I thought today was going to be a tough challenge after the start I made but thankfully I pulled it back and ended up with a decent profit.
This is funny now, but at the time I was not amused. On the first market I had caught a late move on the favourite and was trading out for a profit when the race was almost ready to go off. Suddenly there was a rush of wind as my two dogs came sprinting in, one chasing the other. The lead dog had a stick in her mouth and the chasing dog was determined to steal it. They ran behind my desk and managed to pull the monitors, keyboard, mouse, speakers, tower, etc straight over. Even the laptop on the side of the desk went tumbling! I couldn't believe it and by the time I was in a position to get on to the markets again the favourite had taken a tumble at the first leaving me with -£85 Ouch!
I had to work hard but managed to claw it back and finish the day ahead.
It was the dogs' fault!
As i started reading i was expecting you to say they just ripped your ethernet cable out at the worst possible time, but sound like they did it in proper style left a complete wave of destruction.
Sounds like their was no lasting hardware damage.
Sounds like their was no lasting hardware damage.
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JollyGreen
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Thankfully Dallas, everything worked after it was reconnected. There was one USB port damaged on the back of the motherboard but a quick realignment with a screwdriver and it was usable again!
I was rather
when it happened but a Malinois can move faster than me!!
I was rather
when it happened but a Malinois can move faster than me!!
Sorry to hear that but also a valuable lesson for others. I can only imagine your emotional state once this happened. Yet I can also believe you didn't try to make it all up in once race (the way to the poor house), didn't try to push too hard and sat back down and methodically worked your way back in to the day.JollyGreen wrote:Thankfully Dallas, everything worked after it was reconnected. There was one USB port damaged on the back of the motherboard but a quick realignment with a screwdriver and it was usable again!
I was rather
I had a similar (emotional) experience yesterday. Caulfield Cup meeting is a big day, so I was in for a bit of manual effort (over the top of my automation) and I got off to a flyer.
Horse Racing / Caul (AUS) 15th Oct : R2 1400m Listed 15-Oct-16 12:50 15-Oct-16 12:52 295.65
Then (no dogs) just human error an accidental mouse click just after the off (combined with stubborness of letting it ride because my emotional horror didn't allow me to fix it up in play).
Horse Racing / Morp (AUS) 15th Oct : R2 1200m Hcap 15-Oct-16 14:08 15-Oct-16 14:10 -483.67
My mood darkened considerably. What to do. For me, revert to auto, go for a walk for an hour, come back for the main race.
JG,
I'm always wary of anything like that occurring, not so much any animals wandering in to the office, (although some of the people that frequent other adjoining rooms could pass as animals).. I keep my mobile fully charged with Betfairs Tel. Number with my TAN Number close by, in case of any outage etc, last week the fire alarm went off in the office, ok it before any markets went off but would have been useful all the same..
Incidentally JG, how many markets did you trade to claw back the loss?
I'm always wary of anything like that occurring, not so much any animals wandering in to the office, (although some of the people that frequent other adjoining rooms could pass as animals).. I keep my mobile fully charged with Betfairs Tel. Number with my TAN Number close by, in case of any outage etc, last week the fire alarm went off in the office, ok it before any markets went off but would have been useful all the same..
Incidentally JG, how many markets did you trade to claw back the loss?
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JollyGreen
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Thankfully the next race was at Ascot and I put myself in front with the money that came for Order of St George.
I was then chatting to Peter on Skype having managed to back Starlight Romance at 2.86 and watch it smashed into 2.0! I describe those markets as like finding money on the floor!
BTW I did trade out at 2.10 as I did not expect 2.0 to be the low!
It was a cracking day but I am thankful the Ascot race was next as it was a strong market and the move was easy to see as it was like a big millstone grinding its way through the money. That quickly made me forget the dogs!
I was then chatting to Peter on Skype having managed to back Starlight Romance at 2.86 and watch it smashed into 2.0! I describe those markets as like finding money on the floor!
BTW I did trade out at 2.10 as I did not expect 2.0 to be the low!It was a cracking day but I am thankful the Ascot race was next as it was a strong market and the move was easy to see as it was like a big millstone grinding its way through the money. That quickly made me forget the dogs!
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iambic_pentameter
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Glad the equipment was okay.
Interesting lesson for me here, is that it shows how important mindset and experience is - despite a near catastrophe, you managed to turn it around.
On a lighter note, do the Malinois' trade at all?
Interesting lesson for me here, is that it shows how important mindset and experience is - despite a near catastrophe, you managed to turn it around.
On a lighter note, do the Malinois' trade at all?
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JollyGreen
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He he, they are good guard dogs!iambic_pentameter wrote:
On a lighter note, do the Malinois' trade at all?