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  • Stefan
    19.8.2015 9:52:33

    That is the problem with saved old workspace, new things are simply hidden. Delete old workspaces (select one and delete), and restart bfexplorer, recreate workspaces. I will have to analyze this issue, and save only size and view layouts maybe.


    You can delete workspaces by deleting files in AppData Roaming folder as well. In my pc and Štefan account such data are in the folder:


    C:\Users\Štefan\AppData\Roaming\BeloSoft\Bfexplorer

     

    Delete all files with extension .workspace and .workspaceSettings

  • Edumadrid
    19.8.2015 1:03:57

    Hi Stefan:

    There are several errors with Workspace, and the link to Betfair does not appear.

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  • Edumadrid
    17.8.2015 14:13:40

    Thank you very much Stefan.

    My trading is focused on football and horse racing, for me this is enough.

    I do not see horse racing

  • Stefan
    17.8.2015 11:53:57

    My friend who is a software developer as well, we worked together 15 years ago in one company, knows that I develop software for sport exchanges so he sends me from time to time, links to projects on freelancer web sites, I could participate too.


    I did tried to do so twice but without luck of getting some project, it seems I am not qualified to do any work for such projects, and so those projects are publicly available without registering on such freelancer web sites, you can browse betfair projects there and takes some ideas, if there is any value there.


    I put this project here as I did not know the www.napchecker.com before, and I already have done something for parsing data from www.racingpost.com, so I will maybe try to do so with this one later when having more time.

     

    Miro, the project specification is actually understandable. He is wrong in how to convert from fractional odds to fixed odds, and for score calculation I would use percentage values.

  • Mir.
    16.8.2015 21:36:26

    I can not imagine it. Hard to read it, difficult to understand!

  • Stefan
    16.8.2015 13:16:29

    I have just added the betfair event web page link to Bet Event and Bet Event Trader view. For now I indentified that football, tennis and cricket sport events are offered with event web page, basically those are sports betfair covers with live score as well.


    For the rest of events the market web page is showed on betfair. If you bet or trade on other sports just let me know, if such sport event is offered with an event page as well.

  • Stefan
    16.8.2015 10:48:34

    Hamid, I think you already noticed that I do updates to bfexplorer, so at the moment I replied to this article, you can read my comment above from 8/14/2015 1:36:18 PM, I already updated the feature you were talking about, changing tooltip (you call that “bubble”) bot description to the panel description.

     

    Such type of updates can be done in minutes, just by changing one property in UI control and rebuilding and publishing project, what took me around 20 minutes. I always report such updates to Bfexplorer Latest Release.

  • Mir.
    16.8.2015 10:42:50

    Hi Hamid,

    now opens window with parameter hint.

     

     

     

  • Hamid
    16.8.2015 10:13:08

    Ok Stefan, in the future I will try to be more precis. For instance if you wnat to built a Bot in "my Bot" like "PlaceBet" and you want more info about the parameter "PlaceBetOnTime", the bubble over the mouse shows a long text which disapear after fews seconds, too short time to read for me.

     

    Thanks

  • Mir.
    15.8.2015 14:43:11

    This settings of the Place Bet bot - place bet at best Back price, immediatelly - without offer to take better Back price.

     

  • Mir.
    15.8.2015 13:41:07

     

    This is situation from my lastest post...

  • Mir.
    15.8.2015 13:30:56

    Hi Hamid,

     

    1) check if you are Professional user (or Free Tial) - http://bfexplorer.net/Subscribe

    Free Trial and Professional subsciption allows using bots and others variations of automated trading.

     

    2) Create a new Place Bet bot without any your parameter (default) only your Odds (4,80 is example) and PlaceBetInAllowedPrice to False.

     

    3) Open Market/Selection and execute this bot by Start button.

     

    What's happened?

     

  • Stefan
    15.8.2015 9:45:11

    I think you should make some video showing your problem, because I think something is lost in translation then I can see what you set for bot parameters and how you use the Place Bet bot.


    For now what you are saying make no sense for me.


    Place Bet bot works and all who use could confirm that.

  • Hamid
    14.8.2015 22:47:20

    Stefan,

    "Hamid, I still do not understand why you want to use a bot to place a bet for you."

    Simply because I did use to do it with the old version of BfExplorer and it was not a problem. Maybe it was a bad habit but I still don't understand why a bot named "Place Bet " can not place a bet! Sorry to be a little rude. The possibility to place a bet 10 minutes or 2 days before the event start should stay a possibility and not an obligation. At least you should propose the option "place bet now".

     

    "If you want to place bets immediately then do so by clicking on market grid or on a ladder. Bfexplorer is really good in finding and loading betfair markets on which you want to bet, just watch videos about Event Browser."

     

    When I try to place bets in this way I always face the problem of "start execution time" I don't want to modify this parameter because sometime I have more that 30 bets to place.

     

     

     

  • Mir.
    14.8.2015 17:17:46

    One problem is border where bots are start/stop
    Better set: start 2 ticks/ stop 6 ticks from best back/lay price...

  • Mir.
    14.8.2015 15:36:28

    Is the trigger complicated?
    Is problem that on Selection runs 10 or more bots?

    Many bets?

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    I think the key is parameters of action bots.
    If runs without bet actions, no problem for me.

  • Mir.
    14.8.2015 15:08:08

    Why is wrong?

     

    This only simulates what I do manually...

    It is not universal trigger for most markets, I prefer horse racing market. You need some extra conditions?

  • Stefan
    14.8.2015 15:05:29

    The solution is named: Back a list of horses and green up at a % offset, and can be fully implemented by what bfexplorer offers now.


    If the rest of befair api apps offer Excel solution as the only way how to automate betting or trading on betfair, then it really does not mean the best way, just example: Try to implement Be the first in queue bot in Excel VBA, you will certainly fail to do so, try to implement a staking plan to Excel betting, and so on.


    Excel integration uses COM to push data just one way, to the Excel, there is some speed limitation as well. If you think that Excel actually places your bets, then it is not so, the hosting app just reads the status of some Excel cells and depending on text command the hosting app executes this command. It also means that you cannot do anything beyond those commands, if you would like to extend them then you will have to ask app provider to do so, with my bots and triggers everything is open, you can actually interact with bfexplorer through your bot or bot trigger code. 


    I know that if you want to argue then you will find argument to do so for anything.

  • Stefan
    14.8.2015 14:32:46

    I created your bot trigger two days ago, just for education purposes, but the way you want to use it is just wrong, until you change your trigger part to be just a little bit useful, I do not release this bot for public testing.


    Most people would not understand that it is just for education purposes, to learn how to make own bot triggers by programming them using Bfexplorer BOT SDK.

  • Stefan
    14.8.2015 14:25:51

    Hamid, I still do not understand why you want to use a bot to place a bet for you. You said:


    “..how to place a bet immediately? I want to do something very basic. I want to place a bet with the bot "place bet".”


    “How to manage if you have, for instance, one event starting in 20 minutes, another in 3 hours and a last one tomorow? And you want to swich off your computer in 3 minutes?”


    Forgive me, but if you want to place a bet immediately then why you want to do it by bot, mainly when you say you will switch off your computer, and so your bots, in 3 minutes.


    If you want to place bets immediately then do so by clicking on market grid or on a ladder. Bfexplorer is really good in finding and loading betfair markets on which you want to bet, just watch videos about Event Browser.


    Betfair bots are basically used when you want to place a bet in manageable way, for instance drip feeding big bet on betfair market selection, getting a bet at better odds – be the first in queue bot (I think this type of bot is offered only by bfexplorer), managing bet position – Place bet and close position bot, in some cases you want to place a bet only when odds drops to curtain level, and so on.


    In all above mentioned case you will have to leave bfexplorer running with your bots and open internet connection, as in such cases are bets managed by bfexplorer bots for you automatically.

    You said, I will switch off my computer in 3 minutes, then all that make no sense.

    Miro is right.

    If you want to place a bet at fixed odds then you must switch off PlaceBetInAllowedOddsRange and set your fixed odds by Odds parameter.