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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.

OK. Thanks for demonstration what is possible in the Bfexplorer.

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OK.
I show you what I want, exactly, My New Trading Grid (Ladder), one click execution bots, ... and we can talk about bespoke solution...

Sorry, I have a problem with sharing files, images, ...

There is screenshot (about which I wrote)

I would like to ask to make a short video showing a problem you describe.

You are Czech, so are able to read the email from other Slovak user who notice some problems I was not able to reproduce:

http://bfexplorer.net/Community/BlogContent/58#How To Test Betfair Bot?

In your case I cannot see a problem why bfexplorer should show different profit balance on an open bet position when bet was placed on odds you described.

Your ladder can be built in simplified version using custom built bot and built-in bfexplorer spreadsheet.

In this bot I implemented bot execution similar to the one you can use in bfexplorer ladder context menu, when declaring the bot category name: My Ladder Bot.

In this case you can define/name your bots you want to execute from spreadsheet in columns B or E, when clicking on a cell with a bot name in the spreadsheet your bot is executed with changed BetType parameter of the bot depending on which column the bot name is, so B column sets Back, and E column sets Lay bet type for executed bot, if this bot supports BetType parameter, of course.

You can see that I declared general trading bot (Trade 3 ticks) to be executed from the spreadsheet. For now I cannot see any value in your approach, but I find it interesting to include such bot in Bfexplorer BOT SDK, as a sample for using Bfexplorer Spreadsheet and custom built bot.

I can see some advantage of using Bfexplorer Spreadsheet for building custom dashboards for some betting or trading solutions on more associated markets, or in any dashboard solution.

For a common user what is offered in the card view of Open Markets view, is really enough to managing bet position on a lot of open markets.

Bfexplorer spreadsheet can be used as well for data visualization, so it has some advantage for users who are familiar with bot programming.

I build bespoke solutions for betfair, so your ladder with selected price ranges can be built, but that is a question of your budget you are willing to pay for development of custom built software for betfair.

I made a video showing how you can use bfexplorer to execute your betting or trading strategy on selected market selections.

Bfexplorer is able to monitor a lot of markets concurrently, and run bots on such markets as well. Manually opening a lot of markets and executing bots on them make sense only if your betting/trading strategy involves market price monitoring for long period of time before bet placement is actually triggered.

If your strategy needs to execute a triggered bet placement just couple seconds before horse racing start, then you should use Bot Executor tool, and if you manually select your market selections then you should use Bot Executor for Selections tool.

Both tools start market monitoring automatically at time you set, and continue market monitoring till action bot is active on the market.

In my video I used OLBG web site to bet or trade on free tips offered by users of this web site. You can see that opening markets using bfexplorer Bet Event Browser is not as complicated as you could assume. You open Upcoming events and filter by event type, in my case Soccer, and/or Horse racing. Then you can use searching capabilities of bfexplorer to find desired market, or selection.

On my video can be seen that searching capabilities are supported by all grid views, I searched for preconfigured bots in My Bots view as well.

Bot Executor for Selections tool uses Bet Event or Market Selections view to add your market selections. You select your market selection and add it to Bot Executor for Selections by clicking on context menu (right click mouse button) Add Market Selection to Bot Executor.

After adding your sections to this tool you can assign an action bot you want to execute on these market selections. The tool uses My Bots preconfigured bots, so you can execute different betting or trading strategies on these selections. In my video I set to back one selection, and lay two other selections, on the one market selection I set to execute back trading bot to close position hedging for 3 ticks profit.

All bfexplore bot are configurable using a lot of parameters. For now there is only one bot supporting target triggered continuation of betting or trading on more markets: Execute Till Target Profit.

On the other hand bfexplorer offers Bfexplorer BOT SDK so if you are familiar with programming you can create your own custom bot to executed different methods of market selection or staking plan execution.

It is almost impossible to create a universal solution for market selection, bet triggering and staking plan execution, just by constructing bots with preset parameters.

As I said those familiar with programming can use Bfexplorer BOT SDK to program anything, for the rest I will try to make some kind of scripting bot.

Can I change the topic name? I feel it's not appropriate, as the error was on my part.

Thanks!

Yes, you are very right! It appeared I only had my window hidden! Thank you evry much!

Open the Output view clicking on the menu item View / Output. If betfair api refused to placed your bet then you could read the error message associated with this bet placing. I assume you will read the following message: Failed to place bet: INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS.

There is a list of product features with short videos. Click on the product feature you want to learn more and watch a video.

http://bfexplorer.net/Products/ProductFeatures

Thanks for the video.

But, please, you do not torture us, showing indicators that we will not be able to use, jejeje.

Hi Stefan:

Why you did not talk about this great project? What are "machine learning"? You mean artificial intelligence?