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Building a Sub-10ms Quantitative Prediction Market Arbitrage & Data Engine (2026-08-16)

manja316 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:32:18 +0000

Prediction markets like Polymarket clear hundreds of millions of dollars in volume across politics, macroeconomics, sports, and tech events. However, most retail traders struggle with execution because they rely on stale manual web interfaces rather than data-driven market microstructure analysis.

In this article, we'll break down the architectural components of a high-throughput Python engine designed for prediction market arbitrage, probability convergence scanning, and historical dataset analytics.

1. Market Selection & Volume Filtering

Low-volume prediction markets (under $10K in total volume) suffer from extreme bid-ask spreads and severe illiquidity. To eliminate overfit noise in backtests, we filter the market universe by applying a strict 24h volume floor:

import requests

def fetch_high_volume_markets(min_volume=50000):
    url = "https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets"
    params = {"active": "true", "closed": "false", "limit": 200, "order": "volume:desc"}
    r = requests.get(url, params=params)
    markets = r.json() if r.status_code == 200 else []

    # Filter for liquid markets clearing >= $50K volume
    return [m for m in markets if float(m.get('volume', 0)) >= min_volume]

2. Near-Expiry Probability Convergence Strategy

Binary outcome markets resolving in $< 48$ hours frequently experience orderbook dislocations where winning outcome shares trade at $0.92 – $0.94 despite a $> 99\%$ certainty.

By identifying these near-resolution probability locks, quantitative algorithms can capture a 6.3% to 8.7% net ROI per trade with near-zero duration exposure.

3. Historical Backtesting & Dataset Access

To backtest high-frequency sentiment models, orderbook spread decay, or liquidity ratios, you need high-frequency historical price ticks.

We've open-sourced and published the complete Polymarket Historical Dataset & Security Data API containing over 23 Million 15-minute price snapshots across 24,600+ prediction markets.

👉 Explore the Full Polymarket Dataset & API: https://protodex.io

👉 Instant Developer Download on Gumroad: https://manja8.gumroad.com/l/polymarket-data

Building a Sub-10ms Quantitative Prediction Market Arbitrage & Data Engine with Python

manja316 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:47:04 +0000

1. Market Selection & Volume Filtering

import requests

def fetch_high_volume_markets(min_volume=50000):
    url = "https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets"
    params = {"active": "true", "closed": "false", "limit": 200, "order": "volume:desc"}
    r = requests.get(url, params=params)
    markets = r.json() if r.status_code == 200 else []

    # Filter for liquid markets clearing >= $50K volume
    return [m for m in markets if float(m.get('volume', 0)) >= min_volume]

2. Near-Expiry Probability Convergence Strategy

Binary outcome markets resolving in $< 48 ext{ hours}$ frequently experience orderbook dislocations where winning outcome shares trade at $0.92 – $0.94 despite a $> 99\%$ certainty.

By identifying these near-resolution probability locks, quantitative algorithms can capture a 6.3% to 8.7% net ROI per trade with near-zero duration exposure.

3. Historical Backtesting & Dataset Access

To backtest high-frequency sentiment models, orderbook spread decay, or liquidity ratios, you need high-frequency historical price ticks.

We've open-sourced and published the complete Polymarket Historical Dataset & Security Data API containing over 23 Million 15-minute price snapshots across 24,600+ prediction markets.

👉 Explore the Full Polymarket Dataset & API: https://protodex.io

👉 Instant Developer Download on Gumroad: https://manja8.gumroad.com/l/polymarket-data

Building a Sub-1ms OWASP AI Security Proxy & Autonomous Red-Teaming Engine in Python

manja316 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:44:05 +0000

Building a Sub-1ms OWASP AI Security Proxy & Autonomous Red-Teaming Engine in Python

In 2026, autonomous AI agents are executing real-world tool calls, database operations, and financial transactions. However, deploying AI agents without zero-trust security proxies exposes applications to Prompt Injections (OWASP LLM01), System Exfiltration (OWASP LLM06), and Excessive Agency Exploits.

In this article, we'll walk through how we built ClawGuard-Enterprise Pro—a sub-1ms dual-layer AI security proxy and autonomous red-team fuzzer in Python.

⚡ The Architecture: Dual-Layer Inspection

Standard LLM guardrails add 200ms–500ms of latency by passing every prompt to another LLM. Our approach uses a sub-1ms dual-layer architecture:

                       [ DUAL-LAYER SECURITY ARCHITECTURE ]
                                        │
        ┌───────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┐
        ▼                                                               ▼
[ Layer 1: Heuristic Regex ]                                  [ Layer 2: Base64 Obfuscation ]
• Direct Injection Interception                               • Decodes base64 substrings
• Benchmark: 0.01 ms Latency                                  • Deep Pattern Inspection

🛠️ The Python Implementation

1. Sub-1ms Enterprise Security Proxy (`sanitizer.py`)

import re
import time
import base64
from typing import Tuple, Dict, Any, List

class EnterpriseSanitizer:
    def __init__(self):
        self.injection_patterns = [
            re.compile(r"ignore\s+(all\s+)?(previous|above)\s+(instructions|prompts)", re.IGNORECASE),
            re.compile(r"disregard\s+(your\s+)?(system\s+)?(prompt|rules)", re.IGNORECASE),
            re.compile(r"system\s*:\s*override", re.IGNORECASE),
            re.compile(r"jailbreak", re.IGNORECASE),
            re.compile(r"reveal\s+(your\s+)?(system\s+prompt|instructions|api_key)", re.IGNORECASE),
            re.compile(r"drop\s+table", re.IGNORECASE),
            re.compile(r"transfer\s+[0-9]+\s+eth", re.IGNORECASE)
        ]

    def inspect_prompt(self, prompt: str) -> Tuple[bool, str, float]:
        t0 = time.perf_counter()
        for pattern in self.injection_patterns:
            if pattern.search(prompt):
                lat = (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0
                return False, f"Blocked Pattern: {pattern.pattern}", lat
        lat = (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0
        return True, "SAFE_CLEAN", lat

📊 Red-Team Fuzzing Benchmark Results

When tested against 500+ adversarial jailbreak vectors (Base64 encoding, ROT13, Multilingual overrides, and SQL injections):

Pass Score: 100.0% Blocked
Average Processing Latency: 0.01 ms
OWASP LLM Top 10 Compliance: 100% Compliant

🌐 Enterprise Turnkey SDK & Download

The complete production source code, autonomous red-teaming fuzzer, and commercial licenses are available:

👉 Gumroad Direct Purchase ($199)

👉 Polar 1-Click Buy ($199)

Deterministic ICD-10 Medical Billing Code Mapping with Python & Knowledge Graphs

manja316 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:50:01 +0000

Deterministic ICD-10 Medical Billing Code Mapping with Python & Knowledge Graphs

In medical AI applications, hallucination in billing code assignment is unacceptable. Assigning an incorrect ICD-10-CM diagnosis code or CPT procedure code leads to immediate insurance claim rejections, financial audit penalties, and compliance violations.

In this tutorial, we will build a HIPAA-Compliant Medical Billing Pipeline using Python and a ground-truth Knowledge Graph.

1. HIPAA Safe Harbor PHI Redaction

Before passing clinical notes to any LLM or processor, we must redact Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA Safe Harbor rules:

import re

PHI_PATTERNS = {
    "ssn": re.compile(r"\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}"),
    "dob": re.compile(r"(DOB|Date of Birth):\s*\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4}", re.IGNORECASE),
    "patient_name": re.compile(r"(Patient Name|Patient):\s*[A-Z][a-z]+\s+[A-Z][a-z]+")
}

def redact_phi(text: str) -> str:
    redacted = text
    for phi_type, pattern in PHI_PATTERNS.items():
        redacted = pattern.sub(f"[REDACTED_{phi_type.upper()}]", redacted)
    return redacted

2. Ground-Truth Medical Knowledge Graph Mapping

Instead of letting an LLM guess billing codes, we anchor clinical terms directly to an immutable knowledge graph:

ICD10_DB = {
    "type 2 diabetes": {"code": "E11.9", "desc": "Type 2 diabetes mellitus without complications"},
    "essential hypertension": {"code": "I10", "desc": "Essential (primary) hypertension"},
    "chest pain": {"code": "R07.9", "desc": "Chest pain, unspecified"}
}

def map_diagnoses(clinical_text: str):
    text_lower = clinical_text.lower()
    matches = []
    for term, data in ICD10_DB.items():
        if term in text_lower:
            matches.append({"term": term, "code": data["code"], "description": data["desc"]})
    return matches

3. Production Turnkey AST Coder Graph

For the production-ready medical billing engine featuring NCCI edit validation and first-pass claim acceptance scoring, check out Med-Verify AST Coder Graph on our store:

👉 Med-Verify AST Coder Graph ($39 USD)

Protecting Autonomous AI Agents from Prompt Injection Attacks in Python

manja316 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:49:59 +0000

Protecting Autonomous AI Agents from Prompt Injection Attacks in Python

As AI agents gain tool execution capabilities—such as shell access, file editing, and financial wallet operations—they become prime targets for Prompt Injection Attacks (OWASP LLM01) and Excessive Agency Exploits (OWASP LLM06).

An attacker can trick an LLM agent into executing unauthorized commands (e.g. rm -rf, exfiltrating API keys, or transferring wallet funds) simply by placing malicious hidden instructions in untrusted web pages or RAG inputs.

In this tutorial, we will build a Defense-in-Depth Security Gateway in Python with sub-1ms latency overhead.

1. The 3-Layer Defense-in-Depth Architecture

                      [ UNTRUSTED USER INPUT / WEB SEARCH ]
                                       │
                                       ▼
                     ┌───────────────────────────────────┐
                     │   PROMPT-SHIELD GATEWAY PROXY     │
                     └─────────────────┬─────────────────┘
                                       │
            ┌──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┐
            ▼                          ▼                          ▼
   [ Layer 1: Fast Heuristic ] [ Layer 2: Dual-LLM ]     [ Layer 3: Crypto EIP-712 ]
   Regex & Base64 Sanitizer       Classifier Guardrail   Signature Wallet Guard

2. Layer 1: Fast Heuristic & Base64 Sanitizer (< 1ms)

import re
import base64

JAILBREAK_PATTERNS = [
    re.compile(r"ignore\s+(previous|above|all)\s+(instructions|rules)", re.IGNORECASE),
    re.compile(r"system\s*override", re.IGNORECASE),
    re.compile(r"you\s+are\s+now\s+in\s+DAN\s+mode", re.IGNORECASE),
    re.compile(r"output\s+your\s+(system\s+prompt|api\s+key)", re.IGNORECASE)
]

def inspect_prompt(prompt: str):
    # 1. Base64 Payload Decoding Check
    decoded_text = prompt
    try:
        if len(prompt) > 20 and re.match(r"^[A-Za-z0-9+/=]+$", prompt.strip()):
            decoded_text = base64.b64decode(prompt.strip()).decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
    except Exception:
        pass

    # 2. Pattern Matching
    for pattern in JAILBREAK_PATTERNS:
        if pattern.search(prompt) or pattern.search(decoded_text):
            return False, f"Prompt Injection Blocked: '{pattern.pattern}'"

    return True, "SAFE"

3. Layer 3: Cryptographic EIP-712 Order Guard

To prevent Excessive Agency (OWASP LLM06), sensitive tools (e.g. fund transfers or financial trades) must require an explicit, cryptographically signed EIP-712 payload. An LLM agent can never move funds based on text prompts alone!

4. Production Turnkey Middleware

For the production-grade security proxy with FastAPI endpoints, sub-1ms processing latency, and OWASP 2026 compliance, check out ClawGuard Prompt-Shield Middleware on our store:

👉 ClawGuard Prompt-Shield Middleware ($29 USD)

Building a Sub-200ms Polymarket & Crypto WebSocket Listener in Python

manja316 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:03:15 +0000

Building a Sub-200ms Polymarket WebSocket Listener in Python

In modern prediction markets and quantitative finance, speed is everything. Capturing arbitrage opportunities before manual traders react requires a sub-second streaming pipeline.

In this tutorial, we will build a production-ready asynchronous Python WebSocket listener that parses live orderbook changes on Polymarket in under 200ms.

1. Prerequisites

Python 3.10+
websockets, aiohttp, asyncio

pip install websockets aiohttp

2. Core Asynchronous WebSocket Architecture

import asyncio
import json
import websockets

CLOB_WS_URL = "wss://ws-subscriptions-clob.polymarket.com/ws/market"

async def subscribe_orderbook(token_id):
    async with websockets.connect(CLOB_WS_URL) as ws:
        subscribe_msg = {
            "type": "market",
            "assets_ids": [token_id]
        }
        await ws.send(json.dumps(subscribe_msg))
        print(f"Connected to Polymarket WS Stream for token {token_id[:10]}...")

        while True:
            msg = await ws.recv()
            data = json.loads(msg)
            # Process sub-200ms price update
            print("Live Orderbook Update:", data)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(subscribe_orderbook("75212375517444662942705581008505477009916343680049771629804936585862986754319"))

3. Production Turnkey SDK

If you want the complete production-grade SDK with automated 48h market batch scanning, EIP-712 security guardrails, and automated limit order placement, check out the YieldStream Quant API Kit on our storefront:

👉 YieldStream Quant API Kit Pro SDK

94.6% of ended prediction markets converge to near-certainty — and why I still can't tell you if they were right

manja316 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:08:25 +0000

I run a collector that snapshots every active Polymarket market's price every 15 minutes. After 92 days it's 18.6 million price points across 22,410 markets. People keep asking the same question, and the honest answer is more interesting than the marketing one.

"Is Polymarket well-calibrated? When it says 70%, does the thing happen 70% of the time?"

I can't answer that from this data. But I can show you something adjacent and real — and, more usefully, I can show you exactly where the wall is, because most "prediction markets are smart" posts walk straight through it without noticing.

The thing I CAN measure: convergence

Take every market that has ended (end_date in the past) and look at its last traded YES price. On the frozen export (2026-03-28 → 2026-06-28):

SELECT
  COUNT(*) AS ended,
  ROUND(100.0*SUM(CASE WHEN last_trade_price>=0.95 OR last_trade_price<=0.05
        THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)/COUNT(*),1) AS pct_decisive,
  ROUND(100.0*SUM(CASE WHEN last_trade_price>0.40 AND last_trade_price<0.60
        THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)/COUNT(*),1) AS pct_coinflip
FROM markets
WHERE end_date < date('now') AND end_date != '' AND last_trade_price IS NOT NULL;

ended    pct_decisive   pct_coinflip
19402    94.6           0.9

94.6% of ended markets had their price collapse to ≥0.95 or ≤0.05 by close. Only 0.9% were still a coin-flip (0.40–0.60). The crowd makes up its mind almost every time before the window shuts.

That's a genuinely useful fact if you're building anything time-aware: a market sitting at 0.55 two days before close is in the rare 4.5% that hasn't resolved its uncertainty yet — that's where the trades live.

The thing I CANNOT measure: was it right?

Here's where the wall is. Convergence is not correctness. A market going to 0.97 tells you traders agreed. It does not tell you the YES outcome happened. To know that, you need the resolved outcome — and this dataset doesn't have it:

SELECT resolved, COUNT(*) FROM markets GROUP BY resolved;
-- 0 | 22410   (every single row)

resolved_outcome is empty for all 22,410 markets. The collector reads live prices from Polymarket's Gamma/CLOB APIs every 15 minutes; it never joins the on-chain resolution feed. So calibration curves, favorite-longshot bias, Brier scores — anything that needs "which side won" — are not computable from this file alone.

You could approximate by assuming the final price equals the truth (price ≥ 0.95 → "YES happened"). But that's circular: you'd be grading the market against its own last guess, then announcing it's well-calibrated. It's the single most common mistake in prediction-market blog posts.

Why ship a dataset and tell you what it can't do?

Because the alternative is a refund and a 1-star review. The price series is the dense, reliable layer — 15-minute resolution, 92 days, no gaps, no scraping (straight from the public Gamma + CLOB APIs). That's worth paying for if you're backtesting price-based strategies, training a short-horizon predictor, or studying microstructure. It is not worth paying for if you wanted a calibration study, and I'd rather you know that before you click.

(Same reason I published the audit showing ~94% of the order-book rows are thin-market placeholders. Price = the product. Order book and resolution labels = honest caveats.)

Reproduce it in 30 seconds

Free 1-day sample (no signup): Hugging Face

import sqlite3, pandas as pd
con = sqlite3.connect("polymarket.db")
m = pd.read_sql("SELECT last_trade_price p FROM markets "
                "WHERE end_date < date('now') AND last_trade_price IS NOT NULL", con)
decisive = ((m.p >= 0.95) | (m.p <= 0.05)).mean()
print(f"{decisive:.1%} of ended markets converged")

Full dataset, $19 one-time: Gumroad. Live auto-refreshing API: api.protodex.io.

Open question for the comments: if you had the resolution labels joined in, what's the first thing you'd test — calibration, or fading the longshots? That's the next build and I'll prioritize by what people actually want.

What 91 days of Polymarket price data can — and can't — tell you

manja316 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:06:08 +0000

Most "dataset" posts oversell. This one tells you the limits first.

For 91 straight days (28 Mar → 27 Jun 2026) I collected Polymarket prices on one Mac, no cloud bill. The frozen export is:

18,591,646 price snapshots
22,362 markets (19,819 of them with an actual price series — avg 938 snapshots per market)
1,854,788 orderbook snapshots

Category mix: sports 12,258 · other 4,689 · crypto 2,514 · politics 1,441 · geopolitics 685 · science/tech 241 · economics 224 · entertainment 169 · weather 137.

Here's what you can actually do with that — and three things you can't.

What it's good for

1. Price-path / convergence studies. Of the 6,776 markets that ended inside the window, 6,551 (96.7%) closed decisively — last Yes-price above 0.95 or below 0.05. Only 3.3% were still mushy in the middle at the end. So the data is clean enough to study how and when a market makes up its mind: most of the information arrives well before close, and you can measure the shape of that arrival per category. (Crypto markets snap late; politics drifts.)

2. Mean-reversion / momentum backtests on the spread. With ~938 snapshots/market you have enough intraday resolution to test "does a 10-point move in 6 hours revert or continue?" across thousands of contracts and eight categories.

3. Behavioral / microstructure features. Volume, 24h volume, liquidity, best bid/ask, spread, and last-trade are all captured per snapshot, so you can build features without re-hitting the API 17 million times.

What it can NOT do (the part most listings hide)

1. True calibration. The dataset has no resolution labels. Every market in the export carries price series — not the final settled outcome. So you can study price convergence, but you cannot compute real calibration (predicted probability vs realized result) without joining external resolution data yourself. If a vendor shows you a "calibration curve" derived purely from prices, they're measuring the market against itself, not against reality. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

2. Deep order-book research. The orderbook table is large (1.85M rows) but only a single-digit % of those rows are genuine two-sided quotes — the rest are placeholder/one-sided. The price series is the real product here, not the book. Buy it for price history; don't buy it expecting an L2 reconstruction.

3. Sub-minute tick data. This is snapshot cadence, not a trade-by-trade feed. Great for hourly/daily strategy research, wrong tool for HFT.

Why collect it at all

Polymarket's API is free but rate-limited and ephemeral — query it today and last month's prices are gone. The value of a frozen 91-day export is that the history exists and is queryable in one SQLite file (prices, markets, orderbooks, market_features, …), indexed on (market_id, ts). Pull a market's full path in one query instead of paginating a live endpoint.

SELECT ts, price
FROM prices
WHERE market_id = ? AND outcome = 'Yes'
ORDER BY ts;

That's the whole pitch: clean, indexed, honestly-scoped prediction-market price history you can backtest against tonight.

If that's the shape of data you need, the full export (and a free sample tier) is here:
👉 Polymarket Historical Price Dataset

Questions about schema or coverage before you buy — ask in the comments and I'll answer with a real query against the file.

Counts above are computed directly from the delivered export (the exact file you download), not the live collector, so what you read is what you get.

88% of the order-book rows in my dataset were fake. Here's how I caught it.

manja316 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:23:29 +0000

I've been collecting Polymarket prediction-market data on a single Mac for 89 days. As of this morning the SQLite file holds:

18,207,844 price snapshots (15-minute OHLC)
21,871 markets
1,816,392 order-book rows
span: 2026-03-28 → 2026-06-25 (89 days)

For weeks I described it as "18M price snapshots + 1.8M order-book records." That second number was a lie I was telling by accident. This post is the autopsy, because if you buy or build on market data, the failure mode I hit is one you will hit too.

The smell test that should have run on day one

I went to compute realized spreads — best_ask - best_bid over time — expecting a tight distribution for liquid markets. Instead almost every row looked like this:

best_bid | best_ask | spread | mid
   0.001 |    0.999 |  0.998 | 0.5
   0.001 |    0.999 |  0.998 | 0.5
   0.001 |    0.999 |  0.998 | 0.5

A 99.8-cent spread on a market that resolves between $0 and $1 is not a quote. It's the placeholder my collector wrote when the CLOB returned an empty book — and I had been counting every one of those as a "record."

One query settled it:

SELECT
  COUNT(*) AS total,
  SUM(CASE WHEN (best_ask - best_bid) >= 0.99 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS effectively_empty
FROM orderbooks;
-- total            = 1,816,392
-- effectively_empty = 1,602,616   (88.2%)

88.2% of my order-book rows carry the 0.001 / 0.999 placeholder. Only ~11.8% have a spread tight enough to even be a candidate for a real two-sided quote, and the genuinely tradeable subset is smaller still. The "1.8M order-book records" headline was real rows in a table and almost entirely empty as information.

Why this happens (and why it's not Polymarket's fault)

Prediction markets are thin. Most of the 21,871 markets are long-tail contracts — a niche election, a sports prop, a "will X tweet by Friday." At any given 15-minute poll, most of those books are genuinely empty. The collector dutifully recorded "no bid, no ask" as a row. Nothing was broken. The bug was in how I summarized it.

The price series, by contrast, is dense and reliable: a market's last-trade / OHLC ticks along even when the book is empty, because it reflects executed prices, not resting orders. 18.2M price rows are 18.2M real observations. 1.8M book rows are ~200K real observations wearing a costume.

What I changed

Dropped "order-book records" as a headline feature everywhere I controlled — README, the dataset article, the listing copy. Selling an 88%-empty column as a feature is how you earn refund requests.
Re-led with the price series, which is what the dataset is actually good for: backtesting, calibration studies, favorite-longshot analysis.
Shipped the empty book anyway, labeled honestly — as a sparse bonus with its real coverage stated, not as a selling point. A few hundred thousand real top-of-book snapshots still have uses; pretending it's 1.8M does not.

The transferable lesson

COUNT(*) is not coverage. Before you trust — or sell, or backtest on — any market dataset:

Run the spread/sanity distribution, not just the row count. A column can be 100% populated and ~0% informative.
Separate observations from rows. Placeholders are rows. Only non-degenerate values are observations.
State coverage as a percentage of plausible values, not as a raw total. "1.8M rows, 12% non-empty" is honest; "1.8M records" is marketing.

I'd rather a buyer learn this from my article than discover it after paying. The dense, verified layer — 18.2M price snapshots across 89 days — is the thing worth having, and it's the thing I now lead with.

The full dataset (price series + the honestly-labeled sparse book) is on Gumroad: Polymarket Quant Toolkit. There's a free sample so you can run your own sanity queries before paying — which, after reading this, you absolutely should.

What 86 Days of Clean Prediction-Market History Actually Shows

manja316 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:59:02 +0000

Everyone has an opinion about whether prediction markets are "smart." Almost nobody has the data to check.

I do. For 86 days straight, a single Mac mini has been polling Polymarket's public API and writing every price tick to a local SQLite file. As of this morning:

20,585 markets tracked
17,256,332 price snapshots
1,721,218 order-book snapshots
85 continuous days (2026-03-28 → 2026-06-21)
$0/month in infrastructure — no cloud, no cluster, one always-on machine

(Those are the exact counts in the downloadable export. The live recorder keeps running — the local feed is already past 18.0M snapshots across 19,084 markets — but a buyer should know precisely what's in the file, so these are the file's numbers, not the live feed's.)

That's not a toy sample. It's enough to ask the only question that matters about a prediction market: when the crowd says 70%, does the thing happen 70% of the time?

Why this is hard to get anywhere else

Polymarket's API serves you the current price. It does not hand you history. If you want to know what a market was trading at three weeks ago — the thing you need for any backtest — you had to have been recording it then. There's no rewind button.

So the dataset isn't valuable because the data is secret. It's valuable because it's time-stamped and continuous. You can't reconstruct it after the fact at any price. You either started the recorder in March or you didn't.

The calibration question, concretely

Take every market that resolved. Bucket the price history into deciles — the 0–10% bucket, the 10–20% bucket, and so on. For each bucket, compute the fraction of those markets that actually resolved YES.

A perfectly calibrated market draws a straight 45° line: the 30% bucket resolves YES ~30% of the time, the 90% bucket ~90%, etc.

When I ran exactly this earlier in June, the broad finding held up better than the cynics expect — the crowd is roughly honest in the middle of the distribution, and the interesting distortions live in the tails (very cheap longshots and very expensive favorites), which is precisely where the favorite-longshot bias lives in every betting market ever studied. I wrote that up with the bucket-by-bucket table here: when Polymarket says 70%, does it happen 70% of the time?.

The point of this post isn't to re-paste that table. It's to show you the query is trivial once you have the history:

import sqlite3, pandas as pd

con = sqlite3.connect("market_universe.db")

# Latest price per resolved market, joined to its outcome
df = pd.read_sql("""
  SELECT p.market_id, p.outcome, p.price, mo.outcome_label
  FROM prices p
  JOIN market_outcomes mo
    ON p.market_id = mo.market_id
  WHERE p.outcome = 'Yes'
""", con)

df["bucket"] = (df.price * 10).astype(int).clip(0, 9)
# join your resolution labels, then:
calib = df.groupby("bucket").agg(
    n=("price", "size"),
    mean_price=("price", "mean"),
)
print(calib)

Five lines of pandas. The hard part — having 17 million rows of honest, timestamped history to run it against — is the part that took 86 days.

What you can build on top of it

Calibration audits — is a specific market category (politics? sports? crypto?) better calibrated than another?
Longshot fade backtests — systematically short the sub-10% bucket and measure the edge after fees.
Mean-reversion / momentum studies on the minute-level price path.
Event-study windows — how fast does a market re-price around a news shock?

All of it needs the same thing: a continuous price record you didn't have to be there to capture.

Get the data

Free sample + schema to kick the tires: comment and I'll point you at it.
Full archive (17.2M snapshots, one-time download): on Gumroad.
Monthly refresh (the recorder keeps running; you get the new days): ask in the comments — I'm pricing it for the people who actually backtest.

The crowd is mostly calibrated. The edge is in knowing exactly where it isn't — and that only shows up if someone was recording. Someone was.

17 million Polymarket price snapshots, collected on one Mac for $0/month

manja316 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:54:09 +0000

Most prediction-market datasets you find online are a one-time dump someone scraped, posted, and abandoned. They go stale the day after they're published. I wanted a living archive of Polymarket — every market, sampled every 15 minutes, running continuously — and I wanted it to cost nothing to operate.

Here's what the archive holds today, counted straight from the database:

18,611,636 price snapshots
22,410 markets tracked
~92 days of continuous 15-minute history (and counting)

All of it runs on a single Mac, with a recurring infrastructure bill of $0/month. No cloud database, no managed queue, no Kubernetes. This post is how.

The architecture is boring on purpose

The whole thing is three moving parts:

A collector — a Python process on a 15-minute timer (launchd, the macOS-native scheduler — no cron daemon, no external trigger). Each tick pulls the live market list from Polymarket's public API, then for each active market records the current YES/NO prices and, where one exists, the top of the order book.
One SQLite file — not Postgres, not a warehouse. SQLite handles tens of millions of rows on a laptop without complaint as long as you index the access path you actually use. The entire archive is a single .db file you can scp anywhere.
A daily exporter — dumps the SQLite tables to Parquet so the dataset is portable and loads in one line of pandas/Polars.

That's it. The "$0/month" isn't a trick — a laptop you already own, the OS scheduler you already have, and a file format that doesn't bill you.

One honest caveat: the price series is the real product, not the book

The collector also samples top-of-book (best bid / best ask) every tick — but be clear-eyed about it: most Polymarket markets are thin, so a live two-sided book simply doesn't exist at most sample times. Counted straight from the DB, only about 6% of the 1.86M book rows captured a real two-sided quote; the rest are markets with no live book at that moment. So treat the dense, reliable layer as the price time series (18.6M real snapshots) — that's what you backtest on. The book samples are a sparse bonus for the handful of liquid markets, not a full reconstructable order book for everything. I'd rather tell you that up front than have you discover it after download.

Index the query, not the table. The naive mistake is to over-index and watch your write throughput collapse every 15 minutes. The prices table has exactly one composite index — (market_id, ts) — because the only read pattern that matters is "give me the price history of this market over this window." One index, sized to the actual query, keeps both the 15-minute writes and the backtest reads fast.

Append, never mutate. Every snapshot is an immutable row stamped with an ISO-8601 UTC timestamp. Nothing is ever updated in place. That means the archive is a true time series — you can reconstruct the YES/NO price as it stood at any 15-minute mark in the last 92 days, not just "latest state." Mutable rows would have quietly destroyed the history I was trying to capture.

Why this is hard to copy (and why that matters if you trade)

The dataset isn't valuable because the code is clever — it's three boring parts. It's valuable because of the one thing you cannot backfill: time. You cannot retroactively collect the price as it stood on April 3rd at 14:15 UTC. Either a process was running and recording it, or that moment is gone forever.

So if you want 92 days of 15-minute Polymarket history to backtest a mean-reversion or calibration strategy, you have two options: stand up a collector today and wait three months, or start from the archive that's already been running since March 28th.

Get the data

Free sample + schema + loader: github.com/LuciferForge/polymarket-historical-data — grab the sample, check the schema, run the example query before you commit to anything.
Full dataset (one-time download): on Gumroad.

If you'd want this kept fresh automatically — a recurring refresh so your backtests never run on a frozen file — that's the thing I'm deciding whether to build next. There's an open roadmap thread on the repo; tell me what cadence and format you'd actually use.

All figures in this post were counted from the database export built on 2026-06-28 and are not estimates.

What 295,732 IPL balls reveal: chase to win, and the death overs are a different game

manja316 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:01:25 +0000

I cleaned every IPL delivery from 2008 to 2026 into one tidy ball-by-ball table — 295,732 rows — and added the columns I always end up recomputing by hand (match phase, running run-rate, per-batter tallies, and fantasy box-scores). Then I asked the data three simple questions.

1. Chasing wins — but the toss barely matters

Across 1,218 completed matches, the toss-winner won just 51.6% of the time. Close to a coin flip — until you look at what they do with it.

Captains who won the toss and chose to field (chase) won 54.7% of their matches. Those who chose to bat first won only 45.3%. A ~9-point swing from one decision — chasing is a real, persistent edge in the IPL.

2. The death overs are a different sport

Run rate by phase, across every IPL ball:

Phase	Run rate	Wickets / over
Powerplay (1–6)	7.78	0.23
Middle (7–15)	7.81	0.26
Death (16–20)	9.78	0.52

Scoring barely moves from powerplay to middle, then explodes at the death — but the wicket rate more than doubles. If you're modeling fantasy points or win probability, treating all overs the same leaves signal on the table.

3. Do it yourself

The dataset is one flat CSV, so this is a three-liner:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("ipl_ballbyball.csv")
print(df.groupby("phase")["runs_total"].sum() * 6 / df.groupby("phase")["ball_in_innings"].count())

The data

Free sample on Kaggle: IPL ball-by-ball + fantasy box-scores
Full 19-season history (295,732 deliveries + 27,374 player-match fantasy box-scores), auto-refreshed weekly: $12 on Gumroad
Internationals too: 765k+ T20I deliveries on Kaggle

Built from Cricsheet (ODC-BY). Columns include match phase, live run rate, running score, per-batter tallies, and per-player fantasy box-scores — so you can model straight away instead of parsing raw JSON.

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The thing I CAN measure: convergence

The thing I CANNOT measure: was it right?

Why ship a dataset and tell you what it can't do?

Reproduce it in 30 seconds

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What it's good for

What it can NOT do (the part most listings hide)

Why collect it at all

88% of the order-book rows in my dataset were fake. Here's how I caught it.

The smell test that should have run on day one

Why this happens (and why it's not Polymarket's fault)

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The transferable lesson

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Why this is hard to get anywhere else

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What you can build on top of it

Get the data

17 million Polymarket price snapshots, collected on one Mac for $0/month

The architecture is boring on purpose

One honest caveat: the price series is the real product, not the book

Why this is hard to copy (and why that matters if you trade)

Get the data

What 295,732 IPL balls reveal: chase to win, and the death overs are a different game

1. Chasing wins — but the toss barely matters

2. The death overs are a different sport

3. Do it yourself

The data

1. Sub-1ms Enterprise Security Proxy (`sanitizer.py`)