specific number of trades for each qualifying selection...

Hi,

I am trying to develop a trigger using some of the help given by MarkV and mcbee, I have most of it done, but I am stuck on one last part...

The trigger is a lay then back (greenup), taking 1 tick, and using a set number for stop loss, depending on the odds the lay bet gets matched at - I have done all this in my trigger, no problem.

Over the last week or so, I have been doing this manually using the price ladder, and had some good results, and so, I can conclude that I like my strategy, BUT, I cannot sit at my PC all day trading, and so, I would like to test it using my trigger, and the problem I am wanting to allow EACH qualifying selection to take the trade a maximum of 2 times.

There could be a number of selections for each market, and if they each meet the criteria, then a lay bet will be placed, and if it isn't matched at in play, no more bets, but if at least 1 Lay is matched, then their  back bets and possible stop loss will continue before and during in play. I actually want to allow a maximum of 2 lay bets for each selection, as long as the criteria is met. I think I have coded everything correct, but I am not sure how I tell it to do this a maximum of 2 times. I can see from the 'Execute' that I can choose 'once per selection', or 'specific number of times', and it's this second option which is causing me confusion. To expand on this, if I set 'specific number of times' to 2, what happens if there are 4 qualifying selections, will this command try to execute all 4 selections 2 times each?

If that is the case, then I would have hoped to see 'specific number of times PER SELECTION' - but of course this is not the case, and I am not sure if my coding will produce the required actions, which are trade each horse that qualifies, a maximum of 2 times...

Thanks

Mark.

Hi
try one of these conditions in the lay trigger:
and trigger <name of laying trigger> number of runs per selection is less than 2
and selections number of matched lay bets is less than 2

or a variation on the last if you want to limit by lay matched amount:
and selections lay matched is less than £xx.xx