Horse Racing Strategies Megathread

Dan MacKinnon

@Karl-Pick You can set a new rule group and then have "none" and select that as a distance. It should show up as blue if it's being excluded

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@Dan-MacKinnon ...No, but at 7f + 13f it makes big losses, compared to decent profits at all other distances.
I know I can just ignore those 2 distances when doing my trading, but just wondered if there was away of removing these distances?

Dan MacKinnon

@Karl-Pick is distance key to this strategy? That seems very specific.

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@Martin ....advice please?

I have a NEW Racing Strategy which looks Very Good on testing, it works on any distance except 7 furlongs where it totally bombs, to optimise the results would I do 2 seperate sections in the distance 5-6, then 8f+, this would eliminate the 7F category or is there some other way?

Hopefully thank you!

Tony Hastie

@Adam @Martin
Yeah, thanks guys. Pretty sure I already knew that....just had a bit of a senior moment

Adam

@Tony-Hastie Basically your price and time window restrictions are ignored in the qualifiers because obviously the prices change over time.

If your strategy is set up to only bet within the last 10 minutes and you're checking the qualifiers a few hours before, we need to at least tell you the horses that COULD be qualifiers at the time you'll be betting (based on the more static criteria).

Martin

@Tony-Hastie ah right ok, it can't guess the odds in advance so it will give you all selections that qualify and your bot should be filtering out the required odds

Tony Hastie

@Martin Bet Angel. Ive not added the races though, was just taking a look on Betfair and trying to understand why the horse racing software is giving me selections outside the odds parameters. Though I might be misunderstanding something...

Martin

@Tony-Hastie ah right well what one are you using mate?

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Tony Hastie

@Martin No

Martin

@Tony-Hastie you on BFBM?

Tony Hastie

@Martin The software matched O'Faolains Lad and Manintheshadows. Both traded around 6 pre race and were never over 10...

Martin

@Tony-Hastie there weren't any that matched my bot, which ones matched in yours?

Tony Hastie

@John-Folan

Am I understanding this TROB filter correctly? Trading only horses within the 15-25 odds parameters? Its got me a bit confused now as the first 2 selections today in the 2.45 at Newton Abbot have never traded over 15....

Martin

@John-Folan yeah my three bots so far seem to be working well

John Folan

@Martin said in Horse Racing Strategies Megathread:

Bot had a good day for lay 3rd fav mine went 6/6

Working ok then? Good.

dave tancock

@Martin ditto lay the beaten favourite did the same.

Martin

Bot had a good day for lay 3rd fav mine went 6/6

Paul Donnelly

@Martin ah okay that explains it and thanks for the heads up.