***** excel triggered betting

[Timstertoo]

I want to learn it.

Anyone else interested joining me on this journey? Any mentors around willing to monitor the progress and give some advice and pushes in the right direction?

As I said, I want to learn it so I'm not looking for anyone doing the work for me but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone else willing to learn jump on the bandwagon and let's get something going.

[Scumbag trader]

I want to learn it.

Anyone else interested joining me on this journey? Any mentors around willing to monitor the progress and give some advice and pushes in the right direction?

As I said, I want to learn it so I'm not looking for anyone doing the work for me but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone else willing to learn jump on the bandwagon and let's get something going.

I'm in tim. I'm actually going to give this a real go. one problem:

I am a noob

I will join you though either way

[1/4 of a millionaire fund]

I want to learn it.

Anyone else interested joining me on this journey? Any mentors around willing to monitor the progress and give some advice and pushes in the right direction?

As I said, I want to learn it so I'm not looking for anyone doing the work for me but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone else willing to learn jump on the bandwagon and let's get something going.

I have a few automated ***** 'bots' what are you looking to do ? With vba you can make them as complicated as you want, with a few formulas you can make working bots in a few minutes. just start off simple and work your way up

[rockaren]

I am in too, still struggling with Excel, limited VBA knowledge

Interested and willing to learn everything about it

[nigelbleddfa]

I am in too, still struggling with Excel, limited VBA knowledge

Interested and willing to learn everything about it

No knowledge of VBA, but would like to learn Excel.

[Scumbag trader]

Can you do things such as:

If there is x amount at 4.1 and x amount at 4.2, and in the last 5 minutes the price has moved x ticks then lay at 4.1.

Or:

If there is x amount of money at a certain price then back if the price has moved x amount of ticks in the last 5 minutes and wom = 20 %

Stuff like that i want to do, is that possible ?

[rockaren]

I have a few automated ***** 'bots' what are you looking to do ? With vba you can make them as complicated as you want, with a few formulas you can make working bots in a few minutes. just start off simple and work your way up

I think it could be simple for some ppl but too advanced for me....

let Excel find, let say 3rd favorite...place lay bet if odds between 4.0 - 6.0.....hedge for 5% profit if/when possible inplay or prerace....

Its NOT a winning strategy !!! It's something I just want to start with....

[Timstertoo]

I have a few automated ***** 'bots' what are you looking to do ? With vba you can make them as complicated as you want, with a few formulas you can make working bots in a few minutes. just start off simple and work your way up

Basically I'm looking at learning enough to try out any strategy I come up with. So I don't necessarily have a specific goal in mind.

Some things I have in my head are quite complicated and would have to reckon with some info on another website, the current odds, the matched amount already and time left. But that can wait.

What I'd like to learn for starters is to simply try to back a horse/dog whatever at the highest possible price. Everytime someone jumps under me I'd like to jump under him again until I reach X odds, then I want to give up.

@ Scumbag, I'm a complete n00b in this too but the only way to learn is to get stuck in I suppose. It's just easier if you have some others coming up with solutions.

[1/4 of a millionaire fund]

What I'd like to learn for starters is to simply try to back a horse/dog whatever at the highest possible price. Everytime someone jumps under me I'd like to jump under him again until I reach X odds, then I want to give up.
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Yes things like that are possible , one thing you have to remember with automated programs is they can rack up a lot of transactions very quickly especially when logging changes like that

[Timstertoo]

Yes things like that are possible , one thing you have to remember with automated programs is they can rack up a lot of transactions very quickly especially when logging changes like that

You can have 1000 an hour before Betfair starts getting upset if I understood correctly?

[1/4 of a millionaire fund]

yep 1000 an hour sounds alot but when you're hitting more than one runner, firing offsets, maybe placing under £2 bets they soon mount up. It's just something to be aware of and take into account rather than stopping you.

To undercut prices it'd be easiest with vba, Gary posted up some decent vba to get tick differences have a look at http://*****-software.co.uk/phpBB2/v...light=getticks

No idea how clued up you are with vba etc but it'd be worth at least knowing how to insert the code into a worksheet and a rough idea of what it's doing

[Timstertoo]

yep 1000 an hour sounds alot but when you're hitting more than one runner, firing offsets, maybe placing under £2 bets they soon mount up. It's just something to be aware of and take into account rather than stopping you.

To undercut prices it'd be easiest with vba, Gary posted up some decent vba to get tick differences have a look at http://*****-software.co.uk/phpBB2/v...light=getticks

No idea how clued up you are with vba etc but it'd be worth at least knowing how to insert the code into a worksheet and a rough idea of what it's doing

Cheers!

I'm not clued up at all in VBA but I'm not scared either

I'm learning Python and will be using that to screenscrape. Just because it's a project to do with what I've learned about Python, not necessarily because it's the best language for it.

VBA I'll have to add to my toolbox as it obviously makes most sense to start learning if I want to to triggered betting.

Thanks for the starting point, I'll try to make some sense of it!

[1/4 of a millionaire fund]

If you're learning Python this may be of interest to to

http://www.bespokebots.com/downloads/betfair_api_python.zip

[Scumbag trader]

I have some questions if you don't mind:

What is vba

What is python

What is screenscape

Noob talking

[1/4 of a millionaire fund]

I have some questions if you don't mind:

What is vba

What is python

What is screenscape

Noob talking

VBA is visual basic for applications, basically just a programming language to integrate all of microsofts apps so they can talk to each other and swap info etc. i'e a word document could talk to a spreadsheet and fill in names for mail merging

Python is just the name of another programming language

Screenscraping is where a program would scrape a webpage so it gathered the info it needed rather than all the rubbish on the page ie scraping the racingpost to gather the info it needed like results or tnap selections etc. I use screenscraping to grab the Hugh Taylor selections off the ATR site and place bets into betfair rather than me sitting there all morning pressing a refresh button, screen scrapers will happily plod on til they get the info whereas a couple of refreshes and I'd be bored.

People use screen scrapers for allsorts of data gathering most sites like oddschecker are just one big screenscraper checking lots of different bookie sites then displaying the info altogether in one place, screenscraping is probably one of the most useful things you can learn when programming and one of the simplest