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ouhlala
26 Aug 11 22:30
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A successful gambler is affected by PC2 at a rate of 50%.

He pays £500 of transaction charges per day.

He earns £800 per day which after PC2 is actually £400.

The net result is -£100 per day.

I think this case has not been discussed here.

What do you think about it?



NB: transaction charges is excluded from P&L for PC computation.
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Report Trevh August 26, 2011 10:50 PM BST
Does PC2 affect you Ouhlala?

How does said gambler accrue such vast daily transaction charges?
Report HappyM August 27, 2011 6:46 PM BST
Yes it does Trevh :)

Automate a few strategies over a few sports and you quickly get a lot of transaction charges.

1 extra bet placed (not even matched just placed) costs 1 penny. It is then only worth doing it if you earn more than 1 penny with it. With 50% tax, a transaction now needs a gain of 2 pence to make sense.

It is easy to realize that a lot of formerly winning strategies are now losing money. That means they need to be stopped. Betfair then suffers on three different sides: 1) loss of transation charges, 2) loss of PC, 3) loss of liquidity

One more weird implication of the over-complicated premium charge, I would say.
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