BFbotmanager Automation Discussion

John Folan

@Alex-Rule said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

Hello all - I'm Alex and I have been BF trading football since Nov - I'm very green and new but have a real hunger to learn more about the world of trading and specifically automation.

I had a couple of questions about BOTs (I have had a quick look on Youtube but keen to hear from the horses mouth about bots)

Can you use them on prematch and inplay strategies? Yes

Do you import your rules from BTC or another stats software provider? on bfbm yes

Can you ask the bot to request and hold out for better odds as % increase of what is being offered? BfBm you can ask for a better price by a number of ticks so yes

Can you import selections into the bot and can you ask the bot to search for games that meet those rules (so you can trade late night on markets in different time zones)? If you had every single football game loaded but this would make the bot probably unworkable as it would need to cycle through too many games

Is BF bot manager's customer service any good? Absolutely. I use their forum and they always answer. They will also add in things you ask for in future updates if they think it is worthwhile to their users

Sorry for the question dump but I'm really keen to find out more! Cheers, Alex

Hope that helps

Alex Rule

Hello all - I'm Alex and I have been BF trading football since Nov - I'm very green and new but have a real hunger to learn more about the world of trading and specifically automation.

I had a couple of questions about BOTs (I have had a quick look on Youtube but keen to hear from the horses mouth about bots)

Can you use them on prematch and inplay strategies?
Do you import your rules from BTC or another stats software provider?
Can you ask the bot to request and hold out for better odds as % increase of what is being offered?
Can you import selections into the bot and can you ask the bot to search for games that meet those rules (so you can trade late night on markets in different time zones)?
Is BF bot manager's customer service any good?

Sorry for the question dump but I'm really keen to find out more! Cheers, Alex

Greg Mitchell

@Matthew-Sheehan You can set the Green Up/Hedge/Trade Out to work only on bets placed by a specific strategy on a specific selection if you need to, this will avoid greening up unwanted bets.

Matthew Sheehan

@Greg-Mitchell ah I thought I had one strategy greening up bets I made with another strategy but I don't think it is, now you mention it. I do think I need another instance running, one to test strategies on simulation mode and one to keep the live ones going. I'll use Sandbox or a VM like the guys mentioned

David Polkey

@John-Folan

Thanks John - I will let you know how it goes.

Cheers

Dave P

John Folan

@David-Polkey said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

@John-Folan

John - firstly can I just give you abig thank you for this thread and in particular the BOTS provided. I've learned so much from your posts. I'm looking for a bit of help regarding Gary's SHG BOT. In short I just dont get how it works. Its seems to be using the Correct Score Markets but I cant see how it then bets on them to get the SHG. Also, I cant see how the selections are imported or indeed work out what selectionId to use in the CSV file. Can you help and sorry if I'm being thick.

Dave P

Been a while since I've looked at that one. You have to load the correct score market in manually. This bot was done in the days before all this integration was available. It's shouldn't take too long there are never that many.

The way it works is it only bets during the half time break(under market conditions). Then under selection conditions it will lay the current score only in the correct score market. I did test it thoroughly quite a while back and it does work. Let me know how you get on.

David Polkey

@John-Folan

John - firstly can I just give you abig thank you for this thread and in particular the BOTS provided. I've learned so much from your posts. I'm looking for a bit of help regarding Gary's SHG BOT. In short I just dont get how it works. Its seems to be using the Correct Score Markets but I cant see how it then bets on them to get the SHG. Also, I cant see how the selections are imported or indeed work out what selectionId to use in the CSV file. Can you help and sorry if I'm being thick.

Dave P

Paul Foster

@Matthew-Sheehan said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

Does anybody know the best way to run 2 instances of BFBM at once?

I have two strategies in BFBM which are conflicting on staking plans, and I am thinking of the best way to get round it.

Does anyone know if I have 1 license for BFBM, whether it will work fine if I'm running it on 2 separate computers, linked to 2 separate betfair exchange accounts? I'm going to try and set it up now, but if anyone has tried already and can advise if it works ok (or not)?

Ive used VMware virtual machine in the past.

John Folan

@Matthew-Sheehan said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

Does anybody know the best way to run 2 instances of BFBM at once?

I have two strategies in BFBM which are conflicting on staking plans, and I am thinking of the best way to get round it.

Does anyone know if I have 1 license for BFBM, whether it will work fine if I'm running it on 2 separate computers, linked to 2 separate betfair exchange accounts? I'm going to try and set it up now, but if anyone has tried already and can advise if it works ok (or not)?

Download Sandboxie. It’s a virtual machine. You can have loads running and install and bfbm in each one.

simon topper

@Matthew-Sheehan I have BFBM running on 2 computers. I believe you can have as many as you like, each licence is restricted to a single betfair account.

Greg Mitchell

@Matthew-Sheehan How do you mean conflicting? You can set each to have its own bank and plan?

Matthew Sheehan

Does anybody know the best way to run 2 instances of BFBM at once?

I have two strategies in BFBM which are conflicting on staking plans, and I am thinking of the best way to get round it.

Does anyone know if I have 1 license for BFBM, whether it will work fine if I'm running it on 2 separate computers, linked to 2 separate betfair exchange accounts? I'm going to try and set it up now, but if anyone has tried already and can advise if it works ok (or not)?

Martin

@Andrew-Gray if you have a crack at making them I can take a look

Martin

@Andrew-Gray you will be pleased to hear I don't have any of them

Andrew Gray

@John-Folan said in BFbotmanager Automation Discussion:

Trob Bot Instructions.

The Bot will place a bet on your selection(provided by me in the HRT most mornings)

Presume this info is out of date as I can't see any TROB selections in the racing thread in the last week or so?

Is there a software filter for the selections now?

Cheers

Andrew Gray

@Martin Appreciate the quick reply Martin

I need:

Back to Lay 1.0 - rules_export.json

Lay The Fav - rules_export (5).json

Dan's C&D - rules_export (6).json

Lay 1st and 2nd Fav - rules_export (9).json

Lay C&D - rules_export (12).json

If you have them all can you not just edit that post (or do another one elsewhere) to stop people bugging you on here all the time though?

Cheers again

Martin

@Andrew-Gray which ones do you need mate?

Andrew Gray

Hi all,

Just resetting everything up after my VPS crashed and lost all the settings etc.

Is there any chance we can have a post that corresponds to the first post in this thread:

https://forum.betfairtradingcommunity.com/topic/3531/horse-racing-strategies-megathread - but includes the .gz files for the BFBM bots to go with the strats?

Apologies if I've missed it anywhere but the first post on this thread only has the .gz files for a couple of them.

Be great to just have a "one stop shop" and everything is in one place (long term you could even add this into the software next to the presets - a downloadable file for each different Bot Manager to go along with that preset?)

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Thanks @Martin

Martin

@Correa I'll tag @John-Folan on this one as it looks ok to me but he is more experienced