Getting started — Build your own bot
Choose your track — Betfair (sports) or Crypto — or browse both. Each track has a distinct visual theme and its own lesson progression.
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Create a Python venv, install essentials, and connect to a Betfair sandbox for smoke tests.
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Token/session flows, secure storage, refresh patterns and a robust request helper.
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Search markets, parse runner IDs and build selection filters for the bot to target relevant markets.
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Place BACK/LAY orders in sandbox, inspect responses, and handle unmatched or partial fills safely.
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Implement a Flask webhook, verify signatures and wire TradingView alerts to trigger sandbox actions.
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Run a notebook backtest, export trade logs and compute P/L and basic performance metrics.
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Green‑up hedging helper, idempotency, retries, logging and simple Docker/VPS deployment steps.
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Create venv, generate exchange testnet keys and perform a smoke connectivity test.
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HMAC signing, safe key storage, and a signed helper for exchange REST calls.
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Subscribe to tickers, choose between polling vs websockets and respect rate limits.
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Place orders, manage cancellations and handle partial fills and slippage safely on testnet.
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Emit structured alerts from TradingView and verify webhook payloads server-side.
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Simulate strategies with fees/slippage and replay trades to evaluate performance.
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Throttling, circuit-breakers, monitoring and simple deployment on VPS / managed services.