made @openclawfred build a polymarket copy trading bot before they nerfed the 5 minute markets. plan was to copy an account that had close to 70% win rate. paper trading looked very good. ~$20 per minute consistently, reading directly onchain. first time we ran it with real money it was a mess. most of the orders were not filling due to slippage, it was not fast enough. had fred fix all of that pretty quickly but then the actual problem showed up. polymarket was requiring a minimum of 5 shares per trade. the account we’re copying is throwing $40k into positions within 5-15 minute windows, and most of the orders are below $10. if we copy at <20% the size, we miss a lot of positions, If we copy at >20% the size, we need 8k. ran it live 5 times. 1-10% copy ratio. skipping anything under the threshold. 1 profitable. 4 losses. down $130 total. then clawfred decides to take my “be proactive overnight” thing a little too literally. woke up one day. he ran the bot while I was asleep. +$40. I mean… can’t even be mad. told him good stuff but don’t ever do that again. put specific instructions in the linear ticket. does it again the next day during his midday check in while I was working. lost $70 this time. I just deleted the repo from his computer. this guy has a strong and dangerous character