Convolutional Attention in Betting Exchange Markets

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Main Authors: Gonçalves, Rui, Ribeiro, Vitor Miguel, Chertovskih, Roman, Aguiar, António Pedro
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Published: 2025
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author Gonçalves, Rui
Ribeiro, Vitor Miguel
Chertovskih, Roman
Aguiar, António Pedro
author_facet Gonçalves, Rui
Ribeiro, Vitor Miguel
Chertovskih, Roman
Aguiar, António Pedro
contents This study presents the implementation of a short-term forecasting system for price movements in exchange markets, using market depth data and a systematic procedure to enable a fully automated trading system. The case study focuses on the UK to Win Horse Racing market during the pre-live stage on the world's leading betting exchange, Betfair. Innovative convolutional attention mechanisms are introduced and applied to multiple recurrent neural networks and bi-dimensional convolutional recurrent neural network layers. Additionally, a novel padding method for convolutional layers is proposed, specifically designed for multivariate time series processing. These innovations are thoroughly detailed, along with their execution process. The proposed architectures follow a standard supervised learning approach, involving model training and subsequent testing on new data, which requires extensive pre-processing and data analysis. The study also presents a complete end-to-end framework for automated feature engineering and market interactions using the developed models in production. The key finding of this research is that all proposed innovations positively impact the performance metrics of the classification task under examination, thereby advancing the current state-of-the-art in convolutional attention mechanisms and padding methods applied to multivariate time series problems.
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spellingShingle Convolutional Attention in Betting Exchange Markets
Gonçalves, Rui
Ribeiro, Vitor Miguel
Chertovskih, Roman
Aguiar, António Pedro
Statistical Finance
Machine Learning
68T07, 62H30, 91G70, 62P05
This study presents the implementation of a short-term forecasting system for price movements in exchange markets, using market depth data and a systematic procedure to enable a fully automated trading system. The case study focuses on the UK to Win Horse Racing market during the pre-live stage on the world's leading betting exchange, Betfair. Innovative convolutional attention mechanisms are introduced and applied to multiple recurrent neural networks and bi-dimensional convolutional recurrent neural network layers. Additionally, a novel padding method for convolutional layers is proposed, specifically designed for multivariate time series processing. These innovations are thoroughly detailed, along with their execution process. The proposed architectures follow a standard supervised learning approach, involving model training and subsequent testing on new data, which requires extensive pre-processing and data analysis. The study also presents a complete end-to-end framework for automated feature engineering and market interactions using the developed models in production. The key finding of this research is that all proposed innovations positively impact the performance metrics of the classification task under examination, thereby advancing the current state-of-the-art in convolutional attention mechanisms and padding methods applied to multivariate time series problems.
title Convolutional Attention in Betting Exchange Markets
topic Statistical Finance
Machine Learning
68T07, 62H30, 91G70, 62P05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16008