Trader Profiles

## What Trader Profiles does

Trader Profiles turns the raw, anonymous wallet activity on Polymarket into a ranked, scored directory of the traders actually moving size. Instead of scrolling an undifferentiated feed of large fills, you get a leaderboard where every wallet carries a single **0-100 composite score**, a tier label, and a full performance breakdown — volume, win rate, P&L, ROI, category specialization, open positions, and recent trades. From any profile you can start following the wallet via copy trading in two clicks.

The feature lives in two places:

Under the hood, profiles are built from public Polymarket trade data (the Gamma API), the same data source that powers the **Whale Tracker**. Trader Profiles is the analytical layer on top: it scores, ranks, and categorizes those wallets so you can decide who is worth watching and who is worth copying.

## The 0-100 composite score

Every wallet gets a single headline number from 0 to 100. It is deliberately a blend of four components so that no single dimension can carry a wallet to the top — a high win rate on three tiny trades will not outrank a consistent, diversified whale.

The four components and their maximum contributions:

The four are summed and capped at 100. Because volume and consistency are both gated by activity, **the score structurally favors traders with a track record over lucky one-shots.** That is the point: you are looking for repeatable edge, not survivorship.

### A note on estimated figures

Some downstream numbers — particularly per-trade and per-category P&L on wallets where full resolution history is not yet available — are **estimated** rather than settled. These estimates are deterministic: the same wallet shows the same numbers on the leaderboard and on its profile page, and they do not shuffle on refresh. Treat win rate, ROI, and category P&L as a directional signal of skill, not as an audited account statement. Total volume and trade counts are pulled from on-chain activity and are the most reliable figures on the page.

## Tiers

The composite score maps to one of four tiers, shown as a colored pill on every row and profile:

1. **Elite** (score 80-100) — the top of the board. High volume, strong win rate, sustained and diversified. These are the wallets most worth studying before you commit capital. 2. **Pro** (score 60-79) — consistently good. Solid edge, real size, fewer red flags. 3. **Intermediate** (score 35-59) — active and competent but not yet proven across all four dimensions, or carrying a weak spot (e.g. great volume but mediocre win rate). 4. **Beginner** (score 0-34) — thin track record. Often a low trade count or a single-market concentration. Not necessarily bad traders — just not enough data to rank them higher.

Tier is purely a function of the score, so as a wallet's behavior changes between refreshes, its tier can move with it.

## Reading the leaderboard

Open **`/dashboard/traders`**. The board loads the top wallets by composite score (refreshed server-side every few minutes — see caching below). Each row shows:

Color coding helps you scan fast: win rate is teal at 60%+, amber at 50-59%, and red below 50%; P&L and ROI are teal when positive, red when negative.

### Searching and filtering

There is a search box at the top right. It filters the loaded list instantly (no page reload) by:

Search operates on the already-loaded leaderboard, so it is a fast way to slice the top wallets rather than a global lookup of every address on Polymarket.

### On mobile

The desktop view is a wide table; on phones the same data renders as tappable cards with the four headline stats (Vol / Win / P&L / ROI) in a compact grid. Tap any card to open the full profile.

## Inside a trader profile

Click any row — or navigate to `/dashboard/traders/<address>` — to open the profile. The page is organized top to bottom:

### Header

The big score badge (colored by tier), the full wallet address with a copy control, the tier pill, the risk profile, all earned **badges**, and an "active since / last trade" line. The primary **Copy** button lives here — this is the main call to action on the profile.

### Stat grid

Eight cards covering the wallet's complete profile:

### Risk profile

Each wallet is tagged **conservative**, **moderate**, or **aggressive** based on average trade size. Roughly: under ~\$15k average is conservative, ~\$15k-\$50k is moderate, and above ~\$50k is aggressive. Use this to match a wallet's style to your own risk tolerance before copying — an aggressive whale's position sizes can be uncomfortable to mirror if your bankroll is small.

### Category performance

A breakdown bar per category (Politics, Crypto, Economics, Tech, Climate, and Other) showing trade count, win rate, and estimated P&L, sorted by activity. Bars turn teal at 55%+ win rate, amber below. This is where you spot **specialists** — a wallet that is elite overall but only because it crushes Politics may be useless to follow if you trade Crypto.

### Open positions

Up to five of the wallet's current positions: market, direction (YES/NO), size, and entry price in cents. Each row has its own Copy button so you can mirror a specific position rather than the whole wallet.

### Recent trades

The last ten trades with market, direction, size, P&L, and a per-row Copy button.

## Badges

Badges are quick visual shorthand for what makes a wallet notable. A wallet can hold several at once:

Badges are recomputed from live data, so they can appear or disappear as a wallet's behavior shifts. The leaderboard shows the first two badges per row to keep it scannable; the profile page shows them all.

## Following a wallet via copy trading

Every Copy button on the leaderboard and profile feeds the same flow. Here is how to follow a wallet end to end:

1. **Find a wallet worth following.** Use the leaderboard and category breakdown to confirm the wallet is strong *in the markets you actually trade*, not just strong overall. 2. **Click Copy.** From the profile header to mirror the whole wallet, or from a specific open-position / recent-trade row. The button only activates for valid wallets (a proper `0x` address with 40 hex characters); test or malformed addresses render disabled. 3. **Review the prefilled form.** Copy does not commit capital on the spot. It routes you to **`/dashboard/copy-trading`** with the wallet, a label, the tier, and the wallet's win rate prefilled. The win rate is used to suggest a sensible default **copy percentage**. This deliberate "step 2" exists so you review terms before any money is at risk. 4. **Set your guardrails.** On the copy-trading screen, set your **copy percentage** (how much of each of their trades to mirror, clamped between 10% and 100%) and your **max size per trade** in USD (clamped between \$10 and \$10,000). These caps protect you from blindly matching a whale's six-figure position. 5. **Confirm.** This creates a copy target. From then on the wallet's new qualifying trades are mirrored according to your settings. You can pause or delete a target anytime from the copy-trading dashboard.

See the **[Copy Trading](/docs/copy-trading)** doc for the full mechanics, including how fills are sized and executed.

### Paper vs. live execution

## Plan gating

Trader Profiles data itself is available on all paid plans; the gate is on turning a followed wallet into real, automated orders.

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