The BTC Horse Racing Thread

Keith Driscoll

In order to hit the correct Fav. Lay 0-1s in-play. You hit them 100% of the time.
If you don't like taking big hits when laying, reduce the max lay price. LTBF with no filters is profitable, but do you want to lay 1000.0 shots? Well yes, they are profitable, but I wouldn't want to take a 1000.0 hit. I don't even take 20.0 hits. My max lay is much lower than that, as the risk/reward turns against you at certain prices, depending on the system. You set it to what your comfort zone is. It can always be adjusted later when your bank has grown.

Nathan Cooke

@Joseph-Henderson I usually setup my bot to trigger within 10 seconds of the off to try to avoid swings.

Adam

@John-Folan @Jonathan-Jones Is there something we can add to / change in the software to make drawdown more useful?

Martin

@Andy-Lucy probably best to ask on the fairbot thread: https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/3923/fairbot-automation-discussion

Martin

@Neal-Simmonds working fine for me, there is a form you can use to report any issues: https://form.asana.com/?k=V4sICWddOgH3CMQ96g0XSA&d=1120854233877885

Are you using Google Chrome?

Andy Lucy

Hey guys anyone on here using fairbot had any issues with it not firing bets lately?
Mine seems to have missed a lot of lay beaten fav selections that looking back it should of last few days especially.

Joseph Henderson

@David-Milligan Good point. Also, sure I’ve seen this discussed before but with a bot for LTBF. How do you deal with the 10 min place bet time and the not selecting 1st or 2nd favourite? I guess it’s possible that a selection could be made then steam into 1st or 2nd fav before race off.

Neal Simmonds

Can anyone tell me, is there a specific thread regarding BTC Horse Racing Software 'Status' as in when you guys know its not working properly! Mine wont load the meetings today, its happened before but some of my strategies today require me to do some checking? So I click 'Horse Racing Stats' & Nothing loads I get a message saying Loading... Please wait.

I can click though it into the Strategy Builder and I can see my picks but racing page itself wont load!

David Milligan

@Joseph-Henderson I had these settings too for LBF but found I was staking up to 2% or more of bank after a few losses so I've removed the ratchet

Joseph Henderson

@John-Folan Yes. I have my bot set to trade 1% of bank with ratchet system enabled.

John Folan

@Joseph-Henderson I compound at various levels depending on drawdown until I reach the max stake I want. Compounding via bot after each trade is the most efficient way to build a bank. Anyone who tells you otherwise is leading you up the garden path. It means there’s no nasty shocks if you have a downturn like you would if you did the old double your bank then double your stakes route. Much better for the old blood pressure.

Joseph Henderson

@John-Folan Fair enough. Do you then use flat stakes or compound?

John Folan

@Joseph-Henderson I did. Then I decided not to. Just did a 150 point bank. It has a max drawdown of about 50 points so I can cope with that

Joseph Henderson

@John-Folan Nice! Do you lay to liability on your LTBF strategy?

John Folan

@Joseph-Henderson my version got an utter kicking the last few days. Not today tho.

Joseph Henderson

Just checked my bot and google sheets, LTBF has had a relative drawdown of 42% since the 16th May for me - ouch!

John Folan

@Jonathan-Jones I’ve got a pretty decent way of doing it in excel. I’ll sort out a blank copy people can use. I normally work out the biggest points drawdown and make the bank 3 x that.

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@John-Folan I dont use the DD in the software. its no use for me as i run a portfolio (plus it doesnt work with fixed stakes as that will give different results depending where in the backtest the losses come). I use cumulated daily points multiplied by 1% so its independent of the start point.

John Folan

@Jonathan-Jones check the drawdowns by downloading the individual results. I think the one in the software is factored around the longest losing run not the biggest drop from any peak.

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@Ryan-Clark You can have upto 5 rules on the 1 event in the guardian. I have these to go with what you have already. Basically I put number Lay the Beaten Fav 2 into 'Automation Rules 2' in Guardian. Same again with Filter 3, just use in 'Automation Rule 3' and so on.

The files are all effectively the same. I just have them adjusted to suit the automation rule and Automated nomination selection.

Lay the Beaten Fav 5.baf Lay the Beaten Fav 4.baf Lay the Beaten Fav 3.baf Lay the Beaten Fav 2.baf