Thanks for purchasing the Against the Grain Bot ( ATG Bot ). If you have subscribed to Lay Horse Bot/ Auto profit Soccer/ APS Deluxe/ SAW Deluxe/ Horse Dutch bot/WOM Bot in past, then you can go through this manual very quickly.
Once your open the bot, complete the registration process and click on desktop icon, then you will see the below screen, where you have to input your betfair id and password.
*you would have got latest version of ATG Bot from the download page.
If you are betting on Betfair.com ,then login using your id and password in this screen.
Procedure for Romanian and Italian clients -If you have access to ONLY Betfair.ro (Romania) and betfair.it (Italy), then use the respective interactive buttons. When you click on interactive, a new window will open (See screen below), input your login ids in that screen and submit.
Please press submit and above screen will close and then simply press login on the main screen.
No Need to input betfair id again on this screen for Romanian and Italian clients. Simply click on Login.
You will see the following screen.
Click Ok, it is standard betfair requirement to inform client. Post that you will see the following screen.
As you can see, you can run upto three different backing strategies with ATG Bot ( www.against-grain.com) . You can select countries you want to bet for each backing strategy.
For example : System 1 – you can bet only on Australia and NZ, System 2 – you can only bet on UK & Ireland etc.
OTH is others.
Market to bet: - You can select Win or Place market.
Please remember when you select market – it is only for placement of bets. All the decisions related to price ( Min, Max) are based on win market only. So if user select place market, it is just that bets will be placed on place market and not in win market.
Min price and Max price is the price range which user can select for the horse to be qualified for dutch betting.
Bet Type : you can select Back or Lay
Time to bet:
Select Pre-Play and 10 or 15 seconds in Time to bet settings. So, all races to be checked for qualification starting 10/15 seconds before the official start of the race.
Minimum amount matched: Amount of minimum money should be matched in the horse race for bot to make a qualified selection. In order to avoid low liquidity matches, atleast keep $5000 or more as per your equalivant currency.
Max Book % - Over round for the entire race before the off should not be more than 103.
Runners: Select the numbers of runners.
Time Interval– Commission
This setting is to tell the bot when to start monitoring the prices of the race, so it can judge the price movement in ticks or in prices.
The bot will monitor the priced (4 minutes as 4 is selected) from start, and then at the Time to Bet instruction (20 seconds in the above example).
In the above image we can see the field and the price gap from the 4 minute mark to the 20 seconds before the off.
The commission is so the bot can allow for it when calculating how much to stake. If doing Australian racing we suggest 8.00% commission is a good average.
In Play Action: You can chose keep, cancel or place SP. Input the commission as per your account.
Staking options: Level Staking: input the level stake which you want on each selection.
Avalanche staking: Input the initial bank and input the base stake %.
Avalanche Staking see more on this staking plan Click Here
If you want to understand more on avalanche staking, please go through the video below:- https://youtu.be/S2IQ4-D8ieI
Secure Staking
Secure Staking see more on this staking planClick Here
Secure staking stakes to the odds, the higher the odds the lower the staking. See here http://secure-stake.com/
Stop at a profit staking
Stop @ Profit per Race: This is how much you want the back to win, we have 1.00, so if the back bet is successful, we will win 1.00 dollar, pound, euro or whatever currency your betfair account is set up.
The Continue box is ticked, so the means, if you win the target the bot will reset and try and win another 1.00
Stop @ Profit each Tab: The bot has 10 tabs, that are located at the top of the bot. These are where the back bets are held during the race, and if another race is starting to be monitored, then the next tab is used for the new dutch. It is these tabs, that this option relates to.
Like in the example above (5.00), then once the profit in tab reaches 5.00 profit, if the box was unticked then that tab would not accept anymore bets, and if you only have Tab 1 enabled the bot would stop placing bets. In the example we have it ticked so it would ignore this instruction, and continue to bet.
Stop @ Profit all Tabs: If this is unticked, then the bot will stop betting once the nominated figure is reached, on all tabs, so no more bets will be made until the bot is restarted.
So if you say I want to make 10.00 for the day and then stop, you would put 10.00 in the box and untick it.
If the continue box is ticked then, the bot will continue betting.
In ATG bot,you can run ( upto 10 cycles) for Stop At A Winner betting. It has 10 tabs as you can see on the screenshot above.
Please use the number of tabs as advised in the settings. Keep all tabs enabled
Above is the view of one of the tabs, I will discuss details in tab view later.
Drifted Horses : Select the 1st , 2nd , 3rd or 4th Fav along with the min & max drift %. Drift can be measured by price movement or tick movement.
Steamed Horses : Select the 1st , 2nd , 3rd or 4th Fav along with the min & max steam %. Drift can be measured by price movement or tick movement.
Important point to note : For Level and Avalanche staking, you can select only one horse in each option.
For Stop at a winner staking, it allows you to select more than one horse in Drift and Steamed horses
Unforturnately, we don't win all the time, and we need bank protection. This is where we set the handbrake (stop loss).
Hard : if the hard is ticked, then the bot will not bet over the amount.it will start a new sequence if cont+ restart is ticked.
Stop Loss (don't worry about the $ sign as it is the currency of your account). In the example we have 100.00 this means if the loss from the last winning bet is over 100, then the bot will either, do one of three things if the option is ticked, as it is in this case.
No. Losses, if we have this ticked then it will stop the series when you have had in this case 5 losses in a row.
If you have both ticked then whichever happens first, will cause the series to stop and take the action you have set (see below).
Continue button will ensure that the bot should not stop once profit target is reached ( per match or per tab) but it will start the fresh cycle. So, if you want to keep running the bot always, please keep the continue button ticked.
Here you can see three buttons – Continue with restart and continue without restart and one is don’t continue.
Once the stop loss has been hit for any tab, then you would have option to continue betting as it is or start a new cycle or don’t continue at all.
Very important – Please use the option “Continue with restart”checked as otherwise you are exposing yourself to big risk. You may lose your bank if you have a losing run and continue without restart is checked.
Please remember when you select continue without restart or continue with restart button; you will get above pop up which needs to be clicked OK. This is mandatory betfair requirement.
Profit Delta – This is another great feature in the bot. Profit delta is the amount by which next Back stake will be increased once you have the losing bet.
For example, if your stop@profit per match is $1 and you have profit delta as $.50, then if you have first match as a losing bet, then your 2nd target will not be $1 but it will be $1.50.
When you tick – allow Non Handicap, it will load all Non- Handicap races. Similarly, when you tick - Allow Handicap, it will load all Handicap races. You can select both or either of them as well.
For Harness, You can either select Harness by ticking the box on Allow Harness and for for Harness lovers, if they want to do only harness racing, please tick “ Allow harness only” and it will grayed out every other race but harness racing.
Optimal settings are - Allow Non- Handicap and Allow Handicap ticked.
Mexican wave : - This is very important that it is ticked. This instruction makes sure that the betting is alocated to each enabled tab, and then starts again. If unticked it will bet first available tab and not rotate with all available tabs, and it is not the best option. In our suggested settings, we are not using Mexican wave option. ( keep it unticked)
Start button: - Once the settings are set by the user, press the start button in order to start the bot. Button will turn Red.
Stop button: - press the stop button to stop the bot.
Log out: - press the log out button and you will come out of the bot.
Clear button. When you start betting next day, the bot will start from the same cycle where you left it previous day unless you use a clear button and want to start fresh. If you want to continue the same cycle, don’t use the clear button and just press the start button and let it run every day. There are respective clear buttons for each tab as well.
There is one box which you will see at the middle center of the interface.
It will show at what time the user pressed the clear button for the particular tab. The profit/loss for tabs will be shown accordingly from the time the clear button was last clicked.
As soon as you press the clear button, the bot will erase all staking sequence , profit/loss etc and will start fresh.
When you click on software manual, you would have got access to this manual only.
API requests/sec – It shows you the number of API Calls per second being requested from betfair. As long as it is below 10, you are within the betfair limit and no data charges will be charged to your account. We have designed all our bots in such a way, that it should remain under 10.
Auto reload: This button (if checked) will keep on loading the soccer markets for the day every 2nd hour. If you want to keep the bot running on your desktop/laptop or VPS, please keep it checked.
Profit Dutch1/Dutch2/Dutch 3 – you will see overall profit for each strategy here.
Please keep auto reload checked all the time.
In results tab, you can see all consolidated results for each tab. Cumulative profit is shown at the top
With the export button, you can download all results in .csv file.
Don’t forget to enable the tabs. (at the least 1).
Very important to keep the tabs enabled, otherwise bot will not take any bet in that tab, if it is not enabled.
Log tab: - it will give you view of what the bot is doing second by second.
This is very important feature in all of our bots. Now, the user can see what the bot is doing second by second.
You may not be able to understand everything what is in the log but it is helpful in order to investigate any error.
You can access the detailed log file at the following address:-
If you are our existing user of SAW Deluxe or APS Deluxe, then I am sure you will find Against The Grain Bot very comfortable to use.
But if you are new to our bots, I strongly recommend you to go through and read APS manual or SAW Deluxe and the user videos, so you get end to end view on functioning of our bots.