Mirrored Trade vs Polycool

TL;DR

• Copy-trading fees: Mirrored charges 1% only on winning copy-trade exits. Polycool publishes a flat "1% per trade" structure. On losing copy trades, Mirrored is free; Polycool is not.
• Curated lineups: Mirrored ships five hand-picked Auto Pilot lineups with sizing and risk settings tuned. Polycool requires you to research and pick wallets yourself.
• Per-trader risk controls: Mirrored gives every mirrored trader its own size mode, slippage tolerance, price band, and per-trade and per-market caps. Polycool's public materials describe two copy-size modes and don't document equivalent per-trader caps.
• Where Polycool wins: advanced order types (take-profit, stop-loss, trailing stop), deeper multi-chain funding via deBridge, mini-app interface, and smart-money / news feeds. If those matter to you, Polycool is the stronger standalone toolkit.
• Wallets: both Mirrored and Polycool use Privy for embedded wallets. Mirrored exposes the full 24-word BIP-39 seed phrase for export; Polycool describes exportable private keys.

At a glance

Polycool features and fees are based on public materials at polycoolapp.com and third-party reviews as of May 2026.

1. The fee gap — biggest on losing copy trades

Polycool's pricing is "one percent per trade. No subscription, no signup cost, no lockup on withdrawals." Mirrored only charges its 1% fee when a copy-trade exit is profitable. Losing copy trades and break-even copy trades pay zero fees.

That asymmetry matters because copy trading isn't a one-shot game — most mirrorers run dozens or hundreds of trades a month. Even a strong leader misses 30–40% of the time. Mirrored only takes a cut of the trades that worked.

Worked example: 100 copy trades, 55% win rate

Under the most charitable reading of Polycool's "1% per trade" (interpreted as once per completed trade rather than per leg), Polycool would charge on every one of the 100 trades. Mirrored charges only on the 55 winners. Same outcomes, ~45% fewer fees on Mirrored — and the gap is wider if Polycool's per-trade fee is applied per leg (per buy and per sell), which is the convention across other Polymarket Telegram bots.

See the full fee policy in our copy-trading docs and manual trading docs.

2. Curated Auto Pilot vs picking wallets yourself

Polycool gives you a Smart Feed of top traders and an Address Tracker for vetting wallets — that's valuable, but it's still a research tool. You decide who to copy, what size, and what guardrails. As one independent review put it, Polycool has "a steeper learning curve than basic paste-to-trade bots."

Mirrored offers the same manual flow, plus a faster path: five Auto Pilot lineups — All Categories, Aggressive, Sweaty, Relaxed, and Super Aggressive. Each is 10 hand-picked Polymarket traders with size mode, slippage, price band, and per-trade caps already tuned for the lineup's style. Tap ✅ Use this lineup and you're live. See the Auto Pilot docs.

You can still mirror specific wallets manually with Mirrored if you want full control. Auto Pilot is the fast path, not the only path.

3. Per-trader risk controls

Polycool documents two copy-trade sizing modes — proportional (scale with the leader) and fixed amount (set dollar per trade). That's the same shape Mirrored has, plus one more: portfolio mode, which uses a multiplier on relative position weight scaled to your portfolio size — useful when you want exposure to weigh like the leader's does rather than match their absolute dollars.

More importantly, Mirrored adds per-trader risk caps Polycool doesn't document:

• Slippage tolerance — per trader, in percent. Tighter means more skipped trades when the book moves; looser means more catches.
• Price band — e.g. 30¢–70¢ filters out late entries on near-resolved markets and lottery tickets on long shots.
• Per-trade cap — hard dollar ceiling on any individual copy.
• Per-market cap — total exposure ceiling across every trader for any single market.

Full breakdown is in the copy-trading docs.

4. Where Polycool is the stronger product

We don't pretend Polycool isn't doing a lot well. If any of these are core to how you want to trade, Polycool is the better fit — at least for now:

• Advanced manual order types. Polycool publishes support for take-profit, stop-loss, and trailing-stop orders on manual trades. Mirrored currently supports market and limit orders only. See our manual trading docs for the current scope.
• Multi-chain funding depth. Polycool routes deposits via deBridge from Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and other deBridge networks. Mirrored accepts bridge deposits from USDC, USDT, ETH, SOL, and BTC — broader on the asset side (Bitcoin), shorter on the L2 list.
• Mini-app interface. Polycool runs as a Telegram mini-app with a full trading-terminal UI. Mirrored is a bot with an anchor-message UX optimized for one screen at a time — different bet on what feels natural on mobile.
• Smart-money feeds. Polycool ships Smart Feed, Insiders Feed, Alerts Feed, and a News Feed for surfacing whale activity and market news. Mirrored focuses on the trade-execution pipeline; intel and alerts are not a first-class product yet.

The honest summary: if you want a sophisticated standalone trading terminal with alerts, advanced order types, and broad chain reach, Polycool is the more featureful tool. If you want copy trading that costs less when you're losing and ships with curated lineups out of the box, Mirrored is the better fit.

5. Wallet and seed export

Both bots are non-custodial and both use Privy for embedded wallets. Keys sit in Privy's TEE-backed infrastructure; the bot signs as a delegated signer; neither platform holds your funds.

The difference is in what you can export. Mirrored exposes the full 24-word BIP-39 seed phrase from Telegram — 💼 Wallet → 🔑 Export Private Key shows it once and deletes the message after 60 seconds. A BIP-39 phrase imports cleanly into MetaMask, Rabby, Frame, hardware wallets, and any other BIP-39 wallet. Polycool documents exportable private keys, which is functional but less portable than a full seed phrase if you want to derive multiple accounts from the same backup.

Read more in our security doc.

6. Transparent ranking

Mirrored's public leaderboard ranks Polymarket wallets by 30-day realized PnL, win rate, and risk-adjusted consistency. The methodology is public and the data is on-chain — anyone can verify it.

Polycool surfaces a Smart Feed of top traders and tracks high-PnL wallets, but doesn't publish the ranking methodology behind it. If knowing exactly why a trader showed up in front of you matters, Mirrored is the more transparent option.

7. Education library

Polycool focuses on the product; it doesn't ship dedicated educational resources. Mirrored does:

• Polymarket beginner guide
• How Polymarket works
• How to copy trade
• Trading strategies
• Profit calculator
• Odds converter

If you're new to prediction markets, the on-ramp is meaningfully shorter on Mirrored.

So which should you use?

Pick Polycool if you want advanced manual order types (take-profit, stop-loss, trailing stop), the broadest multi-chain deposit support, smart-money alert feeds, and a mini-app interface — and you're comfortable researching and picking the wallets you copy.

Pick Mirrored if you mostly want to copy trade, you want the bot to only charge a fee when you actually win, and you want curated Auto Pilot lineups with risk settings already tuned. Mirrored is the simpler, cheaper-for-copy choice.

The two products aren't opposites — they overlap a lot and you can run both. Pick by what you'll actually use most.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mirrored or Polycool cheaper for copy trading?

Mirrored is cheaper for copy trading. Mirrored charges 1% only on winning copy-trade exits; losing copy trades cost nothing. Polycool's published fee is a flat 1% per trade. Over many trades the gap compounds — see the worked example above.

Do both Mirrored and Polycool use Privy?

Yes. Both bots are non-custodial and use Privy's TEE-backed wallet infrastructure. Neither bot holds your funds. Mirrored exposes the full 24-word BIP-39 seed phrase for export; Polycool exposes the private key.

Does Mirrored support stop-loss and trailing-stop orders?

Not currently. Manual trading on Mirrored supports market and limit orders today. See manual trading docs for the current scope. Polycool is the stronger choice if those order types are core to your strategy.

Which has more chains for funding?

Polycool has broader EVM L2 coverage via deBridge (Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Chain, etc.). Mirrored covers fewer EVM chains but adds Bitcoin bridging in addition to USDC, USDT, ETH, and SOL.

Can I run both bots on the same wallet?

Not the same Privy wallet, no — each bot creates and signs from its own embedded wallet. But you can fund a Mirrored wallet and a Polycool wallet independently from the same external account and run them in parallel if you want different tools for different jobs.