Thursday, 6 October 2011

In Running Video Feeds

Big problems with the Betfair Video feed again this afternoon :(

I had a quick look on the BF forums just to check it was a common problem and not just me, and today someone mentioned that the Betdaq feed was working fine...

What Betdaq feed?

So I logged into Betdaq, and sure enough they have a video feed... :)

When Betfair was back up I did a side by side comparison and there's not much in it, BetDaq was about 1/2 second ahead of Betfair on the two races I checked.

But Betdaq only have ATR and not RUK, but as Ayr was abandoned it wasn't an issue today.

Just had a quick look at RUK site for live feed and it's £115 a year to subscribe, so now I'm making some more consistent profits I might sign up for that if the BF feed keeps being pants.

Had another easy day of uneventful trades, just under £20 so far, still a few races to go, stakes now up to £7.50.

Virtual bank is £150 (I've taken a ton out this week as there's no need to have more than £50 actually kept in BF)

Still cutting some trades too early when the prices don't match what I'm reading, but I guess it means I get caught less as well... But that's probably the thing I need to work on at the moment as there's some nice profits to be had for relatively small risk if I can get the balance right.

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4 comments:

  1. Never thought about that subscribing to RUK.
    Do you think their feed actually has less delay than BF? Does RUK usually cover all the meetings?

    Thanks

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  2. Meetings are split between ATR and RUK (depends on the track).

    BF used to only have ATR then got RUK as well, maybe Betdaq will do the same, so the monthly sub is probably a better bet.

    I had access to RUK last year when I had a Racing Post membership and the delay was noticeable but not sure how it compares to BF feed as BF didn't have it then.

    Would need to do a side by side comparison.

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  3. Noooooo! Been there, got the t-shirt. Save yer dosh mate!

    http://mets-trading-diary.blogspot.com/2011/02/racing-uk-woes.html

    http://mets-trading-diary.blogspot.com/2011/02/perform-group.html

    http://mets-trading-diary.blogspot.com/2011/02/racing-poo-k.html

    "Adaptive Bitrate Streaming" my arse :(

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  4. Thanks Mets

    Sounds like they were pissed off at BF for not paying them to use their feed.

    Maybe they have speeded it up again now that BF have started using it again... hard to say without testing it and that'd cost £10

    Def not worth using with a 5-10 sec delay...

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