If you watch them in Bet Angel on either the ladder or one-click screen while refreshing at 200ms you'll see how quick it happens.gingerb5 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:03 pmYep totally agree with you on that one Dallas. It just seemed that watching the odds live on betfair it (sometimes) didn't match the horse that was 1st to trade @3.5. Anyway, thank you so much for all your help, I'll keep plugging awayDallas wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 8:40 pmIf the parameters are still the same, ie, lay at 3.5 if the price crashes through this then Betfair will always match you at the best price, so if/when you get matched at 2.7, 2.6 etc you're risking much less (for the same reward).gingerb5 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 8:18 pm
Hi dallas, Just thought i'd give you a quick update on how things went today.....So for the large part everything went really well, however occasionally I was getting matched @ odds well below the target of 3.5 (2.7, 2.6, 1.91 and even 1.02). I thought this may be down to 'allow rule to trigger wait time' currently set to 5 seconds, so I changed that to 0.5 and that seemed to do the trick for the next 5 or so races, but then I got a match of 3.0 on the following race and and while later a match of 2.9. So tried to fix that by adding a fixed odds condition 'Last traded price >3.4' .....haha i thought, that'll do it...but alas, that just stopped anything matching at all ....There's probably a fix somewhere, if anyone has any ideas I'd be truly grateful!!!
To get matched all the way down at 1.02 the horse must have come from the back late on and its price crashed right in.
If it went on to win you'll have lost £0.20, had you been matched at 3.5 where the bet was placed you'd have lost £25
The Betfair site only refreshes once per second so it could show 4.6 then go down to 3.15, 2.58, 3.95 and back out to 5.9 and you may only see 4.6 then 5.9 on the site