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Troubleshooting / Re: Delayed data means no volume or matched bet

« Last post by Tim (WellDoneSoft) on 10 Jan 2025, 17:35 »

The decision to block or not your account is made by a human (BetFair security team).
Depends on many options.
We usually suggest to use TimeMachine for trigger development and testing - much faster and safer.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Delayed data means no volume or matched bet

« Last post by MarkV on 10 Jan 2025, 15:39 »

Any idea how many real bets you would need to place each day to avoid this problem? A lot of strategies in triggered betting require long periods of monitoring without any bets placed.

Hi rubold
Oxa wrote an article here which gives some good advice. I don't think it's that critical the amounts that are suggested in the article but as long as you are not refreshing markets too often and put some real money into the markets being monitored then there shouldn't be any problem. I monitor 50 or so markets almost 24/7 but put in a couple of quid as unmatched "value" bets well away from the trading range (and my real trigger). I have a green up trigger ready just in case I get lucky on the value bet . The combination of low refresh rates and putting some unmatched liquidity in to market shows consideration and gives you room to do the "long monitoring" if you see what I mean.    

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Troubleshooting / Re: Delayed data means no volume or matched bet

« Last post by rubold on 10 Jan 2025, 15:01 »

Any idea how many real bets you would need to place each day to avoid this problem?  A lot of strategies in triggered betting require  long periods of monitoring without any bets placed.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Delayed data means no volume or matched bet

« Last post by Tim (WellDoneSoft) on 09 Jan 2025, 21:45 »

Hello,

Yes, that means your account has been switched to delayed mode for "commercial usage".
BetFair doesn't allow refreshing / requesting market prices without real bets.
That happens when you use only test mode - MF requests data from BetFair but doesn't send any real bets.
You have to ask BetFair support to unblock you account.

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Troubleshooting / Delayed data means no volume or matched bet

« Last post by swarajthakur1985 on 09 Jan 2025, 19:11 »

Hi, I think I hit the dreaded delayed data problem with Betfair and I have no idea how to get out of it.

I noticed my data feed is delayed(I see it when I click the icon on the top left of a market), I also noticed it on various occasion, via the app and on Betfair's website too. I am trying to automate a strategy that relies on volume but I cannot use that as I don't have access to the volume data as a result.
My account is funded, I generated a fair amount of commission outside of the app too, so I do not understand why I may be on delayed data since I do not see how I broke any rules.

Does anyone has any idea what should I do now? Is there a way to get in touch with Betfair to get them to lift this restriction?

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Triggered betting / Re: Lay Labouchere Staking Plan

« Last post by MarkV on 09 Jan 2025, 11:57 »

Hi
This trigger and the Excel file were written long before Microsoft introduced macro security etc. I did several things and got it working ok:

• Right click on the downloaded .xls and choose Properites. On the General tab look for Security and unblock it
• Open the file in Excel and enable macros. Now when you click Launch Excel in MFP it will connect MFP to the Excel file
• I changed a couple of things in the trigger file so selections that qualify for a bet is simplified. a.) Disabled trigger by default selection does not qualify. b.) changed conditions for selection qualifies for bet to selections rank is equal to 2
• The trigger then successfully cycled through the markets using Labouchere sequence from the Excel file  

  

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Triggered betting / Re: Lay Labouchere Staking Plan

« Last post by djmotion on 08 Jan 2025, 17:35 »

Hey Mark,

I seem to be having a problem with the system placing a bet. It seems to be when its checking if the step is equal to the step on the spreadsheet. Copied the logs below:

17:24:00	Checking market "Soccer / Turkish Football / Turkish Cup / Fixtures 8 Jan / Galatasaray v Basaksehir / Match Odds".
17:24:00	Checking condition and Selection's Trigger Expression qualify is equal to 1.
17:24:00	Condition is: TRUE. valid for 1 selections: Galatasaray.
17:24:00	Checking condition or Global User Variables step are not set.
17:24:00	Condition is: TRUE. valid for 1 selections: Galatasaray.
17:24:00	Checking condition and Global Last Won/Lost Amount is greater than 0.
17:24:00	Condition is: FALSE.
17:24:00	Remaining conditions in the block will not be checked.
17:24:00	Setting variable step to 1.

17:35:04	Checking market "Soccer / Turkish Football / Turkish Cup / Fixtures 8 Jan / Galatasaray v Basaksehir / Match Odds".
17:35:04	Checking condition and Selection's Rank is equal to 1.
17:35:04	Condition is: TRUE. valid for 1 selections: Galatasaray.
17:35:04	Checking condition and Selection's Trigger Expression hist_count is greater than last_hist_count.
17:35:04	Condition is: TRUE. valid for 1 selections: Galatasaray.
17:35:04	Checking condition and Selection's Trigger Expression cell_Labouchere_D3 is equal to step.
17:35:04	Condition is: FALSE.
17:35:04	Remaining conditions in the block will not be checked.

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Triggered betting / Re: Lay Labouchere Staking Plan

« Last post by djmotion on 08 Jan 2025, 15:41 »

Ahhh Okay, Thank you

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Triggered betting / Re: Lay Labouchere Staking Plan

« Last post by MarkV on 08 Jan 2025, 15:18 »

Hi
Custom cells xml file (as is) is needed for the trigger to function. It should go in the folder for the Profile you are using:
c:\Users\%username%\MarketFeeder Pro 8\profiles\%profile name%\  

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Triggered betting / Re: Lay Labouchere Staking Plan

« Last post by djmotion on 07 Jan 2025, 18:05 »

Awesome, thank you. Would I need the file for custom cells or is that not important?