The BTC Horse Racing Thread
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Thanks guys
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@philip-brogan depends on the strategy. For example if you have lay the short odds fave and back the fave then the differing odds criteria would mean that it would be very unlikely for both bets to be placed.
Will happen sometimes, but is quite rare. I just let the bot place all the bets and it will sometimes place opposing bets for different but I'm not too fussed as I treat the bank for seach stratagy as seperate, not a combined bank.
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@philip-brogan I'm still a novice but I personally go with the best risk/reward option of the 2. So eg. Master Richard in the 19:20 at Newcastle on 5th May qualified for pace-lay strategy on the presets and back-the-pace-horse. I was thinking what to do, saw it was at 14.5 odds - thought I would back it rather than lay it at those odds.
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You can't back and lay in the same race as you would go inplay. How do you handle it if one strategy tells you to back and another strategy tells you to lay in the same race? What strategy do you assign to a race?
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@john-folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@angus-macleod said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
Yeah mate, like you've made reference to before, fight the urge to react when things aren't going exactly as planned.
It’s like you have a devil and an angel on each shoulder. “CHANGE IT”. “NO LEAVE IT”
So true!
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@angus-macleod said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
Yeah mate, like you've made reference to before, fight the urge to react when things aren't going exactly as planned.
It’s like you have a devil and an angel on each shoulder. “CHANGE IT”. “NO LEAVE IT”
Read the first post on both threads.
Horse Trading Resources
https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/1111/john-s-horse-trading-resourcesBfBotmanager
https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/2915/bfbotmanager-automation-discussion -
Yeah mate, like you've made reference to before, fight the urge to react when things aren't going exactly as planned.
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@angus-macleod said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
I do love picking winners...especially when I've been laying them!
Bit of a turnaround since then I hope!
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Flat pace backs seem to be warming up nicely
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Interesting looking at various strategies. 2021 was a mess for a lot of racing because of Covid restrictions. Starting to think I might write that year off as not reliable stats wise. Some strategies that were good that year have slowly gone downhill. Some I have discarded because that year was bad. I need to do a little thinking about this.
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Seems to have reset for May anyway. Might have to start keeping a record before it resets at the start of each month.
The tipsters on this table are now only 6 pts down.
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@arran-shackell it didn't used to reset that often, is that definite? As yeah it does hamper. You could of course keep a record of it before month end on a sheet to tally it all up
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Been trading the football here for a few months now and looking at horse racing. Very much still exploring the horses side.
Lay the losing tipster - does anyone actively do this?
I've noticed the sporting life tipster league tables reset at the start of each month. This may seem like a silly question but how are you then supposed to apply the stratergy with so little data to work off?
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@angus-macleod said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
I do love picking winners...especially when I've been laying them!
Story of my life
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I do love picking winners...especially when I've been laying them!
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@jonathan-jones said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@john-folan According to all the backtests we are at the start of the season of plenty. 'Should' have 4 months or so of optimal performance ('should').
Should being the word
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@john-folan According to all the backtests we are at the start of the season of plenty. 'Should' have 4 months or so of optimal performance ('should').
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@andy-lucy said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
Hey guys I have been using the software to get selections of the 3 strategies I follow and today noticed that there is odd one different to the email does anyone know why this happening? Thanks andy !
!A non runner has probably changed a race so a horse that didn’t fit before did. Or vice versa. Selections can and do change all day.
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