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Dealing with swings - in play

From Bet Angel forum: The problemI'm sure it's the nature of trading that some wild swings come into play on a runner that's leading the field. A case in point was one that I had placed a back bet on last friday. It was sitting on odds of 3.75->3.5 for the 1st 30 seconds of the race (a 1 mile ...

Case Study 30 - Switch to next market

From Bet Angel forum: I see there are options to switch to "this market" and to switch to markets a set amount of time before the race is due to go off, but is there or could there be an option to switch to the next market 1 second after the current market goes in play?

Case Study 26 - Opening price range

From Bet Angel forum: I have a wee query regarding the opening price of the favourite. I was wondering if there was a way to determine that the opening price was ABOVE a certain level and dis-allow the rule to run if the threshold was exceeded. By way of explanation, see below: * Have a rule run ...

Case Study 25 - certain percentage of the market - trigger

From betfair forum: Bots Anyone know of a bot that i can instruct to place bets when a certain percentage of the market has been placed on dog .  Ie in certain races i am looking to bet dogs that are "over backed".  For example a 3/1 that has £3800 matched of a 10k market.It is not ...

Case Study - Betfair Market Streaming – Ladders

Bfexplorer is ready for betfair market/order streaming technology.

Case Study - Betfair Market Streaming

If you set MarketDataFilterData.fields to EX_MARKET_DEF then betfair exchange market streaming service will return only market definition changes. In my video I show how Bfexplorer BOT SDK is used in simple application for gathering different kind of race data, including betfair horse prices 5 ...

Betfair Exchange Market Streaming Problems

In April 2016 betfair released Exchange Market Streaming service. During this weekend I found some spare time to implement this service to my betfair bot sdk, and as it is common with betfair I found a quite a lot of problems. It really seems that betfair did not test what is released, as they ...

Portrait Layout

I use different workspace layout when trading different sport events on betfair. The portrait layout needs to turn your display, but then you can get quite big range of prices on one ladder, so a trading indicator bot can display prices for other selections as well.

Betfair BOT SDK - JayBeeBot by Bfexplorer

This project shows how to use BfexplorerService in very simply desktop application programmed in C# and Windows Forms as user interface library. https://github.com/StefanBelo/BetfairBotSDK/tree/master/JayBeeBot There are presented three main features every betfair developer must manage: 1) ...

Tennis Bot and betfair api

Hello Stefan, Have you considered parsing data for tennis bot from some website say flashscore.com/tennis. I just noticed today that the scores from betfair api are not updated quickly enough in few instances, especially at the end of the first set. In one match it took almost three minutes to ...