Empty market 1.01?

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tryingtotrade
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Emptied my account this morning, seems that Guardian assumes that an empty market means the best lay price is 1.01.
What happened is that the Darvin 9:47 Greyhound race must have been restarted as the market was suspended and the reopened with no bets in the market, so Guardian placed back bets based on a best lay price of 1.01, see Screenshot.

I had condition of market overround > 80% and and minimum back price of 1.2 as a kind of security but didn't help in this case.

To avoid Guardian placing low priced back bets into an empty market again I would have to set a minimum lay price of 1.02 on any "place bet rule" or any other securities that are easier?

Thank you
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Euler
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I tend to look at the spread, the difference between back and lay % and the volume before my bots will trigger. That's worked for me over a long time.
tryingtotrade
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Thanks, will try that.
What I found out is that when there is no lay price the value is set to 0 and I had set the Place bet rule to „place bet couple of ticks above best reverse“, it was placing bets at 1.03 even though the back price was 36. I guess setting a minimum lay price instead of a minimum back price would have avoided this as well.
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