Automation, A lay bet at back price?

[Shamrock]

Hi Everyone,
Most probably a simple thing but it has me stumped.
Let’s say the over under 3.5 goals market.
5 minutes before kick off the market for under is 1.35 and 1.39. I want to place a lay bet at the back price plus one (1.36). Because I have set the automation to a lay bet, when I set the parameter to best market price plus one tick it will place the bet at 1.4 and match at 1.39.
How would I get it to go to back price plus 1 tick?
Thanks for any help.

[Euler]

If you go to the parameters section you can nominate the price you want to place the bet at.

Click on the drop down menu called 'place at'

You will have the options: -

Fixed price
Best market price
2nd best market price
3rd bets market price
Custom ticks above best market price
Custom ticks below best market price

[Shamrock]

When I do custom ticks above, it will do the ticks above the lay price because it is a lay bet, I want to do custom ticks above the back price.

[Euler]

Above is one higher than the current price and lower is below the current price. Back +1 is the current lay price, Lay -1 is the current back price.

[kebank]

"...Above is one higher than the current price and lower is below the current price. Back +1 is the current lay price, Lay -1 is the current back price..."


I would say that the above is only true in a UK or Irish horse race. In the majority of markets Lay -1 is nowhere near the current back price.

I've had similar problems of placing lay bets at back price in guardian. I don't believe it's possible.

[Euler]

If you a placing bets into a gappy market then that's always going to be an issue, there is no centre of the book. That's a market issue.

[Shamrock]

Thanks for the help; it looks like it cannot be done.
Maybe something to look at for the next build, custom ticks above back price and custom ticks below lay price. Short priced markets like this are gappy, but they do have enormous potential because of the gaps.

[Euler]

There are no limitations in Excel so you can do it in there quite easily.

The automation is a half way house to Excel, the more complex your requirements the more you may consider using the Excel integration.

I imagine we could add a rule to go above or below an opposing price.

[Shamrock]

Most of my loses are due to excel freezing. I have found that once you have time as a trigger and a large number of sheets, it crashes 9 time out of 10.
Excel is great with Guardian as long as it is not asked to do too much.
I am looking to do 80 to 100 markets in one hit.

[Euler]

I am looking to do 80 to 100 markets in one hit.

That's a huge amount!

[kebank]

"...I imagine we could add a rule to go above or below an opposing price..."


Euler,

The ability to place a lay bet at back price, or back bet at lay price in guardian would be a fantastic addition.

[Shamrock]

20 games at 4 markets per game, it's not that bad. I have created a custom column that lets me lay at back plus 1. Time consuming but it works. It would be great to do it through automation.
Thanks for your time.

[Bet Angel]

The request in the main thrust of this thread has been implemented in the new version, 1.32