Data interpretation
Monitored volume is not exchange-wide volume.
Polytrack sums trade value from records its monitor captured inside a stated window. The result describes that monitored population—not all Polymarket volume or all activity by the listed wallets.
Define the number before comparing it.
A Polytrack aggregate starts with stored monitored trades inside a selected time range. It can sum their value, count records or distinct addresses, and group them by severity, side, category, market, wallet, or time bucket.
The result is useful for comparing patterns inside that set. It is not total exchange volume, open interest, or a wallet's complete trading history.
- Population: the monitored records included in the snapshot.
- Window: the displayed start and end times.
- As-of time: when Polytrack generated the snapshot.
A leaderboard inherits the same boundary.
The public leaderboard groups monitored records by wallet and orders the result by captured volume. A high rank means the address contributed more value to this table during its window. It does not mean the wallet was the largest, most profitable, or most skilled trader on Polymarket.
Changing the monitored population, time range, or ranking metric can reorder every row.
Compare like with like.
Before comparing two figures, align their population, unit, timezone, window, filters, and generation time. A comparison between an exchange-wide number and a monitored subset can be numerically exact and still answer the wrong question.
Limits
What this note does not establish.
- Upstream or monitor gaps can change totals.
- Late or corrected records can move a later snapshot.
- Activity rank is not risk-adjusted performance.