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The Machine Bet / the lag
nine seconds against eighty milliseconds
The whole advantage is time
A person takes about nine seconds from deciding to an accepted price: reading the market, checking the stake, pressing the button, waiting for the confirmation. A machine takes about eighty milliseconds. If the price can move inside that window - which it can, in any market that is still being priced - then the machine is not betting better, it is betting earlier, and the earlier price is the whole edge.
Desk spec
- human median
- 9.4 s
- machine median
- 0.08 s
- ratio
- 117.5x
- human under 1 s
- 6%
- human over 20 s
- 9%
- slippage on 100.00
- 2.40
who presses itA person, in 0 of 900 sampled software orders. The account is a verified holder; the order is an interface call.
why it is ahead0.08 seconds against 9.4. The advantage is time, and it is worth about 2.40 on a 100.00 stake.
what it costs the account62 flagged, 30 limited to a mean 2.00 ceiling, 18 closed, 12 withdrawals refused.
Direct answerA person takes a median 9.4 seconds to place a bet and a machine 0.08 seconds - about 117 times faster. Where a price moves inside that window, the machine takes the earlier price: in the sampled markets the difference was worth 2.40 on a 100.00 stake, which is the entire edge and has nothing to do with choosing a better bet.
the human path, stage by stage (median of the sample)
| stage | time | cumulative |
|---|
| read the market | 2.6 s | 2.6 s |
| choose the selection | 1.1 s | 3.7 s |
| set the stake | 1.9 s | 5.6 s |
| press and confirm | 3.8 s | 9.4 s |
| a machine completes the same four stages in | 0.08 s |
what 9.4 seconds costs when the price moves
the price at the decision 2.05
the price at the acceptance 2.00
the move inside the window 2.4%
the same 100.00 stake
taken at 2.05 205.00 the machine
taken at 2.00 200.00 the person
the difference 5.00
and on a market that moves 6% in the window,
the person is not choosing a worse bet,
they are taking a worse price for the same one
Which way the window moves
A price does not only shorten. For a machine, a window is useful whichever side the price goes, because an automated rule can wait for a number and a person has to decide now. That is why the honest framing of the advantage is certainty about the entry price, not a claim that the machine picks winners: the sample flagged no difference in the selections chosen, only in the price taken for them.
This desk explains the arithmetic of the lag. It does not describe how to build a faster client, and it is not an argument that automated placement is allowed - it is the opposite, as the rules page sets out.