How to Follow Trades in Real-Time on Polymarket

The best traders on Polymarket move before the crowd. They identify mispriced markets, size into positions early, and adjust before the rest of the market catches up. By the time most people notice a price shift, the profitable entry window has already closed. Following top traders in real-time is the simplest way to close this gap — you see their moves the moment they execute, not hours or days later when the edge is gone.

This is not copy-trading in the traditional sense. You are not blindly mirroring positions. Instead, you are building an intelligence feed of the traders whose analysis you respect, whose track records you have verified, and whose strategies align with your own. When a trader you follow makes a large buy in a market you have been watching, that is a signal worth paying attention to. When they exit a position you are also holding, that is a prompt to re-evaluate.

On 0xinsider.com/leaderboard, every trader has a detailed profile: P&L history, win rate, grade, category breakdowns, and strategy analysis. Follow the ones who consistently demonstrate skill — not luck — and their activity becomes part of your daily information diet. The edge is not in knowing what they trade, but in knowing it fast enough to act on it.

Following a trader on 0xInsider takes one click. Visit any trader profile and click the Follow button. That trader's address is added to your personal following list, and their trades immediately start appearing in your live feed. There is no limit to how many traders you can follow, and you can manage your list at any time from 0xinsider.com/notifications.

When a trader you follow executes a sizeable trade — $5,000 or more in notional value — you receive an email notification within minutes. This happens automatically. There are no rules to configure, no thresholds to set, and no alert types to choose between. You follow a trader, and the system watches for you. The simplicity is intentional: most alert systems fail because people over-configure them and then ignore the noise.

Your live feed on the terminal homepage has a Following filter chip. Tap it, and the feed instantly narrows to show only trades from traders you follow. The rest of the large trades, radar flags, and market noise disappear. What remains is a curated stream of exactly the activity you care about — the traders you have hand-picked, making moves in real-time.

Start with the leaderboard. Sort by total P&L, win rate, or grade to find consistently profitable traders. Click into their profiles and study their trade history. Look for traders who perform well across multiple categories — not one-hit wonders who got lucky on a single high-conviction bet. The grade system on 0xInsider uses Bayesian confidence scoring, which means a trader with 500 trades and a B grade is more reliably skilled than a trader with 20 trades and an A grade.

Cross-reference the large trades feed. When you see a $50,000+ buy from an address you do not recognize, click through to their profile. If their track record is strong and their strategy makes sense, follow them. Many of the most profitable traders on Polymarket do not have memorable usernames — they are wallet addresses making consistent, disciplined bets. The large trade feed surfaces them automatically.

Quality over quantity matters more than you think. Following 200 traders means your feed looks like the unfiltered trade stream — too much noise, too little signal. Following 10 to 30 carefully vetted traders gives you a focused feed where every item is worth reading. Think of it as curating your own private Bloomberg terminal: every row in the feed is a trader you trust making a move you want to know about.

The terminal live feed shows every large trade and radar flag across Polymarket. It is a firehose. The Following filter transforms it into a precision instrument. When activated, only trades from your followed traders appear. The feed goes from hundreds of daily items to the handful that matter to your strategy.

This is where the real workflow emerges. Professional traders on 0xInsider typically start their day by checking the Following feed. It is a one-glance summary: did anyone I follow make a move overnight? Is there a new position I should evaluate? Did someone exit a market I am also in? This daily scan takes under a minute and surfaces information that would otherwise require manually checking dozens of trader profiles.

The terminal also highlights followed traders in the unfiltered feed. Even without activating the filter, their trades appear with visual emphasis so you can spot them while scanning the full stream. This dual mode — filtered for focus, highlighted for context — means you never miss a followed trader's activity regardless of how you browse the feed.

When a trader you follow makes a trade of $5,000 or more in notional value, 0xInsider sends you an email notification. The threshold exists because not every trade is signal — small position adjustments and hedges are noise. The sizeable moves are what matter: new positions, large additions, and full exits.

Email notifications are rate-limited to one per followed trader per 24-hour window. If a trader you follow makes ten large trades in a day, you receive one notification for the first one. This prevents inbox flooding while ensuring you never miss the initial signal. You can always check the live feed for the full activity stream once the first notification grabs your attention.

The combination of email and feed creates a two-layer system. Email is the interrupt — it breaks through your day to tell you something important happened. The feed is the context — you open the terminal and see the full picture. Together, they mean you can step away from the screen and still react to market-moving trades within minutes instead of hours.

The highest-performing users on 0xInsider follow a consistent pattern. They follow 15 to 25 traders across different categories — politics, crypto, sports, economics. This diversification means their feed always has activity regardless of which market sector is hot. They check the Following feed twice daily: once in the morning for overnight moves, and once in the evening for same-day activity.

They use followed trader activity as a starting point for their own research, not as a final decision. When a trader they follow buys $30,000 of Yes shares on a political market, they check the order book depth, review recent polling data, and evaluate whether the current price still offers value. The follow signal says 'something interesting is happening here' — the user's own analysis determines whether to act on it.

They periodically prune their list. If a followed trader's performance degrades — their grade drops, their P&L goes flat or negative, or their strategy shifts — they unfollow and replace with someone whose track record is improving. The following list is a living portfolio of intelligence sources, not a permanent commitment. Treating it as a dynamic, evolving tool separates effective users from passive ones.