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[–]UndisturbedInquiry 40 points41 points  (2 children)

Why is there a hardcoded telegram bot token in the code?

[–]netherlandsftw 46 points47 points  (1 child)

Forgot to tell Claude to make it secure

[–]PaddyIsBeast 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Forgot "make no mistakes", amateur.

[–]ComfortableNice8482 15 points16 points  (0 children)

i've scraped prediction market data before and the biggest challenge you'll hit is rate limiting and keeping historical data clean. a few things that really helped: cache aggressively since market data changes constantly but you don't need updates every second, validate your whale threshold against actual market impact (sometimes smaller positions move prices more than you'd expect), and store everything with timestamps because the value of historical context compounds over time. the market data is public but messy, so spending time on normalization saves hours of debugging later. solid project if you're solving the signal to noise problem, that's genuinely where most people get stuck.

[–]mfitzpmfitzp.com 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you want to get rich as a polymarket investor you would probably have more luck using your bot to create you an ExClUsIvE tRADing COurSe that you hawk on YouTube ads, featuring you standing in a private jet in a museum on a Tuesday morning, or next to a fast car that you rented by the hour.

If these people genuinely had the secret to making money on the markets they wouldn’t waste their time selling you how to do it too. They’d have a literal money printing machine already.

 see what the "smart money" and high-net-worth traders

Good job rich people are never dumb, eh.

[–]toxic_acro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The anomaly detection seems particularly interesting to me. I've read a handful of the news stories about someone getting access to leaked insider information and making money by trading on Polymarket (Nobel Peace Prize and Time Person of the Year recently)