2 quid is not the minimumwaytogo78247 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:12 pmGood advice. I have noticed in weak markets that this could be a problem but my stakes are a liabilty of £300, so a bet would only placed over £300 if odds on.xtrader16 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:34 pmI wouldn't expect your 'Practise' trading to be replicated 100% once you go on the "live" version of the software. It just doesnt work like that. You might have a stake of £300 that gets matched in practise quite easily but in reality it might not get matched at all in live trading.
My advice to you is, go into live trading as quick as you can and use £10 stakes and work it upwards to £300 but dont expect your practice trading to be replicated in Live trading conditions. Practise is there, I feel, to run stategies and get used to the software/automation rather than see how much you can win in a one off trade.
Good Luck.
Today though has been a hard hit wake up call where in a span of just three races there were two unexpected huge last minute, and I mean last minute drifters losing £78 and £45.35 followed in the next race by a moderate loss of £20 basically wiping out the profit.
Now currently standing at
Runs 54
Wins 38 70.37%
Profit 17.38
This small probably loss after comms will be wiped out in a few seconds as right now am on a moderate drifter.
Those two huge last minute drifters I watched in the market and one went on to win and the other easily went below the odds I wanted in running, so both those losses could have turned into gains if going in running. Maybe I should think of that rather than a stop loss if they have drifted a huge amount of ticks by off time. I am not talking of doing this every runner but only for those that have a massive tick drift. A stop loss could ease those losses, but those two races would still be losers and how many other have drifted only to come back in??
That moderate drifter has gone off now and came back in a bit and lost just £2.08.
Back to xtraders point. Even a £30 bet at 9/1 may be difficult to fill in some markets and do get the drift (hate that word today ) that orders will not get filled quite as efficiently with real cash as they do in practice mode.
I will keep things as they are until at least the end of the week and then take another look as there should be about 100 or so samples to look at. If there is a slight loss, so be it and could always go live cash with liabilty bets of as low as £70 and not bet above 33/1 (to stop bets of under £2 attempting to fire, those wover 33/1 are very few and far between anyway).
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