Polymarket Paper Trading Bot: Build One in Python
A real-money trading bot is the wrong place to discover that your signal logic, order-book handling, or position accounting is broken.
A Polymarket paper trading bot gives you a safer engineering environment: consume real market data, generate real signals, simulate orders and fills, and measure hypothetical performance before connecting execution credentials.
The important distinction is that paper trading should simulate the execution layer, not fabricate market data. Polymarket currently exposes public market data without authentication, while its public WebSocket market channel provides real-time order-book and price updates.
This article builds that architecture in Python.
