Offset Betting not seeming to work when automated

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clairesallis
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Hi, I am new to BetAngel so trying to fathom out the various facilities within the software... making numerous errors along the way... I have obviously made an error in my present automation. I am automatically laying and backing horses using an offset, under various conditions through Guardian. The automation seems to work relatively well on certain races but on others, during the betting period, I am left with lots of matched lay bets and nothing in the unmatched back bets? or maybe just a few back bets but not the corresponding lay to back bets that should be present.... invariably leading to a loss... I can't understand what I have done wrong.... I don't understand how this is possible, surly each lay bet should lead to a corresponding back bet(offset)....any ideas?
Note: Time to Unmatched Bet set at 2secs and number of unmatched bets set to equal '0' for each selection?

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Dallas
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Have you enabled fill/kill to ensure your offset is only placed after your initial bet is matched?
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=11817

You shouldn't be left with any more than 1 unmatched back bet, which would only occur if a selection/runner goes on to win without ever drifting back out.
Every other selection will drift out to 1000 so all back bets on these would get matched
Mick
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I had the same problem Saturday, totally steamrolled and I run off BetAngel vps. There was something weird going on Saturday; not matching, I’ve purchased BF tick data to have a look through
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