Once working equity exceeds stake_cap/pct ($6,250 at 4%), surplus cash sweeps
to state["reserve"]/portfolio reserve - banked, never bet, immune to drawdown
- keeping stakes at the $250 level where marketable fills sit inside typical
book depth. Feed/summary gain reserve; realized = cash+exposure+reserve-bank.
June backfill: equity $15,684 (+1468%), $9,185 banked, next stake pinned $250.
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The CLOB reports winner=False on EVERY token of an unresolved market; only a
True winner anywhere means resolved. resolution_price treated False as "lost",
so the 60s poller settled live in-play positions as instant losses 1-3 min
after entry (June's ~2h Actions cadence masked it - markets had genuinely
resolved by the next check). Same semantics fixed in _market's resolved-cache
gate and validate_timing._clob_winner (unresolved held bets were counted as
losses, biasing copy_pnl selection downward).
Also: _record_lag now AGGREGATES fills per token (ADD used to overwrite the
display record, showing one fill's cost against the whole position's P&L -
the Cost $20.84 vs P&L -$57.30 confusion).
State repaired: the four July bets all actually WON on-chain (verified by
token winner flags) - settled correctly, +$225.40 proceeds restored, book
$1,045.19 (+45.19 realized, 4W/0L).
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Engine records every blocked OPEN (no free cash, event cap, price guard) with
its would-be stake; settle_resolved marks them won/lost at CLOB resolution with
hypothetical P&L (fee-inclusive) - the live counterpart of the backtest's
Missed table. Feed gains missed[] + missed_pnl.
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- engine (copytrade): stake_usd() = bankroll_pct x current equity (cash + open
cost basis) - Kelly-style compounding both directions - halved while equity
sits below 80% of its high-water mark; new risk.max_per_event (default 2)
blocks stacking correlated markets on one real-world event (dated-slug prefix
grouping; LSB1 once put 6 conviction bets on a single match).
- copybot: feed/summary report the dynamic stake, stake_pct, event_cap, hwm.
- portfolio backtest mirrors the exact same rule (PCT 4%, clamp $5-$150,
EVENT_CAP 2, brake 80%/half), with per-bet stakes in every table row and a
persistent CLOB slug cache for event grouping. June backfill: +426% vs +168%
flat - compounding amplifies the in-sample month; July live is the test.
Misses fell 62 -> 19 cash-missed (+26 deliberate event-cap skips): smaller
early stakes capture more signals.
- configs: bankroll_pct 0.04, max_trade/max_position 150 (runaway guards),
max_per_event 2.
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- copybot: model Polymarket taker fees (V2, since 2026-03-30: shares*rate*p*(1-p),
sports 0.03) on every paper/live fill; track fees_paid in state + feed; settle
P&L nets the entry fee. publish_feed now commits state + fills ledger with the
feed (autostash rebase) so the local poller is the sole state writer.
- validate_timing: copy_pnl/held_pnl are fee-aware -> sharp selection now requires
clearing real copy costs; conv stats + lead profile use resolved bets only.
- conviction_scan/skill: exclude res_t>now rows (early-sold positions in
unresolved markets scored at curPrice - a mark, not an outcome; was ~5% of the
June test window at a 72% pseudo-win rate).
- portfolio: skip unresolved rows (stake used to vanish from equity); missed bets
of kind=open no longer KeyError - mark-to-market hypothetical P&L.
- collect: cap stale refreshes at STALE_CAP=2500/run (bulk-aged pool turned the
daily refresh into a ~40h pull holding the DuckDB lock).
- Actions cron disabled: GitHub ran */5 every ~1.5-2.5h and the 10-min stale
window skipped the rest -> 1 of ~104 qualifying buys copied. launchd --poll 60
is now the runner; workflow stays as manual backstop.
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