Bet Angel Professional v1.63 contains the following new features and updates
Auto Keypress of Keyboard Shortcuts
· Bet Angel can now be configured to automatically trigger a keypress at a defined time and frequency to activate Keyboard Shortcuts.
· New 'Auto Keypress' tab page can be found in the Keyboard Shortcuts Editor to define the Auto Keypresses.
· Conceptually this feature started as a suggestion to allow automatic update of markets loaded into Guardian, but by supporting timed triggers of Keyboard Shortcuts this feature becomes much more open and configurable.
· Multiple triggers can be defined per keyboard shortcuts profile. They can trigger: just once, once per day, or at a defined frequency in a time range. They can also be limited to only run on specific days of the week if required.
Note; Remember that a single keypress can perform multiple Shortcut Actions - just define multiple shortcuts to the same keypress and they will be actioned in order.
Guardian Settings category
· New action to 'Set the Coupon Management Settings' - if a keypress is going to be used to apply a Coupon to guardian, this action can ensure the Coupon settings are set as required
· New option for 'Select markets in Guardians list of markets' which will 'Select all markets with a specific stored value at market level'
Market Navigation category
· Refresh markets: options to force the 'Refresh the markets of the Market Selection screen' and the 'Refresh the markets of the Select page of Guardian'
Note, Now when refreshing a market tree, if the current selected market is still available, the tree will be expanded and the node reselected rather than the tree collapsing back to the display of the top level sports
New shortcut to 'Set the Coupon Management settings' in the Guardian category
· If a keypress is going to be used to apply a Coupon to Guardian (to update the Market List), this action can ensure the Coupon settings are set as required. e.g. Set 'Clearing option' to 'Don't clear' so that the addition of new markets doesn't remove previously assigned Automation Rules.
Additional Data Values Sourced from Betfair
· Race Status - provides the status of horse/greyhound race prior to and after the start of the race. Available for UK, Ireland and South African races only. For a list of the status values and descriptions see betfair's documentation here: Betfair Developer
· Horse's official rating
Note: Both of these data items are available to Automation's Stored Values and can be added as Additional Information at various locations throughout Bet Angel (e.g. Excel, Custom columns in One-click / Guardian / Watch List Coupon, Ladder's additional information area)
Automation - Editor
· A check box called 'Bookmark file' has been added to the General page of the Automation Editor. A bookmarked file will be displayed at the top of any of the Automation Rules Files pick lists (such as in Guardian or the Servant Manager). By bookmarking you current favourite automation files, you'll be able to find them quickly without having to scroll through every file in the list.
Automation - Dutching
· Four new rule types relating to preparing and placing a Dutching bet.
The concept being that you use 'Dutching - Include a selection' to prepare a dutching bet by including each selection you wish to dutch, setting the price to be used, deciding if the Margin Maker should apply and if a target profit override needs to apply. As with other rule types, you can use conditions to decide whether to include the selection or not. e.g. Fixed Odds condition. Alternatively, you may wish to use the 5 Nominated Selections supported by Guardian for each market to hand-pick in Guardian itself the selections to use with the automation.
· You can remove selections from the dutching bet being prepared by using either 'Dutching - Exclude a selection' or 'Dutching - Clear all selections'
· Use 'Dutching - Place bets on included selections' at a time of your choosing (based on any conditions you wish to apply) to place all the necessary bets to dutch the included selections. The rule will compute the correct stake size based on the 'place at' parameters applied to the selections during inclusion.
· This rule type has parameters to define the staking method, set the margin maker percentage if applicable, and choose whether to actually place the bet and/or log a breakdown of the predicted profit calculations
· The new Dutching condition helps trigger the dutching bet at the optimum time. e.g. Use to ensure the total stake is under your defined limits and check that the current dutching book% is providing the desired margin.
Automation - Modify the Price of a Unmatched Bet
· This new rule type allows the price of an unmatched bet to be modified.
· Includes choices to modify the oldest unmatched bet, the most recent unmatched bet, a bet whose reference is held in a stored value, or a bet that is located at the Servant context price
· Additional 'place at' parameters allow the bet to be moved a defined number of ticks (or percentage) above/below its current price
Note: when a bet's price is changed, betfair will issue a new reference for the bet
Automation - Stored Values
· Race Completed % (using Race Meter settings).
· Runner's Official Rating
· Race Status (as explained above) Note: this is stored as a text SV
· The Money available to Back above a specified price for a selection
· The Money available to Back below a specified price for a selection
· The Money available to Lay above a specified price for a selection
· The Money available to Lay below a specified price for a selection
· Volume Traded above a specified price for a selection
· Volume Traded below a specified price for a selection
· Unmatched Bet Information of the market/selection
· The stake / price / reference of the most recent / oldest unmatched bet can be stored
Existing filters of price and back/lay type can apply to these new options
· Cross Matching indicator of the market' returns 1 if Betfair are applying cross matching to the market and 0 if not
TPD Jump information (requires subscription to Total Performance Data)
· The number of jumps ahead/behind of each selection
· The distance in metres to the next jump / from the last jump, for each selection
· The distance to first jump' & 'Distance from last jump to finish' found in the category 'Total Performance Data about the market'
Note: Currently jump information is available for the ARC Racing courses offered by TPD
Tennis Score information about the Selection
· The sets, game, points values for a player.
· Note: As numeric stored values are used to hold the points, an in-game Advantage is scored as 41. e.g. the Score line would be 40-41 or 41-40, rather than 40-Adv or Adv-40
· If the player is serving (1 = yes, 0 = no)
· If the player is second serving (1 = yes, 0 = no)
Tennis Score information about the Market' category
· Maximum sets in the Match
Automation - Conditions
· Race information contains Jump Position information about the course
· Race information does NOT contain Jump Position information about the course
Bet Angel API
· getBalance - returns your betfair account balance as at the last refresh by Bet Angel
· getCoupons - returns a list of all the Coupons that can be used with the applyCoupon() operation
· getRulesFileNames - returns a list of all the Automation Rules File names that are available in Guardian
· Bug fix applied to getMarketPrices - previously in a situation where a selection had less than three back prices on offer, the API would only return one price.
· The API reference documentation has been updated and can be found here
Ladder Settings
· General page : added Last Traded Price as an option for the Ladder header & footer.
· Unmatched Bets page : added new option to give a choice for what happens when clicking in an empty cell of the unmatched bets column (e.g. move the most recent bet to that price)
Other Changes
· Fill & Kill time field (Global settings on various screens) - Increased number of characters so the maximum value is now 999999 seconds
· Market Filter Editor - Enhanced to allow a time of day filter to be used when filtering markets by their Start Time.
· Matched Bets pages (main trading screen and Guardian) - new checkbox option to Merge the data so that both back & lay bets are displayed in the same grid and so can be sorted together
· One Click screen now allowed to launch up to 20 one-click screens rather than 10
· Unmatched Bets Grid - The current column sort applied to the grid will be saved/loaded with the screen layout profile
· Market Selections - Quick picks, for US racing only: Betfair have stopped listing US markets with 'PLACE' market type, so quick picks will use 'OTHER_PLACE' market type instead
· To help new users, Bet confirmation messages have additional detail when global settings have been applied. They are now also shown when unmatched bets are modified
