PolyAlpha
How PolyAlpha works
Everything you need to use the signal bot and trade bot — what each feature does, how alerts arrive, and what every button in Telegram means.
What is PolyAlpha?
PolyAlpha is a Telegram service for Polymarket traders. It watches markets, news, top traders, and unusual wallet activity, then sends you clear trade ideas with links, odds, and context.
You stay in control. Use signals only, or open the trade bot to paste any Polymarket link and trade manually — autotrade is optional. You can ✨ create a new wallet inside the bot (no private key in chat) or 🔗 connect an existing Polymarket account.
Our Telegram bots
PolyAlpha uses separate bots so alerts stay fast and trading stays organized.
Main bot — start here
Your home screen.
Signals bot — your alerts
Delivers Premium signal messages.
Trade bot — optional autotrading
Full Polymarket trading in Telegram — create a wallet, deposit, paste any market link, optional autotrade.
Support
Questions about subscription?
Getting started
Signals only (Premium)
- Open @poly_sig_bot Send /start and pick your language with 🌐 Language.
- Activate Premium Tap 💳 Subscription and pay in USDC on Polygon.
- Turn on alerts Tap ▶️ Start alerts in the main bot.
- Trade when you want Open the Polymarket link in each alert.
Signals + autotrade
- Complete the steps above You need an active Premium subscription first.
- Upgrade to Signals + Trade In 💳 Subscription, choose the plan that includes autotrading.
- Open @PolyAlpha_trade_bot Tap ✨ Create wallet (easiest) or 🔗 Connect wallet if you already use Polymarket.
- Fund your wallet 🔑 Wallet → 💰 How to deposit — send USDC from your exchange (many chains supported).
- Trade Paste any Polymarket event link in the trade bot, or configure autotrade in ⚙️ Settings.
- Optional: enable autotrade Turn on 🟢 Autotrade on the home screen if you want signal copying.
Signal types
Each alert tells you what was detected.
⚡ News
Breaking news linked to live markets.
🐋 Whale
Large fresh buys from proven top traders.
🕵 Insider
Big bets at low odds from fresh wallets.
⚖️ Arbitrage
Pricing looks inconsistent.
🔥 High conviction
Multiple signal types align.
What's inside a signal alert
- Market name and suggested side (YES or NO)
- Current and estimated odds, edge, and confidence
- Direct link to open the market on Polymarket
- Extra context on whale and insider signals
- On the trade plan: buttons to buy from the alert
Smart & insider wallet screens
When you open a wallet from either list:
Summary numbers: ROI, win rate, profit/loss.
Open and recently closed trades.
Short AI summary of how this wallet tends to trade.
Opens the wallet's public profile on Polymarket.
Set minimum win rate, ROI, or position count.
Returns to the main bot home screen.
Subscription & referrals
Free vs Premium
- Free: explore the bot.
- Premium: live alerts.
- Signals + Trade: autotrading access.
Pay in USDC on the Polygon network.
Referrals
Share your link from 🤝 Referrals.
Trade bot — every button explained
Open @PolyAlpha_trade_bot after you have Signals + Trade access.
Generate a Polymarket wallet in one tap — recommended for new users.
Link an existing Polymarket account (requires private key in the trade bot chat).
Master switch for automatic order placement.
Follow any Polymarket wallet you choose — separate from signal autotrade.
Opens trade behavior options.
Your positions, closed history, live stats.
Connected address and balance overview.
Quick trade-bot help inside Telegram.
Settings screen
When on, the bot buys automatically.
Follow whale or insider wallet sells.
Choose which signal types to trade.
Maximum price movement you accept.
Buttons on signal alerts (trade plan)
Place a one-time manual buy.
Retry or add to a position.
Opens the Polymarket page.
Autotrade, Autobuy & Follow sells
Three related switches control how PolyAlpha signal alerts (whale, insider, news, arbitrage) interact with your wallet. Copy trade wallets use their own settings and are not affected by these toggles.
How the switches work together
| Autotrade (home) | Autobuy signals | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| 🔴 Off | Off (forced) | No signal trade alerts and no automatic follow-sells. You can still trade manually by pasting links or using the portfolio. |
| 🟢 On | Off | Manual alerts for matching buys — each message includes Buy and Skip. You decide trade by trade. |
| 🟢 On | On | The bot places buy orders automatically when a signal matches your enabled engines and sizes. |
Follow wallet sells
When this is on, the bot can automatically sell your position if a whale or insider wallet you followed into a trade sells theirs. You must turn on Autotrade first — if Autotrade is off, Follow sells cannot be enabled and sell signals are ignored silently.
Turning Autotrade off
Switching Autotrade to 🔴 also turns off Autobuy and Follow sells. To use those options again, turn Autotrade back on first.
Manual mode tips
- Manual alerts are for buy signals only — sell-side follow logic does not send Buy/Skip prompts.
- Tap Buy on the alert to place one order at your configured engine size, or Skip to ignore that idea.
- You can change which signal types appear under ⚙️ Settings → 🎯 Signal engines.
Copy trade — follow any wallet
Copy trade lets you track wallets you pick — friends, influencers, or your own second account — independently from PolyAlpha’s curated whale and insider signal lists.
Copy trade vs signal alerts
Whale and insider signals are researched and filtered by PolyAlpha, then delivered to Premium subscribers. Copy trade is your personal watchlist: you add addresses in the trade bot, set rules per wallet, and choose how you want to be notified or copied when that wallet trades. Home-screen Autotrade does not control copy trade — each copied wallet has its own switches.
How to set it up
- Open @PolyAlpha_trade_bot You need Signals + Trade access and a connected or created wallet.
- 👤 Copy trade wallets (home screen) Tap the button on the trade bot main menu — opens your copy-trade list and wallet limit.
- ➕ Add wallet Choose a short label (e.g. “My whale”), then paste the Polymarket wallet address (0x…).
- 🌐 Global settings (optional) Set defaults for all wallets — the four switches, buy size, slippage, and min position. New wallets inherit these values.
- Tap a wallet Fine-tune that wallet only. A ✎ mark means it differs from your global defaults.
Wallet limits: up to 5 copied wallets on a signals-only plan, or 50 with Premium + Trade. Remove old wallets to add new ones if you hit the cap.
In your wallet list, 🟢 means Autobuy is on for that wallet. ⚪ means Autobuy is off (you can still get buy alerts if those are on).
The four switches
Each copied wallet has four independent switches — two for buys, two for sells. Mix them however you like.
When on, the bot buys automatically when this wallet opens or adds to a position (using that wallet’s buy size and slippage). When off, the bot never auto-buys for this wallet — you decide from alerts only.
When on, you get a Telegram message before a buy with market details and Buy / Skip buttons (plus a custom amount option). When off, buy activity from this wallet is silent unless Autobuy is on.
When on, the bot sells your matching position when this wallet sells. When off, your positions stay open unless you sell manually or tap Sell on an alert.
When on, you get a message when this wallet sells, with Sell / Skip to close your side manually. When off, sell activity is silent unless Autosell is on.
How buys and sells combine
Quick guide — same idea for both sides:
- Alerts on, auto off — you get a message with action buttons; nothing happens until you tap.
- Auto on, alerts off — the bot acts quietly with no pre-trade message.
- Both on — you get the alert with buttons and the bot acts automatically. After a buy fills, a separate confirmation arrives.
- Both off — that side is fully silent for this wallet.
Size & filter settings
How many USDC the bot spends per copy buy for this wallet (default $25). Not linked to signal engine sizes.
How much price movement you accept on copy orders for this wallet. Separate from your signal autotrade slippage.
Filters buy alerts by how large the wallet’s total position is on a market (steps at $1k, $2k, …). Sell alerts only fire when a single sell fill is at least this size. Autosell ignores this filter. Set 0 to alert on every buy and sell alert.
Stops tracking that address. Confirm with ✅ Yes, remove. Your open positions are not closed automatically.
🌐 Global settings
From the copy-trade menu, open 🌐 Global settings to set defaults for every wallet at once — all four switches, buy size, slippage, and min position. Changing a global value updates all your copied wallets. To keep one wallet different, set global first, then edit only that wallet.
What copy alerts look like
- Header shows 👤 Copy trade · your label so you know it is not a PolyAlpha whale signal.
- Includes market name, side (YES/NO), this fill size, and their running total on the position.
- When min position steps apply, you see which step was crossed (e.g. step #2 at $2,000 total).
- Manual alerts include Buy / Skip or Sell / Skip, plus a custom amount button.
- When Autobuy is on and a buy fills, you get a separate confirmation message after the order — in addition to any pre-trade alert.
Create a Polymarket wallet in the bot
New in the trade bot: you can start trading without MetaMask or exporting keys from Polymarket. The bot creates a dedicated Polymarket deposit wallet for you, encrypts the key on the server, and never shows the private key in Telegram chat.
Create vs connect — which to pick?
| Feature | ✨ Create wallet | 🔗 Connect wallet |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | One tap in the bot | Funder address + signature type + private key |
| Private key in chat | Never shown | You paste it once in @PolyAlpha_trade_bot |
| Deposits | Multi-chain via 💰 How to deposit | Same |
| Withdraw in bot | Yes — 💸 Withdraw USDC | No — use Polymarket or your wallet app |
| Disconnect | Permanent — use Withdraw first | Can reconnect later |
Create wallet — step by step
- Open @PolyAlpha_trade_bot You need an active Signals + Trade subscription.
- Tap ✨ Create wallet On the home screen or under 🔑 Wallet when not connected.
- Confirm Read the safety note — use a dedicated wallet and only deposit what you can afford to lose.
- Wallet ready You see your Polymarket address, cash balance, and 🔗 Open Polymarket profile.
Deposits — any chain, no manual swap
You do not need to buy or swap USDC.e yourself. Polymarket's bridge converts supported tokens automatically.
- 🔑 Wallet → 💰 How to deposit Pick the section that matches where your USDC lives.
- 🟣 Already on Polygon? Send USDC directly to your Polymarket wallet address (min ~$2).
- 🌉 Other chains Use the bridge address for Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB, Solana, Bitcoin, Tron, and more.
- Wait & refresh Funds usually appear in a few minutes. Tap 🔄 Refresh on the wallet screen.
Tip: the bridge EVM address is not the same as your Polygon wallet address — always copy from the deposit guide.
Withdraw USDC (bot-created wallets only)
- 🔑 Wallet → 💸 Withdraw USDC Choose destination network (Polygon, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Solana).
- Enter address & amount Paste your external USDC wallet or tap Withdraw max.
- Confirm screen Review estimated receive amount, fees, and ETA before you approve.
- Done You get a success message with a transaction link. Tap 🔄 Refresh to see updated balance.
Wallet screen buttons
Multi-chain deposit addresses and simple instructions.
Send balance to your external wallet (bot-created wallets only).
Update cash, on-chain balance, and portfolio totals.
View the same wallet on polymarket.com.
For bot-created wallets: permanent — withdraw funds first. Connected wallets can be re-linked.
Not just autotrade — full trading bot
The trade bot is a complete Polymarket interface inside Telegram. Paste any event link to buy YES or NO, manage open positions, set stop loss and take profit, and view live stats — with or without autotrade.
- Send a Polymarket URL → pick outcome → enter USDC size
- 📊 Portfolio — open/closed positions, live stats, bot order history
- 🟢 Autotrade optional — copy signals when you want hands-off trading
- Opposite-side signals ask you first: close & flip, hold both, close only, or skip
Safety: Bot-created wallets store an encrypted private key on the server. Only deposit what you can afford to lose. Disconnecting a bot-created wallet is permanent — you cannot reconnect the same wallet yourself; withdraw first or use polymarket.com.
Portfolio & positions
From 📊 Portfolio on the trade bot:
Live trades the bot is tracking.
Resolved or sold positions.
Your account performance summary.
History of orders the bot placed.
Markets that have resolved and still owe you winnings — ready to claim back to cash.
Redeeming settled positions
After a market resolves, winning shares must be redeemed before USDC appears in your spendable cash balance. Open positions shows only live tradable markets; redeemable ones live in their own menu so the list stays accurate.
Claims every pending redeemable position on your wallet, one after another, in the background. You can keep using the bot while it runs — you will get a message when finished (success, partial, or error).
- 🏁 Redeemable lists only positions that still need claiming — already-redeemed markets are filtered out.
- Redeem all works for wallets created inside the bot (✨ Create wallet). If you connected an imported wallet, redeem on polymarket.com instead.
- If some positions fail, the summary tells you how many succeeded — try again or finish the rest on Polymarket.
Redeem does not charge gas from your wallet — it uses PolyAlpha’s gasless path for bot-created deposit wallets.
Inside an open position
Sell your full position.
Add size to the same outcome manually.
Automatic sell if the market moves against you.
Automatic sell at your target profit.
Update current price and P/L.
View the market on Polymarket.
Manual buy flow
You can buy any Polymarket link through the trade bot.
Important
Not financial advice.
Prediction markets can move quickly.
Quick links
| Website | polyalpha.tech |
| Main bot | @poly_sig_bot |
| Signals | @PolyAlpha_sig_bot |
| Trade | @PolyAlpha_trade_bot |
| Support | @PolyAlpha_support_bot |
| X | @PolyAlpha_bot |