C# Programming and the Betfair API

This is my new C# programming blog, where I’m going to be documenting the development of an automated betting bot that works with the Betfair (www.betfair.com) API. This blog is intended as a kind of online logbook, where I’ll document my successes (and how I achieved them), and my struggles.

So a quick summary about the program I’m starting to develop – as I’ve already said, the intention is that it will work with the Betfair API, and once I have the basic functionality up and running, I hope to start implementing some financial modelling strategies and algorithms, with a view to testing how the Betfair exchange markets work when compared to the financial trading markets. I should mention that I am a programmer, and not a gambler, and therefore I won’t be putting huge amounts of my own money at risk to start with - to prove the concepts the program will work with a test bed, and then I'll move onto slowly seeing if it can increase a small starting bank. Not that I have huge amounts of money anyway  – I’m currently working on a PhD, and so I survive on a small PhD stipend. But anyway, the intention is for the program to harvest data about the Betfair market prices, and then allow testing of trading strategies. This is a project I will be working on in my spare time, so there may be times when I post very actively, and times when my day job takes over.

So, the next post should detail the progress I’ve made so far…comments are more than welcomed, about any aspect of this blog – not just the technical content, but my writing style, etc.