Daily Donkey Auto Basic Instructions

Stake is the order size that will be submitted to Betfair, if you have 'as Liability' checked the size of the bet will be divided by (odds-1).

STP stands for Seconds To Post and is the time in seconds before the advertised off time that Daily Donkey Auto will look at each race.

Max Book is a safety feature. If, in this case, the lay book is over 110% the trade will be rejected. This is to safe guard against books returning from withdrawals etc when the prices are unrealistically poor.

Lay trades can be subject to an odds range, if outside of these parameters the selection will not be layed. The race can also be rejected if it is outside a runner range you set.

You may set Daily Donkey Auto to stop when you have made a profit that you specify for the day, profits can reduced by your Betfair commission rate that is calculated for you.

The 'My Settings' Tools:

'Login' opens the login control window.

'Save My Settings' saves ALL of your chosen options and amounts. These settings will be loaded automatically upon opening the software to save you time resetting them.

'Sure bet', when enabled orders bets at 2 Betfair price increments away from currently available prices to ensure, as far as we can be reasonably sure, the bets are matched.

'Ignore Mutli Donkeys' will reject the race if there are more than 1 selection in that race.

' Auto Start' when check checked means when you open the software (as long as you have saved you Username and password) will auto start as stated! You may stop the software starting by clicking 'click to stop' as shown within 10 seconds.

After the count down Daily Donkey Auto will Login you in, load your settings and Start to look for the next race to trade on.

'Re Start as 10am GMT', when checked: If the software is in Pause mode it will Start to run at 10am GMT. This is useful if you have 'stop at points up' checked and the software has paused for the day and you have left the software running overnight.

These are details regarding special Daily Donkey Auto options. Each 'Bolt-on' has been requested by user(s) of the software and are not our own inventions. If you require the use of any of these features you must ask us to assign you for use. It will be useful for you to chat with us about these options as they can become quite complex.

If you require an extra feature of your own please ask. If it is possible and feasible we will do our best to incorporate it into the software as a bolt-on for you.

Bolt-on 1, Extra Options if Fav or 2nd Fav

If any bet is the Betfair Favorite it can be ignored and if you wish reverted into a back bet:

If any bet is the Betfair 2nd favorite it can be ignored as long as the odds are a set amount above or equal to the favorites odds. It can also to reverted to a back bet if required:

Bolt-on 2, Tidy Markets

At the stated STP, in the bolt-on 2 tool bar, markets will be 'tidied'.

Each horse in the market in question will be balanced as near as it can be. The resulting bet per horse will look to equalize the sum of: (back price * back size matched) and the sum of: (lay price * lay size matched).

This will be across the board for every bet and each and every horse you have in that market regardless of whether it was placed by Daily Donkey Auto or not and regardless of whether it was a Daily Donkey selection or not.

The tidy prices will be submitted at 2 tics away from current prices but ordered at stakes calculated to level the book at current prices. If the prices change this will result in a slightly unbalanced book as can using small bet sizes.

If the software fails to tidy due to a technical error, you Internet connection in broken, Betfair are not handling calls or any other reason that causes the book not to be balanced we take no responsibilities for the outcome. Never gamble more than you can and are happy to loose on your lay bets irrespective of the tidy option.

If you are unsure of this feature do not use it.

Bolt-on 3, Multi Stakes

You may add additional odds ranges to control the stake and bet type. On clicking 'ADD/EDIT PARAMETER LINES' a control window opens:

Set your parameters and click 'Add New Line', to edit line put a tick in the Edit column for the line(s) you wish to edit, reset the parameters and click 'Edit Checked Lines'.

Lower lines will override higher lines, for example in this case if the odds for the Lay were 3.0 then the first line would qualify as the back odds would be between 1.0 and 3.0 but the second line also qualifies. So the bet would be a lay with a stake of 25, not a back at stake of 10 and not both!

If Percentage of Balance is on then the size of the bet will be the percentage stake value of you balance at the time of the bet. If Liability is on then the size of the stake will be divided by (odds-1). Meaning Lay as Liability or Back for profit. %age calculates the size before Liability.

The Tissue prices for the horses can be used as a guide price to place orders at. If 'Place as Recommended Price' is check the bet will be ordered at this price. You may adjust the order price to account for the fact that the tissue prices are generally 15-17% below a 100% book or indeed set to whatever to wish. For example a tissue of 9/1 = 10.0, a 120% adjustment will result in the order being placed at 12.0. The order will be adjusted to the nearest Betfair increment up if it is not valid.

If the software has been unable to get the information you can opt to have the donkeys ignored otherwise a failure to get the information will result in the feature being ignored and the donkeys will be placed as normal.

We cannot under any circumstances guarantee the information will be available.

The only extra option here so far is to place a bet only on the favorite according to Betfair prices and not all of the Daily Donkey selections.

In 'My Settings' you can set the software to ignore the whole race if is are more than one selection. Bolt-on 5 will NOT override ignore multi donkeys

This bolt on looks at the form of the horse and calculates a rating based on its performance of its last runs. You may go back as many times out as you like with the 'Sum Last' option . If there are not enough last runs the horse will be ignored.

For example if the form is 52316 and you set 'Sum Last' to 2 the rating will be 6+1=7. If you sum the last 3 it will be 6+1+3=10.

The horse will qualify as a lay if you check Lay and the rating is between or values of your choice. Check the 'No Wins' check box and if the horse has a rating of 1 within your range it will not qualify as a lay:

Example. Check Lay and set values of 8 and 20. If you summed the last 2 the rating is 7 so will not be a selection. Sum the last 3 the rating would be 10 and therefore would be a lay as 10 is in-between 8 and 20. (a rating of exactly 8 or 20 also qualifies). If you had checked 'No Wins' the bet would not qualify as there is a win (1) in the ratings you used.

The same applies to make the bet a BACK bet by using the back parameter. In this case you have the option to only allow the bet is it has won within your ratings with the 'If Wins' option:

Form Ratings rule. If a '\' or a '-' is detected it with be blanked. ie: a form of 12-3/45 will become 12345. The letters P,F and U and the number 0 will count as 10. Any other non number character will disqualify the horse.

If you choose to use bolt on 7 you can control the markets that the bets are place in.

You can specify what bet type (back / lay) is ordered in what market type (win, place or both)

For example:

We check to use bolt on 7 and select Win Market for Backs and select Win Market AND place market for lays.

If the bet is a lay it will order it in the win market and in the place market, if the bet is a back it will order it in the win market. Please note 'show place markets' must be selected under the race card on the bottom left for place markets to be processed.

Good Luck!!