Today's Horse Racing
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ShaunWhite
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That'll be me
Joking aside I've had an interesting day and re-learnt a lesson from the stoneage. I've been knee deep in excel today but wanted to see the BF feed to check if real world events were to blame for some of my anomalies.
So I needed to dip a fiver in and out of the market so I could see the stream, and I didn't really want to pay for the pleasure. Now i know a fiver is easier to do than £500 but I've had 18 wins and 2 scratches from 20 markets....the same has happend twice before. The difference? I'm trying not to lose insead of trying to win. I'm sure I learned that on day 1.
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northbound
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Had a great day too today.
Curiosly, rather than focusing intensely on each race, I simply switched to markets in the last 1-2mins.
Got a few scalps, one small loss, one great swing.
Curiosly, rather than focusing intensely on each race, I simply switched to markets in the last 1-2mins.
Got a few scalps, one small loss, one great swing.
I would never start trading with two minutes to go. If a trade goes against you you don't have much time or leeway to give a reversal a chance. I suppose everybody has a different style of trading each of which will be suited to a different time interval.
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BetScalper
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I don't usually put a timeframe on trading horses anymore.
But I will wait for the following to occur:
- Last race has finished.
- Average Increase > £1000 per second
- Large orders start to build up on the favourite.
- Price is within 25% of top and bottom of a trading range.
- I don't open back trades near the bottom or lay trades near the top.
- I don't trade Hcap races unless there is an odds on favourite.
- I do use WOM(100,50,25) for opening and closing trades. But only if it looks like there is money at the front to support the move.
At the moment 80% of it is automated. Can't get it fully automated with BA as 2 parameters can't be done yet unless I start integrating with Excel, which just adds overheads.
I guess you could call it reversal trading.
Depending on the type of race and day of the week then this could be 10 min, 5 min or 3 min before the start.
However, I would say that 70% of my trades are opened in the final 3 minutes. Still plenty of time to get out with a positive trade. Unless the mad bomber starts dropping his/her pocket money into the market.
Have fun,
But I will wait for the following to occur:
- Last race has finished.
- Average Increase > £1000 per second
- Large orders start to build up on the favourite.
- Price is within 25% of top and bottom of a trading range.
- I don't open back trades near the bottom or lay trades near the top.
- I don't trade Hcap races unless there is an odds on favourite.
- I do use WOM(100,50,25) for opening and closing trades. But only if it looks like there is money at the front to support the move.
At the moment 80% of it is automated. Can't get it fully automated with BA as 2 parameters can't be done yet unless I start integrating with Excel, which just adds overheads.
I guess you could call it reversal trading.
Depending on the type of race and day of the week then this could be 10 min, 5 min or 3 min before the start.
However, I would say that 70% of my trades are opened in the final 3 minutes. Still plenty of time to get out with a positive trade. Unless the mad bomber starts dropping his/her pocket money into the market.
Have fun,
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lukesanges
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- Joined: Tue Oct 31, 2017 8:26 pm
Got caught out on that one just then, was expecting it to come back
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dragontrades
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