Betangel Scripting/Dev edition

[dm1900]

Are there any plans to allow scripting within Betangel? Currently Guardian allows the automation rules, but they are quite constrained. It would be cool if we could write scripts (ideally python but given Betangel looks like .NET we could write and compile .NET DLLs ourselves that could be imported by Betangel, OR compiled on the fly using Codedom). Various platforms allow interaction with the market via code without having to maintain a lot of the plumbing like persisting the order book in memory yourself. Would be cool if I could access various market data inputs, run logic over the stream of prices and execute orders.

Obviously one could hook into the betfair API themselves but obviously this comes with the overhead of managing your own infrastructure (order book management etc) which is just time consuming. To test strategies rapidly, writing scripts would be awesome. Thoughts?

[jimibt]

Are there any plans to allow scripting within Betangel? Currently Guardian allows the automation rules, but they are quite constrained. It would be cool if we could write scripts (ideally python but given Betangel looks like .NET we could write and compile .NET DLLs ourselves that could be imported by Betangel, OR compiled on the fly using Codedom). Various platforms allow interaction with the market via code without having to maintain a lot of the plumbing like persisting the order book in memory yourself. Would be cool if I could access various market data inputs, run logic over the stream of prices and execute orders.

Obviously one could hook into the betfair API themselves but obviously this comes with the overhead of managing your own infrastructure (order book management etc) which is just time consuming. To test strategies rapidly, writing scripts would be awesome. Thoughts?

+1

would be a nice addition. i guess a small IInterface could be provided so as to allow for dependency injection ala plugins. there is a competing product that actually does this in exactly this fashion (altho' in theory the product developer creates these plugins -however, it's a simple task [cough] to see how they are referenced and thereby add your own plugins).

BA could use a similar model...