Gambling v's Trading

[Fugazi]

feel your pain - i use ctrader and its optimisation engine. it runs parallel threads across the different parameter sets and on a fast machine with decent memory can churn thro a good few years of data across 1000's of simulations in a short space of time (depending on the complexity of the code in the algo rule). if you have any interest in this area, i think you'd love it as it's a c# interface where you can go as tame or as wild as you like.

anyway, know you're committed on other stuff, but happy to run it by you at some point.

Thanks Jim. Sounds interesting and similar ish to what I'm doing. But I'm having a big methodology rethink lately so torn about where to direct the effort. ML is getting better and gpt has made using it easier (glad I didn't waste too much time trying to learn it myself). Plus I'm trying to move more towards football, about a year of data so far, and that's going to mean rethinking my approach if what I do now isn't transferable. Ie I've no idea whatsoever what Dec 2025 will look like.

Whoda though having a bet would be so hard

Football markets be great to crack as they're the markets that would be last to disappear. Not confident on greyhounds at all in the short term, and horse racing probably be an easy vote winner one day, not much appetite for it from the younger generations

[ShaunWhite]

Football markets be great to crack as they're the markets that would be last to disappear. Not confident on greyhounds at all in the short term, and horse racing probably be an easy vote winner one day, not much appetite for it from the younger generations

Only a matter of time. I see the split falling between team sports and solo performances. Media/culture/society naturally creates a team following. Nobody gets excited following a dog or horse if nobody else is. National teams are the example, everyone has an interest or bet on that.

Football and cricket, not even sure tennis will be a big deal for Average Joe.