Bfexplorer Products
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Bfexplorer PRO
The Bfexplorer PRO offers three types of user interface for bet placing, the market grid view similar to the user interface on betfair web pages, the selection list view (“ladder”) user interface for placing, updating and cancelling bets, and Bfexplorer Trader for multi selection trading on the list view interface.
After a bet is placed at betfair market the selection on which you placed the bet is automatically added into the Watched selections window where you can see the price/odds movement and your current position. If you want to close your position (trade out with equal profit) you simply click on Profit button, or on the Close position in the Watched Selections window.
You can monitor as many markets as you want quickly switching among them through Watched Selection window or Market list.
The application offers a set of Bet Wizards for placing bets when preset criteria are met, bet wizards for placing a bet and closing position, backing or laying all selections, back or lay dutching.
As this application is used by traders it offers trading strategies for any of mentioned user interface components and extensive bot script support both by built-in bots or customizable bot scripts. This unique feature enables you to write your own bot scripts in Visual Basic or C# programming languages. For users who are not familiar with any programming language the Bfexplorer PRO offers a Bot Executor with Bot Criteria Editor which can be used to setup different scenarios for bet placing or trading by utilizing all offered bots (including customize bots). Such bot criteria is then used on the selection when needed, just by clicking on the start bot toolbar button, or for your fully automated solutions which can run on the Trade Opportunity Lookup service. The application supports the Excel automation as well.
The Bfexplorer PRO offers any available information you can get from betfair, presenting the market data on charts where you can see the price/odds movement and weight of money in time, traded and available volume, market statistics, choose your selection window where you can sort selection by six different parameters, everything you need to decide the right moment for opening or closing your position when trading on a market.
Thanks to extensive bot support the application can be used to host any bespoke solution built as a plug-in for the Bfexplorer, you can see some of such solutions in the My Solutions menu.
Bfexplorer for Horse Racing
The Bfexplorer for Horse Racing offers what any trader on horse racing markets needs, automatically opens the next horse racing market after clicking on Next Race toolbar button, or just using the Today Card to filter races by country. The main user interface for bet placing is the market grid view similar to the user interface on betfair web pages, and the selection list view (“ladder”) user interface for placing, updating and cancelling bets. If there is need for multi selection trading interface you can use the Bfexplorer Trader.
What is unique in this application is an In Play Trader user interface which presents the offered prices and volume in a very simple manner enabling this way to see the weight of money on the whole market. This user interface is very useful for in play trading as you can see on one spot the whole market and also the probability of runner/horse to win.
Clicking on a horse blue (back) or orange (lay) square you select the selection/horse and by next click on the same selection you place a bet, clicking with right mouse button you just select the selection/horse.
After a bet is placed at betfair market the selection on which you placed the bet is automatically added into the Watched selections window where you can see the price/odds movement and your current position. If you want to close your position (trade out with equal profit) you simply click on Profit button, or on the Close position in the Watched Selections window. You can add any selection into this Watched Selection window also by just dropping the horse name (selection) into this window.
You can monitor as many markets as you want quickly switching among them through Watched Selection window or Market list.
The application offers a set of Bet Wizards for placing bets when preset criteria are met, bet wizards for placing a bet and closing position, backing or laying all selections, back or lay dutching.
Bfexplorer for Bettors
The Bfexplorer for Bettors offers the base market grid view for bet placing similar to the user interface on betfair web pages. After a bet is placed at betfair market the selection on which you placed the bet is automatically added into the Watched selections window where you can see the price/odds movement and your current position. If you want to close your position (trade out with equal profit) you simply click on Profit button, or on the Close position in the Watched Selections window. You can monitor as many markets as you want quickly switching among them through Watched Selection window or Market list.
The application offers a set of Bet Wizards for placing bets when preset criteria are met, bet wizards for placing a bet and closing position, backing or laying all selections, back or lay dutching.
If you want to place bets or trade a market on more selections the application offers Bfexplorer Trader with selection list view (“ladder”) user interface for placing, updating and cancelling bets. Bfexplorer Trader offers five trading strategies you can use at trading.
Bfexplorer Tipster Service
If you are an experience bettor or a tipster willing to offer your tipster services to bettfair bettors, you can use the Bfexplorer Tipster Service to publish your bets and distribute them to your customers just by clicking on the Publish button. The Bfexplorer Tipster Console is used by tipsters to prepare a set of bets which are published by the service and consumed by customers using the Bfexplorer Tipster Client application.
The Bfexplorer Tipster Console is used to prepare your bets. You can define the odds range and the time the bet should be placed at betfair market before its official start, write some description about your selection and define if the bet is just placed on the market or traded out if preset conditions are met.
The Bfexplorer Tipster Client is used by bettors, your customers to automatically load your selections and place bets on the betfair markets just by clicking on the Start button. The bettor can change individual parameters for any selection, sets its default stake or accept all your selections or just place bets on selected ones.
The Bfexplorer Tipster Platform can be used by the bettor himself, to prepare set of bets using the Bfexplorer Tipster Console and then the Bfexplorer Tipster Client to place such set of bets on the betfair markets automatically.
Bfexplorer for Pocket PC
With Bfexplorer for Pocket PC you can trade directly at tennis court or racecourse, or any other event you can bet in-play. If you know, how to exploit the advantage of being on an event, why do not you use it?
The application uses the market grid view presenting only best offered prices and Profit/Loss button for closing your position. For horse racing markets, or markets with more selections you can switch the market grid view to two columns showing this way more selections on the small mobile device display.
You can browse all betfair events in offer to open your market, and monitor simultaneously more markets. You can set a different refresh rate used for market monitoring for markets which are in-play and which are not. You can set your default stakes also for in-play and not, trading offset, possibility to place closing bet immediately after the opening one is matched. The close bet stake is calculated automatically with equal profit or loss or with zero profit if your bet loses. You can update or cancel your unmatched bets.
Bfexplorer for Solutions
The Bfexplorer infrastructure is flexible enough enables us to build any bespoke solution for you and we do so. The Bfexplorer for Solutions is a framework on which we can build such bespoke solution if there is requirement to build it as a standalone application, not plug-in hosting in the Bfexplorer PRO.
Such application framework utilizes the Bfexplorer infrastructure for markets monitoring, bet operations, bot services and money management system. The Bfexplorer for Solutions then offers the base user interface for building the application control panel and anything what is needed to run such solution for you. As the bfexplorer infrastructure is able to work in “learning” mode when bet placing is only simulated, you can test your solution without risking your money. The market settling is simulated as well, so you can see results of your betting in My Results window, this simulated market settling is available only for markets for which the betfair supports the result service.
Bfexplorer BOT SDK
The Bfexplorer PRO supports the bot script development in Visual Basic or C# programming languages. So if you are a familiar with one of those languages you can write your own trading and lookup bot scripts. The Bfexplorer PRO has a simple text editor for writing bot scripts, the bot script source code can be compiled so you can check this way if the code you wrote is without errors, but there is no support for debugging nor the text editor has no capabilities offered by integrated development environment like the VS2008 so this editor is suitable only for small changes of code or changing parameters in existing bot scripts. If you want to write more complicated bot scripts you should use this BOT SDK package.
The BOT SDK contains two projects, one in Visual Basic and the other in C# so you can open it in VS2008 Express and write, debug and test your bots. The Bfexplorer infrastructure is exposed by BotTestService interface enabling the base features of the Bfexplorer platform for testing purposes. The result of your coding effort can be then used in Bfexplorer PRO either as a trading or lookup bot script you can use in the Bot Executor or in the Trade Opportunity Lookup Service.
