Polymarket Trading Bot Risk Controls: When Should a Bot Stop Trading?

Effective Polymarket trading bots require robust risk controls beyond basic strategies to determine if the system should trade. Infrastructure must include explicit rules for activity reduction or cessation. Additionally, reliable copy-trading engines like Garnet implement multi-layered detection to prevent failures. After a platform-wide websocket outage on 31 August 2026, Garnet was updated to monitor trades through three independent circuits, ensuring the detection layer remains functional even when primary data streams fail.