Although I didn’t have much time to spend on the bots, I did manage to set one trading on Betdaq. It went for 4 and a bit days before hitting min account balance stop. In that time it achieved 1564 settlted bets. The problem I have now is downloading the betting history from Betdaq; I’ve tried on Chrome and IE but nothing happens.

From my own data it seems to be trading quite well with the main losses coming from multiple repeat trades when one trade is open. I’m going to prevent this from happening and run it some more. I’m happy for losses at this point if there is progress to be made. As with all my bots, I think the work planned on improved data collection and more dynamic trading will have a positive impact on returns.

Below are last weeks charts. UK dogs was a bit roller-coaster. Aus horses performed better but still room for improvement.

The Betdaq bot ran through all UK horse races yesterday without any errors. Although it finished at a loss, it was within the acceptable range of Bot1. As such I’ve allowed it to continue for now. With only a small sample of trades it’s hard to pick out any patterns of loss (or profit). I noticed a couple of times where multiple trades on one selection in a short amount of time resulted in loss and also only one lay-then-back trade was made, which was a loss. These are areas to watch but without more data I won’t make any adjustments. I’m quite pleased with the number of trades, around 150, as I’d thought that if the market had mirrored Betfair but with a few tick spread, my bot would just place into the spread and never get filled. As it did get filled I’m guessing the market is quite active and either independent of, or tightly following, Betfair.