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TL;DR
ThorstenMeyerAI.com reports that two simulated versions of a viral Polymarket trading strategy lost money across about 13,000 five-minute crypto-market windows. The paired strategy completed its intended double-fill just three times in 9,486 attempts, while a post-close version had no settled winning fills among four settled trades.
Two simulated versions of a viral Polymarket strategy built around rare, unusually cheap trades lost money in a two-day test across about 13,000 five-minute crypto-market windows, according to a report published by ThorstenMeyerAI.com on May 21. The test covered BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP and found that the paired-bid method achieved its intended double-fill just three times in 9,486 attempts.
The strategy was reconstructed after a YouTuber showed Polymarket trades in which a reported $1 stake returned $50, alongside other reported 48x and 100x trades. The source says the transactions could be checked on PolygonScan. In the video, the trader acknowledged that the result was a rare event and that he did not yet have enough evidence to show whether it could be repeated.
In the paired version, the bot posted 2-cent bids on both Up and Down outcomes. Because one side of a binary market pays $1 per share at resolution, buying both sides for 2 cents each could produce a profit if both bids filled. But the report’s central finding was that the required double-fill happened three times out of 9,486 pairs, or 0.032%. The bot filled only the losing side 1,297 times, while neither bid filled in 8,162 cases. The paired test recorded paper losses of $280.
A second version bid after the market closed, on the side its price feed indicated had won. It made 3,482 posts and recorded eight fills, a 0.23% fill rate. Of the four fills that had settled when the report was written, all four lost. The report attributes those losses to a mismatch between the bot’s price reading just after close and Polymarket’s official resolution. These are results from a simulated-money test, not a record of live trading with real funds.
Rare Fills Drive the Test’s Losses
The results address the gap between an eye-catching trade and a repeatable strategy. A reported 50x return on one trade does not show how often the same approach can be executed, or how many unsuccessful fills occur while waiting for another jackpot. In this test, the paired approach’s intended profit depended on both cheap bids filling, but the report found that outcome in only three of 9,486 attempts.
The test also highlights a specific risk in fast, short-duration markets: execution and settlement timing. A bid can fill on one side without the other, leaving the trader exposed to a losing position. And a bot that acts on a price reading taken just after a market closes may misidentify the outcome later recorded by the market’s official resolution. The report’s findings are specific to its methods, sample and test period; they do not establish that every version of the strategy will produce identical results.
For readers assessing viral trading claims, the practical takeaway is about evidence, not a trading recommendation: one unusually large return is not a measure of expected performance. The report says its paper results were net negative, and cautions that using real money could lead to losses. Crypto and prediction-market trading can be volatile and carries a risk of losing funds.
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The source describes a video about a trade in Polymarket’s five-minute BTC Up/Down market. These markets resolve to one of two outcomes: the winning side pays $1 per share and the other pays nothing. The video’s creator used transaction hashes to investigate how the striking returns may have occurred, then discussed possible ways to repeat the trade. He also said the event was rare and that he did not yet have results showing repeatability.
The report’s proposed mechanism was stale liquidity around market close: an order may remain available after the outcome is effectively known, allowing another trader to buy the winning side at a very low price. The paired strategy attempted to buy both outcomes cheaply, so that a fill on each side would secure a payout whichever way the market resolved. Its premise therefore relied on both orders being filled, rather than simply posting them.
For its follow-up, ThorstenMeyerAI.com says it rebuilt the approach in Polybot in two distinct forms and ran 24 parallel experiments against live order books for two days. Its paper-fill model counted a simulated bid as filled only when a real taker sold into it. The report calls the test simulated money only and says no real funds were used.
““This is going to take time because this is a rare event… probably I didn’t have anything for you in this video about the results.””
— The YouTuber, as quoted in the ThorstenMeyerAI.com report
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Limits of the Paper-Test Results
The report does not establish how the strategies would perform in live trading with real funds. It describes a two-day sample across four coins, but the supplied account does not provide the precise start and end times, full trade-by-trade data, or independent replication. The results therefore describe this test, not every Polymarket market, trading period or implementation.
The post-close test’s eight fills included four that had settled by the time of reporting; the outcome of the other four is not specified. The report says the four settled fills all lost and links that result to differences between the bot’s near-close price reading and Polymarket’s official resolution. Further detail on the resolution timing, the exact price-feed inputs and how often such disagreements occur is not provided.
The source also does not give a complete breakdown of costs or explain how the paper test models every possible real-world execution condition. Its conclusion is that both tested versions were net negative in this sample. That finding should not be expanded into a claim that all related strategies must fail in all conditions.
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Replication and Resolution Data
The published account does not announce a date for another test or a next installment. The immediate next step for readers seeking to evaluate the result is to examine the report’s underlying method and, where available, its order-level data: the test window, bid and cancellation timing, fill rules, price feed and official settlement records. Independent replication over a longer period could show whether the observed fill imbalance persists.
Any further test would also need to keep simulated results distinct from live execution. The report warns that real-money use could lose funds; its paper findings do not remove the volatility and execution risks associated with crypto prediction markets. No live performance result is established by this test.
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Key Questions
What did the week-four test find?
ThorstenMeyerAI.com reports that both simulated strategy versions lost money in a two-day test across BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP. The paired method produced its intended double-fill three times in 9,486 attempts and recorded a $280 paper loss.
How did the paired-bid strategy aim to make money?
It posted 2-cent bids on both Up and Down outcomes. Since one side of the market pays $1 per share at resolution, the strategy aimed to profit if both bids filled. The test found that this double-fill was rare, while loser-only fills were much more common.
Why did the post-close version lose?
The report says the bot chose a side using a price reading taken shortly after close, before the final settlement price was locked in. In four post-close fills that had settled by reporting time, Polymarket’s official resolution went against the bot’s chosen side.
Were these trades made with real money?
No. The source says the strategies were tested with simulated money and that no real funds were involved. The reported paper results do not establish how live trading would perform.
Does the test prove every similar strategy will fail?
No. It reports negative results for two implementations over a specific two-day sample, not every possible version or market condition. The source does not provide independent replication or enough detail to establish performance across longer periods.
Source: ThorstenMeyerAI.com
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