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October 2026: 66% of wallets lost money on 15-minute BTC/ETH markets

Market-wide data from all traders on Polymarket's 15-minute BTC/ETH markets. Not CandleOdds results.

Every wallet that traded Polymarket's 15-minute Bitcoin and Ethereum Up/Down markets that month: 5,952 markets, 16,876 wallets, $157.1M put in.

The headline

Lost money vs made money

Lost money 66.1%Made money 33.6%

The other 0.3% broke even.

Wallets that lost money
66.1%
Wallets
16,876
Median result per wallet
−$2.25
Total net result, all wallets
−$1,374,538
Winners' total
+$2,986,658
all wallets that made money
Losers' total
−$4,361,196
all wallets that lost money
Losses from the 10 worst wallets
48%
share of all losses
Losses from the 100 worst wallets
73%
share of all losses

Results are after fees. The median is the wallet in the middle: half did better, half did worse.

The big wallets

Late buys by the 50 largest wallets

The 50 wallets that put in the most money, and what they bought in the last 5 minutes of a 15-minute market.

Share of those positions that won56.5%
Average price paid (a winning share pays 100¢)69.3¢
Result per $1 spent
50 largest wallets, last 5 minutes−8.3¢ per $1
Everyone else, last 5 minutes+3.7¢ per $1
Everyone else, first 5 minutes−1.1¢ per $1

The win rate counts positions; the result per $1 is weighted by the money spent, so the two don't convert into each other directly.

Wallets

Biggest losing wallets on Polymarket

Other traders' public Polymarket wallets. These are not CandleOdds, its bots or its members.

#WalletNet lossShare of all lossesTrades
10x664a…fc5f−$649,34414.9%101,814
20x01e8…e002−$415,9969.5%62,832
30x90e3…34ad−$382,5418.8%63,346
40x433f…a0dc−$174,2004.0%10,551
50xd1ed…d7cb−$128,0812.9%69,563
60x10d5…5388−$95,0452.2%15,662
70x672c…881b−$85,7182.0%8,163
80x6c15…7d2d−$82,1831.9%27,098
90x5e60…e468−$51,7221.2%78,649
100xc375…3376−$47,7271.1%2,722

The 20 wallets with the biggest net loss on these markets that month, out of all 16,876 that traded them. The share is that wallet's part of everything the losing wallets lost. Each address opens that wallet's public Polymarket profile.

Copy trading

Copying the big wallets' large buys

Large buys by the 20 largest wallets
1,114
median size $1,439
Copier, 5 seconds later
−15.9¢ per $1
Price move in those 5 seconds
0.0¢
median
The original buyer−17.6¢ per $1
A copier buying the same side 5 seconds later−15.9¢ per $1

Both figures are the result per $1 spent on those buys.

The top 50

Trades vs net result

In profit
25 of 50
Net result, the 50 together
−$1,798,605
Trades, the 50 together
3,338,924
50% of all dollars put in
−$800k−$600k−$400k−$200k$0$200k1101001k10k100k1MTrades in the period (log scale)0xbbe7…6114: 136,105 trades, +$2,6260x0795…b281: 136,577 trades, +$2,7150x664a…fc5f: 101,814 trades, −$649,3440xd6d2…3f40: 109,760 trades, +$1,5350x0ae4…fb39: 75,213 trades, +$1580xb55f…64d4: 106,805 trades, −$40,2140x537e…53cb: 125,820 trades, +$2,0280x335a…a494: 0 trades, $00xcfdd…e5da: 314,814 trades, +$1,1630xb945…db68: 276,336 trades, +$5590xb1d3…c279: 31,753 trades, +$12,3810x5e60…e468: 78,649 trades, −$51,7220x6ed5…3028: 17,071 trades, −$2,1160xd1ed…d7cb: 69,563 trades, −$128,0810x5076…905b: 6,494 trades, −$2870x21f4…691d: 154,117 trades, +$7,5150x20c9…e915: 34,166 trades, −$2,4280x8421…f3d8: 14,131 trades, −$8660x6c15…7d2d: 27,098 trades, −$82,1830x828b…a12b: 11,837 trades, +$2,3800x7b32…377d: 5,219 trades, +$1,2410x01e8…e002: 62,832 trades, −$415,9960x90e3…34ad: 63,346 trades, −$382,5410xee65…cfc9: 4,205 trades, +$4,4720xe052…4a2c: 78,967 trades, −$4800x86b9…6d67: 122,914 trades, +$4,9480x281e…9ed9: 9,810 trades, −$4,4450x7e53…a456: 85,807 trades, +$3,6030xb412…e794: 2,345 trades, −$1,8920xbdaa…fd60: 44,351 trades, −$21,1090x758d…5d9e: 118,041 trades, −$3,5340xd14b…5896: 5,962 trades, +$1,3810x9d57…56ea: 94,990 trades, +$2,8920x7e5d…c4c3: 118,135 trades, +$10,4670x10d5…5388: 15,662 trades, −$95,0450xeebd…ba30: 22,866 trades, −$6580x9184…9f9f: 41,639 trades, −$27,1460x43bb…0436: 7,703 trades, +$260x3725…ad88: 21,142 trades, +$30,2960x576b…0cab: 46,349 trades, +$3,6860x81c9…94cd: 135,703 trades, −$2,4240x0cb0…3a90: 47,007 trades, −$31,4030x32ed…8ec3: 21,041 trades, +$31,3580xa0e7…9461: 58,672 trades, −$12,1220xce25…7fdc: 63,617 trades, −$9,4860x48e5…a482: 58,435 trades, −$8,8160xc2ad…40ed: 20,141 trades, +$33,7370x48ac…4a7e: 5,257 trades, +$4,3760x2903…5906: 46,720 trades, +$8,5410xf8af…54c6: 81,923 trades, +$1,649

One dot per wallet: further right is more trades, above the line is a profit. Correlation between the two: 0.01 (0 means no link, ±1 a perfect one).

TradesWalletsIn profitNet result
under 1,00010$0
1,000-9,99985+$4,872
10,000-49,999167−$140,575
50,000+2513−$1,662,902
Methodology

How these numbers are made

  • These figures cover every wallet trading these markets on Polymarket. They are not CandleOdds' own results; CandleOdds' signal record is on the Track record page.
  • Source: Polymarket's public data.
  • Only the 15-minute Bitcoin and Ethereum Up/Down markets are counted. A wallet's trades in any other market are left out.
  • Results are after fees.
  • The period is October 2026 in US Eastern time; this report was generated on November 1, 2026.
  • Weekly and monthly figures aren't directly comparable: shorter periods look milder.
  • "Top 50 by dollars in" can include wallets that mint and merge pairs of tokens rather than trade.

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