Gogobots Docs

How to use the platform — from your first paper bot to live trading

Gogobots lets you build, backtest and run automated trading bots on Polymarket prediction markets — no coding required. These guides cover everything you interact with as a user: creating strategies, validating them risk-free, going live, funding your bots and managing your plan.

What is Gogobots?

An overview of the Gogobots platform: automated trading bots for Polymarket prediction markets, from idea to live execution — no coding required.

How Polymarket pricing works

The mechanics behind Polymarket prediction-market prices: what a share price means, the market durations available, and how a contract behaves as it approaches resolution.

Quick start: your first bot in 10 minutes

Create a free Gogobots account, pick a strategy preset, backtest it and launch your first paper bot on Polymarket — step by step.

Paper, Dry Run and Live: the three bot modes

How Gogobots bot modes differ, what each one is for, and when to move a strategy from paper trading to live execution on Polymarket.

Backtesting your strategy

How the Gogobots backtester works from a user's perspective: historical Polymarket data, full metrics, walk-forward validation and A/B strategy comparison.

Strategies, indicators and filters

What you can build in the Gogobots strategy constructor: dozens of TA indicators, Polymarket-native signals, time filters, TP/SL management and one-click presets.

Funding, wallets and safety

How money works in Gogobots from the user's perspective: funding bots with USDC, withdrawal protection, drawdown limits and instant stop controls.

Strategy marketplace: buying and selling

How the Gogobots strategy marketplace works: publish a proven strategy for other traders to buy, or browse and buy strategies with a real live track record.

Plans, billing and payments

Gogobots subscription plans: what the free tier includes, how monthly and annual billing work, and which payment methods are accepted.

Glossary of terms

Plain-language definitions for the trading, backtesting and marketplace terms used throughout the Gogobots docs — from paper bots and drawdown to CLOB and black-box strategies.

The backtester — what it is and how it's laid out

What the backtester is, how the section is laid out, statuses and limits.

Creating a backtest — the form, step by step

The run form step by step: market, data calendar, capital, the real fee model.

Teaching example — from idea to paper bot

A teaching example: from an idea to a paper bot through the full research cycle.

Results — every metric and how to read it

Every metric of the Results tab — formulas and how to read them.

Trades — the journal and the trade card

The trade journal and the trade card: every field explained.

Validation — luck or skill

Skill or luck: Monte Carlo, order-shuffle, significance and autocorrelation.

Analytics — where the edge lives

Where the edge lives: entry-price calibration and the analytics charts.

The Registry, folders and run comparison

The run registry, folders and side-by-side comparison.

The evaluation ladder, rookie mistakes and the checklist

The evaluation ladder, rookie mistakes and the 10-point checklist.