Tracking a selection that is coming in

[lukehudds87]

I am trying to get betangel automation to only place a lay bet at a certain price if the price is coming instead of going out, to try and scalp the crossovers, laying.

I have input a condition that is last traded price 15 seconds ago is > than last traded price now. Previously i had experiemented with saying 15 secs ago > 5 ticks, 10 secs ago > 3 ticks, 5 seconds ago > 1 tick... etc but what i found was the noise just made the bot not get activated

is there a more efficient way of tracking a price movement? I have seen you can look at doing it by percentages?

[ShaunWhite]

You could try a simple price velocity measure—e.g., (LTP now - LTP X secs ago) / X—to smooth out noise while still detecting real movement. A moving average of price changes might help, but percentages (like 100/price) won’t add much since tick size isn't linear.

[lukehudds87]

Hi many thanks for your reply, i have tried to do this but struggle with producing stored values and using them. Will definately have a look at doing this though and will share my results

[Dallas]

There's an example here which scalps when at a crossover, which you could edit so it only lays first
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