Use the Tools That Come With Your Betting Broker Account
Seven jobs, and the screens that do them. Read by job, not by broker.
Inside a sports betting broker account sit price screens that line up several bookmakers, stats panels, orders that wait for a price, cash out, an Arb Calculator on the betslip and, under stated conditions, an API. Each broker documents a different set, under different names, and a tool belongs to one product in the account, not to the broker as a whole. This page goes by job: comparing prices, reading a match, ordering ahead, closing a position, calculating, automating and keeping records. Under each, it says which broker’s pages describe it, in their words.
Put several books’ prices on one screen
A betting broker account is sold as a door. The menus behind the door are where the work is. A job already in the account is easy to miss. First job: seeing more than one price, on screens that each carry their own name.
- Asianodds88, at AsianConnect. AsianConnect describes it as a way to compare “real-time odds” from a wide array of bookmakers and betting exchanges. In the Euro view the “base bookie” sets the default odds. Asianodds88’s own FAQ says there are “no monthly fees” and “no monthly turnover requirement”, and asks for an initial deposit of at least €50.
- Edge, at MadMarket. The market screen labels three parts. “All Bookies” lists the books offering odds on the market, “Total” gives the average odds with the largest bet that can be placed at that price, and “Average & Best” sets the average beside the highest price.
- Edge, again. A toggle switches between “Classic” and “Exchange”, which adds lay options from exchanges (how an exchange matches bets explains them). Settings, then “Bookies”, chooses the books you see offers from.
- The Sportmarket platform. The “Sportsbook” view shows one event at a time; the “Trade” view shows “prices from different bookmakers”, for several events and markets at once. Settings lets you pick the default view, and “Settings > Bookies” lets you untick a platform.
Then the bet has to land somewhere. Edge splits the bet for you: it “will then automatically distribute your bet across the connected bookmakers”, and Sportmarket’s screen shows “which bookmakers can fully or partially match your stake”. Past that point, where a bet goes once it leaves the screen is a page of its own. Commission changes the price you end up with, and comparing prices after commission works through it.
My bias: find out who settles the bet before reading the feature list. Asianodds88’s own FAQ says it is “only a tool to place the bet, we do not do the settlement”, so settlement belongs to the bookmaker behind it.
How do I read a match before betting?
- BetInAsia
- Stats Hub, Stats Centre, Bet Assist, live match tracker
- MadMarket, Edge
- Price History, Pre-event stats, Probability Tracker
- Sportmarket
- Event Insights, in the Sportsbook view
At BetInAsia, the Stats Hub “will analyse and provide percentage predictions across a number of betting markets”; that part is called Bet Assist. A live match tracker shows in-play action with “head-to-head (H2H), real-time standings, win probabilities, and previous meetings data”, and the Stats Centre covers 35 sports.
Edge’s “Price History”, in its trading section, shows how odds have changed over a period you choose. Its “Pre-event stats” and “Probability Tracker” sit in the Sportsbook view. Sportmarket’s Event Insights widget sits in the Sportsbook view of its own platform, and the broker’s blog says coverage is for “selected live matches” and is expanding to more events and sports.
Three vocabularies, no ranking.
Can I place a bet in advance at a target price?
Yes. Edge calls it “Timeout”. You set the minimum price you will take, and the software places the bet at that price “within or before a time of your choosing”, for a window of up to 72 hours. Sportmarket calls it “Future Fulfilment”. You set “a target price and stake” for a bet that is not yet available on the market, and the order waits in a queue.
The conditions differ. At Edge an individual order cannot exceed your balance at the time you place it, a pre-game order not placed before the event starts is cancelled, and exchange bets are not compatible with it. At Sportmarket the order is withdrawn if the game starts before the odds match or the time expires. The windows, side by side:
You choose Edge’s window per order. Sportmarket’s depends on the sport: tennis, basketball, American football and baseball are 2 hours, and its help table lists “Other Sports” as “Varies based on timing”.
Show the data table
| Order type | Longest wait |
|---|---|
| Edge, Timeout (up to) | 72 h |
| Sportmarket, football | 72 h |
| Sportmarket, tennis and three more | 2 h |
Same word, three jobs
Side note: “Timeout” is not one feature. At MadMarket it is the window on an Edge order. At Sportmarket it labels the Future Fulfilment queue and, separately, names a responsible gambling tool “designed to help you take a short break from betting”. Back to orders.
Close or cover a position
Closing early has its own conditions in each product.
- Sharp Exchange, at BetInAsia. BetInAsia’s article on Sharp Exchange says the amount shown on a cash out offer is “the minimum amount that you would get if the cash out is successful”. When liquidity is low, the offer can be made unavailable.
- Sharp Exchange, at MadMarket. Standard, partial and auto cash out: “Auto Cash Out lets you define a target profit amount in advance”. Low liquidity in a market can temporarily disable it.
- Edge. Cash out and partial cash out, with the offer appearing under your active order or betting slip.
- The Sportmarket platform. The “Position” tab holds the cashout on eligible bets, and the help page says “It is not a new bet”. “Not all bets or events offer the cashout feature”; where it is missing, the same page points to hedging “when cashout isn’t available”.
- The Arb Calculator, on Sportmarket betslips. It “helps estimate and populate the hedge” for a bet placed with another bookmaker.
Smart Credit exists at Edge and at Sportmarket, with different conditions. At Edge it is a balance that fills when you cash out a winning position, capped at €1,000. At Sportmarket it is a balance fed by profit locked in on a closed position, currently on football full-time and half-time markets only, and to unlock it you must “close your position by betting on both sides of the market”. Covering both sides is a hedge, and a first back and lay shows the arithmetic on an exchange.
Calculate
Calculators are the plainest tool on the list. AsianConnect has a public “Payout Calculator & Odds Converter” that reads six formats. MadMarket shows nine calculators in the footer of its public website and fifteen calculator pages in its site map.
ORB Access has its own: the calculators on this site cover commission, effective odds and back and lay, and a page that turns any format into decimals handles the conversions.
Automate, with the conditions attached
I put this job sixth on purpose: it is the one where the terms weigh more than the screen. Fine. Now the conditions.
AsianConnect offers an API account through Asianodds88, and the Asianodds88 FAQ says “Asianodds API is now available”, with a trial account requested by e-mail.
MadMarket documents an API on Probet42. It takes a one-off deposit of $10,000 and a monthly turnover of $100,000 per sport, for up to three sports. “Failure to meet the turnover requirement will result in forfeiture of the deposit and removal of API access”, and the API is not available for trial. MadMarket’s general terms of use also bar scraping its odds and using “any robot, spider or other automated mechanism” to “retrieve or index any information from the Service”.
Sportmarket has Tradeball, which it presents as a way to “build your own trading bot”. It is for football only, needs €100 on the Main account and is switched on through the chat. Its terms (7.2) make you responsible for the security of the login details you pass to betting software, and its FairExchange help page says FairExchange “cannot be used with API software bots”. How a rule is tested on past prices is on the data page, and the expected value guide works through expected value and Kelly stakes.
Reality check
Software changes the speed of a bet, not whether it wins. Most bettors end up behind, whatever runs the bets. Before you connect anything, the responsible gambling page covers limits.
Keep the books, take it with you
Now the dull part: records. AsianConnect’s dashboard lists a “Transaction History” entry and BetInAsia’s top bar a “History” entry. Edge has three entries for it. “Orders” lists your past bets; “Accounting” gives the balance adjustments after profit or loss; “Analytics” is a table you can sort, filter and plot over a period, by bookmaker.
Sportmarket has “Accounting”, with “Balance” and “Open Stakes (Exposure)” tabs and a download “in CSV or Excel format”, and “Analytics” for profit, turnover and yield. The turnover it shows is “Price Adjusted Turnover (Valid Turnover)”, defined as “the smaller value between the stake and the potential profit”.
On a phone, Asianodds88 has “a mobile site that is fully optimized for both Android and iOS devices”. Edge has a mobile view, and MadMarket’s help for Sharp Exchange says to turn the phone sideways to see lay prices on multi-market coupon pages. Sportmarket “doesn’t have a native mobile app”; it has a mobile web app, at pro.sportmarket.com.
Pick by the job you do most
Picture a bettor who reads the match in the stats panel, compares several prices on one screen, leaves an order waiting for a better one and closes half the position later. Four jobs, one account. That is the day this page describes; it is not a promise about results.
The price shopper
Asianodds88, the three Edge columns and the Trade view put several books on one screen.
Best for: comparing prices before you choose where the bet goes.
Not ideal if: you only ever bet in one place, where there is no second price to compare.
The match reader
The Stats Hub at BetInAsia, Price History at Edge, Event Insights at Sportmarket.
Best for: reading a match from the account you bet from.
Not ideal if: you need every match covered, since Sportmarket’s blog describes Event Insights as covering “selected live matches” while it expands.
The planner
Timeout at Edge, Future Fulfilment at Sportmarket, and the cash out screens.
Best for: naming a price and a deadline, then leaving the order to wait.
Not ideal if: you need a pre-game order to outlast kick-off, since both products drop it at the start.
The automator
The API on Asianodds88, the API on Probet42, Tradeball at Sportmarket.
Best for: running software of your own, under the terms each broker attaches.
Not ideal if: you want to try the Probet42 API before you commit, since it is not available for trial.
Which places each account opens is for the comparison tool, and the broker guide sets the four accounts side by side. A single book has a route of its own: the route to Pinnacle, the route to Sbobet, and the Asian bookmaker overview for the rest. A bookmaker or an exchange still takes the bet, and where limits sit says who sets them. For Orbit Exchange itself, choosing the broker that opens Orbit Exchange comes before any tool.