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goat68
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Realrocknrolla wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:52 pm
Football is easy. Even my son makes £500 a month on football! He’s 18
Now I sound really stupid, so even an 18yr old can do this, hmmm
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Realrocknrolla wrote:
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goat68 wrote:
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Done them all!
Change your sport? Football maybe!

Football is easy. Even my son makes £500 a month on football! He’s 18
but maybe you're right, ditch this horse crap... and give football a go. It's a whole different ball game!
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goat68 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:56 pm
Realrocknrolla wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:52 pm
Football is easy. Even my son makes £500 a month on football! He’s 18
Now I sound really stupid, so even an 18yr old can do this, hmmm
Sounds like your overthinking everything
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goat68 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:57 pm
Realrocknrolla wrote:
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goat68 wrote:
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Done them all!
Change your sport? Football maybe!

Football is easy. Even my son makes £500 a month on football! He’s 18
but maybe you're right, ditch this horse crap... and give football a go. It's a whole different ball game!
👏👏👏👏
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Time to kill the horse stream capture script and start the football one then!
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I guess a whole load of Peter football videos I can watch now...
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To demonstrate how obscure i've gone, currently backtesting:
- Match a competitive race type based on runner prices
- Previous race finish 1min ago
- For runners whose total matched volume <10% of the market, find the runner whose "relative volume"(matched x price) is increased the most in the last minute, and Back it
- Hedge selection at post time.
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It's unfathomable how no automation seems to work, yet obviously some people can make automation work :?:
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goat68 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:51 pm
Realrocknrolla wrote:
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goat68 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:47 pm
Anyone got any good links on how to become a profitable automation trader?
https://online.betangelacademy.com/
Done them all!
How about Greyhounds G, have you done any work on this genre. I have a number of winning stratergies if your interested. Of course, a donation will be required ...
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The Silk Run wrote:
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goat68 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:51 pm
Done them all!
How about Greyhounds G, have you done any work on this genre. I have a number of winning stratergies if your interested. Of course, a donation will be required ...
I have played with uk dogs, but not a huge amount, I have 5months of data as well, so yes maybe test dogs again...good idea.
Very kind of you, but I'd rather not "cheat" myself is the way i look at it. thanks.
Dogs is interesting as you have a fixed 5/6 runners, and the outcome can be quite random, all it takes is a dog nudge into the first corner and the fav is out of it.....! That's obviously random, so no edge... Finding the "edge" is the tricky part....
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Here's a backtest snippet that shows the frustration:
Week 1 Back : 36.25
Week 1 Lay : -35.83
Week 1 TOTAL : 0.42 for 130 bets
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Week 2 Back : 52.73
Week 2 Lay : -57.73
Week 2 TOTAL : -5.00 for 224 bets
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Week 3 Back : -120.00
Week 3 Lay : 119.12

Week 3 TOTAL : -0.88 for 176 bets
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Week 4 Back : 42.52
Week 4 Lay : -46.66
Week 4 TOTAL : -4.14 for 142 bets
Here you can see the Back & Lay bets for the "trade", you see how Week3 turns on its head compared to weeks 1/2/4, ie 1/2/4 the back side had value, but week 3 totally changed things with Back side hugely -EV...
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Basically the markets swing from one behaviour to the next week by week....
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The Silk Run wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 7:15 pm
goat68 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:51 pm
Done them all!
How about Greyhounds G, have you done any work on this genre. I have a number of winning stratergies if your interested. Of course, a donation will be required ...
Greyhounds have so little to go on as well, the volume is low, market formation is literally over about 2mins, so I would hazard a guess "fundamental analysis" is required for profitability?
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I'm actually thinking the problem is "UK horses" markets are over rated, everyone wants to trade them... which makes them yes lots of volume, but lots of random/unpredictable trader crowds..

(I know i'm going on and on.... I miss not being in an office where I can actually talk to people, although maybe they don't :lol: :lol: )
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6Gb of UK greyhound stream data uploaded to my backtest VM, here we go... new "dog bot" i've created in the last hour... and it's off to a flying start:

Week 1 Back : 46.89
Week 1 Lay : 59.05
Week 1 TOTAL : 105.94 for 108 bets
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Week 2 Back : 23.76
Week 2 Lay : 144.54
Week 2 TOTAL : 168.30 for 141 bets

My test framework i've written enables me to monitor a backtest progression as it goes... which is useful for cross-sample analysis, and dynamically filter the results, to see what might be better...
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