The BTC Horse Racing Thread
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@stephen-beale I think it was mentioned a while back regarding Lay strategies that weekends weren't great for them historically. No doubt @John-Folan could clarify/expand on this.
I personally just stay away from them out of preference but I'm not saying profit can't be made, just noticed my weekly trades seemed to be better than my weekend ones.
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@angus-macleod That's really interesting. I've been playing around with a lay strategy and I just wondered about the "Day of Week" criteria filter. Turned out, dropping Sundays bumped me up from 4% ROI to 6%
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@john-folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
Betfairs up the spout
Apparently saturday afternoons are bad for this. I tried trading a couple of saturdays in the past and if there wasn't some kind of outage/interruption, my trades would just be total shite. Since then I just stayed away from weekend trading
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@john-folan
Had to switch to Betdaq. -
Betfairs up the spout
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 -
Good to hear such encouraging stuff about the various strategies, long may it continue! Lets all just remember to form an orderly queue when it comes time to buy private islands, yeah? We're not savages remember
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@daniel-mills said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
"John Folan a day ago reply quote
2/3 today. I’m reworking the short odds lays bot a bit. It will involve a slight bit of effort from people to exclude races but probably worth it. This is for BFBM which is deffo best for these sort of trades."@john-folan filtering out certain races?
edit: didn't include the original post
No. Basically it will list the races for the day and you can then just exclude races that aren’t on the strategy list(chase for example)by clicking a selection in the race. I’m not changing the strategy at all.
I’ll explain it properly when I’ve tested it fully and post the bot file.
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"John Folan a day ago reply quote
2/3 today. I’m reworking the short odds lays bot a bit. It will involve a slight bit of effort from people to exclude races but probably worth it. This is for BFBM which is deffo best for these sort of trades."@john-folan filtering out certain races?
edit: didn't include the original post
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@david-milligan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
I only had two Short Lays and 1 LBF. Another couple of good wins on the backing strategies, they have been going very nicely! Nearly 50% bank increase for C&D in about four weeks!
It’s good to see all the strategies performing as should(even the bad spells). Waiting for the pace backs to kick off now and we will be all good.
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I only had two Short Lays and 1 LBF. Another couple of good wins on the backing strategies, they have been going very nicely! Nearly 50% bank increase for C&D in about four weeks!
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@karl-pick said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
@john-folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
3/4 today. Nice
Yes Very Very Nice, for some reason I got 6/6 ?
Circus Act, Pretending, Allies Damour, Win Win Power, Alpha Zulu and Rossmore Nation.God knows. We all seem to be getting slightly different results. BUT it’s the principle that’s the thing so it will work out in the end. I’m still not doing them on Saturdays though. Beaten Favourites today only.
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@john-folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:
3/4 today. Nice
Yes Very Very Nice, for some reason I got 6/6 ?
Circus Act, Pretending, Allies Damour, Win Win Power, Alpha Zulu and Rossmore Nation. -
3/4 today. Nice
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@nick-allan
I thought betangel could load selections from a spreadsheet. I dont have BA but have seen a few of his videos. It seemed a bit pricy for me given the alternatives but i am sure i remember thinking about going that way because of its integration facilities. -
2/3 today. I’m reworking the short odds lays bot a bit. It will involve a slight bit of effort from people to exclude races but probably worth it. This is for BFBM which is deffo best for these sort of trades.
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@greg-mitchell thank you for all your help
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@greg-mitchell got you, right ill make that change now and take out DSLR it mean less profit but it hopefully it will start to match the software results which is the goal, over 6 months its 10 pts difference and i can accept that
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@nick-allan Yes exactly
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@greg-mitchell oh sholuld the odds range be less than 1.79 and more than 2.41? so 1.8 and 2,4 is included? and runners be less than 3 and more then 16? so the 4 and 15 runners are included? is that what you mean?
