The Polymarket copy-trading bot for Telegram.

Telegram is one of the fastest ways to receive real-time prediction-market signals away from the terminal. The Rivo Telegram bot sends followed-account alerts and strategy updates directly to your Telegram chat. This page covers how the bot works, how to set it up, and what to expect.

Why a Telegram bot for prediction-market copy-trading

Telegram keeps followed-trader activity close at hand when the terminal is not open.

Messages are delivered shortly after Rivo processes a matched followed-trader event. Telegram works across mobile, desktop, and web, while the in-app inbox remains the durable record of the alert and any later trading-status update.

The second is explicit control. Telegram receives activity only from accounts the user follows and strategies the user created, with no broad whale-alert firehose.

The third is portability. Telegram is available on iOS, Android, desktop, and web. A copy-trader receives the same alerts on any device with the app installed, with no additional integration work. The bot works for users inside and outside the United States identically.

Setting up the Polymarket Telegram bot

Setup is a four-step process that takes under two minutes.

• Sign up for a Rivo account on the sign-up page. A subscription includes Telegram alerts.
• Open the dashboard and navigate to settings. Locate the Telegram integration card and click the link button.
• Telegram will open with a chat to @RivoMarketsBot. Send the prefilled link command to authenticate the connection.
• Return to the dashboard. The Telegram link will show as active. Follow accounts or create strategies to begin receiving their updates.

The link persists across sessions until the user disconnects Telegram from settings.

What an alert looks like

Each Telegram alert from the Rivo bot contains the following information, in order:

• Platform: Polymarket or Kalshi, with a venue badge.
• Market title: the contract being traded, with category tag.
• Side and size: YES or NO, dollar size of the position.
• Entry price: the price at which the whale executed, expressed as a decimal between 0 and 1.
• Wallet context: the trader identifier, with a resolved PnL summary where available.
• Context: a one-line summary of the market and trade.

Each alert returns to the relevant Rivo feed context. When a supported venue account is connected, the user can start a one-off copy order, choose the amount, and confirm it against the current market. Rivo never takes custody of venue funds.

How the bot decides what to send

Real-time trade alerts are sent only for accounts the user explicitly follows with alerts enabled.

Strategy matches are handled separately. They are recorded immediately, then rolled into a daily digest and an end-of-run summary so a broad strategy cannot flood Telegram.

Topic, league, and size settings personalize the live feed but never create general alerts.

The Telegram bot for Kalshi specifically

Kalshi alerts carry the same trader, market, side, size, and entry context as Polymarket alerts. A copy-trader receives the same delivery experience for followed Kalshi traders as for followed Polymarket traders. Cross-venue strategies can also summarize matches from both platforms. For the legal context of each platform, see our legal status article.

How the bot compares to other Polymarket alert services

Several services offer some form of Polymarket alerting, ranging from raw trade feeds to filtered signal services. The differentiators of the Rivo Telegram bot relative to alternatives are explicit account follows, strategy digests, Kalshi coverage alongside Polymarket, and methodology transparency.

Raw trade feeds surface every trade above a size threshold. Rivo keeps that broad activity in the live feed and reserves notifications for followed accounts and strategy summaries.

What to read next

For the broader copy-trading framework, see our complete copy-trading guide. For the underlying whale-tracking methodology, see our Polymarket whale tracker page. For all alert delivery channels available, including in-app notifications, see our alerts page.

Backtesting whale activity with strategies

The standard advice in prediction markets is to follow the smart money. It does not say which smart money. Large positions on heavy favourites resolve correctly most of the time and return very little per dollar staked; large positions on longshots lose far more often and pay multiples when they land. Politics, sports and crypto markets behave differently again. Which of those is worth copying is an empirical question, and tracking trades as they happen does not answer it.

A Rivo strategy is that question stated as a rule and answered against data. A rule might read: entry price under 20 cents, trade size over $10,000, new positions only. Every whale trade satisfying it is recorded, and scored win or loss once the underlying market resolves.

A strategy can be tested against history and run forward at the same time. On creation it optionally claims every qualifying trade from the preceding 90 days, most of which sit in markets that have already resolved, so the strategy carries a settled record immediately rather than accumulating one over a season. From that point it also claims new qualifying trades as they print. Positions in markets that are still open are priced against current odds and marked as unrealised; they are reported separately from settled results, and are never blended into a single figure.

Criteria can constrain category, sports league, trade size, the entry price band, the position type (a new position, an addition to an existing one, or a reversal), and free text matched against the market title. Specific markets can also be followed directly, in which case their whale trades join the strategy whether or not they satisfy the other criteria.

Each recorded trade stores the side, entry price and size at the moment it printed, so a strategy's history stays reproducible. Open positions are marked against current odds; settled positions are scored win or loss against the market's resolution. A stake is set per strategy or per trade, so the reported return reflects the size you would have taken rather than the size the whale took, which keeps two strategies comparable instead of dominated by whichever caught the largest single position.

Every strategy reports its own win rate, realized return, open exposure and a cumulative return curve. All figures are paper results that assume a fill at the whale's entry price, and are not investment advice.

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