The Geeks Toy

The Geeks Toy

The Geeks Toy is the second betfair trading bot that I have downloaded to trial. For my review of The Geeks Toy, please read below.

The Geeks Toy is a fully functional free betfair trading software. Yep, you read that right, it is a FREE fully functional betfair trading software, that has all of the features of most of the all singing all dancing betfair trading apps that you would have to usually pay for.

If the above hasn’t already made you click on their site to download this wonderful piece of free software, then give yourself a slap around the head and head off to The Geeks Toy immediately… Ok are you back and have you downloaded it? Good, now read below for my review of The Geeks Toy.

The Geeks Toy itself is downloaded from the main website, (which is centred around a forum) at which users of The Geeks Toy post hints and tips on Bet Fair trading and attempt to help each other with strategies etc on using The Geeks Toy in order to make profitable trades on Bet Fair.

The site itself has many The Geeks Toy set-up videos and self help videos that you can watch, this makes the process of using The Geeks Toy pretty easy. To be honest, the set up and menu will be pretty familiar to users of Bet Fair and then it’s just a case of getting used to the various options that you can have showing whilst using the Bet Fair trading software.

Once you have installed The Geeks Toy, it creates a desktop icon and a start menu icon; so you can find it easily each time you want to trade on betfair. When you click on the icon, you login using your betfair username and password. The Geeks Toy is an authorised app for betfair and is listed in their directory.

I have been using The Geeks Toy now for a few days and for those of us used to using betfair, the interface is easy and intuitive. The Geeks Toy comes with a detailed help menu built in, so if there’s anything that you are unsure of when using The Geeks Toy, then assistance is just a click away.

Also The Geeks Toy software is built around right clicking with your mouse in menus that you may be unsure about, or right clicking to get a display of additional options that can be displayed / used when running the software.

Last but not least, in the top left of any menu that you are in with The Geeks Toy software, there is a question mark sign. If you need to, you can click the question mark and the software automatically opens up the help file in the relevant area of the document fully explaining the area that you are looking at. I like the fact that this opens automatically to the right and doesn’t block your view. If therefore you are in a trade and suddenly need clarification of anything with regards to the software, the trading screen doesn’t get blocked and you can refresh your memory whilst trading!

As mentioned above, The Geeks Toy website itself is built around a forum, so if there’s ever any questions about it’s use, other forum members are always at hand to help. The Geek himself is also active on the forum and answers questions posted by users and/or clarifies any answers that may have been given by other users that may be a little unclear.

I have also emailed the support / contact address for The Geeks Toy to ask a few questions, and had a reply within a day – so if there’s anything that you need further explanation on, the support for the The Geeks Toy betfair trading software is first class.

Last but not least, you can run The Geeks Toy in training mode whilst you get used to it – you can then try it out without risking any money – although as you’ll see from the image below, the first time I tried The Geeks Toy only using the minimum £2 Bet Fair trades to the total of £8, I ‘greened up’ for 82p; which is 10% interest and most definitely more than I’d have earned had I left eight quid in the bank or building society for years!

There are various options once you login to the The Geeks Toy Bet Fair trading software interface. I basically set The Geeks Toy trading software up as instructed in the help manual / videos. I then saved my set up as a profile, so I don’t have to do it again – I just click to load up my previously arranged profile on The Geeks Toy and I’m set to go.

Of course you can set The Geeks Toy up to your requirements and also enter your usual ‘back’ and ‘lay’ amounts to be saved as a default in the drop down prices area, so you don’t have to re-enter them each time you decided to enter a trade on the back or lay side.

On the left hand side of the Bet Fair trading software when The Geeks Toy is loaded up, you will find all the usual markets listed in Bet Fair that you would expect to see. To load up a market it’s basically a case of selecting it in the The Geeks Toy menu and then all the matches will open up for that market. You then choose the match that you want and this is then displayed in the main screen area. This is a bit like if you had been manually using Bet Fair and selected the current day’s Football Fixtures or the current day’s In Play Football Coupon. It’ll be an area that you’re already familiar with in any case I am sure.

You then select the football match that currently interests you and the market for that football match that you wish to make a trade in. So the fixture has an expandable or fold-able view depending on what you want to see.

One thing that I think is very clever about The Geeks Toy, is that when you select the market that you are interested in, the current back and lay odds for that market open up in a separate box. You can then ‘pin’ that box to stay in view on your screen whatever you are doing. So you can then reduce the main Geeks Toy menu, but keep the box in view on whatever you are currently working on / looking at on your computer. The box is small enough to stick up in one of the corners of your screen, so it doesn’t inhibit your work, but is there for you immediately if the need arises for you to use it.

There is also a graph that automatically appears on the left main menu and changes automatically to show you various statistics of the team you currently have your mouse hovering over. This area also gives you loads of facts and figures to show you the movement of money, so you can get some idea as to where the money in that particular market is.

To place a back or lay bet is also very easy, just a click of a button and you can choose whether to go with the current market value, or try to squeeze a few extra points out of it with a cheeky low lay or high back to see whether it’s accepted, before gradually reducing it down to what the market is currently offering. Using this feature you’d be surprised if you’ve only used the main Bet Fair site, how easy it is to get better odds and therefore more profit from a trade – than if you just ‘took’ the current market offering.

The ‘greening up’ button in The Geeks Toy that appears after you’ve made a trade, makes hedging a breeze. Exiting a trade with profit, without having to work out what amounts to back or lay off, as the software does all the hard work for you. The Geeks Toy automatically shows you a figure in Green or Red on several of the screens that you will have open to show your current position. If it’s at a level at which you want to trade out and green up, then you just click the amount and it automatically sorts out the back or lay price that you need to use in order to guarantee that amount of profit – or if the market has moved against you, you can click the figure that appears in red to automatically trade out at a loss amount that is acceptable to you and move on to your next trade.

I am very impressed with The Geeks Toy, the fact that it is free makes it even more impressive. There is of course an option when you load the Bet Fair trading software up, to donate some cash to The Geek as a ‘thank you’ for creating such a wonderful piece of software. This is something I am sure you will want to do as soon as you’ve got used to it and have made a few profitable trades – won’t you?

Give The Geeks Toy try today and see if you like it by clicking The Geeks Toy, the only other thing that you will need to be up and running is a Bet Fair account and if you click Bet Fair you will receive a £25 free bet!

The Geeks Toy