The BTC Horse Racing Thread
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@john-folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
Everything I do apart from scalping is on a bot now
I can see that you use bfbotmanager from the link in your signature. Did you ever use the free trial at fairbot or have any experience of it? I'm only considering it because it is cheaper and comes recommended by both Ryan and Martin.
I see you have a good number of bots in that thread which I suppose a guy like me could just plug and play. Are those *.gz files only compatible with bfbotmanager?
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@darryll said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@john-folan thankfully, that was the only strategy which I was doing. Can I ask if you automate it or trade it manually?
Everything I do apart from scalping is on a bot now
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@john-folan thankfully, that was the only strategy which I was doing. Can I ask if you automate it or trade it manually?
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Now joy at all today apart from a short odds lay. Doubt tomorrow will be much better.
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@jonathan-jones said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
Question on One of the properties in the filter: What is the 'Forecast Price Rank'? When is it set? With it saying 'Forecast' i assume its based on something before the race but how long before?
It's based on the Racing Post forecast price (lowest price = rank 1). It will be added as soon as we get the declarations from RP and updated if the forecast price changes (e.g. due to non-runners or something).
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That said, there is a tad more action than I thought there would be.
Classic Trobs: Dob, Trob or Win if odds are between 3.5-9 Nothing Matched yesterday
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. Storming Winner yesterday
Slow Horses. Dob any over 6.0. Multiple selections per race are what makes this profitable. Just think Pokemon.
NONE TODAYI'm also watching these to see how they perform. They are a variation on my Classic Trobs with less filters.
Trob or Win(Not worth Dobbing) any between 2.0-20.0 Near the Off. Traded and won yesterday.
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@keith-driscoll said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@jonathan-jones The night before
It is pretty much correct for picking favs less than 2/1Cheers. Was wondering when it would be safe to run the filter for the daily qualifiers.
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Lots of racing cancelled today and tomorrow. Nice they are putting the welfare of the horses first.
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@jonathan-jones The night before
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Question on One of the properties in the filter: What is the 'Forecast Price Rank'? When is it set? With it saying 'Forecast' i assume its based on something before the race but how long before?
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A nice winner in my new trobs at over 9’s. Queens highway won but went off too short for slow horses. Ennistown won at 12.5 so was a non qualifier for my classic trobs. Plus my 23.0 winner for the flat pace. I had a nice result for my short odd lays in the 12:00 as well.
Not the worst of days I must say. Horse software is definitely providing dividends.
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Winner on the Flat Pace at 23.0. Went off at 18.97 so a nice bit of extra value there. Patience pays off again.
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Todays
Classic Trobs: Dob, Trob or Win if odds are between 3.5-9 Nothing Matched yesterday
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. S**t Saturday
Slow Horses. Dob any over 6.0. Multiple selections per race are what makes this profitable. Just think Pokemon.
I'm also watching these to see how they perform. They are a variation on my Classic Trobs with less filters.
Trob or Win(Not worth Dobbing) any between 2.0-20.0 Near the Off. Four traded yesterday with Two trobs and a win.
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@john-folan Thanks for the recommendation, I shall give that book a search and thanks for the advice regarding trobs. As I'm a proper newbie I want to find a strategy which will throw up a good volume of trades to place each day just so that I can get in to the practice of recording results in a spreadsheet and analysing. Perhaps trobs will be a better place to start than LTF.
Do you happen to know how the software tracks the amount traded? For instance, say I was putting £100 or £1,000 stakes on. Would it be able to identify partially matched trades and include that in the results breakdown?
@keith-driscoll said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@darryll You've over-filtered. I'd bin something like that, not enough data to work with. I only filter courses that have at least 500 results, otherwise you may be introducing randomness, rather than a long-term trend. Not sure if Adam will add more past data, another 18 months would be great. Plenty of data for the AW.
Thanks Keith. Yes, I wasn't happy with the small sample size.
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@darryll You've over-filtered. I'd bin something like that, not enough data to work with. I only filter courses that have at least 500 results, otherwise you may be introducing randomness, rather than a long-term trend. Not sure if Adam will add more past data, another 18 months would be great. Plenty of data for the AW.
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@darryll Have a read of Roger Kemps LTF book on Kindle Unlimited(it’s free there). He explains that different courses are better under different runner numbers and different distances. I started messing with it but I was just creating more work for myself when I didn’t need to.
The thing you also may have to remember with trading these is when everyone everywhere does the same thing it sucks the value out. If 1000 people have the same lay price in as a target they will all be sitting there waiting to be matched. Some will get matched and some won’t. Probably just need to be a little creative with the price you ask for. That’s why I prefer a trob to a dob. Not many people do those which is mad as it’s been proved again and again they are generally more profitable by a significant amount.
It can be a minefield and I’m sure it’s no accident the two strategies I’ve found that work best off the software is a straight lay and straight win one. But hey? WTF do I know? Someone will prove me wrong and if it makes me money I will be quite happy about that
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@adam Ah, that seems obvious now. Thanks!
After listening to Martin's podcast about LTF I gave it a go and had 2+ bets matched per race for a total of 13 winners and 5 losers. Which I think is a 72% strike rate. Here are my results.
28/06
6.10 Roscommon - 2 bets
6.40 Roscommon - 4 bets
7.10 Roscommon - 2 bets29/06
2.20 Thirsk - 2 bets
2.50 Thirsk - 1 bet
3.15 Musselburgh - 2 bets
3.25 Thirsk - 2 bets (bets affected by rule 4 and reduced to 1.44)
3.50 Musselburgh - 2 bets
4.00 Thirsk - 1 bet
4.20 Musselburgh - 2 bets
5.40 Tipperary - 2 bets
5.50 Bath - 1 bet (bets affected by rule 4 and reduced to 1.13)
6.20 Bath - 1 bet
6.40 Tipperary - 2 bets
7.00 Kempton - 1 bet
7.10 Tipperary - 2 bets
8.00 Kempton - 2 bets
8.30 Kempton - 2 betsAfter this experience I thought this was pretty good and was looking forward to doing it regularly so I was confused to find it to be a badly losing strategy. So what I did then, and I'm just saying this because I would like you to confirm that I'm going through the process of filtering correctly, was to break the results down by course and then sort the columns by ROI. I then identified that
Tramore
Thurles
Laytown
Wetherby
Musselburgh
Epsom
Roscommonare the only courses with positive ROI. So I then added the rule to only include these courses. Which did return an overall positive ROI of 11% However the strike rate is 37% which is way off from my 72% Granted, my sample size is tiny but is that anything to raise an eyebrow over?
The other thing which was a little concerning is that the total amount of trades is 236. Over the past 16 months it seems like this strategy isn't going to throw out many trades in the future. As well as being a small sample size in itself and therefore it's reliability questionable.
I'd appreciate your comments in return.
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For anyone wondering, the flat pace is doing nothing out of the ordinary. This is the monthly breakdown since last year and there has been a losing month before along with a couple of barely profitable ones. I use the word barely with tongue in cheek as a 5 or 10 point a month strategy isn't to be laughed at. Just got to be in it for the spectacular months.
I like a mix of high and low variance strategies. I tend to have more low than high because then the wild swings don't give me such big meltdowns. Higher variance seems to give bigger profits so stupid not to include them. This is my Short Odds Lays. Profit for July doesn't include the two points I made yesterday, but as you can see the monthly profit is more stable but overall there is less of it.
Slow horses. Again boring but steady. I really like these.
Set your trading style according to your appetite for risk (and your blood pressure :winking_face:). I like slow and steady generally, but I do like to have a couple of high variance ones on the go. I'm also anti risking more than a point or so per trade which is why you won't see me laying the correct score or laying horses over 3.0 as a rule. But what works for me might not work for you. A good mix is not the worst starting point. Although if you are just getting going with trading a nice low risk steady strategy while you find your feet is probably exactly what you need.
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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
Slow Horses. Dob any over 6.0. Multiple selections per race are what makes this profitable. Just think Pokemon.
NONE TODAYI'm also watching these to see how they perform. They are a variation on my Classic Trobs with less filters.
Trob or Win(Not worth Dobbing) any between 2.0-20.0 Near the Off.
