What is slippage?

Slippage is the difference between the price you expected to get and the price you actually got. For example, if a whale buys YES shares at 65 cents but your copy executes at 66 cents, that 1-cent difference is slippage.

Slippage is most common in low-liquidity markets where there aren't many orders in the book. Large trade sizes can also cause more slippage because they consume more of the available liquidity.

trading.bot minimizes slippage by executing copies as quickly as possible (typically 1-3 seconds after detection) and by enforcing maximum trade size limits. In high-liquidity markets like major political events, slippage is usually negligible.