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Derek27
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Days like today really test your patience.
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Derek27 wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:22 pm
Days like today really test your patience.
It's very frustrating this week. I've got extensive notes about the week after Goodwood and I've never enjoyed it and this week hasn't change those notes.

I'd imagine I'll pick up a few quid on the golf so that will help a lot this week.
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I've weighted my attention to tennis this week, with racing in the 'background' armed with alerts
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Those withdrawals livened things up a but
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Euler wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:27 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:22 pm
Days like today really test your patience.
It's very frustrating this week. I've got extensive notes about the week after Goodwood and I've never enjoyed it and this week hasn't change those notes.

I'd imagine I'll pick up a few quid on the golf so that will help a lot this week.
I keep notes of how individual courses trade for me but I never thought of keeping time based notes - sounds like quite a good idea.
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Why tho . Isnt every race an individual race with price movement no memory of previous races?
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Every market is unique but some courses have more stable markets than others. At Randwick you can lay a horse at 4.3 and be fairly confident of backing it at 4.5.

Fairyhouse, lay a horse at 4.3, you might back it at 5.0 or you might close trade at 3.2!

Liquidity varies depending on the course, day of week, and as Peter pointed out it can change week to week as well as month to month.
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Backed this one at 6.8. Closed trade at 9.2 after it peaked at 11.5. Would never have guessed I could have hung on to win more than I lost!
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cyxstudio wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:42 pm
Why tho . Isnt every race an individual race with price movement no memory of previous races?
Every course behaves slightly different and sometimes they have memories of previous races.
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Could I ask 1 question about usa and oz racing
Which meetings go inplay/running on betfair
I can guess who might answer this :)

Regards variants, depends which is a variant and which one or combination of each/many to use and the outcome of each or many . so diff to answer to each or many , unless you know roughly
I think VBA does that does it not?
But standard times eg racing post is important as a starting point
eg Going allowance
the bracket after the result (5.69)time below average

ps Euler book is on its way
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StellaBot wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:16 pm
Could I ask 1 question about usa and oz racing
Which meetings go inplay/running on betfair
I can guess who might answer this :)

Regards variants, depends which is a variant and which one or combination of each/many to use and the outcome of each or many . so diff to answer to each or many , unless you know roughly
I think VBA does that does it not?

ps Euler book is on its way
Most Australian meetings go in-play. With US I would guess about 60% of them go in-play. Saratoga, Delaware, Belmont, Evangeline Downs are examples of meetings that don't go in-play.
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Thanks Derek
It would be GR888 ( ps i dont eat frosties ) not yet can only afford cornflakes with sugar at mo
To know which usa and aus tracks go in running on betfair.
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StellaBot wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:44 pm
Thanks Derek
It would be GR888 ( ps i dont eat frosties ) not yet can only afford cornflakes with sugar at mo
To know which usa and aus tracks go in running on betfair.
I'm not aware of any list, but just look at the markets on the Betfair website. It has a 'going in play' symbol in the top left of the market if it goes in play.

Most meetings either always or never go in-play but there is the odd exception.
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This is all you need to look for.
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Euler wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:54 pm
cyxstudio wrote:
Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:42 pm
Why tho . Isnt every race an individual race with price movement no memory of previous races?
Every course behaves slightly different and sometimes they have memories of previous races.
Well that means i need to build a database of horse prices.
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