Five whale wallets, mirrored trade for trade — on paper.

Read this first. This is a paper record, not financial advice and not a signal service. The sim is up +41.66% in its first week — and the honest companion number is further down this page: the identical strategy with every fill priced about 15 seconds late (the Reality twin) is down 11.47%. A real follower is always late. Nobody should copy these trades expecting profit.

Copy-trading is usually sold with screenshots of the whale's wins. We wanted the follower's version instead: what happens to a small account that copies big wallets mechanically — same entries, same exits, no judgement calls. So the sim takes the five wallets below, waits for a real buy of $500 or more, and mirrors it with $25. It runs until the balance falls under $200 (BUSTED) or we stop it. Every trade it has ever placed — open and closed — is listed on this page.

How the list is picked. Every Monday the watch list refreshes from Polymarket's weekly profit leaderboard — the top 8 named wallets (an unnamed address can't be followed or studied, so it is skipped). On Nov 2, 2026 googleplay joined at #1 and eventalpha26 (0x2e7bf3e7b8ba0351b737897197fd5cc34fbfbd8c) dropped off — it held no open mirrors, so nothing had to be managed out. One name you won't see: the market maker BoneOhio is not on the weekly board, so he is not copied; he joins only if he appears on it.

Copy-gap, explained. The copy-gap is (our entry price − the whale's entry price) × our shares. A negative total — ours is -$135.60 — means that, on paper, we entered cheaper than the whales overall. It is not profit, and we don't count it as any. Mostly it means prices happened to fall after the whales bought and before our hourly check ran — which also means the markets were moving against those positions. It is luck in the timing, not an edge, and it can flip sign in a week.

The same rules, a quarter of a minute late. Copier's Reality runs the identical strategy, except every fill is priced about 15 seconds after the whale's trade — closer to what any real follower could actually get. On Nov 2, 2026 it stands at -$114.72 (-11.47%) against the parent sim's +$416.64. Two honest caveats: the twin started two days later (Oct 28), so it holds a different, smaller set of trades and never got the K27 longshot that banked a third of the parent's profit — it is not the same trades at worse prices. But inside its own set the pattern is still ugly: its mid-priced mirrors (entries 0.30–0.65) went 3 wins from 11 for -$109.36, where the parent's same band made +$274.45. Delay doesn't just shave the edge — at follower speeds, the edge may not be there at all. That is the standing warning label on the +41.66% headline.