Stu - you took the time to elaborate on what i was thinking but was too lazy to produce!! 100% spot on!!sniffer66 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:40 amAs someone who feels they have posted up some useful code to help people trade automatically, I take a little umbrage at point 4 but hey ho.
Your posts come across as someone purely trolling for an argument, but assuming that's not the case then this is how I see things personally
BA is a tool, like any other trading tool, be it for stocks, Forex, other BF API based tools. Apart from the many "Noddy" bots out there that promise £xxx income per month (and never, ever deliver). None of the tools for the markets listed above will provide a sure fire means, out of the box, of generating income for approx £30 a month. They are all there to provide a framework to apply your own trading methods, and possibly automate them. If you want more than that you are going to be looking at a product worth £1000's +. I'm really not sure what you are expecting for the kind of money BA asks.
I've used quite a few of the BF bots on the market and do agree with you on one of the products you mentioned, as far as automated loading of markets goes - it's one of my little bug bears with BA. I use BFBM myself for straight punting, purely for that reason. It's pretty much hands free if you have some self written code or a tips site pushing out fire and forget bets. However, it's automation for anything other than basic stuff is pretty dire. It's also very slow on refresh times in comparison.
As an ex IT Professional, I picked BA as it's the only product I've used that feels professionally developed and supported, and has the look and feel of Enterprise software. Everything else looks and feels like it's been created in someone's shed.
For me BA really comes into it's own as an automation tool. I can trade tennis manually and win consistently. However, I just don't have the time to sit at a PC all day every day. BA is the only product I've found with the qualities I've listed above, that also enables me to create a bot that exactly replicates what I would do manually. Yes, it can be complex and takes time to learn but pretty much anything is possible if you have the ability and application.
if you have a strat that wins manually I've not found a better product that will replicate that in automation, at a decent price. If you know of one set me straight.
I would add to that the fact that programmes such as Photoshop and Word are used by both artisans and amateurs with amazingly disparate results.