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Ok, I have fixed the search url, but web page offers Searching on web pages, so you could just type in Search in site: ninja, and you would get the same search result.

It does not matter that video is for the old bfexplorer app, it shows what you must do on Ninja app, to allow feeding of market data to ninja trader app through bfexplorer app.

You must be familiar with Ninja app, to use it with bfexplorer, it seems you are not.

http://bfexplorer.net/Articles/Search?text=ninja

when you click on your link, this appears:

Oops!

in the video reviews this program "bfexplorer pro 2" is indicated for connecting with a ninjatrader, but I can not download it. I downloaded, installed only this vursia: bfsplorer. Already 3 days I sit, and I can not understand ((((

Please follow steps shown in the video to articles you can find on the forum, I gave you link to the search result.

I have installed bfexplorer. entered the login password Betfair. connected. after I try to connect a ninjatrader and it is impossible. please do a video connection overview. very over. Thank you

Thank you for the detailed response. I thought it would have had something to do with EvaluateEntryCriteriaOnlyOnce but i didn't know what was the right criteria. Unfortunatelly my evaluation period ended yesterday evenening so i would have to wait util i can buy a subscription to give it a go.

Thanks anyways for the explanation.

Football Bot, is trigger bot, you must set the parameter: BotName to your trading or betting bot. We can call such bot declared by BotName parameter: action bot. 

So, the action bot is actually a bot that is going to place your bets, it could be bot settings of "Place Bet" or "Place Bet and Close Selection Bet Position (trading bot)" bot or whatever other bot allowing to place bets. 

Any bot settings allow entering "Entry Criteria" (click on tab Entry Criteria in the bot settings dialog). 

Here you can add, click on green plus icon, LastPriceTraded Is between x and y value.  

As in your action bot setting you can declare on which selection bot will place bet/s, the parameters: Selection/ExecuteOnSelection and SortSelectionBy, your bot will know which selection LastPriceTraded to evaluate. 

As your bot will use Entry Criteria, you can restrict how many times these entry criteria should be evaluated, just by setting the parameter: Market/EvaluateEntryCriteriaOnlyOnce. 

So, what will happen when your Football bot triggers your action bot? 

As the EvaluateEntryCriteriaOnlyOnce is set to True (checked), and Entry Criteria is set to evaluate LastPriceTraded Is between x and y value, then when LastPriceTraded Is not between x and y, your action bot will not place a bet, and ends its execution.

In the latest bfexplorer release I have changed placeholders for query parameters to:
{eventId}

{marketId}

{nMarketId}

{selectionId}

So, what useful urls could you add to your bfexplorer Web Browser tool?

Betfair Live Stream: 

https://videoplayer.betfair.com/

Match View & Stats:

https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/pop-out-live-stream/{eventId}?feedType=dataVisualization

Selection Chart:

http://sportsiteexweb.betfair.com/betting/LoadRunnerInfoChartAction.do?marketId={nMarketId}&selectionId={selectionId}

Race Charts from my test web app:

http://185.58.225.212:8085/raceChartDataEmbedded/{marketId}/true/15.0

Sean, I would really suggest to read what Visual Studio reports when you try to build your bot project.  

Similarly to betfair api project (BetfairApiConsoleFSharp) where you had to reference bfexplorer assemblies, in MyFsharpBot project there are another 3 libraries you must reference, libraries from devexpress.  

Well, I do not think you bought that libraries so default path to those libraries must be replaced to bfexplorer app folder: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\BeloSoft\Bfexplorer 

Yes, I bought license to those libraries, as I used them for bfexplorer UI. 

Just watch video I prepared, it also shows how to debug bot with Visual Studio and running bfexplorer app, just set: 

1)  

Debug / Start external program: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\BeloSoft\Bfexplorer\Bfexplorer.BotUI.exe 

2) 

Command line arguments: 

YourUserName Password True 

True at the end will say bfexplorer to run in practice mode when debugging your bot. 

3) 

Build / Output path: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\BeloSoft\Bfexplorer\ 

4)

Open VS as administrator, because VS will copy assembly/s to Program Files folder.

Now you are ready to debug your bot project, bot assembly/s will be copied to bfexplorer app folder, otherwise you would not be able to debug your code, your bot shares bfexplorer assemblies and bfexplorer loads your bot assembly. 

Frankly to say I do not remember whether I had given you Bfexplorer BOT SDK source code. I am very busy last month's with 2 other projects, so the chance is you are using old bot sdk projects, therefor you have got problems with changed interfaces and so on.  

I removed BOT SDK from public usage couple months ago when finding out that bunch of Indian developers uses Bfexplorer BOT SDK to quickly build betfair apps utilizing bfexplorer libraries.  

They simply used JayBeeBot project from Bfexplorer BOT SDK solution, and built customers projects from freelancer and similar freelancer web sites, of course they were paid, but no me, they stole my intellectual property, not saying that betfair itself do not support, or do not offer betfair api for developers from some countries:  India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or UAE. 

Actually, the fact was reported to me by accident, as one of those Indians customers who paid for such project needed to change some features in his betfair app, so he contacted the Indian developer but never got reply. He was clever enough to look at to app folder finding out that his app uses assemblies which names starts with: BeloSoft.Bfexplorer 

So he googled it and find my website and contacted me through my info email, asking why I did not respond to his emails.  Well yes, that is the Internet where there are quite a lot of fraudulent people.  

Be warned when you asked developers on freelancer to build you betfair app.

Read the errorr message:

Error FS0001 This expression was expected to have type
    'BotDescriptor list'   
but here has type
    'BotDescriptor []' 

so MyBots, and MyBotsCreators are list not arrays.

You are using old bot sdk against the new bfexplorer backend assemblies.

hello and thanks again Stefan

my assemblies are all up to date.

wont get to the reinstall til later.

ill report back.

cheers sean

Try to reinstall the latest version of bfexplorer, it seems to be a problem with assembly obfuscation. 

By the way, you know that bfexplorer assemblies are built on .net 4.7 and F# 4.4.1. 

When you create a new project in Visual Studio, into your project are automatically included referenced libraries. 

Even the simplest program like Console.WriteLine("Hello world!") would not be compiled without referenced System.dll library. 

Your built app (project) must include all external libraries used by your app/by your code.

1)

For simple betfair api program using bfexplorer betfair api libraries, you must add 2 libraries, references:

BeloSoft.Data, BeloSoft.Betfair.API

2)

In your program code you must open namespaces of used libraries:

open BeloSoft.Betfair.API

open BeloSoft.Betfair.API.Models

In C# code we use: using keyword.

3)

Betfair api http servers expects http request with header Expect100Continue set to false.

To execute betfair api program you must set it either in code, or in App.config file.

4)

Now you can start writing your betfair api code. Visual Studio intelisense will help you with type/object or method declaration showing what properties are implemented, what parameters you must enter to methods and so on:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/using-intellisense

Familiarize yourself with .net programming first, it does not matter in what programming language.

Most of the videos you can see on this web site had been made to show bespoke bots or app features. It is simpler for me to make a short video and sent features description by email when finalizing bot project for my customer. 

I do not sell bespoke bots or apps made for other people who paid for development. 

I can build your bespoke bot or app, all what I need is your bot or app specification and then I can estimate price and time to deliver.  

I do not need long specification, just plain text explaining base features, in bot development you describe parameters to avoid giving knowhow or crucial parameters. 

The price really depends on time I will spend on development, for simple bots it starts from 80 – 100 GBP what is around 5 – 6 working hours for me. 

You have got my email, just look at on the web page header.

You can rearrange ladder columns, just by dragging column header and dropping it to the new position or through Application / Settings / Trading Ladder. Reverse bet placing is not supported as it breaks all rules: to offer a bet and to take bet at desired odds and volume. 

You can use NinjaTrader tool to visualize betfair data in charts, or any bot integration PRO allows to visualize data. 

NinjaTrader Tool 

Analyzing betfair data to trigger trading on horse racing markets. 

Betfair Market Charts and Data Analyzing 

You can change ladder colors and rules of how are data presented by clicking on any header by right mouse/context button on your mouse, then a context menu appears and you can click on Conditional Formatting / Manage Rules. Changed rules are not saved, so when restarting bfexplorer the default rules are applied again. Bfexplorer UI can be presented in light or dark theme (see Application / Settings / General). The column colors are blue and pink, but in light theme background colors seems darker, try dark theme to see difference. 

Ladder Column - Conditional Formatting Rules 

LPTV is last price traded volume, and it shows on ladder what amount was matched on best offered prices. When clicking wherever on LPTV column cell, the values are cleared, so then for best offered prices you can see how much volume of money was matched by backers, and layers.

And betfair reacts to such users as well, I have just received email from betfair saying:

"You'll receive delayed data when using a delayed App Key or when using a live App Key if your Betfair account has never been funded or if an override has been applied to your account, or App Key."

Hi, what you can watch on my video is commercial product I used to visualize betfair tennis data.  

I wrote simple bot for bfexplorer to save tennis match data, so time, price/odds, traded volume, player on server, sets score, games score, and points. From the above data I was able to produce charts in my video. 

Here is another article showing how to use betfair bot and bfexplorer console to make charts using JavaScript library called plot.ly: 

Betfair Market Charts and Data Analyzing

I do not know if you would be able (by using plot.ly library) to visualize market data similar like I did by using Tableau software, but if you are interesting and want to collaborate, then I can offer you to build bot to save tennis or football match data and scores, and you will deliver visualization code written with plot.ly, or d3js.org JavaScript library. 

I am able to stream such data from bfexplorer, so your JavaScript app would be able to present visualization in real time, if you like.

Hi Stefan,

This is very useful data visualization. Is there a way to achieve it on bfexplorer? Or with a combination of other visualizatin tools?

Thanks

LPTV means Last Price Traded Volume, and it presents traded volume in current best price offered range, when this price range changes the indicator value/s out of this range is/are set to zero. 

Bfexplorer offers ladder customization, so you are able to arrange columns, and show or hide them. You can do so from Application / Settings / Trading Ladder, or directly from Column Chooser, just open it and drag and drop columns. 

Bfexplorer offers bot development as well, so if you are able to program a bot, then you can program one to visualize your model data on ladder, for now Odds columns allows such visualization only. 

Have a look at how I used this feature in my custom bots: 

Trading Indicators

Portrait Layout

Betfair Trading Ladder

I can add My Indicator column, and set its visual representation to gradient data bar, so you will be able to set your indicator values (-1.0 to 1.0).

What you can do now is add to "My Favourites Events" your football event filter for markets you want to bet on, so adding: MATCH_ODDS,  HALF_TIME, FIRST_HALF_GOALS_05, FIRST_HALF_GOALS_15, FIRST_HALF_GOALS_25 to Market types, so this way you could open all your events in the Event Browser view. 

In the Event Browser you can filter events by Total Matched, then you can manually check markets, and open only those ones fulfilling your criteria. 

Your subscription status is Basic, so it is actually the only option you have got. 

If you were Professional subscriber, then you are allowed to use bots, and Bfexplorer Console tool. Bfexplorer Console allows to execute scripts, and such simple script can be written for your purpose as well, checking total matched volume for MATCH_ODDS markets, and then loading associated markets and checking if total matched volume on these markets is as required. If all your requirements for total matched volume are met, script can open MATCH_ODDS market and required markets for you automatically. 

Read and watch video to this article: Filter and Open My Markets

SMS alerting issue. You need SMS provider, to send SMS from computer to your mobile. There are quite a lot of providers of SMS services, so yes it is possible to program SMS sending feature utilizing provider's API. This approach on the other hand requires constant monitoring of all markets, and again I cannot understand that as you subscribed to Basic subscription plan so no support for bots or custom built bots.