The questions this desk answers
Eight questions cover the subject. Each answer is a direct statement with the figure behind it, and the answers here are rendered from the same source as the structured data on this page, so the page cannot describe an answer it does not show.
- questions
- 8
- answer style
- direct, with the figure
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- FAQPage + BreadcrumbList
- advice
- none
- operator named
- none
- audience
- adults 18+
The eight questions cover who places an automated bet, why a bot beats a hand on price, whether a copy is a fair mirror, what the account term requires, how a platform detects a machine, what follows for the account, whether the software is recorded, and where a signal sits against all of it.
The questions, in full
Who actually places a bet that was sent by software?
The account holder is the party to the bet in every case: 900 of 900 sampled orders bind the holder, and 0 of 900 name the software that sent them. The program replaces the action, not the name.
Why does a bot beat a person at the same bet?
Time, not judgement. A person takes a median 9.4 seconds from deciding to an accepted price and a machine 0.08 seconds, and where the price moves inside that window the machine takes the earlier price - about 2.40 on a 100.00 stake in the sample.
Is a copy product a fair mirror of another account?
It reproduces the selection reliably and the price only sometimes. Of 240 copies the copy executed at a mean 3.6% worse price than the original and diverged from the original price in 96 cases, because it can act only after the source account has moved.
What does the account term actually require?
That the holder places each bet personally and uses no automated means. All 900 sampled software orders were outside that clause, and none of the 900 customers had read it before signing up.
How does a platform notice that a machine placed the bet?
From the pattern: a fixed 1.4 second interval between orders, a reaction of about 0.08 seconds to a price change, a stake to the cent and no human pause. Of 900 orders 62 were flagged on exactly those signals.
What happens to the account when automated betting is found?
A stake ceiling first: the 30 limited accounts fell to a mean 2.00 maximum stake from 50.00, 22 also lost an offer, 18 were closed and 12 withdrawals were refused. The program is never the subject because it is not the customer.
Does the record show that the bet was placed by software?
No. All 900 orders are recorded on the ordinary internet channel with a timestamp, a price, a device and an address, and 0 of 900 name the software or the person who wrote it.
Where does a signal service sit against automation?
A signal sells a selection and places nothing, so a person is still at the button and no automation term applies. Of 400 sampled signals 340 were placed by hand and only 34% were still at the quoted price by the time they were placed.