Candle Volume Spike Trader

This is a template. The default signal detects cross-coin volume spikes in 5-min crypto candle markets and trades lagging coins in the next interval -- remix it with real-time exchange volume data, order book depth, or funding rate signals. The skill handles all the plumbing (market discovery, interval parsing, spike detection, trade execution, safeguards). Your agent provides the alpha.

Strategy Overview

Polymarket lists 5-minute "Up or Down" interval markets for multiple cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP). Each market asks whether a specific coin will go up or down in a 5-minute window (e.g. "Bitcoin Up or Down - March 29, 10:50AM-10:55AM ET").

A single coin showing 58% directional bias might be noise -- idiosyncratic flow, a large limit order, or thin liquidity. But when 3+ coins ALL show strong same-direction bias (>58%) in the same 5-minute window, it reflects a genuine cross-market move: a macro catalyst (rate decision, whale liquidation, exchange outage) driving all crypto in the same direction.

The skill detects these cross-coin "volume spikes" and then checks the NEXT 5-minute interval. Any coin that hasn't caught up to the confirmed direction is a trade -- it will converge.

Edge

Cross-asset confirmation filters noise from signal in short-timeframe crypto markets: