Can the automation be automated even more ?

[d4006]

Still on day 1 of my BetAngel trial, and liking it so far. One thing I think I've noticed (but could be wrong) is that the automation is only semi-automated. Yes you can create a rule that you can run against a selection of markets, but my point is that you still have to do that manually. I'm assuming this workflow:

Manually open BetAngel and manually login
Manually Click on Guardian
Manually go to quickpicks and select today's horse racing and choose some markets and then click "Add".
Manually highlight the markets of interest and then click "Apply rules to selected markets".

Only at this point does it become automated.

I was hoping that I could set it up to run 24/7 and have it daily at 10am add the UK & Irish Win markets and apply my rules to all of those markets. Then at the same time the next day, do it again.

If my rules are good, I can leave it running for weeks without looking and come back to see how much profit I made. Or I come back and find my balance is at zero and discover that it failed to place any more bets since the account fell to zero.

[Euler]

It's advisable to have oversight on automation. Take today for example, Towcester was abandoned and automation would still be there thinking, where is Towcester? With untold consequences.

Unexpected events will be jumped on by people watching the live market.

[d4006]

It's advisable to have oversight on automation. Take today for example, Towcester was abandoned and automation would still be there thinking, where is Towcester? With untold consequences.

Unexpected events will be jumped on by people watching the live market.

Presumably it was abandoned long before 10AM though.

I would have thought that the market would sit in my list of markets and my condition to start my rule x minutes before the event would never be met, so the consequences would be none.

Or have you experienced bad things happening?

[LinusP]

It's advisable to have oversight on automation. Take today for example, Towcester was abandoned and automation would still be there thinking, where is Towcester? With untold consequences.

Unexpected events will be jumped on by people watching the live market.

Market gets closed -> Guardian removes it. All my programs have no issue with this, some have been running for weeks at a time, not sure why Guardian would be any different.

[Euler]

It wasn't about Guardian specifically I was advising oversight on the markets, not the software.

It makes sense to add or remove markets that may not fit your strategy to improve returns. Some strategies are brilliant on some markets and not others. Horses could be withdraw etc.

[Crazyskier]

It makes sense to add or remove markets that may not fit your strategy to improve returns. Some strategies are brilliant on some markets and not others. Horses could be withdraw etc.

Indeed, especially if playing the place market and an 8 runner field becomes 7 and therefore only 2 paid places - BIG difference!

[spreadbetting]

Betfair don't alter the place terms on markets with non runners, they'd still pay on the 3 places just apply a reduction factor to bets placed beforehand.