The BTC Horse Racing Thread
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@Martin I might have done something wrong with this strategy since yours shows 17/19 wins while only yesterday I had 2 losses. I have been running it since 27/07 with 10 losses so far. Could you please share your json and .gz files again so that I can compare them? Thanks!
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@Joe-Beeston said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@Martin Hey,
Has the latest one (.json file) been updated on the OP of the horse racing megathread page?
Good point just updated it: https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/3531/horse-racing-strategies-megathread/2
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@Martin Yeah, I need to double check what the bot is doing against the data from the horse software since mine isn't doing well. Since this is my first month, I'm still using £1 stakes, and I feel like it's hard to recover after one loss. As an example, if I lay at 9 and the horse wins, it takes two or three days to recover from this hit, assuming I have a streak of wins which is not always the case. While I can see that it's profitable using the backtesting, I still don’t feel very comfortable laying, hopefully I’ll get used to it with time.
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Shared banks are fine for win betting (2-3 strategies), but I never use them for laying. You can put a huge dent in a bank in a short time laying.
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@Martin said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@Joseph-Henderson ah right then should be same one I would think this is the bot I use Back to lay dobs.gz
I’ll check that out against the one I’m using - cheers
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@Joseph-Henderson ah right then should be same one I would think this is the bot I use Back to lay dobs.gz
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@Martin said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@Daniel-Mills is this your own strategy?
My back to lay dobs are -0.52pts and irish dobs are 9.1pts up since last Saturday when I started forward testing.
it's the back to lay 2.0 you posted, I set up the bot myself though. Looks like the only difference with the bot was the hedge which i've got rid of and will keep an eye on for a bit longer.
Cheers to Jonathan-jones and Joseph Henderson too for the input. Will have a proper nose through - missed the original response to David's query about the DOB's.
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@Joseph-Henderson I turned it into a dob strategy works much better, although I then turned that into a Irish dob strategy which is doing really well so far, only been a week though so not enough time to truly judge it.
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@Jonathan-Jones Glad you flagged this issue!
Back to Lay 2.0 is showing a profit of 2.94 for August (1st to 6th inclusive) compared with -6.46 running my bot. One to probably do some more detailed back testing on using the method you outline.