Why is my feed empty?

Almost always because no profile is enabled, or because the profile is narrow enough that nothing has matched yet. Check that at least one profile is on, then widen the min drop or lengthen the time interval.

What is a good minimum drop percentage?

Read it together with the time window rather than on its own. 3% inside fifteen minutes is a sharp move; 5% over an hour is solid; 8% since the price opened is a strong re-rate. Sub-5% across a whole day is usually drift.

How many profiles should I run?

Start with one and add a second only when you can say what the first one is missing. Profiles that overlap heavily just show you the same drop twice.

Your first drop profile

Nothing reaches your feed until you tell the Terminal what to watch for. Here is the fastest honest way to set that up.

A profile is a standing question you leave running against the market. Every drop that reaches your feed matched one of your profiles, and anything that did not match was never shown to you. That is why a new account looks empty: the screen is working, you just have not asked it anything yet.

The profiles sheet in the OddsHub Terminal showing Steam, Solid drops and Big movers with their thresholds — The three profiles that ship with the Terminal, and the thresholds behind each one

A morning of Solid drops, roughly what it surfaces

Brentford v EvertonOver 2.52m
1.95 to 1.84fair 1.8limit 3.1kBeats fair
Genoa v TorinoTorino ML18m
3.4 to 3.1fair 3.02limit 900Beats fair
Sydney FC v PerthUnder 3.041m
2.05 to 1.92fair 1.95limit 450Through fair

Three or four an hour on a normal day, not a firehose. The 41 minute old row has already gone past fair, which is what usually happens to a drop nobody acted on.

What you just switched on

Worth understanding, because these are the settings you will actually tune later.

Reference books are whose price movements you follow. Pinnacle is the default because it is the sharpest of the books we track and the only one that publishes its limits, which is a signal in its own right.

Min drop and time interval only mean something together. A 5% fall inside an hour is a real move. The same 5% bleeding away across a day is drift, and drift is not information. Shorten the interval and you get fewer, sharper alerts; lengthen it and you get more of everything.

Main lines only hides alternative lines, so you see the market everyone is actually betting rather than six versions of it.

The odds range, 1.40 to 4.00 here, keeps out heavy favourites and long shots. A 5% move on a 1.05 shot is arithmetic, not news.

The other two presets

Steam wants 3% inside fifteen minutes, close to kickoff, and it also requires the max bet to have moved. That last condition is what separates real steam from a price drifting: a book that drops its price and raises its limit is inviting money at the new number. Expect a lot of alerts and expect to act fast.

Big movers wants 8% since the price first opened. You will see few of these in a day, and each one means the market has genuinely changed its mind about a game.

When to change it

After a day you will know which way to push.

Too many alerts

Raise the min drop by a point
Shorten the time interval
Set a minimum max bet, which cuts hardest
Narrow to the sports you actually bet

Too few alerts

Lengthen the time interval
Lower the min drop
Add the markets you left out
Widen the odds range

The minimum max bet deserves its own mention. Small limits are the book admitting it is not confident, and a big percentage drop in an obscure youth league can move on a few hundred pounds of stake. Setting a floor there removes a whole category of noise that tightening your drop percentage never will.

You can run several profiles at once, and how many depends on your plan. Give them different alert sounds and you will start recognising which one fired without looking at the screen.