I'm just starting to play with automation and I've been trading the dogs with some decent success over the past 250 markets HOWEVER.
One of the rules is to place a simple lay bet on the favorite 10 seconds before the event start time. The bet was taken for a £10 stake at odds of...wait for it...
24.72!! with a liability of almost £200 and a return of around 8 quid on all the other runners. So while I waited, arse twitching and looking up the odds on racing websites I looked to see what went wrong. When the market was suspended (race went off) there was just over £500 matched on the event which suggests to me there was definitely a problem somewhere.
Fortunatey the dog didn't come in. Strangely enough I never knew it's name as it was just assigned a number instead which I thought was strange.
Overall lesson learned and to anyone reading this, if needed, make sure you specify a condition of the odds being within a certain range just to cover your back.
Lesson learned, thankfully not the hard way!!
All the best,
Tom
Silly mistake could have cost me dearly!
ive noticed people intentionally prey on mistakes like this. I accidently got matched at 1.01 on the one click screen, but luckily i changed my default stake from £100 to £2 the day before in case this occurred. It would be more scary getting layed at 1000.
I've since restricted my maximum liability in the settings but i noticed this sometimes prevents greening-up from occurring via excel, which is a bugger. The software should make greening-up except from the max liability rule or at least give the option.
I've since restricted my maximum liability in the settings but i noticed this sometimes prevents greening-up from occurring via excel, which is a bugger. The software should make greening-up except from the max liability rule or at least give the option.