There is no point to practice mode whatsoever because your money is not in the market, so others cannot react to it.guy333 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 04, 2018 12:20 pmI gave up on the idea of manually trading years ago as I just can't get the hang of it. It doesn't matter how good the signs are one trade will always go the wrong way and wipeout all profits.
Therefore the only reason that I occassionally dip into Bet Angel is because of the dream that one day I will work out the perfect automation programme that is profitable.
I will probably give up again soon as it is proving to be elusive but without practice mode any project is a non-starter. Some of my automations risk huge losses so how can I test them without a practice mode?
With all due respect the baf files that Dallas releases are all designed for practice mode because none of them actually make a profit. So we are supposed to blindly go live with an automation file that we know is going to lose us money? (This is based on experience and the well known fact that nobody is going to give away a profitable system for free.)
So perhaps Bet Angel should withdraw the automation side of the package as for the vast majority of users it is leading us on a time-wasting frustrating journey that we are now advised is going to cost us a fortune in losses to Betfair?
I have many bots which make profits in practice mode but switch to live and they all fail bar 1.
Dallas templates are excellent learning tools but it also requires allot of hard work and time to convert then to profitable fully automated bots. The majority will never succeed and are basically wasting their time and money.
Anyway, having a fully automated bot is dangerous. What happens if the Betfair api starts playing up, will your bot cope ?
Having said that most people fail because they are over complicating things. Just enter the market on a coin flip and spend ones time refining your exits!
Enjoy.