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Automation: Struggling with detecting correct score

From BetAngel forum: Forgive a newbie, but I'm trying to create a bot which checks if a goal is scored between 70 and 80mins, but getting inconsistent results.  What's the best way to approach this please?  So far, I've tried to populate each score line with a stored value relating to ...

Automation: Stopping Automation if condition not satisfied

From BetAngel forum: Some automation files are made up of many rules. And some have market volume criteria that may be imposed at a set time. Is there a way to have a rule that says … "if at this point these criteria are not met then don't bother going any further wasting resources checking ...

Betfair Data to Analyze Trading Strategy

Let’s say we have got a horse racing strategy executed automatically by betfair bot strategy. The only information we have got are messages displayed by trading bot in Output view. What if we want to analyze this strategy learning what is the best profit loss target, what entry point is the ...

Ice Hockey Betfair Bot

I was looking for a bot to automate my betting.My betting strategy is based upon professional tipsters who make conditional bets for ice hockey:e.g. 1st period total goals over 1.5 with 10€ stake,if loose, same for 2nd period with 30€ stake,if loose, same for 3rd period with 70€ ...

Timeform Filter Data to Spreadsheet

Testing bespoke betfair bot for horse racing. Bot filter parameters: MeetingRaceType, MeetingCountry, MeetingCourse HorseWinnerLastTimeOut, HorseInForm, HorseBeatenFavouriteLTO SuitedByGoing, SuitedByCourse, SuitedByDistance TrainerName, TrainerInForm, TrainerCourseRecord JockeyName, ...

Betfair for Data Scientists

If you are python software developer or data scientist, you already know what the jupyter is and how to use it. https://jupyter.org/ If you are not and want to learn something about betfair trading, or just use betfair as source of data for analyzing, then this tutorial is for you. What is very ...

Betfair Machine Learning Trading Bot

Here is my short video from testing machine learning trading bot. Depending on fulfill conditions it starts back/lay or lay/back trading session, or no trade is executed at all. I have tested four different ML models. At the end of my video is some hint for those who prefer criteria based bot ...

Signals to tell a horse race is about to go off

From Betangel forum: I'm running a Guardian automation that relays on being close to the off time of a horse race. Using start time for a horse race becomes less accurate during the day as things get delayed. What system/tells/market signals does anyone use to predict when close to off rather than ...

Spreadsheet for Live Current Trades

From Betangel forum: Does anyone have a spreadsheet that can pick up my bets from Bet Angel and show them live in a simple format such as this:  Race Details | Selection | Stake | Matched Price| LTP |Current Profit/Loss  I've searched and can't see how to do it. Bfexplorer ...

Automation - Choosing a horse by its last position

From Betangel forum: Not sure if this has been answered or not, can't find anything on the search function. Maybe I'm using wrong search parameters. Anyway how do you set up a bot to choose the horse which was say 8th placed on its last race? Or even multiple horses chosen by last placing on ...