I stopped trading last year after seeing the small profits disappear and not spending any time with the bot. My interest is in programming and as I moved from VBA to .NET and the wonders of Visual Studio, I was more interested in app development than raking over market data.
I decided to stop the bot and shut down the VPS, pointless spending money on something I no longer enjoyed.
Thanks to all those who visited and contributed to this site.
Happy trading and keep it fun 🙂
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Hi! First comment on your blog!
Was that because it took too much of your time to keep up or because the market is no longer as profitable.
Kind Regards
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Betfair trading is profitable when you know what you do and how.
His big problem was the trading platform he chose for bot programming, so Excel and VBA.
I do my own bots as well, here is my blog:
http://bit.ly/2Y73oLG
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Hi Setzer,
It was a time thing. I was never that interested in the sports or betting, I enjoyed coding the bot and refining it. As I learnt more I drifted away from the bot and there isn’t enough time for everything.
The market is still profitable, although it probably gets harder with more bots involved. The bot I ran was first used about 8 years ago, and after a couple years stopped. I then went back in with it about 3 years ago and it made some profit – basically by jumping in between trades to ‘nick a tick’. The strategy still works, but dialling in the triggers requires ongoing work.
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I had wondered as it had all gone quite. All the best on your future coding journey.
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