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  • #1 by paulw on 31 Jul 2013
  • New bee!

    I'm dipping my toes in the murky waters of triggers, which I know have huge potential.

    A first and easy question: Does a trigger "BACK PRICE back_price <2 CANCEL"
    Selection Favourite - All Markets


    cancel the trigger or just cancel the bet on the favourite.

    I want to look at the price of the favourite and not proceed in that event if it's under $x.
    Ideally I'd keep that condition until any runner was backed, then that condition would be inoperative.

    Looking at the many examples, I know it can be done - there seem to be very few limits to what triggers can do.

    I'm not finding the MFP Manual helpful in learning how to build triggers.

    A link to a resource would be useful. I can RTFM but I can't find a manual as such.

    Time is ticking on my trial version - I need to learn and test quickly!

    Thanks in advance to any responder.

  • #2 by 1oser on 31 Jul 2013
  • If you select Fav in the selection drop down .. then I think whatever happens will happen to the Fav.
  • #3 by paulw on 01 Aug 2013
  • Thanks. The question leads to what I want what I really really want,
    which is multiple triggers/conditions which can be aborted if any of the top conditions are not met.

    I'm having trouble understanding the 'flow' of the triggers and I'm not sure that it's  documented. I'd find it a lot easier if it was simple (!) computer code.

    I'd LIKE to see the code implementing the triggers so I can understand what's going on! I suspect when I'm more familiar with the trigger editor, I will.

  • #4 by mcbee on 01 Aug 2013
  • hi
    Quote
    A first and easy question: Does a trigger "BACK PRICE back_price <2 CANCEL"
    Selection Favourite - All Markets

    cancel the trigger or just cancel the bet on the favourite.
    this would cancel the bet if not matched at in-play/the start of the race.
    the trigger below should help you to understand a bit better.
    in the constants set
    minimum price
    bet amount
    favourites rank
    time to place the bet

    the link to the manual.
    http://marketfeeder.co.uk/download/MF7_manual_eng.pdf


    mcbee
  • #5 by paulw on 01 Aug 2013

  • I don't want to cancel the bet, I want to ignore or deselect that event as in "move along nothing to see here."

    So if hypothetically, at any stage before any bet is matched, the favourite is less than x, stop betting on that event.  Once there's a match we have to stick with the trigger.

    I've set it to 'Delete Market' but  that doesn't seem right. That only removes it from the list.  It's going to be simple isn't it?

    I promise I do have the manual open ;)

    I've set constants, used them in triggers and appreciated the very clear 'translation' of the condition. That's after just a couple of hours some of which are waiting for markets to open, so I'm not complaining.


    It's going better than I expected - I have a heavily modified trigger running in test and due to the the well know law of "it will always win to suck you in" it's showing a 'sim' profit.

     OK got the 8.4 section and it's starting to make sense.

    I am seriously impressed with MFP. Like most of us here I wish I had half your knowledge.

    An ongoing thank you.

    PS Yes I talk too much - but this is fun!
  • #6 by 1oser on 01 Aug 2013
  • if you're betting in-play add a 1.5 second delay to make sure the simulation is close to reality
  • #7 by mcbee on 03 Aug 2013
  • hi
    it is as simple as using a delete trigger.
    add trigger
    delete market
    conditions
    and favourites back_price is equal or less than 2(set to your minimum price)
    and markets number of matched back bets is equal to 0
    and markets number of matched lay bets is equal to 0
    and markets minutes before the off is equal or less than 1(set to your cut off time)

    selections = favourite

    markets = all markets

    execute = once per market

    mcbee
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