take SP if bets are unmatched

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I currently place my bets through the excel interface, and everything is working fine. But I would like to move things on, and one thing I would like to know how to do is manage any unmatched bets. At the moment with my betting I would be happy taking betfair SP on any unmatched bets - just not too sure how to do this through the interface.

Any ideas anyone?

[Captain Sensible]

In the top right hand corner on the grid you'll see the betting options tab where you can set the default keep settings for your bets. You can choose between having bets set to keep in play or be converted to SP bets at inplay.

Alternatively if you look at the bottom of the screen you'll see the bets manager section of the program where again you can now set individual settings for each bet to go inplay or SP just by ticking the relevant box next to the bet.

[Captain Sensible]

If you're talking about bets being placed via excel going to SP just look in the user manual as it's just a case of adding the SP or IP modifiers to your current triggers

i.e. LAY changed to LAY-SP

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Thanks for that - exactly what I was looking for.

Just one more question now. Sometimes there is a gap in the prices between the "Back" and "Lay" prices. Is there an easy way of placing a bet at one tick higher than the "Back" price? I am not trading so I am not interested in offset bets - I just want to try my hardest to get the best possible price for my selections.

[Captain Sensible]

On the main grid screen you'll see a box called 'Offset Requests' in the betting options. From there you can set any amount of ticks you want to be added to the price box you click to bet.

So you'd basically change that back offset box to -1 and if you clicked to bet on an odds box with 4.5 it would place your bet minus one tick down and submit at 4.4

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Oh yes, I see how thqat works. But I was looking for a way to do this through the excel interface.

[Captain Sensible]

For excel you can use the vba code gary did here

http://gruss-software.co.uk/forum/viewt ... minusticks

just use minusTicks routine to place the bet one tick below the odds in column H

[BERTRAND]

I want to manually back up to 4 horses in a race at actual SP--with an offset, but I read in the manual that ticking the "keep sp inplay" box will only convert unmatched bets. So do I set the minimum odds to 1000 or something else?

If I want to set my offset differently for each selection, then I have to open up to 4 instances of BA?

Bert

[Captain Sensible]

Are you doing this via excel or via the grid, Bertrand?

Thru excel you can have whatever offset you set in your trigger, if you're doing it via the grid you don't need 4 instances running but you would have to amend the tick offset for each selection before you place the bet. BA would remember whatever offset you applied to each bet separately. Remember you need the market to be open for BA to monitor any offsets etc and closing the tab or switching markets would cancel offsets.

Yes just submit the bet at 1000 and keep sp in play and you'd get the actual BSP.

[BERTRAND]

Many thanks.
Bert

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Kudos to support team! So rare I find short but precise answers.

Anticipating a query and giving the answer ahead is even more impressive!