Again, thanks for your help and link to other items specific to this..
I do more question if that's OK..?
In Oxa's article, it mentions that the simultaneous market refresh should be set around 80 to 100...
I have set the simultaneous refreshed markets to 70 - and I would like to know if it would be detrimental to set it at a level below the recommended range? Could I set it to, say, 40? or even 20? - does it give priority to the earliest start times?
I am setting the monitoring at 5 hours, and I have the default refresh rate set at 60 seconds. I generally have ALL of the horses events loaded, for both win and place. My interest is around 20 seconds before the off, because I place SP bets. For the football, I will have the refresh rate set at 60 seconds.
I have not decided on this yet, but with the football, I may ask for 1 or 2 ticks better, when I place my back bet, and I would prefer the refresh to be quicker, at the time of bet placement, and continue this higher refresh rate until the bet is matched, so maybe every 5 seconds is my thinking - and, once the bet has been matched, or its say 30 minutes before the off, accept the best price and then set refresh to 120 seconds - is this a plausible approach? I suspect no more than 10 football matches to be present, maybe more on a Saturday - not yet sure how to cancel an existing bet, but I will figure that one out.
I am setting a trigger to have the horse refresh rate stay at 120 seconds, until 20 seconds before the scheduled off, then set it to 1 second, given that I am placing SP bets, I could even set this to 5 seconds. I am a little concerned if this will work, because if I have refresh every 120 seconds, will I still be able to check for 20 seconds before the off, if it has done a refresh at for example 30 seconds before the off - not allowing my 20 seconds trigger to fire? If my thinking is correct, I would appreciate any input to help me with this one.
I do have an odds range that is acceptable for the SP, whereas you can only set a minimum price on back bets, I have a 'layout' trigger if the SP value is higher than my rule, and so, if the actual_sp is within my range, I will then look to set the refresh rate to perhaps 10 seconds.
Now, here is the final question, which I am not sure about...
I am using a SAW on a couple of my strategies - and every horse for which a bet is placed, has a trigger to create an entry into a csv file in play, and when it finishes, the result is written to a further CSV file, using sel_name and sel_place, and I have an application which will read this file, and if we have a winner, the application will delete entries in the selection file, meaning MF has nothing left to bet on in that particular strategy. So, my question here is, given that the in play refresh is 1 second, and the idle refresh is set to say 120 seconds - once the market has settled, will the trigger write the entry to the file immediately, or does the refresh rate at settled become the 120 seconds?
Thanks