Roan on X: "The Math Needed for Trading on Polymarket (Complete Roadmap)" / X

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I'm going to break down the essential math you need for trading on Polymarket. I'll also share the exact roadmap and resources that helped me personally. Let's get straight to it A recent research paper just exposed the reality. Sophisticated traders extracted $40 million in guaranteed arbitrage profits from Polymarket in one year. The top trader alone made $2,009,631.76. These aren't lucky gamblers. They're running Bregman projections, Frank-Wolfe algorithms, and solving optimization problems that would make most computer science PhDs uncomfortable. Bookmark This - I’m Roan, a backend…

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