The fat fingers thread

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Derek27
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Fat finger or malfunctioning bot?
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Opps roughly for £150 when trading around 1.4 :?

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One has to assume that they have forgotten or missed the decimal point - rather than laying at 1.40, they have layed at 14
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Lucky bastard got away with this one. Hadn't noticed it but it looks like the £3k dumped near 1.01 was pre-race. :lol:
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Figure this one out?

I suspect back bets on the outside two were cross-matched with the rest.
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Derek27 wrote:
Fri Dec 14, 2018 11:07 am
Figure this one out?

I suspect back bets on the outside two were cross-matched with the rest.
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55.6% non runner, takes out most of the poorly coded bots.
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Opps

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Funny how when that happens you often see 2 or 3 bets placed at that price.
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Derek27 wrote:
Sat Dec 22, 2018 2:30 pm
Funny how when that happens you often see 2 or 3 bets placed at that price.
Bots I would guess reacting to the initial bet.
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Maybe got home and away teams mixed up here?
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£222 laid at 9.0.
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Somebody's got a bot that goes bonkers mid-morning. Tomorrow I might throw in a few random back bets to see if I can catch any fish. :)
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Derek27 wrote:
Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:27 pm
Somebody's got a bot that goes bonkers mid-morning. Tomorrow I might throw in a few random back bets to see if I can catch any fish. :)
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That looks more like a 'Fat Finger' the difference is usually a bot going wrong causes the price to go up and down rapidly as someone/another bot takes advantage of it.
Whereas a fat finger is a single misclick so you get the spike out back to normal quickly after.

Peter has done a video on creating a fat finger bot which can just be left in the background all day or even 24/7, it won't trigger often but when it does it can bag a few quid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOmK7dQqnR4
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Here's another one.
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Derek27 wrote:
Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:42 pm
Here's another one.
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Based on that one and previous one, it does look like someone has a setting, on a selection, to hoover up current prices mid day, Lay @9.0+

Possibly they feel the selection can't win and then back it In-Play for a set profit. (some form of a L2B set and forget strategy)
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