Market cycling and automation

[Bet Angel]

We have extracted this comment from another thread so it can viewed with clarity.

The post is designed to give you an understanding of how you should write your rules if you aim is to do many things all at once across a number of markets.

Say you have Guardian refreshing at 1 market per second and you've got it cycling round ten markets, then you are retrieving new price information for each market once every ten seconds.

The automation rules are tested each time new prices are retrieved from betfair (to ensure the triggers are based on current price information), so for this example you should allow each rule to stay active for at least ten seconds (probably 15 seconds to be on the safe side).

If you've got 30 markets loaded into Guardian (with a one second refresh), then you'll be getting new prices for each market once every 30 seconds, so you should increase the time the rules stay active accordingly.

If you are not trading manually with the Bet Angel trading screens, you could afford to increase Guardian's refresh rate and still stay within betfair's 20 calls per second data request charging threshold. Obviously if you're refreshing Guardian every 500ms, you'll cycle round 30 markets in 15 seconds.

[malky]

An idea.

Is a solution to this to use the Restrict refresh in Advance Settings in Guardian that allow you to only service markets a certain amount of time before and after the off ?

eg if you put in 10 mins before as the parameter before the off and 10 mins after the off then Guardian will only refresh a handful of markets.
Provided the rules you have running happen within the specified time frame you should be ok ?

Does that make sense ? Or have I completely misunderstood this function and how it relates to rules.

BTW : I love this new tool it rocks. Now all I need to do is get to the point where I am prepared to get out of practice mode.

[malky]

Just spotted this is mentioned over on the Feedback thread specifically at pages 7 & 8

[chipping]

Can you clarify what you mean by saying "Allow a rule to stay active for 10 to 15 seconds"? I can't recall this being a parameter in the bet set up, unless you mean the "Wait x secs before re-trying"?