Data sources

What Polytrack reads, calculates, and stores.

Polytrack reads public Polymarket interfaces, calculates fields for its own monitored records, and stores settings supplied by signed-in users. Each layer has a different owner, clock, and failure mode, so a useful figure needs its source, window, coverage, and as-of time.

Reviewed July 15, 2026

Public Polymarket data.

Gamma provides market discovery, titles, outcomes, categories, resolution context, and public profiles. The Data API provides trades, positions, wallet activity, and related analytics. Public CLOB endpoints provide prices, orderbooks, spreads, and price history.

An upstream response can be incomplete, delayed, corrected later, or unavailable. A missing row means Polytrack did not receive that row from the request it made; it does not prove the activity never existed.

Polytrack-derived records.

Polytrack calculates severity, alert reasons, short-window volume, change from baseline, directional concentration, new-wallet context, and related screening fields. Its feeds, heatmaps, analytics, rankings, history, and alerts use the resulting monitored set.

Values labeled monitored or captured should only be compared with figures that use the same population, filters, and time window.

Private account data and external delivery.

Watchlist addresses, private labels, starred trades, Telegram credentials, and alert preferences belong to signed-in accounts. They are not indexable public data.

Telegram messages use the external Bot API. The dashboard news view reads configured RSS feeds and shows the configured source name when a feed responds. Neither service is controlled by Polytrack.

Freshness and failure states.

Source time, monitor receipt time, processing time, public snapshot time, and notification time are separate. The public trade stream adds a deliberate 15-minute delay; account alerts use their own best-effort delivery path.

When a public snapshot cannot be read, Polytrack shows an empty, stale, degraded, or unavailable state instead of inventing replacement values.

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