Bf Bot Manager V3€¦ · BF BOT MANAGER V3 3 ©2008-2017 2 Introduction Bf Bot Manager V3 is software for automated and manual trading and betting at Betfair betting

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Bf Bot Manager V3 - Updated on 29th December 2017 -

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1 Table of Contents 1 Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................. 2

2 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 3

3 Home ..................................................................................................................................................... 4

4 Events and Markets .............................................................................................................................. 5

4.1 Quick loading of markets .............................................................................................................. 6

4.2 Tree navigation ............................................................................................................................. 6

4.3 Advanced loading of markets ....................................................................................................... 8

5 Bots/Strategies .................................................................................................................................... 10

5.1 User strategies ............................................................................................................................ 10

5.2 Manual bets strategy .................................................................................................................. 11

5.2.1 Grid betting and trading ...................................................................................................... 11

5.2.2 Ladder betting and trading ................................................................................................. 12

5.3 Export/import my selections/tips ............................................................................................... 13

5.3.1 Export my selections ........................................................................................................... 14

5.3.2 Import my selections .......................................................................................................... 16

6 History ................................................................................................................................................. 18

6.1 Bets ............................................................................................................................................. 19

6.2 Results ......................................................................................................................................... 19

7 Tools and settings ............................................................................................................................... 20

8 Help ..................................................................................................................................................... 21

9 Resources ............................................................................................................................................ 22

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2 Introduction

Bf Bot Manager V3 is software for automated and manual trading and betting at Betfair betting

exchange. Software is approved and certified by Betfair, which means that it passed all Betfair

requirements and is official Betfair NG-API solution.

To use software you must have Betfair account. If you do not have Betfair account then you can

create one by using following link and get free bonus from Betfair:

http://ads.betfair.com/redirect.aspx?pid=18688&bid=8298

To run software you must have Windows operating system with Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0

(all newer systems have that), reliable internet connection and at least 1GB of RAM memory. For

software to work your computer must be up and running all the time, it must not go to sleep mode,

hibernate or stand by mode. Your computer also must be connected to the internet all the time.

You can use Bf Bot Manager V3 to load any Betfair market, place Back or Lay bets manually or

create your own bot/strategy that will automatically place bets by your own rules. There is no limit on

number of strategies that you can create. Only limit is your computer power, network connection speed

and Betfair NG-API limits. Home computer or laptop are in most cases good solution to run Bf Bot

Manager V3, but if you are on the move and want to access your bot from anywhere then we

recommend using Tagadab VPS servers to run the bots. This is explained in following article at our web

site:

http://www.bfbotmanager.com/cgi-bin/faq.pl?pid=16

In following chapters we will explain main screens of Bf Bot Manager V3. Please read those

carefully and if you have any questions after that then please contact us by using contact form at our

web site.



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3 Home

This is first ribbon tab page within Bf Bot Manager V3. It shows basic information about your

account and offers you essential options for controlling software, like:

• Account balances

• Options to transfer money between Main/UK and AU wallets

• Account name

• Option to refresh funds

• Auto load markets button

• Button to switch between simulation and real mode

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At bottom status bar there are options to save screenshot of main form, up and running time of

software, details on number of requests made to Betfair NG-API, link to Betfair services status and

status of your internet connection.

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4 Events and Markets

Events and markets tab allows you to load Betfair markets:

• Quickly by using quick load icons for specific sports and market type

• Manually by using events and markets tree navigation

• Automatically by using advanced filters for automatic loading of markets

Each of those options will be explained in detail in following chapters.

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Loaded markets will appear in main “MARKETS” grid view

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Markets that are monitored and for which prices are being downloaded will have green or

yellow cell in “Start Time” column, where green means that market is in play. Markets grid can be used

for placing manual bets on selections or for getting more information on selections and markets.

You can click on button in column “Show” to view list of selections and detailed information

about them.

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Right clicking on header cells will display content menu with menu item “Column chooser” that

allows you to add/remove columns from each grid and customize it by your own needs. You can do the

same thing for selections grid view.

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4.1 Quick loading of markets

Quick load buttons are used to instantly load markets with specific market type for one sport.

For example, clicking on horse “Win” button will load all “Win” markets for all horse races available. Or

clicking on “Match Odds” button with football ball, will load all “Match Odds” markets for all football

matches.

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Quick load buttons will load only next 100 markets for horse/greyhound races and next 200

markets for football and other events. To load more markets that start in future you should use

advanced auto load options, “Auto load” button.

4.2 Tree navigation

Tree navigation is used to add markets manually. This is very useful when you want to bet and

trade manually on few markets. Tree view is same as Betfair web site navigation. You navigate to the

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event and click on market that you want to add to “MARKETS” grid view. After that market will show in

grid view and you can start placing bets manually or set up one of your strategies to do that for you.

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4.3 Advanced loading of markets

Advanced auto loading of markets allows you to load markets that satisfy specific conditions.

For example, you want to load only horse races from UK and Ireland, or you want to load only Match

Odds markets from Barclays Premier league.

You can create unlimited number of auto load settings that will load specific markets, but

generally you should not make too many auto load settings (lets say that 3-5 active auto load settings

should be more than enough for most users) as each auto load will make its own requests to Betfair NG-

API to load markets.

Sometimes it is better to load all markets and then within your strategy to use “Markets filter”,

“Competitions filter” or “Events” filter to prevent strategy from betting on certain markets or to allow it

to bet on certain markets.

Only settings that are selected in column “Select” will execute when you click “Auto Load

button.

You should also make sure that you always click “Save” or “Save & Close” buttons to save all

your settings.

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When creating auto load settings you can use “Preview” button to see partial list of markets that

will be loaded. This displays first 50 markets that satisfy your auto load settings. This preview should

help you check if your auto load settings are working like you want them to.

Values in combo boxes at auto load form have “Refresh” button at their right side. When clicked

this refresh button will use existing filter settings to download only values for that combo box that are

available for selected settings. For example, if you set to load markets for next 1 day and then click

refresh for market types it might happen that combo box becomes empty, because there are not any

market types that are available within next 1 day.

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5 Bots/Strategies

Bots or strategies are sets of settings and conditions that need to be satisfied before bet can be

automatically placed. Each set of settings is called strategy or bot and has its own name set by user.

All loaded strategies are displayed at “BOTS/STRATEGIES” tab at main screen. By default there

are several “Example” strategies that should help you get started and understand how to create your

own strategies. Those example strategies are not best or profitable strategies, they are just examples.

Controls for managing strategies are displayed at top, those allow you to add new strategy,

duplicate existing ones, start, restart, pause strategies or to import/export/delete strategies.

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There are two types of strategies in Bf Bot Manager V3, those are:

• User strategies, those are the ones created by user by making different sets of settings and

conditions

• Default manual bets strategy used to record and manage all bets placed manually by user by

using grid or ladder controls

5.1 User strategies

User strategies are created by using “Add new” button at “STRATEGIES” tab. You can create as

many strategies as you like and run them at same time if you want. Each strategy works for it self and

has no effect on other strategies.

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Strategies are based on Multiple Strategies bot framework from Bf Bot Manager V2. For more

details on this whole mechanism you should read Multiple Strategies bot manual. Multiple Strategies

bot manual is available at our Help page:

http://www.bfbotmanager.com/cgi-bin/faq.pl

5.2 Manual bets strategy

This strategy is added by default and it cannot be removed. It is used for keeping statistics for all

bets placed manually by user. User can place bets manually by using markets grid or ladder control at

main “MARKETS” tab.

Thanks to this strategy you can filter bets history and see statistics only for bets that you placed

manually.

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5.2.1 Grid betting and trading

All placed bets manually by user by using main “MARKETS” grid are considered bets of “Manual

bets” strategy and will appear within “Bets” tab of “Manual bets” strategy.


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To place bet by using grid at main screen you first need to open market details and view

selections. Then you can right click on column header of selections grid and choose to display columns

“My Price”, “Stake”, “Back” and “Lay”.

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First you set price in column “My Price”. You can do this by clicking on cell for runner in that

column and entering your own price or you can click on any price in other cells e.g. click on “Back offer”

price will set that price to “My Price” cell.

Then you set stake and after that you click Lay or Back button. Bet will be placed and you can

view it at “Bets” tab.

Default values for those columns can be set by editing “Manual bets” strategy.

5.2.2 Ladder betting and trading

All placed bets manually by user by using ladder control at main “MARKETS” grid are considered

bets of “Manual bets” strategy and will appear within “Bets” tab of “Manual bets” strategy.

Ladder control can be displayed by clicking on button in column “Ladder” for each selection.

After that prices for that selection will appear in right side ladder.

Ladder is used for one click bet placement at pre defined stakes. Clicking on blue column will

place Back bets and clicking on pink column will place Lay bets at pre defined size. Size and other

options for ladder bets can be set by using settings above ladder.

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Unmatched bets will appear in white columns and you can cancel those by simply clicking on

white cells where stakes appear.

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5.3 Export/import my selections/tips

Creating list of your selections can be done quickly by using “My S.” column that is available at

left side of each selection name. This is displayed on image below.

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Picked selections will appear in markets column “My selections”. That way when you close

selections grid you will be able to see for each market names of selections that you picked.

You can easily create basic strategy with selection condition “Bet on my favourites only” that

will bet only on those selections that you picked by using “My S.” column. Your strategy can contain all

other rules and staking plans that you want.

5.3.1 Export my selections

Once you have made list of your selections you can choose option to export those selections to

CSV (Comma Separated Values) file. That way you can exit software and import those selections next

time you start it, or you can share file with your friends or other users of software.

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When exporting selections you will be asked for your tipster name. This is useful if you want to

share file with other people, as they will know who made which selections in case of multiple selection

files. If you do not want to specify your tipster name then leave this field empty.

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After that select file to save selections and click Save button.

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Beside making basic list of selections you can also specify following data for your selections that

will be exported:

• Back – to use Back bet type with selection

• Lay – to use Lay bet type with selection

• Min price – to only place bet if selection has price higher than set min price

• Max price – to only place bet if selection has price lower than set max price

• Stake – bet amount to be placed on selection

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If you do not specify those other values then default values will be exported to file. Default

values can be set at manual strategy settings form. That is following one:

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You can also manually create file with your selections and specify only basic information like

selection name and market type (WIN, PLACE, FORECAST, MATCH_ODDS etc.). Here is an example of

CSV file for 3 selections that can be imported successfully:

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5.3.2 Import my selections

Import functionality allows you to import CSV file with list of selections to bet on. You can

import CSV file that was exported by using V3 export “My S.” functionality or any other CSV file that

satisfies minimum rules to find correct selections.

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Import file can have many columns with data, but only two are required (SelectionId OR

SelectionName):

• Provider – (optional) tipster name

• Handicap – (optional) Betfair selection handicap (default 0)

• SelectionId – Betfair selection id, this must be specified unless you specified SelectionName

• MarketId – (optional) Betfair market id

• EventId – (optional) Betfair event id

• SelectionName – Betfair selection name, this must be specified unless you specified SelectionId

• MarketName – (optional) Betfair market name

• EventName – (optional) Betfair event name

• MarketType – (optional) type of market e.g. WIN, PLACE, FORECAST, MATCH_ODDS etc.

• StartTime – (optional) universal time when this market starts

• BetType – (optional) BACK or LAY bet type

• Size – (optional) bet amount for this selection

• Points – (optional) number of points to bet on selection (requires Level/Initial stake to bet

within your strategy)

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• Price – (optional) this is price at which you want to place your bets regardless of current

selection price on market e.g. place all bets at this imported price. This can result in unmatched

bets if you request better price than the one on market

• MinPrice – (optional) min price at which bets can be placed on selection

• MaxPrice – (optional) max price at which bets can be placed on selection

• BSP – (optional) true/false value indicating if placed bets should be full Betfair Start Price bets

Minimum data that CSV file can contain is Betfair selection ID number or Betfair selection name.

One of those parameters must be present in CSV file for strategy to be able to find selection correctly. If

you do not specify neither of those then tip will not be imported.

To eliminate any mistakes when finding your selection it is recommend to specify market type

(WIN/PLACE/FORECAST/MATCH_ODDS etc.). For football events you should also specify event name to

ensure that bets are placed on correct match.

Here is an example of valid CSV file with all columns added.

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All imported tips can be viewed at “Manage tips” form.

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Manage tips form allows you to import new CSV file or download CSV tips file from web address.

You can also select individual or all imported tips and delete them.

It is not possible to edit tips at this form, but you can set your own settings for each strategy

that will bet on imported tips. For strategy to bet on imported tips you must use staking rule “Bet on

imported selections/tips”. For details on this rule please see Multiple Strategies bot and V3 manual.

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6 History

History tab is used for keeping details on all placed bets by all strategies and keeping results for

all markets that were loaded and monitored by software.

By default history for bets and results is saved for 30 days. If you wish to save history longer

then you should use export option and export history to CSV file so that you can load it to Excel and

analyze it further or merge it with other history files that you have. History cannot be saved for longer

periods by bot as it would slow it down as the amount of data increases over time.

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History supports filters which can be viewed at bottom of history grids. You can edit those filters

or add new filters by right clicking on column headers. You can also use “Filter editor” and create your

own complex filters to find records that you are looking for.

Clicking on each column will sort data in history by that column. At column header cell you can

also click on small filter icon that will allow you to filter rows by one of the values that appear in that

column. This is very powerful feature that allows you to quickly find records that you are looking for and

to analyze bets history.

You can also use “Auto Filter Row” to filter records as you type and grid will list only records for

which that column value starts with entered text.

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6.1 Bets

Bets history saves all placed bets by Bf Bot Manager V3 and also all other important information

about those bets e.g. name and details of strategy that placed bet, loss recovery, market information,

favorite position, traded amount etc.

By default only some of the history columns are displayed. If you wish to display all other details

then you should right click on column header, then on “Column chooser” and pick columns that you

want to display.

6.2 Results

Results history saves basic information for each market, winners and prices of those winners.

Like bets history results history has filtering, sorting and export functionalities.

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7 Tools and settings

Tools and settings tab will allow you to customize software appearance and behavior by your

needs. Those settings can have large effect on the way software works so change those carefully!

General settings allow you to set your Betfair account commission so that strategies can work

more accurately, hide your details from main screen, set notifications and control how history and other

details are saved.

Market monitoring settings control the way markets are monitored and in most cases you will

never need to change those, but if you ever do, then please first read following article that explains

those settings:


Application style settings control layout and appearance of application. Those are very useful if

you prefer dark or light theme to be used by software.

Log file should be used in case of any problems. Usually this is requested by support team to

help you solve any problems that you might have.

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8 Help

At Help tab you will find buttons that will take you to our web site pages for video tutorials,

articles, manuals and forum.

You can also check your license key expire date and renew license key which is very important as

software might stop working if your license expires.

There are also options to check for update and information on software version that you are

using.

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9 Resources

Open Betfair account and get bonus


FAQ page at Bf Bot Manager web site


Buy license keys

http://www.bfbotmanager.com/cgi-bin/buy.pl

Private and public member’s forum for discussing strategies

http://www.bfbotmanager.com/phpbb3/index.php



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Bf Bot Manager V3€¦ · BF BOT MANAGER V3 3 ©2008-2017 2 Introduction Bf Bot Manager V3 is software for automated and manual trading and betting at Betfair betting