Glossary

What every term, filter, and score on Panoptes actually means. For the bigger picture of how these fit together, see How Panoptes works.

Trades & markets

Flagged trade
A trade that crossed a scoring strategy's alert threshold -- shown on the Flagged Trades feed. A trade can be flagged by one strategy and not another; each is scored independently.
Amount
The dollar size of the trade.
Price
The contract's price at trade time, expressed as cents on a dollar (0-100¢) -- the implied probability of the side bought. A 2.1¢ YES bet is a bet on a roughly 2% outcome.
Direction
Which side of the market the trade bought -- Yes or No.
Resolved
Whether the market the trade was placed on has reached a final outcome yet.
Category / Panoptes category
Category is assigned by Polymarket itself and is sometimes inaccurate or missing. Panoptes category is assigned by Panoptes's own classifier and is the more reliable of the two for filtering.
Time range
Restricts results to trades placed within a window before now (e.g. "last week").

Accounts

Account age
How long a trading wallet has been active on Polymarket. Polymarket only -- Kalshi doesn't expose durable account identities.
Account edge
An account's actual win rate minus its expected win rate, where "expected" comes from the odds it bet at. A positive edge means the account wins more often than its own bet prices implied it should.
Win rate
Share of an account's resolved trades that ended up on the winning side.
Net P&L
An account's total realized profit or loss across its resolved trades.

Scoring

Suspicion score
A strategy's 0-100 output for one trade. On the Flagged Trades feed, scores below 50 render as low severity, 50-69 as mid, and 70+ as high.
Info score
A 1-10 rating Panoptes assigns per market: how much information asymmetry plausibly exists around that market's outcome -- how many people could realistically have advance, non-public knowledge of it. Most markets score 1-3; 8-9 is rare, roughly the top 5%.
Size z-score
How large a trade is relative to typical trade sizes in its own market, as a statistical z-score -- not its raw dollar amount. A z-score of 2 is roughly the 98th percentile for that market; 3 is roughly the 99.9th percentile.
Contrarian signal
How far a bet goes against the market's own implied probability. Only counted for Yes bets on unlikely outcomes -- see How Panoptes Works for why No bets are treated as neutral.
Cluster / cluster size
A cluster is a group of distinct accounts betting the same side of the same market close together in time. Cluster size is how many accounts are in it -- typical clusters run 3-34 accounts, around 18 on average.
zscore_gated
Panoptes's primary strategy: a continuous 0-100 score with a $500 minimum trade size gate.
dollar_exposure
A strategy that weighs the actual dollar amount at risk more heavily than the other two.
rule_based
A transparent strategy: $500 minimum size plus at least two of three secondary signals, no continuous math.