Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Trading software: Free 500 minute trial

Note: This offer is still available and valid through June and July 2007

Fancy a 500 minute free trial on some one click trading software that works through the Betfair API? Well those nice people at BetTrader Pro have decided to offer all readers of this blog who haven't already signed up a free 500 minute trial on the their Racing Traders product.

I use the software myself so am happy to pass on the offer and give a quick run down of the functionality which includes:

* One click trading through the Betfair API
* Adjustable refresh rates up to several times a second
* Traditional and ladder interfaces
* A hedge button to go equal all green (or red!)
* Ability to drip feed bets, place stop losses, automatically follow a moving price and place a bet at a set time in the future

All the usual functionality you'd expect from overround calculators, live volume figures and graphs are also available, as is a tool to easily make your own book if that's your thing. It's pretty straightforward to use but there are several demo videos on the Racing Traders site to help you get your head around it if you're having troubles.

This 500 free minute offer is exclusive (Woohoo!) to all new users signing up through this blog. The usual free offer is 200 minutes. You will see this 200 offer advertised when you visit Racing Traders but you will receive the 500 free minutes if you sign up through a link on this blog. There's no set up fee and once you download the software and log in you will see you have 500 minutes until your free offer expires. Despite the name - Racing Traders - the software can be used to trade all sports. (Don't laugh but when I first tried it I asked first!!)

Obviously there's no such thing as a free lunch and I guess the guys at BetTrader Pro hope you'll find the software pays for itself, as I did, and that you'll continue to use it. There's no obligation to but if you choose to you can buy more minutes on a sliding scale. From £4.95 for 200 minutes to £29.95 for 2000 minutes. Regular users will probably prefer the £39.95 a month for unlimited use while heavier users who, like me, spend too much time trading :-), might find the £299.95 for unlimited 12 months use more appealing.

Anyway, I'm off to London for a friends's leaving work party so catch you tomorrow. Hope the free software trial is of interest.

7 comments:

James said...

Thanks for the link and the offer, very handy.

Will give it a go at the weekend.

Anonymous said...

Just a quick message to say thanks for passing this on. It's taking a bit of time to get used to it but the benefits of the software are clear. Good luck with the wedding and thanks again!

Anonymous said...

Going to give the link a whirl too I think, see what it's like.
I've just started my blog too over at:

johnsdreamon.blogspot.com

Would appreciate you adding my link if you like it.

Regards John

MaRe said...

I registered 10 days ago and i got only 200 minutes Do you know reason?

The Betfair Trader said...

Hi Renata,

Not come across anyone with this problem before. Did you register after clicking a link on this page? The offer is only valid through the links on this site. If you go to the website directly you will only get the 200 minutes.

If you did click through from here, I can only think you had a cookie already on your machine(you'd visited the Racing Traders site before) for the site which meant you weren't identified as a user from this blog.

If you let me know your Betfair username (Please note, do not supply your password!) I will chase it up with the software vendors for you and see if I can find out what happened and get it sorted if applicable. Feel free to email me rather than post it on here if you prefer. My email address is at the bottom of the right hand column.

BanksyPunt said...

Hi,

Did this offer run out in May or is it still on in June/July?

Been reading your blog gonna have a go at this trading lark!

All the best.

The Betfair Trader said...

Best of luck with the trading Gat. The offer is still available yes. I'll change the article. Thanks for the reminder.