The BTC Horse Racing Thread

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After some help from the expert minds here to explain the bolow chart:
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Its a new back strategy i am working on. Its Turf only (so there is a gap over the winter) but the thing i am very curious about is the difference in performance comparing same periods last year to this year. For example. Looking at May, June, July you can see last year had less trades with a much higher hit rate compared to this year where its totally dropped off. Obviously this reflects in the balance chart and P&L by month.

Just after some ideas to help explain it because i am stumped. Was there less racing last year?

John Folan

Today's

Classic Trobs: Dob, Trob or Win if odds are between 3.5-9

Flat Pace. Back to Win or Place if Win Price is between 2.0-25.0. 4-14 Runners only. Avoid Soft, Heavy and Firm Going
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Slow Horses. Dob any over 6.0. Multiple selections per race are what makes this profitable. Just think Pokemon.
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@adam

Thanks, So since i am testing for those criteria in the automation at runtime and if i get the qualifiers in the morning those things will almost certaintly change, i will create a new version just as a filter to give me the qualifiers.

Is there a published list of the rules and when they apply?

Adam

@jonathan-jones said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

I have a question on the filter and qualifiers.
So, the filter part is sort of used for 2 reasons. It sets up the criteria for your backtest and its used for giving you a list of qualifiers for the day. What if i have stuff in it thats only available and useful for the backtest? So, for example i have a strategy with favourites and traded rank (I enter at the race start so although they are BSP they are unlikey to change in any meaningful way if at all) but obviously the filter cant use them to give me my list of horses (I would use those criteria at runtime in the automation sorftware).

Some rules are ignored for the qualifiers, and some have different versions.

For example, in the backtesting the favourite rule uses BSP rank, but in the qualifiers it uses the last traded price at the time the strategy is run.

Keith Driscoll

@jonathan-jones said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

Website Down?

Getting this:

https://betfairtradingcommunity.com/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=horse_racing_local&scope=basic&state=rbW2!4a&redirect_uri=https://horse-racing-api.betfairtradingcommunity.com/oauth/v1/authorize

Working for me Logout and back in again.

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I have a question on the filter and qualifiers.
So, the filter part is sort of used for 2 reasons. It sets up the criteria for your backtest and its used for giving you a list of qualifiers for the day. What if i have stuff in it thats only available and useful for the backtest? So, for example i have a strategy with favourites and traded rank (I enter at the race start so although they are BSP they are unlikey to change in any meaningful way if at all) but obviously the filter cant use them to give me my list of horses (I would use those criteria at runtime in the automation sorftware).

Do i need to create a seperate filter version with those very specific 'runtime' items removed or does it know which things it cant/cant use for the actual qualifiers filter?

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@adam
Yep. ITs workingnow from all links

Adam

@jonathan-jones said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@adam

Think its this:
https://betfairtradingcommunity.com/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=horse_racing_local&scope=basic&state=rbW2!4a&redirect_uri=https://horse-racing-api.betfairtradingcommunity.com/oauth/v1/authorize

This is an old link, so somehow your browser is hanging on to the old link! Or the update hadn't pushed through at the time you tried refreshing. Give it another try now.

Adam

It's not cookie-related, more to do with cached files

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@adam

Think its this:
https://betfairtradingcommunity.com/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=horse_racing_local&scope=basic&state=rbW2!4a&redirect_uri=https://horse-racing-api.betfairtradingcommunity.com/oauth/v1/authorize

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@jonathan-jones said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

Site still dead for me though. Tried 2 different browsers and cleared all cache and history.

Have you cleared the cookies? I needed to do that too

Adam

@jonathan-jones When you copied the link, what was the link?

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@adam But, The big horse racing stats button works. I never use that way.

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@adam In Firefox, The dropdown 'Stats Software' then the Horse Racing button. Also, i copied that link and pasted into Chrome to try a different browser. Each time i clear all site data and close the browser it does clear my login. Also, Firefox is set to not use cookies anyway. It forgets everyting if i close it.

Adam

@jonathan-jones How are you accessing the software? Are you clicking the button in the user dashboard or visiting a link directly? If so, which link?

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Site still dead for me though. Tried 2 different browsers and cleared all cache and history.

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@adam said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

You may need to clear your cache first

Thanks Adam, that fixed it

Adam

@jonathan-jones I'll post on the changelog thread shortly as usual.

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@adam said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@jonathan-jones We were deploying some updates. The maintenance message was displayed on screen for quite a while before that. Should be accessible again now.

Anything 'interesting' in those updates?

Adam

@dene-topliss It's definitely not. If you're accessing the software from the BTC user dashboard, do Ctrl F5 on that page before clicking the horse racing stats button