Rule to only keep unmatched Lay bets in play

[bbran19]

I am a very conservative scalper/trader and place my bets manually.

i select a horse likely to plunge - before or after the jump - so I wait for my BACK bid to be matched before place my greened value LAY bid.

I place a few scalps each race so I need to keep all my greened value LAY bids (which have a matched back bid) in play before and after the jump.

It is easy to create an automation rule to keep ALL unmatched bets in play but I am unable to create a rule that only keeps all unmatched LAY bids in play.

I would prefer my unmatched BACK bids to cancel on the jump as they do not have a greening lay bet.

Thank for your help.

Bob

[Derek27]

I am a very conservative scalper/trader and place my bets manually.

i select a horse likely to plunge - before or after the jump - so I wait for my BACK bid to be matched before place my greened value LAY bid.

I place a few scalps each race so I need to keep all my greened value LAY bids (which have a matched back bid) in play before and after the jump.

It is easy to create an automation rule to keep ALL unmatched bets in play but I am unable to create a rule that only keeps all unmatched LAY bids in play.

I would prefer my unmatched BACK bids to cancel on the jump as they do not have a greening lay bet.

Thank for your help.

Bob

One possibility off the top of my head, instead of clicking on the ladder to green up your bets, you could use a servant to place a greenup bet at the context price, and set it to "keep", placing your back bets as normal so they get cancelled at the off.

[bbran19]

Many thanks for you time Derek. You are correct. I can do that. But am looking for a rule because, like the boofhead I am, I sometimes forget to do it for ALL the lay bids I have added.

And I prefer to have the option to move my lay bids up and down if needed.

My current rule works for all bids, and then I go through and manually cancel all the unmatched back bids in the hope they are not matched after the jump.

I was hoping for a condition I can apply to my automation rule that applies it to only LAY bids.

[Dabbla]

You can use the rule (Cancel unmatched bets on selection (Price dependent))
Set the parameters to Back bets only and add the condition the market is Inplay.

You also have a rule ( KEEP unmatched bets on selection (Price dependent). You could just set that to keep the lay bets only.

[bbran19]

Thank you for your time Dabbla,

I like your suggestions. However based on my data I manually select the best lay bid for each situation. Sometimes it is 40% below my back bid and sometimes it is 15% - based on the conditions of the horse in the race.

So I select the price dependent option and set that for lay bets. GREAT!

But which option can I use the keep the lay bid I have manually placed in the table for all my selections.

I can't see anything in the PARAMETERS that allows me to choose the my values, which may be different for different horses and in fact different bids for the same horse.

[jamesedwards]

I think I would 'keep all unmatched bets' and then cancel the ones you don't want as soon as the race goes in-play using any relevant conditions.

[bbran19]

That is a good manual option for my betting style, James.