Automation Rule Priority Question

[spoilers]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know if there is a way to prioritise rules within the automation function on guardian? I see that you can move the rules up and down in the list, but I can't see that this creates any priority within the rule set? All rules seem to fire regardless.

Essentially, I would like to be able to tell the automation function to "only bet according to rule 2 if bet according to rule 1 has been placed"

Any help is most welcome!

Cheers.

[TheTub]

Presumably if rule 1 fires then something changes in the market. So add a condition in rule 2 that looks for this change.

Or arrange by time and only have one rule active at a time. One to fire bets and the other to clean up and close positions.

[spoilers]

Perhaps another way to resolve my particular issue is to use the trade profit condition. I can't seem to get it to work consistently.

Does anyone know if it takes your realised trade profit condition (IE. a lay and a back have already been placed), or does it take what would be the trade profit condition if the bet associated with that particular rule is matched?

Thanks very much.

[bibu]

This is a valid question and deserves more attention in my opinion. What use is it to have multiple automation rules applied to one market if you can't precisely set which one triggers first, second.. etc.

I'm trying to do approximately the same thing and I feel the trade profit condition is too vague to use.. especially in live mode.

[Bet Angel]

You can move rules up and down in the automation editor. It takes its priority from top to bottom. But don't over look the timing aspect of automation as that is the most important.

[MarketTrader]

Is this question actually about priority or are you trying to get the rules to fire in a particular order?

For example, if Rule 1 has triggered then fire Rule 2 and so on. Is this what you mean?

'Priority' as I understand it does not mean this.

At the moment you can set Multiple Rules and they will all fire or trigger independently of each other. I think the priority talked about by Bet Angel is a programmers term for which rule gets looked at and executed first as it cycles through them thousands of times per second. For example, if Rule 1 and Rule 7 in your list trigger at the same time then rule 1 will get executed first then rule 7. But this happens in a fraction of a second so to the user it looks like they execute simultaneously.

[bibu]

"If rule 1 has triggered then fire rule 2" -this is exactly what I mean.

For example, I want to lay an outcome at 1.3, and if it gets to 1.4 green up and fire the second rule (e.g.lay the same outcome at 1.10). I obviously don't want to lay at 1.10 if my original trade (lay @1.3) has not ended.

For this example I can set the trade profit condition, but what if I have 10 rules for that market?

[Euler]

You can nest rules one under the other.

So you would start with the trigger for the first bet.

The second rule would monitor the condition for price exceeding 1.4 but make that conditional on their being a profit or no unmatched bets, or both.