what the 5,000 most active Polymarket traders did over the last month: who made money, how much volume it takes, and how concentrated the gains are. read from Polymarket's public leaderboard.
dataupdated November 13, 2026 · monthly window · traders with at least $245.5k of volume
52.9%of the most active traders made money this month
$539pnl of the median trader
82.9%of all profits went to the top 10% of traders
$9.74Btraded by these 5,000 accounts in a month
37.5%of that volume came from 100 accounts
0.08%median profit per dollar traded
cite as: copy.top research, "the state of trading on Polymarket", November 13, 2026, copy.top/research/polymarket
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about half of the most active traders made money
among the 5,000 accounts that traded the most this month, 52.9% ended in profit. one in ten made more than $49,424, one in ten lost more than $38,834. winners made $139.9M in total, losers lost $118.0M.
52.9%made money
47.1%lost money
lost moneymade moneyeach bar: share of traders in that pnl range
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a few accounts take most of the profit
the top 1% of traders took 37.4% of all profits, and the top 10% took 82.9%.
37.4%
45.5%
17.1%
top 1% of traders: 37.4%next 9%: 45.5%the other 90%: 17.1%
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volume buys very little edge
trading more barely improves the odds: the share of accounts in profit moves from 50.2% for the smallest to 59% for the 100 largest. the median trader keeps 0.08% of each dollar traded. only 474 of the 5,000 accounts earned more than 5 cents per dollar traded: those are the ones taking a view on outcomes, the rest mostly turn volume over for thin margins.
share of traders who made money, by monthly volume
under $500k2,141 traders
50.2%
$500k to $1M1,314 traders
53.3%
$1M to $5M1,207 traders
56.1%
$5M to $20M285 traders
57.9%
over $20M53 traders
54.7%
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public traders versus anonymous ones
326 of these accounts link an x account on their profile. 55.5% of them made money this month, against 52.7% of the accounts with no linked identity. the gap is small: a public name is not a signal on its own.
accounts with a linked x profile326 traders
55.5%
accounts with no linked identity4,674 traders
52.7%
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the top of the month
the ten accounts with the highest pnl this month on Polymarket's leaderboard.
population: the 5,000 accounts with the highest trading volume on Polymarket's public monthly leaderboard on November 13, 2026 (at least $245.5k each).
pnl and volume are the figures Polymarket publishes for each account. the top ten comes from the same leaderboard sorted by pnl.
source: public Polymarket data only. nothing comes from copy.top's own records.
limits: this is the most active slice of Polymarket, not every user. casual users, who are far more numerous, are not in it. market makers are, and they trade large volume for small margins.
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