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Smart-money flow is one of the most consistent prediction-market signals. Build an alerter that fires when net buying by profitable wallets accelerates into a market — then act on it. You’ll build:
  1. A poller that ranks markets by smart-money inflow
  2. An alert path (Discord / Slack / email)
  3. (Optional) A sizing rule that opens a position — via your own venue client — when the signal fires
Endpoints used: 2 REST calls per cycle. Free + Dev plan; runs on Dev because Smart Money is a gated feature.

Architecture


Step 1 — Find markets smart money is entering

The smart-activity endpoint ranks markets by recent activity from top-performing wallets. Pull the leaderboard once per cycle.
This already filters to wallets with positive realized P&L. You get a ranked list of markets they’re trading in the last 4 hours.

Step 2 — Read the net positioning

For each candidate, ask: are they net buying or net selling, and by how much?
The thresholds (\$25k, 5 wallets) are starting points. Tune to your appetite.

Step 3 — Alert

Plug into whatever channel you live in.

Step 4 — Optional: auto-size into the signal

If you trust the signal enough to commit capital, open the position through your own execution layer. Since smart-money runs on Polymarket data, the simplest path is a venue-native Polymarket order — resolve the right token_id by condition_id from the Data API, then hand off to your client.

The full loop

Reset SEEN periodically (every few hours) if you want re-alerts for sustained signals.

Tuning

Backtest before going live — see Signal Backtesting for how to honestly measure whether the signal predicts forward returns at your horizon.

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