Copy Trading Risk Disclosure
Last updated August 8, 2026. Read this in full before you connect a wallet. Copy Trading is the highest-risk feature PolyHawk offers.
What Copy Trading does
When enabled, PolyHawk watches the wallets you select and attempts to place corresponding orders from your own Polymarket account, scaled to the budget you set. These are real orders using real money.
PolyHawk is not your broker or adviser
We do not select traders for you, we do not vet them, and we do not manage your money. You choose which wallets to mirror, you set the budget and the per-trade cap, and you are responsible for every order placed on your account. We are a piece of software that follows your configuration.
Execution risk
- Orders may execute late. We see a trade only after it settles on chain. By the time your order reaches the book, the price will usually have moved.
- Orders may execute at a worse price than the trader you are mirroring got, sometimes materially worse.
- Orders may not execute at all — insufficient liquidity, a closed market, a rejected order, a rate limit, a network outage, or a bug on our side.
- You may not be able to exit when they do. Mirroring an entry does not guarantee mirroring an exit.
You can lose everything
You can lose the entire amount in the connected wallet, not just your configured budget. A private key grants full control of a wallet. Software bugs, a compromised server, or a mistake in your own configuration could result in total loss. Only connect a wallet funded with money you can afford to lose completely.
The trader you copy is a stranger
A wallet with a strong recent record may be lucky rather than skilled, may be running a strategy you cannot see, may be hedged elsewhere, or may stop trading without warning. Past performance does not predict future results.
Credential handling
Your private key and API key are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before storage and are never returned to your browser. They are decrypted only to sign your orders. That said, storing a private key with any third party is inherently riskier than not doing so. Prefer a wallet that holds only your trading balance.
You can revoke access at any time from Copy Trading → Disconnect, which deletes the stored credentials. You should also rotate the key on Polymarket afterwards.
Your responsibilities
- Confirm prediction-market trading is legal where you live.
- Set a budget and a per-trade cap you are genuinely comfortable losing.
- Monitor the account. Do not treat this as a set-and-forget income stream.
- Pause or disconnect immediately if anything looks wrong.
No guarantee
PolyHawk makes no representation that Copy Trading will be profitable, available, or error-free. To the maximum extent permitted by law we accept no liability for trading losses arising from its use.