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Select only low Back and Lay Margins
« on: 07 Apr 2016, 07:45 »
Hi there everyone, can you help please. Ive been trying to figure this out for a while now with no success.

Id like to be able to select games to play on where the market odds are close together such as:

back odds 1.04, lay odds 1.05

and not to bet on games with odds with a large margin

back odds 1.04, lay odds 3.5

... Can you help with a formula or condition setting please, thanks


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Re: Select only low Back and Lay Margins
« Reply #1 on: 07 Apr 2016, 09:14 »
try this.....use this formula

 r_ticks(lay_price, ticks)

so if your trigger condition says back price is equal or less than  r_ticks(lay_price, 3)
then the bet will only fire if your back and lay price are within 3 ticks of each other.

Check I've got the syntax right using the variable viewer as maybe the ticks figure needs a minus in front of it, but this is the general idea of what you're trying to do

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Re: Select only low Back and Lay Margins
« Reply #2 on: 07 Apr 2016, 12:23 »
just looked at my syntax...think this way round is more sensible.

lay price is equal or less than r_ticks(back_price, 3)

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Re: Select only low Back and Lay Margins
« Reply #3 on: 07 Apr 2016, 13:03 »
wow armarni, thanks very much. Cool ill try that.

Now id like to be able to do these things myself. Can you please explain what all these things mean and why this combination of coding would work

Condition:

lay price... is equal or less than... [i get those, its looking for the lay price]

r_ticks(back_price, 3)

r-ticks [is that something in the conditions area?]

and why the (brackets)?

,3 [why would that commer signify looking for that range]

Thanks very much, this is interesting

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Re: Select only low Back and Lay Margins
« Reply #4 on: 07 Apr 2016, 16:18 »
Page 147 of the downloadable help file explains it a bit better than I can...the brackets are because the way the software is built is that it uses spreadsheet terminology to parse sentences.  r_ticks is one of the many expressions you can use to create a multitude of variables within your triggers....amazing piece of software welldone have created that allows us to do all this.

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Re: Select only low Back and Lay Margins
« Reply #5 on: 07 Apr 2016, 19:10 »
yes agree  :) ... ive worked with xfeeder since their first version all those years ago. Still dont know half of it. Now moving on to market feeder as im finding out that betfair exchange games like hilo, poker, baccarat ect are Perfect odds. So recon its unwinnable in long term. Id love to be wrong, so still enjoy creating triggers for it.

Page 147 of the downloadable help file? is that the help file found within the software top right?

p.s. thanks for your help earlier... working great

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Re: Select only low Back and Lay Margins
« Reply #6 on: 07 Apr 2016, 20:44 »
I came to mfp through xfeeder as well, many years ago had the same realisation as you, and mfp allows me to  pursue automated betting in a far more level playing field.

Help file is downloaded from the main menu on the market feeder website.

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Re: Select only low Back and Lay Margins
« Reply #7 on: 09 Apr 2016, 22:32 »
Thank you so much armarni for your formula and explaination. Im now making tiny profits again in demo, skipping markets with large pip margins. Soon to go live hopefully.

Good luck, k

p.s. karma point added ;)

 

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