Yesterday I programmed a simple bot to place my lay bets at the best price and set it up. Lots of bets triggered correctly but only error messages back. That doesn't surprise me it can take some debugging and as long as you get support it can be fixed.
Today OI decided to learn the ladder interface and play with some trading. I began to get the idea and managed a couple of successful scalp trades and began to enjoy,, then it stopped placing my bets. This was only £2 practice bets and after a while I tried placing orders a tick or even two behind the current price, there seemed to be adequate liquidity but not a single order placed out of at least 30 attempts.
Can anyone explain or is it just not working very well
Eddie
Nets not placed on Ladder interface or Excel
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ShaunWhite
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Have you been using Practice Mode long? Is your account restricted?
Apologies for the delay and thanks to all who commented.
Firstly, I am not suggesting at all the software is wrong, I like it very much other than it takes a while to learn.
I am using the BetDaq version and I don't think they do practice mode.
I finally yesterday got some time to spend on it, all day in fact, and I got to the bottom of the problem by searching the Betdaq API specifications.
I research my lay bets and se my own value price for each, I wont bet if they o higher on the exchange.
The problem is that BetDaq only accepts prices that come from that ladder of prices using those specific increments as per the tick ladder. So if a range only increments in .5 jumps, it will throw an error when presented with say 15.2 because it cant be .2 (made up increments, but hopefully you get the idea)
I wrote a VB function that fixes this and everything is fine, now on to the next challenge
If anyone is using Excel and wants my code you are welcome to it.
Thanks again
Ed
Firstly, I am not suggesting at all the software is wrong, I like it very much other than it takes a while to learn.
I am using the BetDaq version and I don't think they do practice mode.
I finally yesterday got some time to spend on it, all day in fact, and I got to the bottom of the problem by searching the Betdaq API specifications.
I research my lay bets and se my own value price for each, I wont bet if they o higher on the exchange.
The problem is that BetDaq only accepts prices that come from that ladder of prices using those specific increments as per the tick ladder. So if a range only increments in .5 jumps, it will throw an error when presented with say 15.2 because it cant be .2 (made up increments, but hopefully you get the idea)
I wrote a VB function that fixes this and everything is fine, now on to the next challenge
If anyone is using Excel and wants my code you are welcome to it.
Thanks again
Ed