Solana, Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum,
Optimism or Base, from $10, pay only the bridge's or swap's own cost. Copy trading needs $50 in the
wallet before it will start.

**One statement is on the referral page and nowhere else.** It says PolyCop's fee is only deducted
once a user's accumulated trading volume reaches $600. The fee page does not mention a threshold,
and neither page says whether volume below it is waived or collected once the threshold is crossed.

Referrers get 25% of the fees paid by people they invite and 3% one level further down, paid daily
in pUSD once at least $10 is owed.

Fee and referral pages read on 30 September 2026.

## Markets & resolution

Every market is a Polymarket market, collateralised in pUSD on
Polygon and resolved by Polymarket's own process, and PolyCop's terms say it does not control
Polymarket or its contracts.

Two resolution-adjacent behaviours belong to the bot. Auto Redeem claims resolved positions for you.
The documentation says it can fail when Polymarket rate-limits redemptions, and it cannot run while
a market is in its dispute window. On sports markets, resting limit orders are cancelled at the
official start time, so a copy placed as a limit order just before kick-off may disappear rather
than fill.

## Integrations

Polymarket's own wallet system does the heavy lifting: the deposit address, the gasless trading
address and the cross-chain bridge are all Polymarket's. Because of that, a PolyCop wallet is an
ordinary Polymarket account. Export the key, import it into MetaMask and log in to Polymarket
directly, and the same positions are there. That is also the documented way out if the bot stops
working.

The web dashboard at polycop.ai signs you in with Telegram and carries the leaderboard. The analytics
site polycop.fun hosts the copy backtester. A per-target copy history opens as a web page and
exports to an Excel file. Profit-and-loss reports for copy, automated and manual trading live inside
the bot.

There is no public API, no SDK, no webhook and no MCP server. The AI wallet report is a button in
the bot, not an endpoint.

## Limitations

**The company holds your key.** Section 4 of the terms describes a custodial wallet whose private
key material PolyCop holds, encrypted, "with access limited to authorized systems and personnel".
That is how PolyCop chose to let the bot trade while your phone is off. PolyCop-branded marketing pages
elsewhere on the web call it non-custodial and say the key never leaves your Telegram session.
The terms are the document that binds you. Export the key, and treat the bot's balance as money
held by a Seychelles company. An optional wallet password protects withdrawals and key export, and
it cannot be recovered if you forget it.

**The name is crowded, and the vendor's own documentation says so.** It warns that the ads Telegram
shows at the top of the bot are third-party and not approved by PolyCop. It warns that copycat bots
come up in Telegram search, and that people pretending to be admins send messages and even call
users. It lists five official bots (New York, Paris, Tokyo, California and London), which share one
backend. It names only two websites, polycop.ai and polycop.fun. polycop.io is a different product
entirely, a browser app with its own terms and its own fee, where you paste a private key into the
page.

**Two defaults are worse than they look.** The AFK templates start with a slippage tolerance of 30%
on market buys. Take-profit and stop-loss on copy trades only work when selling is set to market
orders. With limit-order selling the stop-loss is still shown, but it never fires, because Polymarket
will not accept two resting orders on one position. Even when it does fire, a stop-loss is a market
order and can fill well past its trigger. The documentation's own example is a 20% stop turning
into a 25–30% loss.

**Copies fill after the leader, or not at all.** The leader's fill has already moved the book by the time yours
arrives, and a copy at 1% of a $20 trade is below Polymarket's minimum order and never placed. The
AI wallet report tries to measure this. It replays the address's last 4,000 transactions with fills
2% worse on every buy and every sell, and grades the address on what is left. That is one fixed
friction model applied to one address's history, and on thin books the real friction is larger. The documentation's welcome page leads with a single
user who turned $305 into $48,786 in 30 days. One survivor's month is not a base rate.

**No venue but Polymarket.** Polymarket US, Kalshi and Limitless are out of reach, and so are
automated trades across venues.

Liveness is not in doubt. The terms carry a July 2026 date, and the documentation already describes
Polymarket's pUSD collateral.

## Alternatives

[Polycool](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polycool) is the nearest match: copy trading on the same venue, sold as a phone
app. Its fee starts at 1% and falls with volume, and it uses a self-custodial wallet created through
Privy, not one the company holds. [PolyWallet](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polywallet) and [OrcaLayer](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/orcalayer)
cover the wallet-watching half without routing your orders or taking a cut. To judge an address
before following it, [Convexly](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/convexly) publishes its method.

Holding the key yourself means running your own code. Polymarket's
[polymarket-client](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polymarket-client) and [PMXT](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/pmxt) both sign orders locally, and
then the only fee on a copy is the venue's; the watching and sizing logic is yours to write.

For a US reader, [Polymarket US](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/polymarket-us) and [Kalshi](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/kalshi) are the venues that
will open an account.

## FAQ

### Does PolyCop hold my private key?

Yes, according to its own Terms of Service. They describe a custodial wallet created and managed on your behalf, with the company holding the private key material encrypted on its own infrastructure. You can export the key, and marketing pages that call the bot non-custodial are contradicted by the terms, which are the document that binds you.

### What does PolyCop charge?

A flat 0.5% of every executed trade (0.25¢ a share at 50¢), on top of whatever Polymarket charges for the same fill. Deposits over Polygon, withdrawals, redemptions and gas are free, and there is no subscription. A 1,000 USD month of copied volume costs 5 USD in PolyCop fees.

### Is polycop.io the same product?

No. PolyCop's documentation names polycop.ai and polycop.fun as its only websites and five regional Telegram bots as its only bots. polycop.io is a separate browser app with its own terms, its own fee and a different wallet model, in which you paste a private key into the web page.

### Can a US person use PolyCop?

Not in practice. Its own terms bar nobody by name, but they forbid getting around any geographic restriction, and every order goes to the international Polymarket order book, which excludes the United States. A US reader wanting a venue that will serve them should look at Polymarket US or Kalshi.

## Background

- [What running a bot does not solve](https://predictionmarkets.tools/guides/what-a-bot-cannot-fix.md) — A bot fixes speed and consistency. Rate limits, a missing rehearsal, a field that stops arriving, a partial fill and a paused market are not coding problems.

- [Why your bot gets throttled, and what the limit is counted against](https://predictionmarkets.tools/guides/why-your-bot-gets-throttled.md) — Kalshi meters tokens per account tier; Polymarket's order book meters requests per IP and queues the excess. What each counts, and what the libraries assume.

- [Where your key lives when software trades for you](https://predictionmarkets.tools/guides/where-your-key-lives.md) — Four different credentials are all called a key, and they differ in what a copy permits. What the clients in this catalogue ask for, and what to ask them back.

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