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Everything about Hyperliquid — how it works, how to read each metric, and how to check any of it yourself.
What Hyperliquid is
Hyperliquid is a non-custodial copytrading analytics platform for Hyperliquid perpetuals. Every position on Hyperliquid is public and on-chain, so any wallet's record can be audited by anyone. We do that audit for you: we check where each wallet's profit came from, score whether you could realistically follow it, and — if you choose to — mirror its trades from your own wallet. We never hold your funds.
The 5-layer pipeline
Every wallet in the universe is processed through:
- Audited risk metrics — Sharpe with real cadence (365×n/age, not √365 naive) + small-sample shrink, MDD over PnL (not AV), Calmar, monthly consistency
- Skeleton check — distinguishes legitimate withdrawals from real losses, flags wallets whose PnL was ever negative
- Structural classifier — MM / Grid / Scalp / Swing / Martingale / HFT on top of 8×8 cohorts (size × profitability)
- Copyability score ★ 1-5 — can we mirror this wallet's entry AND exit before the edge is gone? Pure timing: hold duration, frequency, grid/MM concurrency, sub-30s scalp. NOT a quality verdict — Sharpe/ROI/MDD/ticket/recency are the leaderboard filtersof the leaderboard, applied separately.
- Realistic backtest — Portfolio simulation enforces HL's $10 minimum notional. When proportional copy would put a sub- dollar trade, we force it to the floor.
What it costs
- Free — full leaderboard, audited metrics, wallet detail (read-only deep tabs), portfolio backtest with your selected wallets
- Everything — Free, no fee — alerts, watchlists, side-by-side compare, advanced metrics, CSV/JSON export and (on Hyperliquid, when armed) auto-copy are all included. The platform is funded by voluntary donations.
1. Find interesting wallets
Go to Leaderboard. Use the filter strip to set the quality bar — min profit, min capital, Sharpe, recency — then a minimum copyability (★) and a sort metric (Sharpe / PnL / MDD / Median AV). Losers and dust-capital wallets are filtered out by default.
Click any row to open the full Wallet Detail. Use the + Add button to put a wallet in your cart.
2. Analyse a wallet
The Wallet Detail shows:
- Header with cohort badges + copyability stars + watchlist toggle (Activated)
- KPI grid with the most important metrics — PnL is Polymarket's venue figure
- Deep tabs: Capital / Trades / Coins / Temporal / Episodes / Structure / Skeleton
Some tabs reconstruct from the wallet's full activity. The first open downloads it; subsequent visits are incremental and fast.
3. Build a portfolio
From the Leaderboard or Wallet Detail, add wallets to your cart. Open Portfolio to:
- Adjust weights with sliders
- Set starting capital ($100-$1M)
- Toggle Realistic mode (default ON) — enforces HL's $10 min notional
- See aggregate KPIs (PnL, return %, final value)
The cart is persisted in your browser's localStorage and works across tabs.
4. It's free
Every feature is free — there is no subscription, no card and no fee. Connect your wallet and use everything.
The platform is funded by voluntary donations. Donations are optional, grant no service and are non-refundable — if it brings you value, support us from the Account page.
Copyability score (1-5)
The headline differentiator — and it answers one question: given our signal→react latency, can we mirror this wallet's entry AND exit before the edge is gone? It is pure timing & structure, NOT a quality score.
Quality — Sharpe, ROI, MDD, win-rate, ticket size, recency — lives in the leaderboard filters, applied separately. A mediocre-but-slow trader is highly copyable; a brilliant scalper is not. Filter on quality, then copy what the stars say you can.
What it costs:
- ★★★★★ Copy at leisure — discrete entries held with plenty of time to mirror both legs
- ★★★★☆ Easy to copy — slightly brisk or a little concurrency
- ★★★☆☆ Workable — fast-ish or somewhat concurrent, copyable with effort
- ★★☆☆☆ Marginal — fast + concurrent, easy to miss fills
- ★☆☆☆☆ Uncopyable — scalp / HFT / heavy grid/MM: no time to react
Hard fails forcing 1★: pct_lt_30s > 30% (latency scalp), peak_simultaneous ≥ 30 (grid/MM), median hold < 1min, trades/day > 15 (churn).
On the leaderboard (no fills) we approximate timing with trade frequency; the wallet detail uses real per-position hold time + concurrency.
Realistic backtest mode
A copy is sized proportionally: scale = capital × weight ÷ the wallet's typical ticket. With a small bankroll copying a big wallet, the proportional copy can fall below HL's $10 minimum — which the venue would reject.
Realistic mode detects this and forces the trade to the $10 floor instead. Each trade then becomes a much larger fraction of your bankroll than it was of the leader's, amplifying both wins and losses — so the backtest reflects what you'd ACTUALLY fill, not fictional sub-minimum trades.
The minimum: HL documents a “minimum order value $10” (per-coin floor varies $10.00-$14.07 with size decimals × mark price; we use a flat $10 for ~95% accuracy).
Sharpe (corrected)
Returns come from the TRADER'S PnL over a constant capital base, annualized with the wallet's actual snapshot cadence: mean(ΔPnL / base) / std × √(365 × n_snapshots / age_days).
Most platforms compute mean/std × √365 regardless of actual sample frequency. With weekly snapshots over a 2-year wallet, that's a ~17× inflation. Ours matches the wallet's real trading cadence. We also do NOT derive returns from the account value: it moves with deposits and withdrawals, not only with trading — a wallet that had LOST $11.2M once ranked #5 that way (audit #180).
MDD % over PnL
We compute max drawdown on the cumulative PnL series, not the AV (account value) history. Why: a wallet that retires $500k of profits shows a 99% AV drawdown — but the trader didn’t lose anything, they just took money home. MDD measures only what the trader could control: the PnL accumulation.
Note: most wallets ride a near-monotonic PnL curve, so a near-zero MDD is normal — we show Calmar as "—" below ~1% drawdown rather than a fake astronomical ratio.
Quality ratios — Sortino, profit factor, payoff, expectancy, recovery, Kelly
Six ratios that summarise the economics of a wallet's wins vs losses. All show "—" when mathematically undefined (e.g. no losses yet) instead of a fake 0 or ∞:
- Sortino — like Sharpe, but only downside swings count as risk. High Sharpe + low Sortino = the volatility is mostly losses.
- Profit factor — total winning $ ÷ total losing $ — the unit is the MONTH on Hyperliquid and the DECIDED MARKET on Polymarket, never the trade. Above 1 makes money; 2 = wins twice what it loses. Display capped at "50+".
- Payoff ratio — average win ÷ average loss, independent of how often each hits. ⚠️ The unit is NOT the trade: it is the MONTH on Hyperliquid and the DECIDED MARKET on Polymarket.
- Expectancy — the average $ THIS WALLET nets on a closed trade, at ITS size — not yours. Your copy is sized to your own bankroll and your per-order cap, so read it as the shape of their edge, never as your expected profit.
- Recovery factor — net profit ÷ worst drawdown — how many worst-case holes the total gain is worth.
- Kelly size — suggested share of YOUR capital for this wallet (half-Kelly, capped at 50%). A sizing guide derived from win rate + payoff — not a guarantee.
Heads up: an extremely high Sharpe/Sortino (8+) is almost always a high-frequency market-maker — hyper-predictable PnL but uncopyable. Always read these next to the copyability stars.
Skeleton check
Cross-checks AV timeline vs PnL timeline to distinguish:
- ▼ Withdrawals — AV drops, PnL flat → legitimate cash-out
- ✗ Real losses — AV drops AND PnL drops → trading loss
- ? Mixed events — both change in different proportions
Plus: detects if cumulative PnL was ever negative, counts consecutive negative months, checks recent activity. It outputs one of three severities:
clean attention skeleton
Is Hyperliquid free?
Yes — completely free. The full leaderboard, audited metrics, wallet detail (read-only deep tabs), portfolio backtest, alerts, exports, watchlists and (when armed) auto-execution are all included. No subscription, no card, no fee — the platform is funded by voluntary donations.
Where does the data come from?
Directly from Hyperliquid's public API (/info endpoint). No insider data. Anyone can access the same.
How is "copyability" calculated?
It is only timing: can we mirror the entry AND exit with our latency? Signals are median hold duration (entry→exit), trade frequency, grid/MM concurrency, and sub-30s scalp share. That's it. Sharpe, ROI, MDD, win-rate, ticket size and recency are quality filtersyou apply on the leaderboard — they are NOT part of the star score. See Metrics → Copyability score.
Do you have custody of my funds?
Never. Hyperliquid is non-custodial by design. For analytics we only read public on-chain data, and you only sign a login message (SIWE) that proves you control the address — it moves nothing. When you turn on auto-copy: you authorize an HL agent wallet (a limited signing key that cannot withdraw, transfer, or modify staking) — you keep full control of your keys and can revoke any time, and we cannot block that.
Why does the simulated PnL change so much when I lower the starting capital?
Because of Realistic mode. Below a certain bankroll, the proportional copy of a big wallet's trades falls below HL's $10 minimum — so we force the trade to the floor instead. Each trade then becomes a much larger fraction of your small bankroll, amplifying both wins and losses. See Metrics → Realistic backtest mode.
What's the difference between Sharpe and Copyability?
Sharpe (a quality filter) rates how good the wallet is in absolute terms (risk-adjusted return). It can be stellar and the wallet still uncopyable —— because it runs sub-second HFT or market-makes dozens of positions concurrently, so there is no time for us to mirror the trade.
Copyability ★ answers the orthogonal question: can we replicate the entries in time? They measure different things — quality vs timing. The actual signal is both: a high-Sharpe, real-capital wallet that is ALSO 4-5★ copyable.
Crypto-perp jargon
- HL / Hyperliquid — high-performance perp DEX on its own L1 blockchain
- AV — account value (collateral + unrealized PnL) at a given timestamp
- Agent wallet — HL native secondary signing key with restricted permissions (no withdraw)
- PnL — profit-and-loss, cumulative or realized
- MDD — max drawdown, the largest peak-to-trough decline
- Sharpe — risk-adjusted return: mean / std × √annualization
- Calmar — annual return / max drawdown
- Gini — concentration coefficient on monthly PnL distribution; 0=even, 1=concentrated
- mPos% — share of months with positive PnL delta
- Copyability ★ — pure timing verdict: can we mirror entry→exit before the edge is gone (NOT a quality score)
- SIWE — Sign-In With Ethereum (EIP-4361), wallet-based auth without passwords
- Non-custodial — platform never holds user funds; user retains full control via their wallet keys