Sharp

Also called sharp money · smart money

A trader whose record looks like repeatable skill rather than luck or size.

The Sharp Score is this site's attempt to measure the idea rather than gesture at it: a 1-99 rating blending three things. Settled profit, passed through a saturating curve so that scale is rewarded but size alone cannot buy a high score. Return on capital, which carries the heaviest weight and puts a disciplined trader on a modest bankroll level with a whale. And hit rate against the prices paid — winning sixty percent of entries made around 45¢ is skill, while winning eighty percent of entries at 90¢ is paying for favourites, and the return term is what keeps that honest.

Wallets with too little settled history are penalised rather than excluded, and boards scoped to a week or a month re-rank on that window's results, so a record that has stopped working drifts down instead of sitting on reputation.

The limits are published rather than buried. Market-maker-shaped wallets are not yet filtered automatically. Hit-rate enrichment covers the top of each board rather than every row, and rows without it are ranked on profit and return alone. And the only honest disclaimer applies without exception: a high score means a wallet has been good, not that it will stay good. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

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Related terms

Whale Sharpe ratio Closing line value

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Definitions describe how Polymarket and Kalshi behave and how WhaleTracks models them; venue rules and fee schedules can change, so confirm anything you size a position on with the venue itself. WhaleTracks is informational analytics, not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.