Bf Bot Manager FAQ

Manuals

Click here to download "Back/Lay Favorite Bot" manual

Click here to download "Back/Lay Multiple Favorites Bot" manual

Click here to download "Ladder/Grid Control (manual betting)" manual

Click here to download "Dutching Bot" manual

Click here to download "Soccer Bot - Draw Betting" manual

Click here to download "Horse Races Trader Bot" manual

FAQ

1) What is needed to run Bf Bot Manager?

You need funded Betfair account and a full or trial license key for Bf Bot Manager. Each account must have its own license key!
Click here to buy license key (license key is valid for life).

If you get API_ERROR message when you try to login, then you just need to deposit money to your Betfair account, and your Betfair account will get activated for use with Betfair Free API.
You do not have Betfair account? Click here to register at Betfair

2) Does it come with any built in systems?

Yes! It currently comes with 3 automated systems built in and ladder control for manual betting.

3) Can I make modifications to Bf Bot Manager?

Yes! You can adjust Bf Bot Managers many advanced settings to customise your betting.

4) What markets can Bf Bot Manager load?

You can load ANY Betfair market!

5) What countries will Bf Bot Manager work in?

Bf Bot Manager will work in all countries! It also supports betting on both Betfair exchanges, UK and AU!

6) How much money can I make with Bf Bot Manager ?

That's up to you we do not control the selections you put into Bf Bot Manager.

7) Do you give support for Bf Bot Manager?

We offer a full support email ticket service and attempt to respond to your enquiry as quickly as possible.

8) How Max Loss & Max Profit work?

When you start bot, profit and loss (P&L) for all bets placed by Bf Bot Manager is being calculated (regardless if running bot or user selection bets made loss!).
If this P&L is positive (it is profit) and greater than Max Profit, then bot is automatically stopped because you have reached your target profit.
If this P&L is negative (it is loss) and its absolute value is greater than Max Loss, then bot is automatically stopped because you have lost max amount of money that you decided that you can lose.
Note: P&L is calculated only when bets are Settled and market is Closed!

9) What is "Overround"?

Bf Bot Manager allows user to specify Back & Lay overrounds that need to be satisfied before any bets can be placed.
Back overround must be satisfied when placing Back bets, and Lay overround must be satisfied when placing Lay bets.
This insures that you always get good prices for your bets. We suggest that for non in running markets you use Back overround of 105%, and Lay overround of 95%. For in running markets (e.g. Horse races) Back overround should be 115% and Lay overround 75%.
Click here to learn more about "Overround" at Wikipedia

10) What is Betfair Free API?

Bf Bot Manager uses Betfair Free API service to get data from Betfair. As its name says this is a free service, so there are no monthly fees. Because of this Bf Bot Manager has one time licence, so you pay only once for software and you use it as whenever you want.
There are some limitations to the free API service, but for Bf Bot Manager those limitations are irrelevant.
Right now we do not have any plans to move Bf Bot Manager v1 to the paid Betfair API service, so this product will be always on one time pay basis.
Click here to read more about "Betfair Sports API" at Betfair Developers Program web site

11) Bf Bot Manager has many options, how do I know what options I should change?

Bf Bot Manager is preconfigured by us, so main rule is "If you do NOT know what it does, then do NOT touch it!".
There are many options in Bf Bot Manager, and options that you shouldn't change always have warning message next to them or message box that alerts you not to change options if you are not 100% sure that you know what effect that will have.
Reason why those advanced options are there, is that there are many users that want to customize Bf Bot Manager for their needs. Please check Help section below to see what those options can do.

HELP

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Account Control

Your Betfair username and available funds for UK and AU exchange are displayed in this control. Exposure for each wallet is displayed in brackets next to the available funds.
Refresh button in top left corner can be used to get latest available funds and exposure for your account, but do not forget that this call is limited to one per minut by Betfair Free API.
You can transfer funds between your UK and AU wallets by simply selecting amount to transfer in combo box and then clicking "UK->AU" or "AU->UK" buttons.

Start, Pause and Stop Control

You can start, pause/resume or stop your bot from this control. Available bots are displayed in drop down list.
You need to select bot that you want to start and click on "Start" button. After clicking on "Start" button, bot and all other controls that bot uses will be loaded. Bot will start collecting needed data, but it will not place any bets until you click "Resume" button. You will notice that "Pause/Resume" button has light pink background when bot is in "Pause" mode. When bot is loaded for first time, it is automatically switched to "Pause" mode, so that you could set your stake and all other options that are specific to bot.

Markets Data Grid View

Markets data grid view displays basic information for selected markets.
Markets in data grid view can be removed by clicking on "X" in first column, and they can be deselected by unchecking the checkbox in second column. Only for selected markets prices are being downloaded from Betfair server.
Other columns display local start time of market, market name, market status, favorite, winner (where results are available), profit and loss of all bets for that market, amount and lay price for favorite, and back/lay overrounds.
Column "Sl." contains buttons, and by clicking on those buttons "Market Selections Form" will open for that market. More information about this is written in "Market Selections Form" section below.
This markets grid is used for collecting information about markets, and several markets can be monitored at same time by different rules. Once you understand the way Bf Bot Manager works, you might want to check next section "Markets Data Grid View Options".

Markets Data Grid View Options

Only advanced users of Bf Bot Manager should change those options. Please do not change those settings unless you are sure that you know what you are doing. Changing those options can change the bot behaviour.
Here are some tips for those who want to customize existing bots behaviour by changing grid options.
Market refresh rate (ms) - this is interval in which market prices are being downloaded from Betfair server
Get market info at start interval (ms) - when market is added to the grid then its main details are downloaded from Betfair server. When multiple markets are added to the grid, then info for those markets is downloaded one by one in this interval. This is because if you add 20 horse races markets at once, then we cannot make 20 requests to Betfair server at same time. So we make 1 request every 12500ms (12.5 seconds) until we have downloaded all market details.
Get passed markets info interval (ms) - this is interval for getting market info for markets that should be closed, their start time is in past and they are suspended.
Timeout for market to go in running (sec) - if market gets suspended, and it doesn't change its status to In running in this intervale, then it will be considered that this market will never go in running. This is useful for horse races, or soccer matches.

market is closed
market goes in running
market goes in running and is in running for N seconds
market start time

When market monitoring is finished, then markets grid view will move on to the next market.
Monitor market in running for (sec) - you can specify here how long you want to monitor market in running, this is only useful if you selected option in previous combo box to monitor market in running for N seconds (3.)
Monitor multiple markets at same time - by selecting this option markets grid view will monitor N markets at same time, and in textbox below you can specify number of markets to monitor at same time. This is useful if you have several markets that start at same time.
Note: If you are monitoring 5 markets at same time, and you have refresh rate set to 1000ms (1 sec), then for each market prices will be downloaded every 5 seconds! There is a limit in Betfair Free API, that allows us to download market prices 60 times in 1 minute.

Select Markets Form

This form is used for adding your own markets to the markets data grid. You can select any Betfair market (UK or AU exchange) by using navigation in this form.
When you navigate to the desired market through the events tree, you will just need to click once on that market and it will be automatically added to the markets data grid view. Duplicate markets cannot be added to the markets data grid, so no need to worry if you click 2 or more times on desired market.
This navigation is same as Betfair's, so we hope you will find it easy to use.

Bets Form

All bets that are placed by Bf Bot Manager are displayed in this form. You can access this form by clicking on View->Bets in main menu.
Bets are displayed in order of time when they were placed by Bf Bot Manager. At bottom you have total profit and loss from all those bets.