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Paper Trading vs. Backtesting on Polymarket

Paper trading validates a strategy live, in real time — slow, and only tests the market conditions that happen to occur while you're watching. Backtesting against historical orderbook and trade data lets you test the same strategy across months of past market conditions, including resolved markets where the true outcome is known, in a fraction of the time.

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