Scripophilist
- 27 Oct 2004 23:40

How would you like to trade a market where you get large regular price swings every 10 minutes in the afternoon, seven days a week. A
market where all prices are set purely by supply and demand, few transaction costs, no middle men and you only pay commission if you win? Where you can freely act as a market maker and where you have direct market access and where you can create a spread for others to take?
Betfair has revolutionised the betting market and created an open platform for exchanging risk on sports events. This market is now viewed much more like a traditional financial risk market than an old fashioned betting market. Smart users have realised that there are huge opportunities on Betfair because they can buy and sell risk in much the same way they would in a normal financial market but without the burden of cost or the restricted access that is usually associated with traditional financial markets.
Click here to learn more
Fundamentalist
- 03 Nov 2005 16:41
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Scrip
an interesting post on the forum - you must be quaking!
racingtraders.com 03 Nov 16:10
You won't be asking which is best when my new one comes out, STW and Betangel may as well shut the doors now.
Development is in full swing, I'm working on it full time everyday with the designer and programmer, spending a friggin fortune but it's turning out to be amazing. At the moment there's 15 different tools for placing bets after certain criteria are met, each one with anything between 3 and 10 input fields each. It's a monster, there are 3 different interfaces to choose from, extensive graph and charting facilities on all Betfair data as well as your own account and it will collect and store price data from every market forever which the user can search through and dissect with one of the several analysis tools and a bunch of graphs and charts. I've taken Betfair's interface and without changing the fundamentals of it have made it much more pleasant and quick to use, you'll be able to place bets through that interface with only 2 clicks of the mouse and no need for the keyboard while being able to see the best 5 prices instead of just the best 3. And that interface will be free for anyone who wants to use it for a slong as you want.
The ladder interface is obviously still available but with loads of improvements on the current one. You'll be able to trade using the 3 or 6 ladders interface while also being able to view all the other horse's prices from that race as well as being able to instantly put any horse into any ladder with just one click. There will be live last traded price and volume figures and optional visual and audible alerts for those figures on this and the free interface.
A lot of these features depend on whether Betfair's API will let us do all this, so to make sure that we can get as much as is humanly possible I've hired a programmer that is quite literally a genius. The guy is a machine, he's not one of us, the designer putting the actual structure together is also very very good and I've been watching betfair numbers move up and down full time for 3 years so I'm pretty confident of delivering the mother of all applications, hopefully in a couple of months.
And by the time I've finished with this, Betfair aren't even going to need a website anymore because everyone and I mean everyone will be using my application instead.
sealed
- 03 Nov 2005 17:12
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Scrip
Thanks for the link.
Fundy
LOL! Nobody could ever accuse Adam of being a shrinking violet.
Scripophilist
- 03 Nov 2005 18:28
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I am about as worried about as a whale is worried about being eaten by krill. I guess you don't know this guy or his first attempt at producing software?
WOODIE
- 03 Nov 2005 18:46
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anyone following the golf?
Fundamentalist
- 03 Nov 2005 19:03
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Scrip
i know of his software - me posting it was rather tongue in cheek - ps liked the response by the way
Scripophilist
- 03 Nov 2005 20:04
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Ok, I mis read your post, sorry.
I think it will be an interesting market to be honest. But it will take some time to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Fundamentalist
- 03 Nov 2005 20:17
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Anyone on the footie tonite
Side bolton are plying look awful and not enjoy the manchester weather - not a fan of siding with Bolton but 1.8 looks good value
Scripophilist
- 03 Nov 2005 20:19
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Will have a look at Bolton, I am the Borough / Dnipro match. Just playing with some new concepts but looking at the unders market at the moment, heding on the correct score market.
I've noticed a bot on the correct score market. Now I know there is one I may play with it one night.
Fundamentalist
- 03 Nov 2005 20:23
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the side boro are playing are the side that scored 5 or 6 against hibs if memory serves me right
Fundamentalist
- 03 Nov 2005 20:25
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Bolton 1-0 up :-)
bakko
- 03 Nov 2005 20:26
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On the Bolton game here.
Bolton has just gone 1 up having already missed a couple of early chances
Scripophilist
- 03 Nov 2005 20:26
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"the side boro are playing are the side that scored 5 or 6 against hibs if memory serves me right "
Thanks for that!
Fundamentalist
- 03 Nov 2005 20:33
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Is anyone watching the boro game - tempted to lay boro - any thoughts?
bakko
- 03 Nov 2005 20:37
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I thought boro had quite a strong lineup tonight
Fundamentalist
- 03 Nov 2005 20:40
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Boro 1-0 up just as i was typing in my lay price :-)
bakko
- 03 Nov 2005 20:43
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Lucky escape then. Had a few like that myself.
bakko
- 03 Nov 2005 21:11
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Boro 2-0
Scripophilist
- 03 Nov 2005 21:13
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3-0
Scripophilist
- 03 Nov 2005 21:13
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I'm finished for the night.
Scripophilist
- 03 Nov 2005 21:14
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As in, I have finished, not as in mullered!