back and lay bets sometimes placed twice

[puntinrolls]

Every now and then, around 10% of the time, my bot will place a lay or back bet twice, immediately after one another.

I have refresh at 20 milliseconds and restrict refresh to 5 mins. My rearming rate is set at 1 sec and I'm not using kill or fill.

I have tried unmatched bets amount condition, number of unmatched bets and both together. I have tried a signal switch but still happening every now and then

Any ideas? Thanks.

[Archery1969]

Every now and then, around 10% of the time, my bot will place a lay or back bet twice, immediately after one another.

I have refresh at 20 milliseconds and restrict refresh to 5 mins. My rearming rate is set at 1 sec and I'm not using kill or fill.

I have tried unmatched bets amount condition, number of unmatched bets and both together. I have tried a signal switch but still happening every now and then

Any ideas? Thanks.

I have had this many times. You could try changing the re-arming time to 3 seconds and/or setting signals when you open trades etc.

[mickypaul72]

Number of place bet triggers conditions
On selection
Is equal to 0

[puntinrolls]

Number of place bet triggers conditions
On selection
Is equal to 0

Thanks, but I forgot to mention my bot can fire several (unknown amount) bets on the same selection, so I think this rule wouldn't work for this case. So if I understand the rule correctly, a second intentional bet would not be placed.

[puntinrolls]

Every now and then, around 10% of the time, my bot will place a lay or back bet twice, immediately after one another.

I have refresh at 20 milliseconds and restrict refresh to 5 mins. My rearming rate is set at 1 sec and I'm not using kill or fill.

I have tried unmatched bets amount condition, number of unmatched bets and both together. I have tried a signal switch but still happening every now and then

Any ideas? Thanks.

I have had this many times. You could try changing the re-arming time to 3 seconds and/or setting signals when you open trades etc.

Thanks Archery1969,


I will increase the rearming time a bit. Is 3 seconds something you found to work well?

I think I have done the signal suggestion although I have only learned them today so still a bit unsure on them.
I'll report back

I wonder if it's a connection issue at my end

[the4droogs]

Every now and then, around 10% of the time, my bot will place a lay or back bet twice, immediately after one another.

I have refresh at 20 milliseconds and restrict refresh to 5 mins. My rearming rate is set at 1 sec and I'm not using kill or fill.

I have tried unmatched bets amount condition, number of unmatched bets and both together. I have tried a signal switch but still happening every now and then

Any ideas? Thanks.

One of the techniques I use to get around this issue is to have my place a bet rule set a stored value (say 'betPlaced') to 1. There is also a condition on the rule that means it only fires if betPlaced is equal to zero.

Then I also have an earlier rule which is triggered when number of unmatched bets is greater than 0 (or some other number if you are expecting there to be more than one unmatched bet). When triggered this rule sets betPlaced back to zero, so the place a bet rule is ready to fire again. You just need to make sure that you initialise the betPlaced stored value to zero when the rule file first runs.

[puntinrolls]

Solved this my making a timer using signals.
Thanks for the help guys.