Australian racing

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gazuty
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Went in very big on the last at Flemington just now.

Just did a little calculation. I constituted 5.5% of the matched volume. A bit more agressive than I'd normally like but very happy with the result.

Horse Racing / Flem (AUS) 7th Mar : R9 1800m Hcap 07-Mar-15 17:45 07-Mar-15 17:47 215.03
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Euler
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I should have put my foot down even more then :)

We must have been a big chunk of the market between us
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gazuty
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Euler wrote:I should have put my foot down even more then :)

We must have been a big chunk of the market between us
Yep. Plus naffers.

I try and scale to be around 2% of the market. But after the encouragement above I went a bit further.

Still for those 8 weeks a couple of years ago when betfair banned me from Australian racing,the markets didn't really look any different.
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Euler
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Betfair kindly investigated the issue for us and came back with the following answer: -

Hi Peter,

We have investigated the issue with the AUS API further and can confirm that this was caused by a loss of connectivity between AUS and UK based services. Our system has a back up process and in the event of such a loss the system automatically restores connectivity within 30 seconds.

We do everything we possibly can to avoid connectivity issues but there is nothing to suggest that this was a load related incident. Sorry for the unfortunate timing and inconvenience caused by this incident.
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andyfuller
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Out of interest Peter - how do the Australian markets compare now to say 2 or 3 years ago? In terms of liquidity and fill rate on Betfair? I am guessing they are non existent on BD?
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Euler
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No markets on Betdaq. Betfair markets are getting a bit erratic since Betfair passed control to Crown.
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andyfuller
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Thanks for that Peter - didn't realise BD didn't offer the markets.

Any idea of the total volume matched on average on the Oz markets? I assume Saturdays and Wednesdays are still the best but are the other days tradeable?
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Naffman
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API being a twat again from 7.13-7.15pm (8.15am UK).
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Naffman
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API gone 2 mins out from Flem R5
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Euler
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Y, Saw that. It looked like the switchover that they described earlier in the week.

Frustrating and scary when it happens. I had a £k liability sat in the market and it came back just seconds before the off!
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Naffman
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That's a traders worst nightmare!
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Naffman
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API held up well there considering there was $1M matched, traded good as well.
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Naffman
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API gone R8 Morp.
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gazuty
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I wondered what happened there.

Some days the world is on the side of the bots (and I protect myself in my automation with taking SP on all unmatched).

Horse Racing / Flem (AUS) 14th Mar : R5 1400m Grp2 14-Mar-15 15:10 14-Mar-15 15:12 209.24

Horse Racing / Morp (AUS) 14th Mar : R8 1000m Hcap 14-Mar-15 17:15 14-Mar-15 17:18 269.1

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Euler
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I didn't see it go at Morp but the market went completely AWOL but I wasn't able to do much about it.
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