But life is never as it seems! I would welcome help on what I'm doing wrong with such a simple set-up and how I can achieve my goal. Yes I'm talking football, pun intended! Note: this is experimental so I'm looking to Green-up with a £1 profit to test my actions.
I have my bets matched and live and want to Green-up when a £1 profit can be achieved so my rule looks like …
As you can see there are 3 Green-up instructions at least 15 seconds apart to allow for Betfair In-play delays, looking for a profit of £1 but waiting 90 seconds since last unsuspended for the market to settle down.
However I am getting unexpected results, take Wolfsburg v Hoffenheim last night …
Log shows the match unsuspended for the kick-off, then a goal after 6 mins, the market unsuspends and just over 90 seconds later the green-up takes place but it only resulted in a profit of £0.12. Why did it Green-up if less than a £1 profit? Was 90 seconds insufficient for the market to settle down? But then you will notice there was a second attempt to Green-up after a further 20 seconds so I assume BA saw another opportunity to Green-up for the required £1 profit but again it fell well short!
23/09/2019 19:31:32: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 19:31:32: Guardian has detected that the market is in-play
23/09/2019 19:31:32: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 19:37:14: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 19:37:17: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 19:38:53: [G_Auto] : Greened up Wolfsburg by Laying 2.44 at 4.1
23/09/2019 19:38:53: [G_Auto] : Greened up The Draw by Backing 2.50 at 4
23/09/2019 19:38:53: [G_Auto] : Greened up Hoffenheim by Laying 5.00 at 2
23/09/2019 19:39:13: [G_Auto] : Greened up Wolfsburg by Laying 0.06 at 4
23/09/2019 19:51:48: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 19:52:07: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 21:23:22: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
A worse example was the Braga v Maritimo match also last night (kick-off 19:00) …
Here the Log shows the market was suspended some 30 mins into the game and not unsuspended until 12 minutes later? (Did something strange happen?) Anyway some 5 minutes later the Green-up kicked in and was satisfied first time but instead of a profit of approximately £1 it resulted in a loss of £3.23! Why should that be, I wouldn't expect the odds to be sufficiently volatile 5 minutes after the previous unsuspension to cause that. Also the next suspension wasn't for a further 30 minutes so no question of market foresight there!
23/09/2019 19:02:36: Guardian has detected that the market is in-play
23/09/2019 19:02:36: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 19:02:37: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 19:31:44: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 19:43:20: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 19:48:26: [G_Auto] : Greened up The Draw by Backing 3.17 at 3.15
23/09/2019 19:48:26: [G_Auto] : Greened up Braga by Laying 3.90 at 2.56
23/09/2019 19:48:26: [G_Auto] : Greened up Maritimo by Laying 2.93 at 3.4
23/09/2019 20:18:21: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 20:23:21: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 20:48:21: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 20:53:21: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 21:03:22: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
The third game I played last night (Sporting Lisbon v Famalicao) ended in a profit of £1.18
I post the log of that game simply for comparison purposes but I do notice that the first Green-up bets were spread over a 6 second period (I wouldn't have expected that). Then it cancelled the Green-up bet on Famalicao 4 seconds later and layed it again 5 seconds later. I have no idea what that was all about 
… 23/09/2019 21:03:24: Guardian has detected that the market is in-play
23/09/2019 21:03:24: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 21:03:24: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 21:28:03: Guardian has detected that the market is suspended
23/09/2019 21:28:07: Guardian has detected that the market is now unsuspended
23/09/2019 21:29:43: [G_Auto] : Greened up Sporting Lisbon by Laying 8.33 at 1.2
23/09/2019 21:29:43: [G_Auto] : Greened up The Draw by Backing 1.22 at 8.2
23/09/2019 21:29:49: [G_Auto] : Greened up Famalicao by Laying 0.37 at 27
23/09/2019 21:29:53: [G_Auto] : Cancelling bets 179659863812
23/09/2019 21:29:58: [G_Auto] : Greened up Famalicao by Laying 0.36 at 28
I guess I'm asking how the Green-up action/condition works in practice just so that I can try and plan efficient use of it … the above analysis was not what I was expecting.
