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Find selection Id by Jocket name

From bdp.betfair forum: I am trying to find the selection id of a particular Jokey by the name. I am trying to use the textquery to find the selection / jockey to bet when calling the listMarketCatalogue method. But it works only with the event not with the Jockey name. Any idea how to do ...

Automatic market uploading to Guardian for new markets only

From Betangel forum: I think you are asking for basically the same as me. Automatically load new markets into Guardian and add the appropriate rules as soon as the market becomes available of Betfair. If not I'm sure it's close. I would suggest you add a comment to my original post in the ...

Automatic market uploading to Guardian?

From Betangel forum: Is there any way to automatically populate Guardian with markets as they become available and then can automation rules be applied to them? Fort instance as soon as tomorrow's horse races at Cheltenham are put live by Betfair then they are detected and automatically uploaded ...

Multiple Markets Hedging

From Betangel forum: Can anyone know is it possible to bind several markets, so when there is profit that I want (for example 10£) to automatically hedge them all? * If you mean a combined profit across all markets (not in an individual market) then yes it could be done but only by using ...

Horse Racing Winning Using Beaten Favorites

Many horseplayers dismiss horses that went off as the post-time favorite and lost in their previous race.  Often these horses are not worth playing back, yet there are occasions when they are worth backing. In my early data collection, I looked at all beaten favorites, regardless of lengths ...

Not Laying Named Favourite

From BetAngel forum: Is there a way to Lay the Favourite, but have an instruction to NOT Lay it if it is a specified named runner? For the avoidance of doubt, no other runner would be Layed. Bfexplorer Solution: When bot trigger is executed, it is executed on a market selection, so in this case ...

Betfair SP Stake

When I place a Betfair SP bet, it only shows matched in the Market Bets window,but the stake shows 0.  When the event starts, then the stake shows (as well as the odds of course).  Also all the codes that I can find on showing the BSP (near far etc) don't show anything in the ...

Lay the favourite <50% market

From BetEngel forum: I am trying to lay a favorite if it has less than 50% of the market volume. I can get it to work with an amount i.e.:  £10000 etc but not on a % basis can anybody help with this, it would be appreciated. I know it is done by using stored values but I have tried a ...

Bot Trigger Building Part 4

In the final Part of this tutorial, I would like the bot to stop and give us a warning message in the console if it has had X losses in a row. Seeing as the bot runs fully automatic, if I am not in front of the computer and for whatever reason I am having a bad run, I'd like to limit my losses so ...

Bot Trigger Building Part 3

Now that we have a working bot, I'd like to monitor the odds of my selection if matched, so that if it looks like my trade is not going good, I'd like to limit my losses. To this effect I would like to have a trigger that if my selection has a lay trade that was matched due to the previous triggers ...