Method note
Severity is a screening tool, not a verdict.
LOW, MEDIUM, and HIGH rank a monitored trade for review. They do not measure guilt, private information, trader skill, or the chance that a position will win.
Severity answers one question.
The label answers: how strongly did this monitored trade match Polytrack's configured screening conditions? It helps decide which record to inspect first. It does not decide what happened or why.
- Unit: one trade received and stored by Polytrack.
- Output: LOW, MEDIUM, or HIGH review priority.
- Alert effect: a HIGH record may qualify for account alerts.
The inputs describe activity around the trade.
Conditions can draw from the trade's size, short-window volume, change from a baseline, price movement, market sensitivity, directional concentration, wallet context, activity across several wallets, and prior flags. One strong condition can raise severity even when others are quiet.
Exact production thresholds remain private. Publishing the signal categories explains the method without turning operational settings into a universal definition of suspicious activity.
HIGH does not complete the investigation.
A HIGH label does not identify the wallet controller or prove coordination, private information, illegality, market direction, or profit. Large trades can have ordinary explanations, while relevant activity can fall outside Polytrack's monitoring conditions.
Open the trade, market, wallet, available positions, earlier activity, and current source state. Use severity to choose that work—not to skip it.
Limits
What this note does not establish.
- Polytrack evaluates a subset of available activity.
- Classifier settings can change after review and testing.
- Severity is not a recommendation or outcome probability.
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