When Polymarket lists a new market that fits your thesis, you usually have minutes - sometimes seconds - before the price reflects consensus. A sniper bot watches for listings, decides if your rules match, and fires before everyone else's notifications fire. Technically: we poll the markets endpoint at sub-second intervals and listen for on-chain factory events. First fill is typically within 200ms of market open.
Being fast is the easy part. Being fast and not getting filled at a stupid price is what we build for.
Poll Polymarket's markets API at sub-second intervals + listen to Conditional Token Framework factory events for instant on-chain confirmation.
Your rules: keyword whitelist in market question, category match, minimum initial liquidity, resolution date window, max entry price.
Sign + submit a CLOB order with a strict slippage budget. If the book moved past your max price, skip - no chase.
Snipers without exit logic are gambling. We force you to set hold windows + slippage caps before deploy.
# Sniper config - example "elections day-of" preset strategy: "sniper" trigger: match_any: - keywords_in_question: ["will...win", "presidential"] categories: ["politics"] - keywords_in_question: ["BTC price", "ETH price"] categories: ["crypto"] resolution_in_hours: 24 require_all: min_initial_liquidity_usdc: 5_000 max_entry_price: 0.55 # skip if already >55¢ position: size_usdc: 800 max_concurrent: 6 hold_for_seconds: 3600 # exit window: 1h execution: slippage_bps: 100 # skip if >1% drift retry_attempts: 0 # no chasing
If a market opens with consensus YES at 50/50 but your thesis is 70/30, you've got 20¢ of edge. The bot captures it before anyone else does.
First in is meaningless if you don't have a plan to leave. We require either time-based exits, take-profit, or stop-loss on every sniper deployment.
Polymarket occasionally lists markets without firing factory events as expected. We use multiple detection channels to mitigate - but expect 1-3% misses per month.
If your thesis is 'this looks like a trending market', you're not sniping - you're buying noise at the worst possible moment.
Specific market types where speed materially helps.
Markets created in the final 48h before a vote with thin initial books. Speed pays. Risk: high.
Rapid-fire markets opening every hour. Edges are tight but stack across volume.
Polymarket often lists day-of markets reacting to breaking news. Sniper catches the moment before consensus.
One trigger preset + exit rules. Discord alerts on every fire.
Up to 6 presets running in parallel with per-preset capital allocation.
Send us 2-3 examples of markets you wish you'd seen earlier. We'll build the trigger preset around them.