SightWhale Blog
阅读中文Deep dives into Polymarket prediction markets, whale strategies, and data insights. Updated daily.
How to Use Polymarket API Data?
Informational guide to using Polymarket public APIs: types of data, practical pipelines, example requests, when to use SightWhale for Whale and Smart Money, limitations, FAQ.
Is There a TradingView-Like Tool for Polymarket?
Guide to charting-style tools on Polymarket: what exists natively, what TradingView-style implies, limitations of TA alone, SightWhale for Whale and Smart Money context.
When Volume Is a Trap: Measuring ‘Toxic Flow’ vs Informational Flow
High volume doesn’t mean smart money. In CLOB markets, the key is flow quality: toxic (adverse selection) versus informational (price discovery). This post shows how to measure adverse selection using trades + mid-price reactions, build a followability filter for whale alerts, and reproduce it with public Polymarket APIs.
Liquidity Regimes: Detecting When a Market Turns ‘Tradable’ (Before the Crowd)
A Polymarket market can flip from untradable to efficient in hours—spread compresses, depth refills, and whales suddenly matter. This post builds a practical tradability score from spread, depth, and cancellation pressure, with a reproducible way to compute it using public order book endpoints.
Cross-Market Price Discovery: Which Market Leads, Which Follows, and Why
In correlated Polymarket markets, not all prices are equal. Some markets lead price discovery; others follow with a delay. This post lays out a practical lead–lag workflow (cross-correlation plus a simplified causality check) you can reproduce using public price endpoints—then shows how to turn “leader flow” into actionable trades.
Execution Alpha on Polymarket: Slippage, Spread, and Why Mid Price Lies
Most traders lose money on Polymarket without being wrong. The culprit is execution: spread, depth, and fee curves that turn the midpoint into a comforting fiction. This guide shows how to estimate execution cost from order book snapshots and how to choose maker vs taker in a way you can reproduce.
CLOB Microstructure: How to Spot Real Buying Pressure vs. Fake Liquidity Walls
Learn to read order book dynamics like a market maker. This guide reveals how to distinguish genuine capital flows from manipulative spoofing using depth, spread, imbalance, and cancellation patterns.