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Case Study – In Play Traded Volume to Spreadsheet

From Bet Angel forum: Suggestion - wouldn’t it be better for the in-play traders to have the market traded volumes reset to zero before the off.  I would like to see a spreadsheet with this added and possibly be implemented as a future feature. So you could even have the full traded ...

Case Study – Finding Gaps between Back Prices

From Bet Angel forum: I know how to find a gap between the back and lay price of a selection using automation but is it possible to find a gap between the best and second best odds on offer? Bfexplorer Solution: I created simple trigger script to report gaps between best offered and second best ...

Case Study – Horse Racing Bet On Longest In Range

From Bet Angel forum: I am struggling with this and it may not be possible but I have got to point where I need to ask for help. I would like to check a horse race 10min before the off to find out the following -  Is the fav horse a clear fav <- this i can do. If this is correct then are ...

Filtering Markets by Custom Market Data

From cymatic forum: By using the Text query box, I am able to filter for Horse Racing markets like Beverly, Chepstow, Kempton, Ascot, etc. However, when I use strings like Mdn, NHF, Hrd, etc., the results are not shown, instead I am asked to use different search criteria. How can I filter the ...

Football Code (max bet per match)

I have already the bot strategies written in Python which appear to be different to yours bots written in F# / C# My issue is that the code occationaly backs a football match multiple times eg where the BACK / LAY conditions are met which exceeds my % risk per match for the total balance .. Do you ...

Case Study 32 - Laying The Draw Bot

From Bet Angel forum: I have been very suprised last week with a big loss on a LTD trade with my bot although i was in position for banking a profit, because of the betfair system fails.here's my bot, it’s been implemented for doing the following :* Laying the draw before ...

Save Betfair Data Automatically to Database

Let's say you want to execute bfexplorer bot saving market data on your windows server to MS SQL database in fully automatic mode every day.  What you need to do is following:  1) Your bot will be executed using Bot executor on bet events you define in your favourite events. So if I ...

Custom Market Filtering

If you trade only on markets which fulfill your rules then you find useful “My Description”, the property value accessible from any custom bot or bot trigger. In my video I opened all today’s win markets for horse racing and executed my custom bot. The bot checked required market ...

Dealing with swings - in play

From Bet Angel forum: The problemI'm sure it's the nature of trading that some wild swings come into play on a runner that's leading the field. A case in point was one that I had placed a back bet on last friday. It was sitting on odds of 3.75->3.5 for the 1st 30 seconds of the race (a 1 mile ...

Case Study 28 - In-play & selections

From Bet Angel forum: Just another quick seek of your valuable help on Bet Angel. I have created an automation rule that is doing OK in testing. It's an 'in-play' automation and is for horse races. It's working as it should for UK races as they go in-play. However, am struggling with races outside ...