Keeps backing everything @ 1000!

[jc0r]

Anyone else get this problem. Ive got some trigger betting scenarios in excel, some more complicated than others. Anyway, the other day i left it running and disaster struck while i was out and i ended up losing a fair bit :s Im now trying to find out what went wrong. Looking through my Betfair statement of lapsed bets i can see Excel has tried to fire, literally 100's of bets on every horse in a race at 1000 to £2 stakes. I guarantee this is not possible in my script. Any help please as this is driving me round the twist

[jc0r]

Oh and i forgot to mention, in several other races all day it has randomly fired in other 1000 to £2 bets but they come up as cancelled bet. So confused :s

[mak]

hi
probably there is a problem with your stakes
are you trying stakes below the minimum ? sometimes I have noticed if you that there is a problem if you write that number in excel with the wrong format 0,5 or 0.5 for example & in some other cases if you place the bet at Invalid Increment I think it can also happen.

[GaryRussell]

The program does not randomly fire bets. It will only place bets that you have triggered. You need to be aware that when you place a bet below minimum stake the program has to "cheat" to place the bet as it is not supported by the API. It will place a back bet for £2 @ 1000, update the stake to £2 plus your required stake, cancel the £2 bet leaving your required stake @ 1000 then update the odds to your require odds. If someone is offering to lay 1000 at the time then the initial £2 bet will get matched, you should avoid placing below minimum bets if the odds are close to 1000.

Every back bet below minimum is going to show a cancelled bet of £2 @ 1000 in your betting history.

[jc0r]

Thanks for your responses guys. As it turns out you were right however the exact cause for me is when the excel stake column = the error #DIV/0! this causes Gruss to fire in a bet of £2 @ 1000