First steps?

Hello! I'm a newbie and hope to get the most of the program while trying it.
So calling the "gurus" of mf pro.
What were your first steps with triggers ? How did you start making your own conditions, like laying on a drifter etc? Does it take long to come to grips with the main tools?

Thank you all and have a good day!

It's all in the manual. Plus this one helped me a lot:

http://www.marketfeederpro.com/solutions/tips-n-tricks/apply-staking-plans/

Although I wouldn't mind a couple of more video lessons for a "quick start".

Download a trigger example from the site

I would recommend to write the thorough description of what you want from the program on a sheet of paper.

Then break the verbose explanations into sentences that should be as presice as possible, using the terminology of MF Pro.

For example, instead of "laying on the horse that used to be the favourite at 5 mins before the off, provided its price is not lower that SP, after the race started" you should think of:

1. 5 minutes before the off remember the favourite selection.
2. When the market turns In-Play, lay on any selection affected by the previous trigger, if the fitting selection's price is equal or higher than the actual SP.

You will notice that you'll need two triggers, and the parameters of these triggers will be more or less obvious to you.

Avoid confusion and try to think clearly.

Good luck!

Thanks for the tips, I'm going to follow each advice as I feel so excited right now, need to scratch my head a bit.   

bumblebee,  first you need a strategy or plan or set ouf rules what the trigger should do. It helped me for my first trigger file to note down what I did and why I did that while betting via betfair website.

Then I tryed to translate the written notes into a trigger file. Run the trigger in test mode first until you are perfektly sure that the trigger is working as expected.

Next step:  make the trigger secure. Add conditions to forbid any actions in case the market is not as expected. i.e. bad Book %, low liquitidy, to fast or to slow moves, or wrong markets (maybe a soccer trigger works well for tennis, too.)

Run the trigger again in test mode and if the trigger still works and has passed some "strange markets" tests, try in real mode with a most of your bank hidden in Australian wallet.

Trigger are designed for unattended use, but i would strongly suggest you to watch triggered operation for some days.

Never forget to check if triggers are still working if you do a minor change with the trigger file.

Never run your trigger in InPlay markets first, in case of an error usually there is no change for a stop loss with small loss ad odds move very fast doring Inplay.

You can use triggers from trigger library too, all I used from trigger library worked fine for me, but I added some security conditions to avoid trading when market is not suitable for my triggers.

Martin, that's an excellent piece of advice, especially the part about making triggers secure!

Martin, that's an excellent piece of advice, especially the part about making triggers secure!

Between all the triggers in the library where you are getting the most 'interesting?