During the last week we received surprisingly many requests from you regarding the new features you would like to see in version 2.0. So we had to reconsider the release date, as the plan changed towards adding more options than we originally thought.

The new options you asked for include calculating outs (the cards that are left in the deck and can improve a hand's position), monitoring amounts offered for all three prices on each side, the ability to print and handle triggers and trigger logs conveniently and several other functions.

So we are putting the release off till the 15th of May. Thanks for your feedback and the interest you showed towards the forthcoming X-Feeder 2.0. We will update you with news regularly.

Update (15/05/2008)

We apologize for yet another delay, but the new version needs more time to be tested properly. So the final date of release has to be shifted on to the beginning of June.

We are now working on a new version of X-Feeder 2.0. Instead of making a scheduled update of the current version, we decided to significantly extend its functionality. You will be pleasantly surprised by the new features and options that we are going to introduce. Just to name a few, you will be able to trade in standard and turbo modes simultaneously, as well as see both main and side bets markets on your screen. Triggered betting tools will be improved too.

So we will appreciate your patience and understanding of the temporary lack of new updates. The current version 1.6 will be supported as usual.

The approximate date of release is the 25th of April.

In order to trade in "Turbo" mode in the aforesaid channels, and also in order to trade in Omaha Hi, you need to re-download and reinstall X-Feeder. The download link is the same:

Download

Siamo lieti di potervi offrire l’opportunità di diventare utenti di X-Feeder e di iniziare a vincere già da oggi. Ora, infatti, sono pronte la versione italiana del nostro sito web e la versione italiana del programma.

Per scaricare X-Feeder in Italiano vi invitiamo ad usare il seguente link.

Saremo felici di ricevere i vostri commenti e le vostre osservazioni sui contenuti proposti nel nostro sito web site e/o nel programma. Se doveste trovare errori di traduzione o avere bisogno di maggiori informazioni sul significato di alcuni termini, vi invitiamo a contattarci all’indirizzo italiano@x-feeder.com.

Distinti saluti,
WellDone Creative Software.

Update for all users:

We have fixed several bugs in X-Feeder, see below:

• dead heat calculations in Blackjack
• the identification of the favourite in Poker and Omaha, after one or more selections are eliminated
• the parsing of card ranges not containing J to A

Also an option has been added to triggers: "same card as others". This option allows you to find selections holding the same card as any other selection in the game, and on the contrary, finding the selections, that don't have the same cards as any other selection in the game. Practically, this makes it possible to monitor the situation, when hands/players hold different cards.

The download links are below:

English version: Download

La versione Italiana: Scarica

• Auto-Dutching option: "Do not bet if a selection's odds are higher than ...", allows you to avoid backing on the most probable loser, when its price is higher than the specified limit. This also can prevent the need to bet below the minimum.
• Distribute Loss - the function has been reworked completely. It now works in a similar way to greening up, only it distributes the loss and not the profit.
• New trigger option for HiLo: you can now check the number of cards that are lower or higher than the last card dealt. The corresponding trigger variables have been added too. Check the new trigger example.
• New trigger option for the "Repeat" field: triggers can now be repeated periodically, once in several games. The interval of games can be defined in a special pop-up window.
• New trigger variable commission - returns the commission specific for each market.

Bugs Fixed:

- Auto-Dutching in real mode
- "1 or more has 5 cards" has been renamed to "One or more has 5 cards"

Please note!!! The structure of the trigger condition body has changed. If you had triggers with conditions that referred to specific selection names, such as "Player", "Hand 2", "Dealer wins or ties all" etc., you will need to revise your triggers, because the old value will now point to a different selection.
If you did not mention specific selections in your triggers' conditions, you should be able to use them without any editing.

In any case make sure you have backed up your triggers before installing the new version!

The download link has not been changed: http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_6.exe

New trigger variables

• last_lost, last_won - return the amounts that were lost since the last win, or won since the last loss in a channel
• losses, wins - return the number of losses since the last win, or wins since the last loss in a channel
• card_count - returns the number of cards dealt for specific selections
• card_[number] - returns the value of the [number]'s card, sorted by its rank (the highest being number 1, and the lowest being card_count). Can be used with "Cards contain / do not contain values" for comparing cards of different selections. Example: card_1 - the highest card value, card_2 - the second highest card and so forth.
• card_[number]>, card_[number]<, card_[number]>=, card_[number]<= - Allows to check if a selection holds a card that is higher, lower, equal or higher, equal or lower than the specified trigger variable. Can be used with "Cards contain / do not contain values" for comparing cards of different selections. See example.

Other Options

• new trigger condition: Trigger Expression - allows you to compare and analyze the properties of selections and game markets that can't be expressed by other condition bodies. You can compose an expression that may contain numbers, variables, arithmetic operators and functions, and search your selections according to that formula. For example:
  Trigger Expression lay_matched + back_matched is equal to 0
  that means the selection must not have neither lay nor back matched bets
• more arithmetic operators and functions are now supported in triggers
• new trigger selection: randomly chosen. Allows to apply a trigger to a random selection (specific for each channel).
• a button for manual resetting Total Profit/Loss
• resizable window

The new version can be downloaded from the following link:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_6.exe

Please note!!! The structure of the trigger condition body has changed. If you had triggers with conditions that referred to specific selection names, such as "Player", "Hand 2", "Dealer wins or ties all" etc., you will need to revise your triggers, because the old value will now point to a different selection.
If you did not mention specific selections in your triggers' conditions, you should be able to use them without any editing.

In any case make sure you have backed up your triggers before installing the new version!

The downloadable help file has been updated as well.

P.S.

We sincerely apologize for the temporary lack of email support service during these days. It should return back to normal now.

We believe that the new build of X-Feeder is more reliable now.

Please download the fixed setup file from the same URL:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

Should the problems still persist, please report them to the support dept.

Settled Result:

• is not settled
• is winner
• is loser
• is dead heat

Using this condition you can filter out selections that have been eliminated or settled as a winner.

Example:

Any Selection's Settled Result is winner

The download link has not changed:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

• Switch Test Mode ON
• Switch Test Mode OFF

Also these trigger conditions:

• Number of Wins in Channel
• Number of Losses in Channel

The latter options record the consecutive wins and losses of your bets in a particular channel, which allows you to base your triggers on the win/lose history, even if you skipped one or more games and did not bet in them.

Please beware: the new trigger conditions have been inserted between the "Bets Placed In the Game" and the name of the first selection in a channel. So if your triggers contain a condition that starts with a name of a particular selection (for example, "Hand 2 Back Price is less than 2.0" or "Card 2 or further Consecutive Losses is greater than 0"), then you need to update your triggers accordingly.

The download link has not been changed:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

• HiLo Last Card - returns the last card dealt in HiLo channel
• Bets Placed In The Game - returns the number of bets that X-Feeder placed since the first round of the current game in the current channel.

The download link is the same:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

This message board is created for you to share your ides and ask questions about X-Feeder. Just take a couple of seconds to register, and start posting there.

Note: only existing customers and the users of the free trial can post at the forum.

Those who are already registered users of the MarketFeeder Pro forum don't need to register anew. Just enter the username you have already registered there.

We apologize for this inconvenience. The problem has been now fixed, and the setup file of the program updated. The URL is the same:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

We have restarted all subscriptions and trials that were initiated after the 1st of October. If you are one of these users, you should receive an email message to the address that you used during the registration.

• In Test Mode the amount won in a game was being calculated incorrectly if two or more bets were placed in a channel, and "Show P/L net of commission" was turned on
• Some expressions with trigger variables could not be calculated (if variables resulted in negative numbers).

We apologise for the inconvenience the bugs might have caused.

The download URL is the same:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

• The program was unable to accept trigger variables for actions "add/deduct to/from default back/lay amount"

New Options

Email Notifications. You can now receive short text messages with a brief information whenever any of these events happen:

• Balance is updated
• A bet is placed
• A trigger is executed

New options can be found in "General Options" tab.

The new setup file can be downloaded from the same location:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

• Cards contain Natural 8, Natural 9
• Seconds Since Round Start
• Baccarat Cards Dealt
• Selection's Consecuent Wins (Ties not included)

Bugs Fixed:

• In Test Mode bets placed on Player or Banker in Baccarat used to be deducted if the Tie won. 
• The "is divisible by" option did not return true if two numbers were equal

The download link has not changed:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

New trigger variables:

• real_funds, real_balance - the amount available for betting and the funds in your Games balance.
• test_funds, test_balance - the amount available for test betting and balance of your test account
• test_mode - returns whether the test mode is on/off
• last_bet_pl, last_bet_type, last_bet_price, last_bet_amount - the properties of the last bet settled in the channel

New Trigger Conditions:

• Real Funds Available
• Test Funds Available
• Last Settled Bet's Price, Amount, Type, Profit/Loss

Bugs fixed:

• Occasional selections' P/Ls figures changing chaotically when running more that one channel simultaneously
• Possible problems with lay_size trigger variable

We are aware that Previous Profit/Loss does not work correctly when "Retrieve the information about the Previous Profit/Loss directly  from BetFair" is turned on. This is a bug of the BetFair Games API and we are discussing this issue with BetFair team. Please use the other option until this problem is resolved: "Remember the information about the Previous Profit/Loss from the previous game".

The download URL of the program has not changed:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_5.exe

Trigger Variables are special keywords that you may use to identify certain market's and/or selection's parameters, such as volume, price, matched amounts etc. Using trigger variables you can make your trigger conditions and bet price/amount specifications more universal and flexible. The examples of trigger variables available in X-Feeder are given below:

• back_price
• lay_price
• profit_loss

The updated software's manual contains the full list of variables and examples of their usage.

Besides, two more important additions were made:

• Highest Card, Lowest Card options in triggers. From now on you can base your triggers on the highest and lowest card value that a hand holds. A new POKER betting strategy became possible to implement in X-Feeder. You can now lay on a hand holding the same highest card as other hands, and a smaller lowest card. For example, if there are two hands holding "A, K" and "A, 3" X-Feeder is now capable of detecting such situation and placing a lay bet on the second hand. Browse betting strategies in the manual!
     
• The ability to calculate the Previous Profit/Loss without connecting to the BetFair server. It sometimes is very important that the results of the previous games are obtained in time, by the beginning of the first round of the next game. Downloading the bet history may take a long time. You can now choose between the two methods and optimize your strategies.

The newest version can be downloaded from the following link:

http://www.x-feeder.com/download/

• Show P/L net of BetFair commission. X-Feeder can now automatically deduct the market's commission from the P/L figures of each selection. Both in real and test modes. The new option can be found in "Betting Options"
• In triggered betting you can add the conditions searching for "Blackjack" and "5 Cards Charlie" without having to add numerous conditions based on the card values. For example, in order to back on the player holding the Blackjack you only need to add the following condition:
  Any Selection's Cards contain values Blackjack.
• In triggered betting you can analyze the points of Blackjack and Baccarat selections. We added a special option called "Points". For example:
  Selection's Points is equal or greater than 17
  or
  Any Selection's Points is equal to 0

The new file can be downloaded from the same download URL: http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_4.exe

• Automatically adjust bet size if it is less that the allowed minimum

You may activate this option if you do not want to miss a bet if it accidentally turned out to be below the minimum. This is especially important when you are trading using the "Auto-Greenup" function and lay first. In that case the second bet size may turn out to be less than the minimum but not placing it at all would be a bigger harm.

Also, we added the following new options to the conditions of Triggered Betting:

• is the maximum
• is the minimum
• is not the maximum
• is not the minimum

You can use them to locate a selection which has - or has not - the minimum or maximum parameter value (out of all other selections in the channel). For example, you want to lay on the selection with the maximum number of consecutive losses. This became easy, just add the condition:

Any Selection's consecutive losses is the maximum

and bet on "all matching selections" - or the "first matching selection" etc.

The download URL of the file did not change:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_4.exe

We are sorry to bring up this news, but we need to let you know the following change in X-Feeder:

We were forced to remove betting below the minimum. We apologize for the inconvenience it might cause but violating BetFair's rules became very dangerous to the software. If your copy of X-Feeder stops working please download the latest version from the following link:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_4.exe

We have met some of your urgent requests and added the following options to X-Feeder

• Connection Monitor - a special screen that displays the graph with the average time X-Feeder spends on getting the response from BetFair. It should help you to evaluate the ability to trade normally under the current circumstances of your Internet connection and the quality of BetFair server's performance.
   
• We have improved the speed of refresh of the three channels that support Side Bets.
   
• You can now trigger bets based on the conditions that are met or not met. This gives your triggers more versatility.
   
• New option in the trigger conditions: selections' Profit/Loss. New trigger actions: "start channel" and "reset Total Profit/Loss".
   
• You can now load your own lists of selections you want to bet on. If your betting system is based on a particular list of selections rather than a set of conditions you may load this list into a trigger and have all the bets placed automatically. You can choose to start the list over when finished!
   
• The maximum connection timeout value is increased to 60 sec. This should reduce the number of lost BetFair responses.

The download link of the new version is http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_4.exe

You are free to use the old version if you choose.

WellDone Software Team.

• In "Betting Options" the ability to automatically divide a back bet's amount by its price in one-click betting and auto-trading. This should be useful in manual Dutching.
  
• In "Auto-Dutching" options we added a setting that will define what hand to back on in the second round (at Preflop). Before this update X-Feeder used to always back on the lowest priced hand expecting its price to lower more in the eventual rounds. This strategy is not always good however. So you may now choose the hand you prefer to back on at Preflop. The options are "Favourite", "Probable Loser" and "Second Favourite".
  
• X-Feeder can now update the wins and losses of the selections in the channel based on the game history. This means you can learn the results of each selection in the beginning of your trading session. You don't need to wait for several games to end before you can gather enough historical data. Just click on the "Wins" or "Losses" link and get the history of any depth you want.
  
• We fixed the "INVALID_BET_ORDER" message that customers with the systems where the decimal separator is comma (not period) might experience.

The download link has not changed: http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_3.exe

We are glad to inform you that we have added the fifth game Omaha Hi to X-Feeder. It can be operated on a separate tag just as the other four games.
All the functions (betting, automated green-up, dutching, triggered betting, exporting to Excel etc.) can be applied to the new channel.

There is also a substantial change in the way we authorize the subscribers. Due to the restrictions that are a part of BetFair API licence we may no more authorize you by your BetFair username. From now on the licence you purchase is assigned to the machine you install it on. Therefore if you need to install X-Feeder on different computers you will have to buy one licence per computer.

We can assure existing subscribers and trial users that the remaining days of their subscription will stay intact. The process of switching to the new version is very simple. Just download the new version and follow the instructions of the software.

If you are running version 1.2 you may keep using it till the end of your subscription and then update to version 1.3.

We have renamed the current version to X-Feeder 1.3. You can download it from the following link:

http://www.x-feeder.com/data/setup_XFeeder_1_3.exe

We have updated X-Feeder so as to partially adjust it to the yesterday's Games API modifications.
You should be able to resume your trading normally now.

Apart from fixing the code we have added the following new options to the triggered betting:

• The simpler trigger conditions interface: you can combine various options together instead of selecting them from the long drop-down list.
• New Condition Options:
    - Poker Community Cards
    - Favourite's and Probable Loser's properties
    - Previous Result (Winner, Loser or Tied)
    - Price in the Previous Round
• New Trigger Actions:
    - Add to the default back amount
    - Add to the default lay amount
    - Deduct from the default back amount
    - Deduct from the default lay amount
• Ability for the triggers to bet the amount of the previous profit/loss and/or the total profit/loss.
• Ability to change the order of the triggers and/or move them into another trigger block by dragging and dropping trigger boxes.

Besides BetFair have fixed the API's bug that displayed all selections in Poker as "Winners" when they tied.

We are aware that the fifth game was added (Omaha Hi) and we are in the process of creating the interface to it in X-Feeder.

The new version's number is 1.2.

We emailed the new download link to all subscribers and trial users.

Al current subscriptions and trials have been prolonged for 1 day.

We cordially thank you for your patience and understanding.

WellDone Software Team.

P.S. Important information!

We have discovered that in Blackjack channel only the first two cards are displayed for the Dealer, no matter how many cards he is actually dealt. This is not an X-Feeder fault, but a Games API bug which we have already reported to their support team.

We apologize for the today's problems you're having with X-Feeder. Due to the unexpected update of the API at the Games server we did not have enough time to update the X-Feeder application beforehand.

We will make a fix and update of the software tomorrow in the morning. We will email every customer subscribed to X-Feeder directly. Every subscription or trial will be automatically extended for 1 day.

WellDone Software Team.

• The list of current active trigger is displayed if you right-click on the "Triggers" button in the main application window
• You can create triggers for "second favourite", "third favourite" and "second loser" selections
• You can create triggers based on how many cards were dealt in HiLo channel and what card values have been dealt.

See the PDF help file for more details. You can download the updated setup file from the same link as version 1.1.

We have released version 1.1 of X-Feeder that resolved several important problems:

• uncontrolled cloning of triggers: removed
• the occasional error message "BET_REJECTED_ROUND_STALE" when trying to place an automated bet in the first round: fixed. Note: you may still get this error sometimes if you are betting under BetFair allowed minimum. Since in that case the software needs to perform four betting operations instead of just one it may not have enough time to complete them before the round has ended (especially if you trade in Turbo Mode).
• occasional freezing of the program in the first round of each channel when the Test Mode was off: fixed.

We have also added the following options (since the very first version of X-Feeder):

• Channel history: the outcome of up to 100 latest games in the channel
• Test Mode Account Statement - the list of all test bets made during a day
• Previous Profit/Loss and Total Loss figures in the top-right corner of the application's window
• The ability to activate and deactivate all triggers in a trigger block with one button
• Improved bet settlement in Test Mode: bets are settled immediately after the corresponding selection has won or lost

We apologize for all the inconvenience caused by the bugs. In order to let you make up for the wasted games we extended your trial/subscription for 2 more days.

Please be sure to download the latest build of X-Feeder from our web site.

Please contact us if you have any other problems.

X-Feeder will be available through a weekly subscription with unlimited functionality. A 3-days free trial is available.

Click here to see the details of the subscription.

We are preparing other flexible subscription packages that should cover all the needs of our customers.

We hope that you'll enjoy X-Feeder.

This bug has been fixed now.

You may get the latest build of X-Feeder from the link we sent you fter the registration.

Thank you for participating in beta-testing of X-Feeder!

Update on bugs fixed:

• the problem with games not being loaded - fixed