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Eric, could you be more specific in what way spreadsheet will help to make a trigger betting on a race depending on a previous horse results?

I cannot imagine the way the spreadsheet would load all previous horse results and help you to trigger a bet depending on those results.

Hello Mir,

My quest article has given me a reply in the way that i was hoping for.

I havn't as yet got into trading on any way.....but it appears that you are a trader?

How about posting a simple way for me to get started?

I realise that my betting methods are way out of date. and am looking for some assistance

bige95334

In some case betfair takes activation just couple seconds, sometimes you need to wait minutes.

Activation is OK!

Cancel bet At In-Play... doesn't work.

Practice mode, Horse racing GB win markets, bets placed through Bet Event Trader...

Some problems with activation... I think it is on Betfair side

Reversed ladder:

Why?
Because people have natural habit to put bet (Offers) between other bets. Simple.

Technically is the same - for bots, not for people.

Nice!

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I see My Bet Position:

Profit History is awesome! Not for ending results, but for ongoing results! Trader can view how is consistent "at work".

How to complex visualize data, charts? Any idea?

1) indicators: For me (in this function) is not usefull. There is confusing situation. Weight money totally destroyed the view on the greyhound market.

2) Better is when a part of column is under-colored and I see where is the edge of trading. Especially usefull for In-play trading with huge GAPs

I will prepare series of articles describing how to use this bot.

When you have a look at on other betfair API apps which support automation or trigger betting/trading, then such apps either offer limited number of trigger values you can use or are specialized in some kind of trigger betting.

You are on betfair a couple years now, we started at the same time, and you know that there never quite a lot of features you could use, therefore I still support betfair bot programming (Bfexplorer BOT SDK), but with trigger bot I added bot orchestrations, because sometimes you just need to setup action bot with different parameters, or you just need additional triggers.

This bot should solve what you asked in your article: Settings of many bots.

It is still programming, but scripting language used for trigger programming should be more readable for a common user, not a programmer.

I will try to create a lot of examples, so in some cases you should be able to use such triggers just by copying some parts of them and create your new one.

I will explain this trigger on simple betting strategy like Back correct score 0 – 0 and lay draw, on your example of how to setup many bots, or for Eric horse racing strategy.

If you have got some strategies then let me know, or the one used generally on betfair, maybe not profitable but if a good examples for some trigger programming then just post the idea on bfexplorer forum.

Behind any betfair strategy is a well, a data recording and analyzing, so I want to add some tools for such operations as well.

I will investigate this issue, maybe it is just rounding problem.

Hi bige95334,

I don't know what do you do on Betfair markets, but I must be stupid unemotional trader for make a profit. Long term profit.
See graphs where is opportunity, where is chance to make a profit and repeat it...Easy
Trading is not about horses, SP, the losing sequences, book form etc. it is about others traders!

BTW: in my copy of BFE Profit showing not consistent values

Profit calc

Profit shows actual profit at current Odds. It is OK. This is usually feature on the software market.

But Projected profit can show profit "WHAT IF (placed) BET MATCHED"
In my case: If 10 Euro matched at 11 ... can not be profit 5.80 at 12! Profit will be only 5,04

Do you understand?

Thanks.

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2) What about customs columns?
I would be happy if you could make...

sample: http://bfexplorer.net/Community/ForumContent/60#My New trading grid

Hi, this is my idea.
Trading Ladder with ability execute many predefined bots easily.
How working "click on the cell" in column Profit if the open bet is matched? Same case...

Example:
If I click on column: Lay and row: 3,20 i will execute the bot named "Lay Back €23,2 ticks"...

If it is big problem with columns Lay, Back etc. you can create the new one; Bot Exec

My New Trading Ladder - screenshot

The video in my article just demonstrates how to use the bot: Execute Till Target Profit. When testing this bot on greyhounds markets I had luck that both lay bets were winning bets.

This bot checks profit from running strategy and when set profit is reached it stops/blocks further execution of an action bot.

It means you can use this bot in any strategy where you start further execution only after previous result is known, and stop your strategy after set profit is reached.

If you want to automate your strategy then first you load markets on which you want to run your strategy to Event Browser. In the Event Browser you can filter only desired markets, and then open the execution of your strategy on all or only on selected markets to Bot Executor.

The Bot Executor is then responsible to open a market at set time and execute your strategy on the market. Bot Executors keeps market data monitoring till running bot/s finish/es execution.

I already explained when you should use Bot Executor to run your strategies in this article:

http://bfexplorer.net/Community/ForumContent/56#Named Selections Horse Racing

Of course when testing you can run your strategy manually as I did in my video.

Yes, you can use a horse form in your trigger bot. I did not yet show how to create and use Execute Trigger Bot, but all is ready in the latest version of bfexplorer 1.6.5676.

You can use Bfexplorer Console tool to browse market data, read this article:

http://bfexplorer.net/Community/BlogContent/59#Bfexplorer Console

And test the code to show horses form.

If you post in a general description of your strategy (use parameter names), then I prepare a trigger bot and show you how to use it.

Please watch all main product feature videos:

http://bfexplorer.net/Products/ProductFeatures

I see some potential in spreadsheet dashboards too. For long time strategies, absolutely!

But I want use ladder+bots+one click bot executing on "high speed" trading (3-4 ticks or up to 2 minutes trades). I'm working on visualizing how I would want to trade on the ladder...

Actually this spreadsheet ladder allows one click bot execution. You can type a bot name to every row on one or the other side of ladder.

As I said I see some potential in spreadsheet dashboards, for instance in tennis trading you could prepare different execution plans for different match scenarios.