Defining a longshot bet as exactly $2,500 or more with a price under 0.35 in an hour feels a bit too rigid for spotting actual market anomalies.
It's like saying a significant scam only starts at £1,000; you’d miss 90% of the daily phishing attempts that add up.
A 20% difference in value, like a £2,000 bet, or a 25% longer time frame, say 75 minutes, could still show the exact same risk-to-reward ratio for the bettor, a 1 in 3 chance of a 10x return.
Those thresholds might exclude a lot of equally insightful data points just outside the arbitrary limits.