Strategy
Signal Sniper
Track breaking news, official statements, and sentiment shifts, then enter before Polymarket fully reprices the event.
📌 Strategy Overview
Signal Sniper is built around the idea that important information often reaches different market participants at different speeds. If you can classify relevance quickly enough, you may capture the repricing window before the market settles.
💡 Core idea: major news can create a short repricing gap. The edge comes from relevance filtering plus execution speed, not from reading everything.
🔄 Core Logic
1. Signal sources
News feeds
Reuters, Bloomberg, AP, and other fast institutional wires.
Social channels
X / Telegram / public communities for early signal drift and narrative acceleration.
Official sources
Campaign accounts, government sites, company releases, sports league announcements.
2. Signal processing
- Classification: decide whether the signal matters for a specific market
- Direction: estimate how the news changes probability
- Confidence: only act when the signal is strong enough
- Deduplication: avoid reacting to the same event multiple times
3. Execution
- Speed first: compress the path from detection to order
- Size by confidence: larger only when the signal is clearer
- Exit fast: once repricing is done, the edge is often gone
- Hold longer only when justified: some events support a slower thesis, most do not
⚙️ What You Need
- Fast signal sources: reliable news and alerting pipelines
- Filtering logic: classify relevance quickly, preferably with human-auditable rules
- Execution system: low-latency placement plus clear sizing rules
- Monitoring: 24/7 systems or well-defined active windows
⚠️ Risk Warnings
- False signals: bad information can push you into the wrong trade
- Latency decay: if you are late, you may become the exit liquidity
- High operating cost: premium feeds and full-time monitoring are expensive
- Competitive crowding: many sophisticated teams run similar workflows
📊 Best-fit markets
- Politics: election events, candidate changes, policy announcements
- Geopolitics: conflict escalation, diplomatic events, sanctions
- Sports: injury news, suspensions, roster changes
- Crypto: listings, hacks, regulation, protocol events