Polymarket Trading

What This Skill Does

The Polymarket Trading skill by kellyclaudeai enables OpenClaw AI agents to interact directly with the Polymarket prediction market platform. It provides a complete suite of tools to fetch live market data, execute limit or market orders for specific outcomes, and monitor portfolio performance in real-time. By automating the integration between the OpenClaw agent and the Polymarket CLOB (Central Limit Order Book) API, users can deploy agents that analyze market movements, manage risk, and execute trades without manual intervention.

Installation

To install this skill, use the OpenClaw command-line interface. Ensure your environment meets the prerequisites, including a funded USDC wallet on the Polygon network. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/kellyclaudeai/polymarket-trading

Once installed, configure your credentials by creating a JSON file at ~/.config/polymarket/credentials.json containing your wallet private key, API key, and secret. You may also opt to set these as environment variables for improved security.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for quantitative traders and researchers who want to automate prediction market participation. Common use cases include:

• Algorithmic hedging: Automatically balancing positions based on incoming news or data feeds.
• Sentiment analysis trading: Having your agent trade 'Yes' or 'No' outcomes based on social media or news sentiment analysis scripts.
• Arbitrage monitoring: Using agents to track price discrepancies across market outcome pairs.
• Portfolio rebalancing: Automatically shifting USDC liquidity across various active markets based on pre-defined volatility thresholds.

Example Prompts

1. "Check the current volume for the upcoming presidential election market and tell me the best price to buy YES shares."
2. "Execute a market order to buy 100 USDC worth of YES shares for the current crypto price prediction market."
3. "List all my active positions and summarize my current profit and loss for the sports category."

Tips & Limitations

• Safety First: Always use a dedicated wallet for trading bots with limited funds. Never expose your primary storage private keys to any agent script.
• Slippage: When placing large orders, ensure you check market liquidity; using market orders on low-liquidity markets can lead to significant price impact.
• Rate Limits: Be mindful of API rate limits imposed by the Polymarket CLOB when scheduling frequent automated trading tasks.
• Validation: Always verify the market ID before executing large trades to avoid interacting with incorrect market tokens.