Betfair Down / Betfair site crash
- ShaunWhite
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You'd be insane to trade today after a major outage like that (imho). I'm not that desperate for a few quid.... manyana.
I'm waiting for sustained stability before I create any liabilty, I don't even think the nature of the problem has been published.
Your not likely to get one, or at least one thats any use. When it went down last May for several hours there reason was pityfulShaunWhite wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:26 pmYou'd be insane to trade today after a major outage like that (imho). I'm not that desperate for a few quid.... manyana.
I'm waiting for sustained stability before I create any liabilty, I don't even think the nature of the problem has been published.
- ShaunWhite
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I'm expecting for one, just letting things settle, not rushing in and being cautious. There'll be plenty of other days.Dallas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:32 pmYour not likely to get one, or at least one thats any use. When it went down last May for several hours there reason was pityfulShaunWhite wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:26 pmYou'd be insane to trade today after a major outage like that (imho). I'm not that desperate for a few quid.... manyana.
I'm waiting for sustained stability before I create any liabilty, I don't even think the nature of the problem has been published.
Im done for the day, luckily had no open poistions so no harm done just a early finish on the trading front todayShaunWhite wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:36 pmI'm expecting for one, just letting things settle, not rushing in and being cautious. There'll be plenty of other days.
- ShaunWhite
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Good for you, it's been another long week so an early finish is nice.Dallas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:40 pmIm done for the day, luckily had no open poistions so no harm done just a early finish on the trading front todayShaunWhite wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:36 pmI'm expecting for one, just letting things settle, not rushing in and being cautious. There'll be plenty of other days.
Have a nice evening.
what response have BF given to those who got stuck caught in positions they could not trade out of. my lay bet on happy diva was paid out. does this mean that if i had been backing happy diva and intended to hedge at off i would have lost all those back bets?
there was a moment after crash when API just stopped again. Luckily it was just for a few seconds. But from then on I lowered my stakes. It is insane not to trade a Saturday imho.ShaunWhite wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:26 pmYou'd be insane to trade today after a major outage like that (imho). I'm not that desperate for a few quid.... manyana.
I'm waiting for sustained stability before I create any liabilty, I don't even think the nature of the problem has been published.

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- SeaHorseRacing
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Gutami I was having an amazing day until the 5.25 and 5.45 race came along.
Badly stung. Only saturdays I enter the markets early and.
Well done though.
Badly stung. Only saturdays I enter the markets early and.
Well done though.

Your're not gonna believe this!
Got this in my email Saturday 8.PM :-
We would like to apologise for the outage of the Betfair Exchange this afternoon.
The down time was not planned and our tech teams worked hard to rectify the problem as quickly as possible.
We understand the importance of site stability and therefore will be doing everything possible to ensure the same issue does not occur again.
Apologies once again,
The Betfair Team
Amazing.
All is forgiven..
Got this in my email Saturday 8.PM :-
We would like to apologise for the outage of the Betfair Exchange this afternoon.
The down time was not planned and our tech teams worked hard to rectify the problem as quickly as possible.
We understand the importance of site stability and therefore will be doing everything possible to ensure the same issue does not occur again.
Apologies once again,
The Betfair Team
Amazing.





All is forgiven..

I got caught laying Murray just before the Dubai final, very annoying as he went 3-1 down in the first set and I couldnt green up. By the time betfair was backing running was a set up and 3-0 in the 2nd and trading at 1.03. Spoke to betfair on live chat and they gave me a £20 free sportsbook bet (stake not included in any winnings). Not ideal considering I shouldve been about 25 up instead of 12 down but its something at least.LaytheFav wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2017 6:13 pmwhat response have BF given to those who got stuck caught in positions they could not trade out of. my lay bet on happy diva was paid out. does this mean that if i had been backing happy diva and intended to hedge at off i would have lost all those back bets?
Excellent set of results gutuami if this is a typical Saturdays results for you then I can certainly see why you wouldn't want to pass up trading on a Saturday. Do you find that Saturdays are far more profitable than the other days of the week? The reason I ask is that there was a post on this site recently about someone who said they made money every day trading except Saturdays.
Saturday was, is and will be the best day for trading. The simple arguments for that are : more events, more people involved, more liquidity, better horses, bigger prize money. It is a win win situation for everybody. There are no losers in this game. The only fact that people have the possibility to trade or Learn to trade is a privilege in itself. And the fact that some of them land on other side of probability it is because they haven't aquired the right skill yet. Anyway that's from my view. My days off are usually Monday &/Or TuesdayBluesky wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:01 amExcellent set of results gutuami if this is a typical Saturdays results for you then I can certainly see why you wouldn't want to pass up trading on a Saturday. Do you find that Saturdays are far more profitable than the other days of the week? The reason I ask is that there was a post on this site recently about someone who said they made money every day trading except Saturdays.