Polymarket Slippage: How to Control It in Trading Bots

<p>Order-book imbalance looks simple.</p> <p>Count the bids.</p> <p>Count the asks.</p> <p>Compare them.</p> <p>If bids are much larger than asks, the market looks bullish.</p>

<p>When I started building my Polymarket TWAP End-Cycle Sniper, the original idea was simple:</p> <p>Find a high-probability opportunity near the end of a short-duration market,

<p>As developers, we're often tempted to test our trading strategies using paper trading platforms. These tools allow us to simulate trades without risking any real money. But

<p>Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market where participants bet on binary outcomes — "Will MSFT close above $420 by Friday?" trades as a contract paying $1 if true, $0

<blockquote> <p>Learn how Monte Carlo simulation can stress-test Polymarket trading bots by modeling probability uncertainty, execution costs, slippage, drawdowns, and correlated