and they all appear in a list
where you can monitor them for however long you want by fiddling with the settings
you have to reload the markets again for some settings to take effect (eg the refresh rates)
Gruss seems to make a "pigs ear" of this process by loading "quick pick" lists into seperate tabs
and then forcing you to key in the monitoring start time for each tab (or "page" as they call it)
which on a daily basis is not only time consuming, but means there's more room to make typing errors.
On the other hand, MF Pro makes a "pigs ear" of the excel integration by loading each market on the separate worksheet (today there are 40+ races!) and giving them each a meaningless label (I think it's the market id) instead of the racetrack and time; it also doesn't log your bets anywhere on the spreadsheet except when they're active, in which case they appear momentarily on a separate sheet; finally, when MF Pro is interacting with the sheet it affects its responsiveness quite markedly.
After much deliberation though, MF Pro won the fight, especially as I have no real desire to start re-writing my triggers as macros in order for Gruss to execute them - there's too much room for error and besides, I already know they work in MF Pro.
My one concern with MF Pro is that you are confined to writing triggers based on preset criteria, but there is an option to import only the selections you want to trade that day
so my idea is to have already ruled out (ie deleted from the import list) certain selections based on other criteria, before MF Pro gets hold of them. I'm intending on using data from various freely available sources a la Cran to create the hot list
back-of-a-fag-packet view of the "Grand Design"
I'll try and make at least part of the import job code available as soon as it's written - I'm still hacking at the C# API sample code from the Betfair Developer Program site at the moment. Thanks to Cran and MF (Millionaire Fund?) for the guidance.
Outsource it!
ReplyDeleteI'll pay you a fiver an hour, code boy
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeletei am betfair full-time trader since 4 years and since short time i started to trade for customers with a ROI of 35% per month on average.
If you are interested to join me or share trading views dont hesitate add me in msn theprotrader@hotmail.fr or mail me in that adress.
I am at present developing an application for Smartphone to bet on tennis matches In Play since the stands of a stage(stadium), taking advantage to see the point marked directly(live) with regard to the traders who have to wait for the TV flow or the stake has in the
daytime of the scoreboard on internet (delays of several seconds.)
This kind of trading is called of the courtside trading.
good luck
Mets do yourself and delete the scammers comments, he's been doing this for ages and just emptying peoples accounts once he has access. Don't be a pawn in his scam.
ReplyDeleteRe: gruss you don't need all markets to be in separate tabs, they can sit in the same tab. Plus you have a special commands for the trigger cell in Q2 which means you can control refresh rates , reload . delete markets etc from the picklist.
Takes a while to fully get to grips with gruss but worth the effort as you can simply set the spreadsheet to run continually day and night and it'll reload markets for you at a set time say 12:00am and lower refresh rates to cut down bandwidth when not needed. A lot of us have bots running on online servers that never need any additional input and plod along week in week out.
It's ok, I didn't take Gus up on his generous offer ;)
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should've been clearer, if you want to monitor concurrent OVERLAPPING markets you need them in separate tabs / pages
http://www.gruss-software.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5019&highlight=monitor+multiple+markets
This isn't much good for me for the reasons explained above. Both pieces of software have their pros and cons and as BetDaq becomes more prevalent, I'm sure I will be using Gruss sometime soon.