Hi,
Is anybody using (or know how to program) software for automatic bet placement? My dream is to be able to enter some selections, and if the Opening Fixed Price from IAS is suitable, place a bet with a particular internet bookmaker site. Is this possible?

betfair are pushing automated trading systems at the moment - http://bdp.betfair.com

Interested, but there's no local developers (for what I'm looking for) listed on their directory. Anyone know any techies who might be able to build these things?

My advice from certain expirience is,
any techie (should be able to) can build them.
But the initial architecture has to come from the user first. Eg; you, the punter.



[ This Message was edited by: puntz on 2004-11-05 05:33 ]

I can create an excel file that will get prices from one tab not the WA tab...then do anything you want with them then i can upload the bets to the WA tab....but this is only because the WA tab allow you to upload a text document in a particular format

How do you import the TAB prices directly into Excel Shaun?

Betfair require developers to embed a vendor ID into their programs so they can monitor program useage through betting activity. They then take a program royalty depending on sale numbers.

Don't expect any flood of programs.

you can't do it with most tab sites as i said ACT TAB is the only one that i know works.....you go to Data on the top line in excel then scroll down to get external data....you need to copy in a page url from the Tab site you go to there is some other things you can change like tables and formating but thats how it is done for microsoft 2000 pro

The developer can build as many as he likes as far as I'm concerned - I just want it to improve my trading profits...

I'm actually surprised the online sites don't have the facility to be able to place bets subject to price. I know it would increase my number of bets significantly. Would create a mine field with fluctuating prices... but surely Opening fixed prices would be do-able.

to import tab prices from unitab (also works with victab with a few small differences & i havent tried nsw as yet)

1. set unitab as your home page in internet explorer
2. open a blank excel workbook
3. from the Data menu select 'Import external data' then 'new web query'
4. wait for the unitab page to load then select the race you wish to import
5. once the race page has loaded you will see a number of small yellow arrows next to each field that can be imported
6. click on the arrow next to 'No.' field - that being the line above the horse numbers & odds etc
7. this should turn the arrow green & highlight all the runners
8. select import at the bottom of the 'new web query' window & choose where you want the data placed
9. you will now have a list of all runners odds, weights etc & the odds can be refreshed by selecting 'refresh data' from the 'data' menu

if you run into any problems then highlight all the imported data & delete, then repeat the above. On occasions the 'refresh data' screws everything up
&you will need to start again.

also you can setup a formatted worksheet so that when you import the data, for example, all the odds at dispayed with 2 decimal places etc.

I would be happy to email the worksheet I use to anyone who is interested.

Stugs


[ This Message was edited by: stugots on 2004-11-06 11:27 ]

[ This Message was edited by: stugots on 2004-11-06 11:33 ]