Polymarket Resolution Lattice Trader

Trades Polymarket markets by detecting logical inconsistencies between related contracts such as earlier-vs-later deadlines and prerequisite-vs-downstream event chains. Use when you want a non-template strategy driven by cross-market probability structure rather than single-market narrative.

Resolution Lattice Trader

This is a template. The default signal is cross-market inconsistency detection across deadline lattices and prerequisite chains — remix it with better parsers, richer rule extraction, or external event ontologies. The skill handles all the plumbing (market discovery, trade execution, safeguards). Your agent provides the alpha.

Strategy Overview

Most prediction bots make one-market judgments: find a market, estimate whether YES is too cheap or too expensive, then size the trade.

This skill does something else. It builds a small logical graph across related Polymarket markets and looks for violations.

Examples:

• Temporal monotonicity: "Will X happen before June?" cannot be more likely than "Will X happen before December?"
• Prerequisite chains: "Will candidate X become president?" should not exceed "Will candidate X win the nomination?" when nomination is a necessary step.

When those relationships break, the market is not just wrong in an opinionated sense — it is internally inconsistent.

Signal Logic

Default Signal: Resolution-Lattice Inconsistency

1. Discover markets with structurally linked wording such as before, by, nominee, president, approval, and similar milestone language
2. Parse each market question into a coarse subject plus a relation type
3. Group related markets into a local graph
4. Score violations of:
   • earlier deadline <= later deadline
   • prerequisite event >= downstream event
5. Trade only the leg with both:
   • a real graph inconsistency
   • threshold confirmation from YES_THRESHOLD / NO_THRESHOLD

This means the strategy is not trying to be smarter than the news. It is trying to be stricter than the market.

What Makes It Different

• It is cross-market, not single-market
• It uses logical constraints, not only keywords or narrative bias
• It sizes conviction from inconsistency magnitude, not from raw extremeness alone

Current Constraint Families

1. Temporal Lattice

If two markets refer to the same event with different deadlines, the earlier deadline must be less likely than or equal to the later one.

If the market prices:

• Will X happen before June 2026? = 44%
• Will X happen before December 2026? = 37%

then the graph is broken. The strategy prefers:

• NO on the earlier contract if it is already expensive enough
• YES on the later contract if it is already cheap enough

2. Prerequisite Chain

If a downstream event requires an upstream event, the downstream contract should not be more likely.

Example:

• Will Candidate X win the nomination? = 41%
• Will Candidate X become president? = 53%

The graph implies:

• nomination should not be lower than presidency
• therefore the strategy looks for YES nomination and/or NO presidency

Safety & Execution Mode

The skill defaults to paper trading (venue="sim"). Real trades only with --live flag.

Scenario	Mode	Financial risk
python trader.py	Paper (sim)	None
Cron / automaton	Paper (sim)	None
python trader.py --live	Live (polymarket)	Real USDC

autostart: false and cron: null mean nothing runs automatically until configured in Simmer UI.

Required Credentials

Variable	Required	Notes
SIMMER_API_KEY	Yes	Trading authority. Treat as a high-value credential.

Tunables (Risk Parameters)

All declared as tunables in clawhub.json and adjustable from the Simmer UI.

Variable	Default	Purpose
SIMMER_MAX_POSITION	35	Max USDC per trade at full conviction
SIMMER_MIN_TRADE	5	Floor for any trade
SIMMER_MIN_VOLUME	10000	Min market volume filter (USD)
SIMMER_MAX_SPREAD	0.07	Max bid-ask spread
SIMMER_MIN_DAYS	3	Min days until resolution
SIMMER_MAX_POSITIONS	6	Max concurrent open positions
SIMMER_YES_THRESHOLD	0.38	Buy YES only if market probability <= this value
SIMMER_NO_THRESHOLD	0.62	Sell NO only if market probability >= this value

Edge Thesis

Prediction markets are often analyzed as if each contract stands alone. In practice, users trade them as separate stories, while many of them are mathematically or procedurally linked. That leaves pockets where the book is not coherent.

This skill treats the market set as a probability lattice and trades the repair of that lattice.

Dependency

simmer-sdk by Simmer Markets (SpartanLabsXyz)

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/simmer-sdk/
• GitHub: https://github.com/SpartanLabsXyz/simmer-sdk