Greyhound Scalping and Trading

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PeterLe wrote:Cyber
Nice work
Are these real trades or in practice mode?
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Peter
Real trades.

Thanks,
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Great work anyway - It makes all the effort worthwhile when you get something working
Look; Ill probably not be too popular saying this; but if you detail exactly what your doing in a public forum, your strategy will most probably stop working overnight as everyone will attempt to do the same thing.
Good luck (Keep good notes going forward if you make any slight changes so you can look backwards etc)
Regards
Peter
cybernet69

PeterLe wrote:Great work anyway - It makes all the effort worthwhile when you get something working
Look; Ill probably not be too popular saying this; but if you detail exactly what your doing in a public forum, your strategy will most probably stop working overnight as everyone will attempt to do the same thing.
Good luck (Keep good notes going forward if you make any slight changes so you can look backwards etc)
Regards
Peter
Thanks.

PS. I haven't given away all my secrets. ;)
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[quote="tomallen123"]I tried creating a greyhound scalping bot but the problem I had was that there would be many big moves which made scalping impossible.
The price would be at 5.4 and someone would take it down to 4.5 in one hit and then it would continue downwards. This type of thing seemed to happen in most races, huge moves which took the lay and left me in a bad position.
I would get a few profitable scalps on the other runners but one big move on a dog and it would leave me in the red.
/quote]

Yes, I seem to get the same problem quite often. I can go on a run of 4-5 consistent winners only to have a lay pop in at say 5s then in a matter of a single trade of as little as £80 by others the odds are then 3.8 and continue downwards, leaving me with a big fat red amount equal to the previous 4-5 wins LOL

Frustrating to try to get consistent results over 1000+ sample size... I continue persevering...

And congratulations to Cybernet if you have indeed swapped the £100 liability simulation trades into real cash trades with the same success. The screenshots are incredible, I'm nowhere near that consistency!!
cybernet69

Crazyskier wrote:
tomallen123 wrote:I tried creating a greyhound scalping bot but the problem I had was that there would be many big moves which made scalping impossible.
The price would be at 5.4 and someone would take it down to 4.5 in one hit and then it would continue downwards. This type of thing seemed to happen in most races, huge moves which took the lay and left me in a bad position.
I would get a few profitable scalps on the other runners but one big move on a dog and it would leave me in the red.
/quote]

Yes, I seem to get the same problem quite often. I can go on a run of 4-5 consistent winners only to have a lay pop in at say 5s then in a matter of a single trade of as little as £80 by others the odds are then 3.8 and continue downwards, leaving me with a big fat red amount equal to the previous 4-5 wins LOL

Frustrating to try to get consistent results over 1000+ sample size... I continue persevering...

And congratulations to Cybernet if you have indeed swapped the £100 liability simulation trades into real cash trades with the same success. The screenshots are incredible, I'm nowhere near that consistency!!
You need to take into account the back book% is before you fire the trades in. I trade every dog in the race, so the odds on all of them cant drop otherwise the book would be totally unbalanced which would lead to all the other bots and manual traders scrambling to take any odds on offer to close out their positions...
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You need to take into account the back book% is before you fire the trades in. I trade every dog in the race, so the odds on all of them cant drop otherwise the book would be totally unbalanced which would lead to all the other bots and manual traders scrambling to take any odds on offer to close out their positions...[/quote]

So you have a condition of back book % being a certain figure? Also what you say about all dogs can't shorten at same time is of course true BUT if you've traded out for one tick on the ones that lengthen but lost a ton on the one or two that have a steam in, it still equals a loss overall.

My biggest issue is also the stop loss triggering far more often than a successful trade : - ()
cybernet69

Crazyskier wrote:You need to take into account the back book% is before you fire the trades in. I trade every dog in the race, so the odds on all of them cant drop otherwise the book would be totally unbalanced which would lead to all the other bots and manual traders scrambling to take any odds on offer to close out their positions...
So you have a condition of back book % being a certain figure? Also what you say about all dogs can't shorten at same time is of course true BUT if you've traded out for one tick on the ones that lengthen but lost a ton on the one or two that have a steam in, it still equals a loss overall.

My biggest issue is also the stop loss triggering far more often than a successful trade : - ()[/quote]

There was a race last night whereby the market went completely mad, with spikes up and down. I still managed to green up for £33.00 on each dog. I posted the screen shot before the race started, which listed all the bets. However, this was removed by moderators here as I wasn't using BA. I have 20 triggers, 3 per dog, LTB, Close, Profit and 2 others to close out 10 seconds before the race starts regardless of overall market position.
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Crazyskier wrote:My biggest issue is also the stop loss triggering far more often than a successful trade : - ()
A possible way round this is instead of using a stop loss use the rule type
"Close trade on selection with or without greening"
with the "close trade profit condition"
and set the value you want to close at.

On its own that will be similar to using a stop loss and wil be triggered with price spikes etc
just the same - but if you also add a
"Historical Reletives odds cond"
and configure it so that the price has to of risen over time or traded there a number of seconds this will eliminate stops due to sudden spikes.
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If you're posting screenshots of other software it's not that surprising the mods will remove it to be fair. You can just as easily post up a screenshot from the Betfair website either the market screen or betting pnl screen.

But I'd have to agree with PeterLe, revealing your winning strategies on a public forum is a sure way to scramble that golden egg regardless of how much you reveal. A few people might pat you on the back but plenty of others will just be looking for winnning snippets and happily undercut you.

Well done for finding an automated winning strategy they're not easy to find but unless you're trying to sell it, or some software, your philanthropic approach might not be the best if you want it to work in the long run.
cybernet69

Dallas wrote:
Crazyskier wrote:My biggest issue is also the stop loss triggering far more often than a successful trade : - ()
A possible way round this is instead of using a stop loss use the rule type
"Close trade on selection with or without greening"
with the "close trade profit condition"
and set the value you want to close at.

On its own that will be similar to using a stop loss and wil be triggered with price spikes etc
just the same - but if you also add a
"Historical Reletives odds cond"
and configure it so that the price has to of risen over time or traded there a number of seconds this will eliminate stops due to sudden spikes.
I agree. Also, because of the spikes in Greyhounds whereby your SL could get blown and just sit there miles away from the current back price you could also fire in a back bet @ 1.01 which would makesure you at least close the trade at the current best price.

Another strategy I also use is part manual whereby I goto the RP website and on each card look for the least fancied dog. Then 2 minutes before the race starts I will LTB the dog WHEN the back book% is < 110, back odds < 10 and it does have some volume traded. This works very well but cant be completely automated as you need to look at each race card. I guess you could just automate the dog with the highest back odds but that doesn't always correspond to what the RP is saying about the dog(s) or race. I use a 0 tick SL and 3 tick offset. But to close the trade I will fire it in @ 1.01, so I know my SL will always work/get matched. Hope this helps some traders/scalpers here.
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I agree. Also, because of the spikes in Greyhounds whereby your SL could get blown and just sit there miles away from the current back price[/quote]

YUP - that's what I see most races and the stop loss only seems to be set by ticks not asking price?
cybernet69

Crazyskier wrote:I agree. Also, because of the spikes in Greyhounds whereby your SL could get blown and just sit there miles away from the current back price
YUP - that's what I see most races and the stop loss only seems to be set by ticks not asking price?[/quote]

YES. That's the biggest problem. Personally I think you should be able to set your SL by ticks or price. That way you could build a trigger to say if back_price <= x send a trade in @ 1.01 because most of the time setting or having a SL is useless especially on Greyhounds. Much better to close it out with the best price the market will offer. Maybe this could be a suggestion for the BA team ?
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This is easily done with Excel.
I often have both Guardian and Excel working in conjunction on the same market.
Guardian seems to have the edge where speed is needed, so I use that for bets that are speed dependant and then excel does the tidying up. for eg closing and greening at reverse price
cybernet69

I am not allowed to post my results here anymore.

One thing I have changed is to only trade during the last 60 seconds of each market. This seems to make it much more consistent with regards to price matching. Makes sense as this is the period when most of the money comes in. It also helps me cut down on the number of TX(s) so as to not incur any charges from betfair. :D

Cheers,
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I dont think there is any objections to you posting results if there from your Betfair P&L page
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