Where has the money gone?

[Bet Angel]

£240k on the 15:20 at AYR on a Saturday afternoon, pathetic!

[Bet Angel]

Less than £300k on a grade one race, 15:35 Ascot.

[LeTiss]

The racing liquidity appears to be suffering these days when competing against football.

I notice £168k matched on Leyton Orient v Southampton!

Last year, it would have been unthinkable to see an untelevised League 1 match have liquidity as strong as that

[Bet Angel]

Interesting again today, Grade 2 hurdle at Haydock. A seller is in front of it at Uttox, only £280k traded on the Grade 2. Rubbish for the difference in class of race.

[Bet Angel]

LOL Grade 2 Hurdle at Fairyhouse just did almost as much as Haydock!?!?!?

[hgodden]

Volume figures mean nothing. How much of the money traded on the exchanges is actually real betting money? 30%? The amount of spoof money about, self matching bots and people bullying the market one way or the other is ridiculous

[Bet Angel]

I think our general concern yesterday was just how little real money the bigger races are attracting. It's noticable, particulary yesterday, when the only sin Haydock committed was to be behind a lower quality race. With the quality on offer you would have thought the market would have attracted more interest.

It does make you ponder where all the volume is coming from? I doubt Betfair will ever publish this data, though Peter did mention some older data on his blog some time ago.

[PeterLe]

I think our general concern yesterday was just how little real money the bigger races are attracting. It's noticable, particulary yesterday, when the only sin Haydock committed was to be behind a lower quality race. With the quality on offer you would have thought the market would have attracted more interest.

It does make you ponder where all the volume is coming from? I doubt Betfair will ever publish this data, though Peter did mention some older data on his blog some time ago.

BA/Peter
Regarding Volume..Do you have any records as to the inplay volume that is matched..? If so, how does it currently compare to this time last year?
Thanks
regards
Peter

[Bet Angel]

We don't tend to keep records of in-play volume but historically it's accounted for around 20% of total volume in a race.

[LeTiss]

As I've already mentioned in this thread, Sports markets are holding up pretty well, and Football is booming

I'm wondering whether traders have become bored or disillusioned with Racing & are moving their money elsewhere?

[J.S.]

Perhaps the influx of credit crunch apprentices is starting to wear off.

[sweetybt]

There has been no reasonable racing for weeks, you need to see the same NH horse racing week in week out to build up some public interest, press interest and volume. This was also Half-term holiday so lots of people skiing.

I did a 27 km cross country ski on Saturday with 500m vertical climb which really really really hurt and took 2hrs 40 min. The guys who did the 30km yesterday did it 1 hr 15min

[enzabella2009]

I have moved all my funds to football for while now and since I have never dropped my profits.

[TheRiddler]

there is plenty of 'punters' real money about for the horses it's just being placed into areas which are not beneficial for you personally.
everything is still rosy in the garden especially after a wonderful northern saturday at ascot?

if you're still looking at trading in the same way you where 6 months ago then your submarine has been glanced by a torpedo. Don't wait for a direct hit.

[Iron]

Do you need to know about the matches you are trading, or is all the information you need in the graphs?

Jeff

I have moved all my funds to football for while now and since I have never dropped my profits.