Welcome to the BetTrader Evolution User Manual, select a topic from the list below.
If you have any difficulty with the software visit either the RacingTraders Forum or Contact Support.
BetTrader Evolution is the premier app for trading via Betfair’s API. Evolution provides a refresh rate of prices up to 20 times a second, and boasts a heap of features that allow the user to quickly and efficiently trade.
Evolution Overview
- Evolution Free Mode — What you can and can’t do in the Free Mode
- Evolution Paid Mode — The incredible speed of Evolution Paid Mode
- Free versus Paid Mode Video Comparison
- BetTrader Evolution 3 — Training Mode
Installing Evolution & First Run
- Downloading and Installing BetTrader Evolution
- Register and Permission — meeting Betfair’s new security requirements
- Choose Your Browser — installing Chrome/Firefox
- Install on Linux — (Linux only) installing the app, untarring, validating installation
- First Run — You’ve installed Evo, now run it for the first time
Quick Start Guide
- Placing Your First Bet — using the grid layout
- Placing Your First Bet — using the ladder layout
Anatomy
- The Login Screen — Your Betfair Username and Password, Changing your remembered email, Multiple Betfair accounts
- Account Information Bar — Betfair Username and Wallets, Subscription Expiry Time, Ladder/Grid, Home, Pause/Resume, Logout
- The Evolution Homepage — Notices, Site Icons, Option Icon, News and Warning Icons
- Evolution Advanced Options — making trace files, changing the API polling rate
- Status Bar — API, RPS, ••• (the red and green lights)
- Navigation — My Markets, All Sports, My Active Bets, Search Results, Next Horse Race, Search Box
- Setup — Sounds, Tools, etc
- Purchase Time — The purchase options
Concepts
- Betfair — Betfair as user market
- Betting — laying, backing, hedging, stop-loss, etc
Tools
- Stop-Loss — safeguard against a trade moving the wrong way
- Tick Offset — placing a counter bet automatically
- Back Tool — place a bet of a specific size at a specific price at an exact time
- Lay Tool — place a bet of a specific size at a specific price at an exact time
- Fill Or Kill — cancel a bet after a per-determined period
- Drip Feed — drip feed a bet into the market
- OCO–Order Cancels Order — place a bet, tell Evo under what conditions to place a second bet
- Stop Entry — allows a trade when a certain price is met
- Chaser — chases a price until matched
- Floating Graphs — getting a more detailed view of the market
Glossary of Terms
- Betting Terms — Terminology from the betting world
- Computing Terms — Terminology to do with the browser, computers and the API
Known Bugs
- How To Record A Bug — recording a bug to help the developers
- Unicode Issues — Email Address Not Remembered, User Defined Stakes Not Remembered
- Please Wait — All Sports displays ‘Please Wait’, characters are garbled
- ‘Launch in Browser’ — The ‘Launch in Chrome/Firefox Browser’ entries are grayed out in the EvoTray
- Can’t Get Past Betfair’s Permission Process — Certain characters in your password can cause betfair’s api to reject your permissioning process
If you have any difficulty with the software visit either the RacingTraders Forum or Contact Support.
