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Double or Bust – Betfair Trading Bot for Horse Racing

From Cymatic Trader forum: Is the following scenario possible? I am looking at backing a named runner just before the off and then, after 5 - 10 seconds I would like the current price of that selection compared to the matched back price bet. If X lower then place a lay at DOB, if not ...

Horse Racing - Number of Runners

From Bet Angel forum: I am getting into signals and stored vales a lot more these days and I was wondering how you store the number of runners to display in the log.  Do you use a signal or a stored value and what would be the settings? Suggestion from forum: A series of alert rules with the ...

Horse Racing Photo Finish Bot

From Market Feeder forum (in Russian so make your own translation for the rest replies in the forum): Is it possible to implement a trigger for horse racing, which will work exclusively when the race is suspended at the end and opens again (usually because of the uncertainty in the winner)? Market ...

Betfair Bot Programming for Non-Developers

Bfexplorer app already offers more than 20 general bots you can use to setup your betting or trading strategy just by setting bot parameters or orchestrating more bots to your unique strategy. If you are able to create this way your automated strategy for betfair, then of course no programming is ...

Football Bot Trigger Goals and Cards Details

From bet angel forum: Red card signals I’m trying to write an automation signal relating to home red cards and wondering the best approach. I am thinking of combining the signals functionality with the stored values functionality, i.e. when the correct score is showing 0-0 (using stored ...

Horse Racing Testing and Analyzing Dutching Strategy

How to test a strategy? Well, first we should start by placing bets and watching for profit/loss patterns which could be utilized to run fully automated betting or trading strategy. It is a good idea to place such bets in practice mode, so no real money is in risk. Let’s say we place dutch ...

Betfair Tennis Trading Automation

What is your daily routine when trading tennis matches on betfair? First, you may spend some time on selecting tournaments and players you will watch for potential trading opportunity, then you may learn more about players form on ATP web site, or tipster web sites, so you do your daily routine ...

Betfair Tennis Trading and Tools

For tennis trading I use this type of layout. To open markets which are already in-play, Tennis Score tool can be used just by double clicking on a match the match in automatically open in bfexplorer.  Mostly I trade on ATP matches only, so similar like in any bfexplorer grid view we can ...

Betfair Bot Projects and Bot Execution Tools

Last couple of days I have been working on three bot projects for one of my professional subscriber. All bot projects involve external data retrieval for market bet selections. One project is for football trading and other two for tennis trading. When developing bot strategies I am used to test ...

Case Study – Football Trade Late Goals

From Bet Angel forum: I'm interested in experimenting with an automation rule for trading late goals in a football match. I've never used automation before so I assume setting a rule to place an order into a market when the match reaches a certain time would be straight forward e.g. When the match ...