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paper_ex_polymarket
0.3.2
Adapter between paper_ex (generic paper trading) and polymarket (Polymarket SDK). Translates Polymarket CLOB books, market metadata, and trade activity into the normalized paper_ex domain. Not a trading bot.
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# PaperExPolymarket
Adapter between `paper_ex` (generic paper trading) and `polymarket_sdk`
(the Polymarket SDK). Translates Polymarket CLOB order books, market
metadata, and trade activity into the normalized `paper_ex` domain
so callers can simulate **or** live-mirror Polymarket trading with
the generic paper engine.
This package is:
- An **adapter / translation layer**, not a trading bot.
- The **only** package that bridges `paper_ex` and `polymarket_sdk`.
- Free of strategy decisions, dashboards, persistence, scheduling,
Telegram, and live trading.
## How the packages relate
```
paper_ex # generic engine, no Polymarket dep
^
| PaperEx.Adapter behaviour
|
paper_ex_polymarket # this package — adapter
|
v uses polymarket_sdk shapes (CLOB books, Gamma, Data, RTDS)
polymarket_sdk # Polymarket SDK: CLOB, Gamma, Data, RTDS, CTF
```
A consumer wires up:
1. `polymarket_sdk` for the live API surface they care about (often
just order-book fetches, plus Gamma discovery and Data-API account
data).
2. `paper_ex_polymarket` to translate (1) into the structs `paper_ex`
understands.
3. `paper_ex` to simulate orders, hold portfolio state, and record
execution attempts.
## Status — 0.3.0
Implemented:
- `PaperExPolymarket.Adapter` — implements every `PaperEx.Adapter`
callback (required and optional).
- `PaperExPolymarket.Market` — token id ↔ `PaperEx.Instrument`.
- `PaperExPolymarket.OrderBook` — CLOB `/book` body ↔ `PaperEx.MarketSnapshot`.
- `PaperExPolymarket.Execution` — Polymarket-flavored fill simulator
(FAK for market orders, GTC for limit orders), with budget-walking
semantics for `:market :amount` and strict numeric/timestamp
parsing.
- `PaperExPolymarket.ActivityMapper` — Data-API / RTDS trade event ↔ `PaperEx.Fill`.
- `PaperExPolymarket.Fees` — bps-based fee helper.
- `PaperExPolymarket.LiveMirror` — live-mirror flows:
`simulate_intent/4`, `mirror_actual_fill/4`, `record_pending/3`,
`resolve_pending/4` (`:filled` / `:cancelled`).
- `PaperExPolymarket.Snapshot` — convenience that composes
instrument resolution + book normalization, with an injectable
fetcher (`from_clob_book/3`, `fetch_order_book_snapshot/3`).
- Hand-authored fixture set under `test/fixtures/` plus
`PaperExPolymarket.Fixtures` loader used by fixture-backed
integration tests.
- Wiring for `PaperEx.Engine`'s opt-in `:pending_remainder` policy
on partial `:limit` fills.
- **148 tests** total covering CLOB-book conversion against realistic
multi-level payloads, market normalization, activity-event mapping,
fill simulation across every combination of `:market` / `:limit` /
`:buy` / `:sell` / partial / missed / limit-not-crossed paths,
end-to-end `PaperEx.Engine.apply_order/4` through the adapter, the
full live-mirror pending → filled / cancelled lifecycle,
pending-remainder integration through the adapter, amount-based
short guard through the adapter, the `Snapshot` convenience layer
(function + MFA fetchers, error pass-through, malformed inputs),
and bounded reason-code mapping for malformed payloads.
Not implemented (deferred to future versions):
- A built-in price-history loader. Callers pass snapshots in.
- Auto-fetching CLOB market metadata via `polymarket_sdk`. Callers
pass metadata in.
- Polymarket FAK partial-remainder lifecycle (`:pending` for the
unfilled remainder of a market order).
## Quick start — research-mode simulation
```elixir
alias PaperEx.{Engine, Order, Portfolio}
alias PaperExPolymarket.Adapter
# 1. Resolve a Polymarket instrument from a CLOB market payload.
clob_market = %{
"condition_id" => "0xabc",
"question" => "Will X happen by Y?",
"market_slug" => "x-y",
"minimum_tick_size" => "0.01",
"token_id" => "111",
"tokens" => [
%{"token_id" => "111", "outcome" => "Yes"},
%{"token_id" => "222", "outcome" => "No"}
]
}
{:ok, instrument} = Adapter.normalize_instrument(clob_market)
# 2. Get a CLOB /book body (the shape polymarket_sdk's order-book
# endpoint returns) and turn it into a normalized snapshot.
clob_book = %{
"market" => "0xabc",
"asset_id" => "111",
"bids" => [%{"price" => "0.53", "size" => "100"}],
"asks" => [%{"price" => "0.55", "size" => "100"}]
}
{:ok, snapshot} = Adapter.normalize_snapshot(clob_book, instrument)
# 3. Apply an order through the generic engine.
portfolio = Portfolio.new(starting_balance: 1_000.0)
order =
Order.new(
market_id: "111",
side: :buy,
order_type: :market,
size: 10,
id: "order-1"
)
{portfolio, execution} =
Engine.apply_order(portfolio, order, snapshot, adapter: Adapter)
execution.status # => :filled
execution.fill_price # => 0.55
hd(portfolio.positions) # => %PaperEx.Position{shares: 10, side: :buy, ...}
```
## Live-mirror flows
`PaperExPolymarket.LiveMirror` exposes four functions covering the
operationally interesting cases. Each preserves the **execution
attempt ledger** so misses, skips, and pending lifecycle events are
first-class — not absorbed into "no trade".
### Mirror an intent against the current book
```elixir
alias PaperExPolymarket.LiveMirror
{portfolio, ex} = LiveMirror.simulate_intent(portfolio, order, snapshot)
ex.metadata.mode # => :live_mirror
```
### Record an actual exchange fill on the mirror
```elixir
trade_event = %{
"asset" => "111",
"side" => "BUY",
"size" => "5",
"price" => "0.55",
"transactionHash" => "0xdead"
}
{portfolio, ex} =
LiveMirror.mirror_actual_fill(portfolio, order, trade_event, instrument)
ex.status # => :filled
ex.metadata.source # => :actual_fill
ex.metadata.raw_event # => trade_event
```
### Track a resting GTC order across its lifecycle
```elixir
# Step 1 — place an order (e.g., via polymarket_sdk) and immediately
# record a :pending execution on the mirror.
{portfolio, pending} =
LiveMirror.record_pending(portfolio, order, id: "pend-1")
# Step 2a — when an actual fill arrives, resolve the pending into a
# :filled and update portfolio cash/positions.
{portfolio, filled} =
LiveMirror.resolve_pending(portfolio, "pend-1", :filled,
order: order,
instrument: instrument,
trade_event: trade_event
)
# Step 2b — or, if the order is cancelled, resolve it into a
# :cancelled execution. State otherwise unchanged.
{portfolio, cancelled} =
LiveMirror.resolve_pending(portfolio, "pend-1", :cancelled,
reason: :cancelled_by_exchange
)
```
Both lifecycle paths preserve the original `:pending` ledger entry
plus the new `:filled` or `:cancelled` entry — so a downstream
analyst can reconstruct the whole story from the
`Portfolio.executions` field alone.
## Non-goals
- Not a bot. No Phoenix, no Ecto, no Oban, no Telegram, no LiveView.
- Not a strategy framework. No copy-trading, no surge logic, no BTC
arb, no stink-bid stencils.
- Not a substitute for `polymarket_sdk`. Live signing, balance
checks, and order placement stay in `polymarket_sdk`.
- Not a market-data fetcher. Callers pass snapshots and metadata in;
this package never opens a socket.
## Hex publishability
Until `paper_ex` and `polymarket_sdk` are published on Hex, this
package declares path deps and `mix hex.build` will fail with an
explanatory error. That is intentional. (Set `HEX_BUILD=1` to switch
the workspace path deps to Hex requirements once both are published.)
## License
MIT.