Two opposing strategies running on same market?

[jonboysez]

Hi
I have written an excel spreadsheet to trade pre-race horse races and was wondering if there is any way I could test it with one worksheet stop at a win, and the other stop at a loss both on the same races? Would I need 2 Betfair accounts and 2 BA accounts? (Trying to maximise on winning streaks and minimise on losing streaks, but I suppose its really dependant on how many selections are steamers or drifters - are there any statistics for favourites from past seasons?)

John

[Micki]

Hi John,

You can open BA twice, use same BA and BF accounts. Be carefull to adjust the settings in order not to exceed the limits for data requests(chargeable by BF) for each second.

Best regards,

Michael

[jonboysez]

Hi Micki

With your suggestion wouldn't the bets interfere with each other tho? - I wasn't meaning to carry on running the 2 systems in tandem (think they would just cancel each other out anyway) - was just wanting to test run and find out which returned highest profit (if I'm lucky!) over say a week and then switch to just that one in future. Maybe I'm asking a daft question - think it depends on whether favourites are more likely to drift or steam in and by how much (and that is probably dependent on their initial odds) - I suppose a "dead cert" e.g Frankel is likely to steam in through fair-weather punters backing it at close to the off, so might be a need to target specific races.

[jonboysez]

Hi Micki

With your suggestion wouldn't the bets interfere with each other tho? - I wasn't meaning to carry on running the 2 systems in tandem (think they would just cancel each other out anyway) - was just wanting to test run and find out which returned highest profit (if I'm lucky!) over say a week and then switch to just that one in future. Maybe I'm asking a daft question - think it depends on whether favourites are more likely to drift or steam in and by how much (and that is probably dependent on their initial odds) - I suppose a "dead cert" e.g Frankel is likely to steam in through fair-weather punters backing it at close to the off, so might be a need to target specific races.

[Micki]

No, they don't interfere or disturb each other. A week? If I were you I would test for months..., but I'm not

[Shaun]

Just don't use the balance or liability shown in excel to decide the next bet, what you will need to do is use a lookup for the runner and the results of that bet.